Mod contents:

1. Full set of modular armor and parts in 10 color variants.
2. Weapons pack: (Bow, Arrows, Long sword, 1-hand Sword, Dagger)
3. Start-up quest: Find and dig up 5 corpses, loot their bodies to receive everything you need to start playing with the mod.
4. Enchantments:
- (Weapon) Slayer: Causes targets to explode on death if killed after the alloted time limit. Adds heart and flesh to their lootable remains.
- (Armor) Shadow Assassin: Become invisible while sneaking, drains stamina while in use.
- (Armor) Sabotage: 2x sneak attack damage with any weapon type including fists.
- (Armor) Poison immunity: 100% resistance to poison as an ability, not an enchantment skill-level based percentage when re-enchanting on a new armor.
* All of the above are abilities, and do not require a grand soul gem or high enchant level to re-enchant at maximum value on a new armor/weapon (with the exception of Slayer's kill timer, although it will still work on last hit even if set to a value of 1 second).
5. Spell books/spells: There are 10 spell books which teach the 10 Chaos Forge crafting spells sorted by each of the 10 armor color variants.
6. Perk-like abilities:
- BSA Full Set: Gives 25 armor points boost if wearing a full set of at least the base light armor gear (barrette, cuirass, gauntlets, boots/gaiters)
- BSA Matching Set: Gives 25% armor bonus if the user is wearing full armor set + has the light armor matching set perk
- BSA Protected: Gives a 10% armor boost for every additional "leather" classed add-on
- BSA well protected: Gives a 15% armor boost for every additional "steel" classed add-on
- BSA Smithing: Piggybacks off of the Steel Perk (if unlocked) which allows tempering up to 2x.



Installation Guide

For NMM users:

1. Download using the Download with manager button or manually (add it under the mods tab)

2. Press the install mod button and select your options in the installer.




For Manual download:


1. Download manually from Nexus. Choose either HD or SD version (do not install both).

2. Extract the 7-zip file and open contents.

3. Copy everything into your Skyrim/Data folder EXCEPT the Optional and fomod folders. Overwrite when prompted.

4. [OPTIONAL] If you wish to install a female default body type to override the vanilla body style for the armor, open the optional folder, open the fembody folder, and open the folder matching the type of body you wish to install: CBBEcurvy, CBBEslim, UNP, UNPskinny, or UNPblessed. Choose ONLY ONE.

- When you have opened the folder of your choice, copy the Meshes folder located inside and paste into your Skyrim/Data folder. Overwrite when prompted.

5. [OPTIONAL] Decide whether or not you want to replace Dark Brotherhood's Shrouded Armor in-game.

- If you choose to replace the Shrouded Armor, open the Optional folder, open the DBReplacer folder and open the folder with the name of the color style you want. copy the BlackSacramentDBReplacer.esp file into your Skyrim/Data folder.


Make sure all the esm and esp files are active in the skyrim launcher under Data Files.





Uninstalling:

For a permanent uninstall: This method will ensure a SAFE AND CLEAN uninstall process that will reduce your risk of having a corrupted save game.

1. First and foremost, unequip all Black Sacrament armors and remove them from your inventory (this will ensure there are no lingering magic effects present on your character).

2. Travel into a safe location, such as a vanilla exterior in Skyrim. Wait in-game about 3-4 days. Save your game. Quit Skyrim.

3. If you originally installed with NMM, open NMM and uninstall the mod as usual. Skip to step 4 if you originally manually installed.

4. Manually download and install the Black Sacrament Armor CLEAN UNINSTALLER FILES from the downloads section (unzip and drag all contents into Skyrim/Data). Do not install these files through NMM.

5. Re-load your save game, wait an additional 24 hours in-game. Save and exit.

6. Delete all of the Black Sacrament esp files. Delete the Black Sacrament .bsa file and any leftover meshes in Skyrim/Data/Meshes/Dcvrworks/BlackSacrament. Do not delete the scripts in the scripts folder.







FAQ's


What happened to The Black Tower?

The tower has been discontinued and has been removed. A new tower is being designed in its place, and will be part of a new mod called Black Phoenix (released in chapter 4). You can try out my other house mod if you need a place to stay: Amethyst Hollows


How do I craft this armor?

You should have received an initial quest marker (look in the Miscellaneous section of your quest journal). Locate the 5 assassin corpses and loot their bodies to gain access to the spell books that will teach you the forging spells. There are a total of 10 forge spells, each armor set craftable according to its color variant per spell. Many of the armors require human parts to craft. You can find an Assassins Bow in the quest loot which will help you get the hearts and flesh needed.

Make sure you are patched to at least Skyrim patch 1.6 in order for the quest markers to appear. If for some other reason the quest markers do not appear, double check your journal and highlight/unhighlight the quests to make the markers re-appear.

Once you cast the crafting spell, you will see 4 categories: Steel, Leather, Jewelry, Misc.
Steel - contains all of the armor's "hard goods" - stuff like Cuirass, Gauntlets, Boots, Weapons etc.
Leather - contains all of the armor's "soft goods" - stuff like Hoods, Cloaks, Scarf etc
Jewelry - contains all of the armor's enchantable jewelry
Misc - contains all of the armor's female body variants. Supports: UNP ("Dimonized"), UNP skinny ("Petite"), UNPB ("Blessed"), CBBE Curvy ("Curvy"), CBBE slim ("Slim"). Use this in case you or your followers have a unique body type that differs from the default installed female body type.
For the satchels: Small fits Petite and Slim, Medium fits Dimonized, Large fits Curvy and Blessed.


I tried to loot the corpses but I died instantly from the creatures guarding them.

Some of the grave sites are guarded by powerful creatures. This is on purpose, since some of the loot can be considered in the higher-powered range. If your character is low level, the easiest locations are (in order):
1. Ancient's Ascent
2. Eldersblood Peak
3. Skyborn Altar
4. Lower Steepfall Barrow
5. Shearpoint


Why do some of the crafting spells not have the full set of armor (like Shadowscale, Seryllic, etc)?

Some of the armor sets use shared parts from other sets. For example Shadowscale uses parts from Unholy, Seryllic uses parts from Leather. etc.


Why do some armor parts have no armor value?

They actually do have armor value. It is a percentage based armor boost that increases depending on how many extra pieces you equip. Tempering your base armor set will increase the added amount of protection as well.


Will you upload this to Steam Workshop?

No. And these are the reasons why not:
- Steam does not allow ESM files
- Steam does not allow multiple ESM/ESP combos
- Maximum upload size is 100MB (ridiculous)
Even if I were to upload just the armor to steam, the packed BSA file is well over 150 MB.


Why is my character clipping through the armor?

Facial hair will clip through the cowl. This currently cannot be fixed conventionally through the CK. Alternate scripting fixes are pending.


I'm noticing perfomance issues, is this normal?

Version 4 adds a lot of extra armor pieces and variants which can be all worn simultaneously or mix/matched. This can put a strain on your graphics card. With HD texture installed, running all variants simultaneously (on you and your followers) with the maximum number of equipped pieces can possibly cause slowdown in performance especially when multiple other high-res texture mods are also installed. If you notice performance hits, reduce the number of simultaneous variant armor sets in-game or install the SD texture option.


If I install the DBReplacer option, can I use another Dark Brotherhood replacer armor too?

It depends. The DBReplacer only replaces the default Shrouded armor set (the one astrid gives you), as well as the Shrouded Cowl Maskless (appears as a BSA Veil). It does not touch the Worn Shrouded or Ancient Shrouded, so if another mod only replaces those armor sets, you will be able to run them simultaneously.


The DB Replacer cowl is only a half-face mask, I want the full hood covering my character's face like the vanilla cowl.

You can equip the Shrouded cowl (half face mask) and the Shrouded cowl maskless (veil) simultaneously to create a full hooded look.




Notes and known issues:

A full set of all equippable pieces of Black Sacrament Armor may not show up properly on default skyrim mannequins due to limitations of 10 max items in their script.

Armor body slots may not be compatible with some mods (causing them to unequip due to taking up the same body slot even though they don't overlap). To help decrease this issue I created this thread back on Feb 8 (whether mod authors choose to follow this protocol is entirely their decision):
http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1344290-body-part-ids-for-unused-biped-nodes-consensus/page__fromsearch__1

Dual enchanting a weapon with Slayer and Soul Trap can cause performance issues due to both effects using a script that runs at the same exact time (every single hit, and on death).

Dual enchanting Shadow Assassin with Stamina regen may cause a cancellation conflict (the regen may cancel out the stamina drain, which will cause the invisibility to not work, since it relies on the drain to be active in order to engage)





Troubleshooting tips: Please refer to my Mod User's Survival Guide here:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/articles/287/