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Immersion: No Instant Healing Items

So you're in a fight to the death, down to your last sliver of health, and there's an axe blade swishing towards your face. Pretty dire circumstances, huh...? Not in Skyrim; just freeze time, chug as many health potions and eat as many potatoes as you need to, then restart time and take that axe blade to the face like a champ!

This mod aims to address one of the biggest immersion breakers in Skyrim by making it so you can't do that any more. All healing items (and magicka/stamina recovery items) in the base game now have an effect over time instead of an instant effect. Alchemy ingredients are affected as well, so that potions you brew will work in the same way. Finally I have also overhauled all the food effects to be more realistic. Nearly all food now gives long duration, low magnitude beneficial effects; so it's genuinely worth it for the Dovahkiin to stop every now and then and eat some proper food, but chugging down a lot of food at once will just waste most of the effects. So now the game mechanics should incentivise you to role-play a little more.

This mod doesn't depend on the DLC, which also means that new items added by the DLC will only be partially affected by the changes; they will show something like "Restores X health for 0 seconds", where X is the amount that they previously gave instantaneously. Needless to say this also applies to items which are added by other mods.

Use this mod any way you wish.