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Less Aggressive Animals - a pacifist mini-mods collection

I was walking down the road, decked out in ebony armor, and a skeever decided to try and take me on. A big mistake for the skeever.

Are all animals suicidal or just stupid?

You are large and potentially dangerous to them, and they have plenty of other weaker prey around, so they shouldn't need to hunt humans.

This mod makes life easier for players playing as pacifists, or who want a more peaceful game.


1) Cowardly Skeevers and Wolves (inspired by "cowardly wolves and/or skeevers" by jpro6)

This makes standard skeevers and wolves cowardly, so they don't attack on sight. You are large and potentially dangerous to them, and they have plenty of other weaker prey around, so they don't need to hunt humans. You can still hunt them. Only affects vanilla skeevers and wolves, and doesn't affect those as part of quests.


2) Spriggans are More Peaceful.

For nature spirits, Spriggans are certainly very aggressive. If you roleplay as a nature-lover, or a priest of Kynareth, why should they always attack you? This mod prevents most normal Spriggans from attacking you (and most other creatures) on sight, and if you are being attacked, they may even come to your aid. This will not apply to all Spriggans or scripted Spriggans as part of quests.


3) Passive Mudcrabs.

This makes all normal mudcrabs harmless silt-feeders. They no longer attack on sight.


4) Cautious Bears.

This makes all normal bears cautious - They still attack, but now you need to be right up close to them before they will attack.
Aggro radius in vanilla: 2500 warn, 2000 warn/attack, 1500 attack
Aggro radius is this mod: 1500 warn, 400 warn/attack, 380 attack


5) Unaggressive and Cautious Horkers

This makes all normal horkers cautious - They will still attack, but now you need to be almost touching them before they will attack.
Aggro radius in vanilla: 850 warn, 640 warn/attack, 320 attack
Aggro radius in this mod: 800 warn, 400 warn/attack, 250 attack


6) Unaggressive and Cautious Sabrecats

This makes all normal sabrecats cautious.
Aggro radius in vanilla: 0 warn, 2000 warn/attack, 1500 attack
Aggro radius in this mod: 1000 warn, 600 warn/attack, 400 attack


7) "Catch" becomes "Catch and Kill".

When I first saw a butterfly in-game, I was delighted, so tried to pick it up as I was given the option to "Catch Butterfly", fully expecting to let it fly away afterwards. I was then horrified when I saw I had killed the butterfly and now had a butterfly wing in my inventory. This tiny mod simply changes the text from "Catch" to "Catch and Kill" as a warning to players that they won't just catch the creature, but will also kill it if they try to activate it. It applies to butterflies, moths, torchbugs, dragonflies, and fish.



Only normal animals are affected by this mod - not unique instances of creatures for particular quests. You can still hunt and kill the animals should you need to or choose to - the mod just lowers the chance of them attacking you first (or stops them attacking you altogether) depending on the animal.


I'm fully aware that this is a niche mod that won't be to everyones taste - if you don't like the mod, no need to comment - just don't use it.