Vitrium offers an immersive, animated and well balanced pack of spells, tools and consumables. Compliments Skyrim's gameplay loop and adds preparation gameplay.
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Main mod credits:
Xtudo for LE port, seeking out and providing custom textures and models and for helping me XenoShard for helping me with nifskope NazeemUzeem for inspiration and providing script source TkTk1 and Anton for Animation Tools N3 + 28 Koveich for Sovngarde font hype1 - Jeir - docteure for backpack assets (perm required) Revoith for Oil assets (perm required) Lertkrush for Smoke Bomb Script and assets XenoShard for the spectral shield asset hideto84 for the backpack asset
Texture pack addon credits: Jokerine for box assets Gamwich for Soul Gem assets ElSopa for hammer, tankard, backpack and bandage assets SummerrainRose, CloudBird and TheCinderfly for injector assets LucidAPs for high poly daedra heart assets mathy79 for HD salt assets dailyplanet for potion and poison assets Xtudo for gathering almost every asset here
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All meshes have been changed to be more vanilla like, reason is that I want the default experience to be vanilla-ish and I want to have optional mesh/texture add-on packs
Removed features: Wheelmenu crafting removed MCM removed (no changing whetstone or hammer values, no un/install button, no wheelmenu settings) swim detect Animation canceling Crystal Ward animation
Quest rewards are not instant, but they won't conflict with anything. Courier now delivers the items after the quest has been completed.
Better effect handling with the help of perks
Every sound has been redone
Simpler animobject handling
Animations blend better with the help of behaviors
Scripting performance increased significantly
Crystal Ward has spectral shield effect
Ancient horn has different animation and is 5000 unit area effect
Some animations have mid idle loops while crafting
New Backpack
Every animation tweaked
Fixed OnHit event conflict with ordinator perks like "bleed like a lamb"
Oils and Salts have damage multipliers (*1.20 for oils and *1.1 for salts + salt effects) instead of damage magnitudes that were scaled to player level.
Spectral Pack costs 100 magicka (0 before)
Daedra Heart adds 1.30 damage multiplier and a brain rot effect instead of the old effects
Salts and oils last for 3 min and heart 5 min
Added Bolts to crafting menu
Ancient horn now needs dragonrend to be known to be crafted. Before you could just have horn of jurgen windcaller in your inventory to be able to craft ancient horn
Ancient horn requires 100 magicka
Smoke pellet requires 20 magicka and added mist form
Old injector removed and now there are 2 injectors that give temporary vampire or beast form for 180 sec. Recipes are a quest reward from the last cure quest
Mead now give 150 more stamina for 300 sec instead of restoring 3 stamina per second for 3 min
Perfume now also gives 30 points to illusion and pickpocket for 300s
When using any of the crafting tools, the script will also look for player being in combat state and cancels the animation safely, so that the player won't get stuck in animation when in combat state
added blade's sacrifice. Quest reward from alduin's wall quest.
changed item descriptions according to new effects
Version 11.1
Whetstone and Hammer mechanics changed to use formlist as override and keywords as backup. If weapon/shield doesn't have keywords or you want to change the sharpness/toughness level, just add the weapon/shield into the corresponding formlist
Animation cancel feature changes to be more responsive and now works with controller sneak key (Current keys are keyboard forward and crouch key and controller crouch key)
Script performance improved in theory
Fixed few papyrus stack errors
Version 11.0.1
Fixed papyrus stack error and removed debugging leftover
Version 11
If updating, I recommend a new save or re-install mod using the MCM and Fallrim Tools. No update testing done, so you are on your own.
New optional requirement for wheelmenu crafting: UIExtensions https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17561
New wheelmenu crafting feature added. Currently you can craft different arrows within the four slots that can be changed in the MCM
Fixed vibrant weapons lite mod effects not working with previous updates
Added soul gem fragment requirements for crafting scrolls and removed player level related condition
Smoke pellets are now quest reward only. Before you were able to craft it at forges
Whetstone and Hammer mechanics have been reworked to determine weapon and shield specific sharpness and toughness level based on the formlist they are in. This way user or mod author can add different mod weapons and shields to the mechanic more easily and determine the levels of sharpness/toughness
Salts and oils damage changed to scale of player level instead of player alchemy level. Also scale steps are less gradual: 10 mag (player lvl < 10), 15 mag (player lvl < 15), 20 mag (player lvl < 20), 25 mag (player lvl < 25), mag 30 (player lvl > 24) (reasoning: my wrists started cramp after 100th manual adjustment)
Fixed an issue after using whetstone shield wouldn't not re-equip
Removed prefix aaa from all scripts and Editor IDs
Added option to change whetstone and hammer mechanic values in MCM
Version 10
Fixed a lot of papyrus stack errors. New save is required to benefit from this fix
MCM menu added. Currently you can (un)install the mod via it and change sharpness and toughness related settings
Removed animation cancel feature from hammer and whetstone, because it caused some issues
Added sound muting when canceling animation
2 New tools: Tempering tool, which allows player to temper armor on the go and a camping stove, which allows player to cook food on the go.
Changed how the sound is managed with crafting menus that stop time
Changed time to slow down to 0.001 instead of 0.01 when in crafting menus
Fixed a property missing in A Return To Your Roots quest. No real effect on the quest
Bunch of other script improvements
Added mute sound replacers for 3 npc combat idle sounds, which are used to queue effect within scripts. Before you could hear some weird ass idle bonks as the sound played
Version 9.0.3
Fixed issues (discoved by RadiantWings, cheers!)
Smooth Jazbay quest reward fixed to have soul gem transfuse instead of scroll crafting
Hanged man's venom effect was not applied by the MGEF. Undead oil effect was falsely applied instead by that effect.
Undead oil enchantment was not applied by the MGEF. Beast oil enchantment was falsely applied instead by that effect.
Undead oil name was incorrect
Version 9.0.2
Added USSEP script changes to A Return To Your Roots quest (discovered by TemplarSwift, cheers!)
Added animation cancel feature to rest of the animation (excluding crafting mechanics)
Added space key to canceling keys (WASD + space)
Version 9.0.1
Added an uninstalling spell that makes uninstalling (and possibly updating) the mod easier
Version 9.0
New save is required if updating from older versions to 9.0
New requirement: ConsoleUtilSSE which was required for time freeze during crafting https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/24858
Crystal hammer and whetstone yeeted for now as the mechanics got a rework
Sharpness and toughness mechanics now affected by the material of the weapon and shield
Salts and oils now scale to player alchemy skill (5 dmg scaling per 10 level increasement i.e lvl < 20 = 5dmg scale, lvl 20...30 = 10 dmg etc...)
Spells are now quest rewards
Smoke pellets reworked to have faster animation, new explosion pattern, new sound effect, tweaked effects (stagger and a change to knockdown NPCs)
New Tool: spectral pack horn
New spell: Scroll Crafting
Perks and spells required by the sharpness and toughness mechanics and spectral pack are given to player when mod is first installed
Minor changes to spell world objects and spell world object items changed from spell tomes to document tube and pouch
Script performance should be a lot faster in theory
You can now cancel some of the animations by pressing WASD keys (I'll add more buttons later)
Art objects are delivered more neatly by a spell
Currently enchantment effects from vibrant weapons aren't working
Fixed consumable script melee detection which might have falsely think that bows/crossbows were melee weapons
Version 8.3
Changed soul gem transfusion to no longer gain smithing skill due to how Skyrim gives exp. Also added level gates for each tiers of gems: Lesser lvl 20 and up, common lvl 30 and up, greater lvl 40 and up, grand lvl 50 and up, black lvl 60 and up
Version 8.2
Fixed crystal hammer and crystal whetstone crafting recipes not having requirement for normal version, now they do as intended
Changes to following recipes: perfume, injector and filled injector
Version 8.1
Fixed crafters crate not working after spending some time in the menu.
Following changes were made for items (user feedback): injector restores 30 magicka for 180 seconds + cures diseases salted horker meat increases health by 150 for 300 seconds mead with juniper berry restores 20 stamina for 120 seconds bandage heals 10 hp for 60 seconds acidic berry extract heals for 300hp
Ancient horn can be crafted at forges if Horn of Jurgen Windcaller is posessed in inventory
Version 8.0
Every animation has been tweaked to be faster and more fluid.
Almost everything was rescripted.
Hammer has new mechanic similar to whetstones
New menus for backpack/crate crafting and soul gem crafting. Similar to in-game crafting, you can see required items, the items you can craft and the resources you need with a quick glance.
Fixed a dirty edit in blackreachzcell10
Version 7.0-beta
Renamed "Crafting backpack" to "Crafters backpack"
Crafters backpack changes: crafted at forges, new recipe, value lowered, caption adjusted, doesn't require seperate spell to be crafted (the spell automatically appears in magic menu)
Injector changes: Empty and full injector weights reduced, new recipes, current effect: 3 magicka and stamina /s for 3min
Pefume changes: 3 bottles are created instead of 1
Horker meat added to crafting mechanics
Crafting animations and menu tweaked
Books are no longer leveled list items, they can be found in Sinderions' field laboratory (for better compatibility)
Five new consumables: undead oil, dragon oil, vampire oil, beast oil, hanged man's venom
New spell: smoke pellets
Mesh fixes for following items: acidic berry extract, frost salt and shock salt
New mesh for soul gem transfusion
Various item value and weight changes (mainly lightened items)
Hammer has more seamless transition to animation
Whetstone changes: whetstones grant different levels of sharpness. After 10 hits blade degrades to lower level. Sharpness levels are stored for each weapon
Version 6.0
Torch and shield unequipping added to some of the tools and consumables
Fixed Soul Gems to use correct textures
Backpack textures optimized
Vitrium book typo fixes
A copy of Vitrium book can be found in Sinderion's lab and outside the Sarethi Farm
Mesh collision fixes
Backpack value reduced greatly and carrying capacity increased to 50
New consumable: salted horker meat
Version 5.0.1
Hotfix: compacted forms for ESL
Version 5.0
Three new tools: crafting backpack, crafting crate and ancient horn
New consumable: mead with juniper berry
Adjusted effect sound levels to correct level so that the action matches to sound level it produces and alerting enemies correctly
Script adjustments and effect cleaning
Corrected item descriptions to be more accurate
Adjusted some effect durations
Added menu to soul gem transfusion similar to item crafting
Version 4.0
New consumable: bandage
New Spell: soul gem transfusion
Changed spell menu icons for spells
Version 3.1
HD textures and meshes for salts and daedra heart
Minor adjustments to book
Version 3.0
Two new consumables: salts (fire, frost and shock) and a daedra heart
Added a book that shows all recipes and effects of the tools. The book "Vitrium" can be bought of mage vendors
Adjusted hammer and whetstone animations
Fixed few minor script inconsistents
Version 2.0
Two new tools: Injector and Perfume
Fixed issue when using AllGUD or DSR, you no longer need to have "keep shield on hand while equipped" as now the shield is automatically unequipped while animation plays and re-equipped when it ends (if the animation requires it)
Fixed a problem where you could use whetstone while magic was equipped in right hand
Version 1.1
Fixed wildedit that changed snowberry value from 4 to 1
Changed crystal ward and hunters instinct book covers to restoration and alteration book covers
Added custom texture and models for hammer and acidic berry extract
Increased shield effect time from 60 to 180 seconds
Increased normal whetstone effect duration from 60 to 180 seconds and increased effectiveness to 10%
Increased crystal whetstone effect duration from 60 to 300 seconds and increased effectiveness to 15%
Spell Tome distribution now follows USSEP fixes
All items are displayed as art objects so they won't use item slots
20- Smoke Pellets - Disorient foes and chance to have rage effect
100 - Crystal Ward - Cast a 80 damage withstanding ward that stays in front for 30 sec
None - Scroll Crafting - Allow player to craft scrolls
Acquisition: Quest rewards for completing Alduin's Wall quest.
30 - Barbarian kick - Powerful kick that pushes off foes
None - Blade's sacrifice - Teleport back to Sky Haven temple
Quest rewards are delivered by the courier after the quest has been completed. This can take some time, be patient.
Sharpness Mechanic
There are 7 levels of sharpness, each one of them have a given damage multiplier. After sharpening your weapon, you weapon specific sharpness level and after 10 hits towards enemy blade degrades to lower level. Below is a default list of sharpness levels for each weapon material type. Every weapon sharpness level can be changed by altering the formlist within the esp.
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Toughness Mechanic
Toughness mechanic is similar to sharpness mechanic and has different levels of toughness. After 10 block with shield, it degrades to lower level. Below is a default list of toughness levels for each shield material type. Every shields toughness level can be changed by altering the formlist within the esp.
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Crafting
While you have crafters backpack equipped a lesser power comes available in the magic menu which allows you to craft on the go. You can craft all of the consumables + a few extra items like lockpicks, roll of paper and arrows (perk requirements are on for arrows)
Soul Gem Crafting
After requiring and learning the soul gem transfusion spell, you get a lesser power similar to crafting available in your magic menu. With it you can craft soul gems to one tier higher at the price of two. This also makes use of soul gem fragments that are otherwise unused by the game. You can split soul gems to fragments or combine them to make a petty soul gem.
Scroll Crafting
After acquiring the Scroll Crafting book player can use the lesser power to create various scrolls. Every scroll requires 1...5 soul gem fragments and a roll of paper. The of fragment cost is based on the value of the scroll. Fragments can be aquired by splitting soul gems up with Soul Gem Transfusion spell.
Roll of paper can be made with crate or backpack crafting, requires 1 tundra cotton.
Spectral Pack
After acquiring the Spectral Pack horn, player can use the horn to summon the Spectral Pack at pointed location for one hour.
Roll of paper can be made with crate or backpack crafting, requires 1 tundra cotton.
Whetstone -
- Used to maintain weapons sharpness (read below)
Hammer -
- Used to maintain shield toughness (read below)
Cooking stove -
Crafting Crate -
Crafting Backpack - 
Empty Injector -
- Used for Filled Injector
Ancient Horn -
- 5000 unit areal dragonrend (100 magicka cost)
- Melee deals 20% additional damage against humanoid NPCs for 3 min
- Melee deals 20% additional damage against the undead + ghosts for 3 min
- Melee deals 20% additional damage against vampires for 3 min
- Melee deals 20% additional damage against beasts for 3 min
- Increased speech, illusion and pickpocket skill by 30 points 5 min
- Increases health by 150 points for 5 min
30 - Hunters Instinct - Gain enhanced vision to seek out preys for 30 sec
100- Spectral Pack - Summon a pack of three spectral wolves to aid you for 1 hour
Acquisition: Quest rewards for completing A Return To Your Roots quest.20- Smoke Pellets - Disorient foes and chance to have rage effect
100 - Crystal Ward - Cast a 80 damage withstanding ward that stays in front for 30 sec
