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RND has all the enjoyment of an immersive needs mod without the overcomplexity of some other mods, and so it is one of my four core survival experience mods. I watch for it, whereas before I didn’t pay much attention. Not only that, but I now enjoy finding unspoiled food on my adventures. It took several days of complete bed rest and nourishment for my body to eradicate the infection. By the time I finally found a spot to bed down, I was getting pretty weak. There was no way I would make it all the way to the temple, and I didn’t yet have my survival kit together. On the road from Windhelm to Whiterun, I got a rather nasty bite from a wolf which became infected. My experience with this mod has been very enjoyable. You can even scoop up snow for water if you can find a clean patch. That means that, with these three mods, you can fulfill your needs from fishing, hunting, and foraging for greens. So, you can adjust the meat yield down in order to avoid receiving nigh-endless meat from a single kill. Upon further examination, Hunterborn is highly configurable in-game. I have mentioned misgivings about Hunterborn (reviewed here) in the past, even though it is a natural companion to RND. Adding in Fishing in Skyrim and Improved Fish (reviewed here) will round out your food options a bit. Also, the need to stay warm in combination with all of RND’s features feels like a total experience to me. I find Frostfall’s camping equipment extremely intuitive: better than RND’s. RND fits very well with Frostfall (reviewed here). When worse comes to worst, though, bed rest and plenty of food and water may be enough. Just as in real life, you’re much better off with a skilled healer. Try to let your body fight off the infection. Hopefully, you have your trusty camping gear available. You can try to make it to town, but if you’ve grown very weak, you may have to find somewhere to rest. But, with RND, illnesses grow progressively worse and can kill you. Diseases may start out as minor negatives to your attributes, just as in vanilla. However, it is to be ignored at your own peril. The grace of the gods has been untouched by the mod, so disease is still relatively easy to cure. Dank dungeons, for instance, are not clean places, and having a lie-down in the filth could have consequences. However, be aware that where you sleep matters. After a hard day of dragonslaying and bandit-torture, you’ll need to find a bed or have some camping equipment: a bedroll at the very least. All of the rates for needs are configurable, including whether you want food to eventually spoil or not.ĭovahkhiin must also get adequate rest. These are dangerous to eat because they can make you nauseous and even transmit disease. So, in order to balance the mod properly, many of the foods you find will be rotten or stale. The last thing a survivalist needs is to become inebriated, tripping over her own feet and struggling to keep both eyes focused. In survival situations, though, you’ll have to be very conservative. As an alternative, you could drink some alcohol. The possibility of becoming diseased from unsafe drinking water is very real. Just avoid eating too much as it will make you feel sluggish, and make sure to boil your water to sterilize it properly. Some foods, like soups, will restore both, and particularly fancy foods will give you a bonus to an attribute such as stamina for a while. Foods throughout the game will help restore hunger while water drawn from a fresh water source can restore thirst. Over time, Dovakhiin now becomes hungry and thirsty. Realistic Needs & Diseases (RND) has many features. It is by far the best implementation of bodily needs and disease in the game thus far. It is currently in version 1.9.5 and is available through the Skyrim Nexus and the Steam Workshop. Realistic Needs & Diseases is a mod for Skyrim written and designed by perseid9. This is no way to nourish the Dragonborn. This implementation leaves Dovahkhiin either ignoring nutrition entirely or engaging in binge eating in the middle or shortly after combat. These are afterthoughts, really: weak healing potions. In Skyrim, though, Dovahkhiin does not really concern herself with food and water. Water, in particular, is one of if not the most important consideration in a survival situation. If there’s one thing the survivalist is most concerned about, it’s nutrition.