TheHuntersRitual

An example mod for learning the different components of modding in Skyrim.

This mod was originally for Skyrim LE (Oldrim) and has since been ported to Skyrim Special Edition.

Screenshots

See this page.

What does it do?

This adds a small shack in Falkreath hold and a new dungeon in the Reach. These two locations are visted as part of a quest that requires collecting animal pelts and a fight in the dungeon. While fairly simple this was never meant to be a beautiful, immersive mod, but rather one to learn the ropes of the various systems involved in modding Skyrim.

You get a decent enchanted amulet at the end, so that's cool.

Technical Details (i.e spoilers)

• You can get to the shack with cow Tamriel -9 -16, collect the journal near the bed to start the quest.

• You can get to the new dungeon with cow Tamriel -31 -7. Alternatively coc NightshadeCavern01 will drop you in the middle of the dungeon.

  • Some enemies are disabled and half the dungeon is inaccessible before the quest is started. Use SetStage HRQ01 20 to enable these.

• Quest identifer is HRQ01, see the stages table below.

  Stage	Description
  20	Quest start, journal picked up
  30	Bear pelts offered
  40	Snow bear pelts offered
  50	Sabre cat pelts offered
  60	Sabre cat snow pelts offered
  70	Wolf pelts offered
  80	Ice wolf pelts offered
  90	All pelts offered, immediately progresses to next stage
  100	Waiting to start ritual
  110	Ritual start, lock entrance/exit, spawn spirit wolf
  120	Spawn sprit sabre cat
  130	Spawn spirit bear
  140	Spawn spirit ice wolf
  150	Spawn spirit snowy sabre cat
  160	Spawn spirit snow bear
  170	Ritual complete, spawn reward and unlock entrance/exit
  200	Reward taken, quest complete

Other thoughts

• Papyrus is okay

• Some of the decisions Bethesda made in their scripts are odd.

  • For example, part of FFR04PlayerScript.psc:

    Event OnItemAdded(Form akBaseItem, int aiItemCount, ObjectReference akItemReference, ObjectReference akSourceContainer)
    
        if pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(20) == 1
            if pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(30) == 0
                if akBaseItem == pNirn
                    pFFR04QS.NirnCount()
                endif
            endif
        endif
    
        if pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(20) == 1
            if pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(50) == 0
                if akBaseItem == pDeathbell
                    pFFR04QS.DeathbellCount()
                endif
            endif
        endif
    
        if pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(20) == 1
            if pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(40) == 0
                if akBaseItem == pNightshade
                    pFFR04QS.NightshadeCount()
                endif
            endif
        endif
    
    endEvent
    

    Could have been written as follows:

    Event OnItemAdded(Form akBaseItem, int aiItemCount, ObjectReference akItemReference, ObjectReference akSourceContainer)
        If pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(20)
            If !pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(30) && akBaseItem == pNirn
                pFFR04QS.NirnCount()
            ElseIf !pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(40) && akBaseItem == pNightshade
                pFFR04QS.NightshadeCount()
            ElseIf !pFFR04Quest.GetStageDone(50) && akBaseItem == pDeathbell
                pFFR04QS.DeathbellCount()
            EndIf
        EndIf
    EndEvent
    

    Just baffling.

• I wish Papyrus had a styleguide and linter. That's a least one nice thing about golang.

• The Creation Kit is extremely tempermental, save often.