A world Skyrim sized made to be used with Campfire/Hunterborn/Frostfall. Huge, no civilization. To expand Skyrim with wildlands. Two full worldspaces to explore. Portals from Falkreath hold and The Re

I’ve spent most of my gaming time for the past year gradually applying more and more mods to Skyrim, and finally got around to trying Chanterelle last week.

It doesn’t have much in the way of quests or npc dialogue, but everything it does have is top quality. Lots of wilderness to explore, a couple of dungeons to crawl. Somehow the landscapes feel more realistic than most of Skyrim. Recommended for those who enjoy walking around in the woods. There are many wonders to discover. Next new game I’m going to try starting there.

  • kbal@fedia.ioOP
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    11 months ago

    It’s Saturday morning Skyrim time, but I’ve switched from being a Skyrim player to being a Chanterelle player for now.

    On my current game, things are going well. I didn’t choose the most difficult possible start this time, and instead gave myself some leather armor and a conjuration spell to start with. The spell is quite often useful for being a distraction while I run away. Having some idea where to start looking for things and which areas to avoid helps as well. 40 hours or so over the past six weeks and I figure I’ve explored maybe 30% of it all.

    Here is the current list of mods I’ve found to be necessary. I have a lot of others that mostly make things more challenging in general, but these are the ones that seem like they’re in one way or another specifically good for Chanterelle.

    Essential mods:

    • Random Alt. Start for Chanterelle - by far the best way to start new games there
    • Hunterborn - hunt for food and stuff. Wouldn’t be the same at all without it
    • Hunterborn Survival patch - required if you want to eat and not starve
    • Animallica - lots of animals, it’s quite nice

    Survival:

    • SurvivalModeImproved.esp - You’ll want some kind of survival mode
    • SurvivalControlPanel.esp - Adds UI for survival mode stuff
    • You may also want some kind of camping mod. The one I have probably isn’t the best choice and I should probably just learn to craft a “scrimshaw” bedroll instead, I’m sure I saw it in the menus somewhere.

    Other things:

    • Convenient Horses patch - maybe too convenient, but I like it
    • Armor Rating Rescaled - makes early-game and primitive armor actually useful
    • Toggle Compass - just a simple ‘turn compass off’ ability is all I want for that
    • timescale10.esp - more time to get things done in a day seems important
    • Scrimshaw Expanded - I don’t remember what this adds, but scrimshaw seems okay with it
    • Origins Of Forest grass - taller grass makes a big difference here
    • Ark of Chanterelle.esp - adds giant beasts which are more unpredictable than most
    • Chanterelle Companion Zeus - I didn’t try it yet due to installation mistake

    Eh well, I finally found Bragon’s old boat. Somehow missed it the first time through, so I searched the whole river for it. Also I have three seemingly unique items and have no idea what they’re for. The other thing that’s different about Chanterelle compared to Skyrim is that so far as I know there’s no wiki to instantly tell you how everything works. That too is a welcome change.