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Mar 26, 2022 @ 10:25am
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Lively Bars

Description
I wanted the bars in the game to feel a bit more lively and like actual bars, so this mod adds 4 variants for basic furniture pieces (Stool, Sitting Box and Bench) that have different drinking animations.
This furniture is placed in the bars of the main factions' cities, and will be used by NPCs just like any other chair.
Other than that, it can be unlocked for building by getting the Basic Furniture blueprint, and will be found in the building menu under the Lively Bars category.

Additionally, this mod includes the shopkeeper's cleaning animation from the great mod CMKillingTime ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870773796 ), which originally inspired me to make this one. This has also been placed in bars around to world, so that NPC shopkeepers will start cleaning the counter at random times in the day. Note that the download of CMKillingTime is not required for this mod to work.

Technical notes:
This mod works by replacing the interior layouts of bars with new ones, identical to the original except for the replaced furniture. This means that it will probably conflict with any other mod that changes the layouts of those buildings. Also, import is required to see changes to the cities bars.

Shopkeepers status will appear as "reigning" due to this mod, if you find yourself wondering what is going on with that. This does not however break any functionality, you can still interact with them as usual and they will do all their stuff. It was only necessary in order to make them cycle through the standard shopkeeping activity (i.e. stand still doing nothing) and the table cleaning :)

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Dec 29, 2024 @ 5:33pm
Lively Bars - новые стулья или NPC?
XpanuteL
87 Comments
Bubblegum Jan 26 @ 11:26am 
oh my goddd this causes so many crashes when entering bars, one crash was extensive enough to corrupt my game.
rditto48801 Dec 2, 2024 @ 6:54am 
If it keeps crashing at a particular Bar (or a particular bar layout), then try repairing the Navmesh. I've had more than a few times, where this has limited how often it crashes, or at least prevented crashes when entering a bar, until I leave the area and come back.

One suspicion I have is if using mods that add races, of said mod races interacting with the modded seats, causing an issue, perhaps relating to them not having the same animations as the base game races. It makes me kind of think of something like Musical Chairs combined with Russian Roulette.
Secondary evidence is one of my installed mods (which is supposed to cause town guards to 'rescue' downed allies) has caused a lot more people to just 'wander around', and not be in the bar, in a few places where it would have a chance to crash for me. The number of crashes when entering bars, has greatly gone down since then.
Kunky Dec 1, 2024 @ 2:50pm 
unfortunately causes Kenshi to crash some or all of the bars
Ketra Nov 25, 2024 @ 7:09pm 
sznaucer I am having the same issue. :( in Catun specifically.
Buttons_Mashed Nov 9, 2024 @ 10:14pm 
Surprised i haven't found a mod like this yet, looks neat! Would be good to know what this conflicts with though.
Frank 杨 Oct 7, 2024 @ 6:37am 
This mod conflicts with Genesis
Mazz Aug 23, 2024 @ 2:12pm 
where should this mod be placed in mod order?
sznaucer Aug 9, 2024 @ 8:11am 
for me it crashes the game sometimes when I enter a bar
Paladin Dawnheart Feb 26, 2024 @ 10:12am 
Some of you need to read the description, check you load orders and mod lists before commenting.

Love this mod but can't get it to play friendly with immersive non-combat animations mod. For that reason, I'm out.
Impos! Jan 24, 2024 @ 5:17am 
Careful with this mod, something with it and my game or possibly other mods is making me crash every time I attempt to enter the Bar in Clownsteady. Prob effects other places too.