Synergy - Skills & Perks Reimagined has become one of my favorite perk overhauls and is now ingrained in my load order. Likewise, Simple Hunting Overhaul from Jayserpa has earned its own permanent place in my load order upon its release.

This, however, presented me with a problem. Synergy overhauls hunting with its own system, requiring you to choose whether to Butcher, Skin, or Harvest animals depending on what perks you've chosen (Aspiring Hunter, Pelt Hunter, and Harvester, respectively). Doing any one of these actions causes the animal to immediately disappear, locking you out of gaining any other loot.

Simple Hunting Overhaul has its own system where taking the pelt from an animal's inventory will cause the screen to fade to black and a short amount of time passes, simulating that you're skinning the animal (depending on your chosen settings, of course). Upon regaining vision, the animal model would be swapped with a skinned variant.

This couldn't happen with the way Synergy handles animals. Without the chosen perk, you couldn't get the animal's pelt--and upon taking the Pelt Hunter perk, you were locked behind the prompt box to Skin and the animal would disappear rather than swap to the skinned model, meaning you couldn't harvest or butcher it afterward, either.

I wasn't particularly a fan of that. If I took the perks, I felt I should be able to benefit from them all. I should be able to butcher, skin, and harvest animals, not just one or the other.

What this patch does is make it so that, upon taking the required perk, animals will now have the appropriate loot simply added to their inventories, rather than locked behind a prompt box. For each of the perks you take, the appropriate death items will become available, but are not available beforehand (the inventories of animals and other creatures covered by Synergy will be empty without the perks, as expected).

This means that having all three perks will make it so you can get the meat, the pelt, and the ingredients. You also do not have to crouch and have either a dagger / war axe in your hand anymore. The weapon requirements have been removed in favor of ease of access. The descriptions of the perks have been edited to reflect this change.

Installation:

Download with your mod manager of choice and install it as you would any other mod. Your load order should look like this:

Simple Hunting Overhaul
Synergy
Synergy - Simple Hunting Overhaul Patch

This patch's tweaked scripts must win over Synergy's and SHO's!

Uninstallation:

I would not recommend uninstalling this patch mid-playthrough. You'll more than likely break something.

Credits:

IronDusk33 for the awesome perk overhaul Synergy

Jayserpa for the equally awesome Simple Hunting Overhaul

A special thanks to Styyxus, who edited the scripts and did most of the work on this patch. Seriously, check out their profile. They've created some neat mods!

Syam, who generously provided me with the screenshots for the mod page images!