Are "survival" mods still worth it now AE alr has its own survival mod?

[Tiberius]

I was a fan of sunhelm and camping lite mod, but now AE alr has survival mode, is it still worth it to install "survival" mods? What mods do you recommend? I'm on 1.6.640

[Alex]

That survival "mode" is far too rudimentary. Keep using sunhelm and camping.

[Docsprock]

The default survival is horrible. I've used iNeed and Frostfall for years.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Yes, the base-game survival mode leaves much to be desired.

Skyrim is a game that is supposed to be advertised as "play how you want" essentially, and the AE survival mode does the opposite of that. You *will* play how it wants, or you're going to be crippled incredibly badly.

Takes over 350 apples or potatoes or carrots that are raw or so, to meet the same hunger fulfillment as requirement as a single cooked meal.

And you have to cook raw meat with salt piles. Have raw meat and fire but no salt? Too bad. Guess you're starving.

And it also disables fast traveling and leveling up anywhere. There's no toggle of these.



The third party mods do a better job, can be customized, respect your timescale settings, and just... do it better.

[MartyrSaint]

Eh, the AE survival is fine and all but it's more or less a try it once just to see and then realise how much it absolutely gimps you.

I can dig on having hunger, only levelling in safe zones and no fast travel though. Those alone make it a decent survival mode. but like other users have said there are better options via mods.

[Tiberius]

Thanks for the information. I guess i'll install sunhelm again

[theo]

Originally posted by Sairek Ceareste:

And it also disables fast traveling and leveling up anywhere. There's no toggle of these.

As it should be. Main reason to use vanilla survival mode, although it sucks at most other things