Vitality Mode - Basic Needs - Eat Drink and Sleep

Oldrim version available: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/90608

Description

Basic needs are a common target for mods, since food and drink in the vanilla game are utterly useless, and sleeping is only marginally beneficial for skill increase bonuses. This mod gives these game mechanics a bit more weight, but without introducing a survival mini-game where one needs to keep large stores of food and drink in one's inventory, or stay near an inn to sleep every handful of hours.

The goal is to encourage eating, drinking, and sleeping without distracting from the rest of the game.

Requirements

SKSE64: http://skse.silverlock.org/

SkyUI SE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12604

Vitality Mode can be started immediately from the MCM. If not started from the MCM, you will be given the option to start Vitality Mode one in-game hour after the Unbound tutorial quest is complete, or if using an alternate start mod.

Upon starting the mod, hunger, thirst, and fatigue will be tracked. As you travel through Skyrim, those attributes will slowly increase from 0% to 100%. When all attributes are below 10%, a vitality bonus of base stamina, health regeneration, magicka regeneration, and disease resistance will be applied. If any the attributes exceed 60%, a similar debuff will be applied. If any attribute reaches 100%, you will die. However, unless you are supremely negligent or configure attribute growths to be more hardcore, reaching the point of debuffs and death is very difficult.

To reduce hunger, eat food. All food has a satiety rating:

• []Low: 5% hunger reduction default

  []Average: 10% hunger reduction default

  []Good: 15% hunger reduction default

  []High: 20% hunger reduction default

  Certain raw foods (meats, for example) are considered unsafe and their satiety effect is reduced until cooked. Also, some alchemy ingredients contribute a small reduction to hunger.

  To reduce thirst, drink something. Non-alcoholic drinks reduce thirst 20% by default, alcoholic drinks 10% by default, and certain foods such as soups or stews also reduce thirst 5% by default. Alcohols have no additional negative effect given that almost every drink in Skyrim is alcoholic. Pure Water can be purchased from innkeepers or created at a cookpot using gathered water. Water can be gathered from standing water and waterfalls by "equipping" an empty container in your inventory. Valid empty containers are buckets, jugs, flagons, and empty wine bottles. The filled containers can be consumed, but they have reduced thirst quenching compared to Pure Water. Finally, water can be drunk directly from the same water that can be gathered by using a hotkey, if you do not have a suitable empty container.

  To reduce fatigue, sleep in any bed. Fatigue will be cleare