Immersive tweaks to the amazing Otters mod. Crushed bones are better integrated into vanilla (or CACO), and tweaks their meat and pelt to be more realistic but still valuable. Expands on the otter's possible loot with different fish and slaughterfish eggs.
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Changelogs
Version ESL
ESL-ified.
Version 2-ESL
Aligned otter meat's effects with CACO meats, they both now provide stamina regeneration. Cooked otter meat also provides 25% disease resistance for an hour.
Added a new expert cooking recipe, "Spicy Otter Stew". Provides all regen types and 10% fire resist for 3 hrs.
Removed unintended navmesh change in the CACO version. This also has the benefit of heavily reducing the file size.
Otters are a great addition to Skyrim. But their value is a little far departed from regular game balance for the challenge they provide. This mod tries to balance the loot they provide in order to make them feel more integrated into the world, keeping their value on the higher-end with some new caveats.
Otter Pelt
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Increased weight from 0.5 to 5lb. Decreased value from 150 to 100. This makes otter pelts more valuable by the pound than bear pelts (16.66 vs 20), but not by such an extreme amount.
Wolf Otter Pelt
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Increased weight from 1 to 12.5lb. Value unchanged. Given their size and how dense otter pelts are, the value makes sense, but the weight definitely doesn't.
Otter meat
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Increased weight from 0.2 to 1lb. Reduced amount from 3 to 1 (8 to 3 for wolf otters). Aligned otter meat's effects with CACO meats, they both now provide stamina regeneration. Cooked otter meat also provides 25% disease resistance for an hour.
Crushed Otter Bone
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Fixed alchemy efficiency. You could create some obscene potions normally (I was exceeding 100,000 gold value potions using CACO).
Value reduced from 100 to 10.
Wolf otters now drop 3 bones instead of 2.
Cure Disease is removed.
Fortify Restoration is replaced with a negative effect that attempts to reign in how wild of potion types you can brew from otters.
CACO version also makes sure the healing is applied over a second.
Before: 65.7% to get 2 raw clam meat 24.3% total chance to get 2 raw clam meat and 1-5 pearls 10% to get nothing After: 45% to get 1 raw clam meat (50% to also get a pearl) 22.5% to get a random fish 11.25% to get an extra crushed otter bone 11.25% to get 2-4 slaughterfish eggs 10% to get nothing
In the CACO version, the clam meat is changed back to the vanilla version, because CACO adds cooked clam meat, and the 4 "brackish" fish from CACO are added to the fish loot list.
Spicy Otter Stew (CACO)
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New expert level cooking recipe worth 150 gold. Requires raw otter meat, 2 potatoes, garlic, onion, fire salts, and light broth. Provides 6% bonus to hp, mana, and stamina regen for 4 hrs and 10% fire resistance for 3 hrs.
Given how easy otters are to deal with for the majority of the game I feel even after these changes they're still a prized animal to hunt.