Taking a break from complex scripting of other mods, here's a quick release that just edits the water damage game setting for volcanic water...


http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/21889

Ever stood on top of a boiling geyser in real life? Well, you can in Skyrim - hence the need for this mod.

This is a simple mod which makes volcanic water (such as the hot springs outside the Eldergleam Sanctuary) do 2 points of damage. Just enough to dissuade you from staying in it for too long.

Most areas that have geysers (technically "perpetual spouters") are affected, but one or two sections of water that look volcanic aren't recognised by the game as volcanic water and won't cause the damage.

An unintended side effect of having the water cause damage is that it appears to kill the bathing hunters nearby if you're in the area for long enough. Serves them right for trying to bathe in boiling water.

Added a new version which adds damage to each individual geyser rather than blanket damage from all water in the area. This means the water around is nice and hot but doesn't do damage - so the hunters can still bathe safely in the water, and you can wade through the water and go right up to the hunters. Get too close to the water spouts though, and the boiling water will get too hot for you to take - and you'll take major damage.

So far this version only adds the damage to about a quarter of the geysers in the area.

As this version involves manually placing triggers (and there are plenty of other obstacles in the way making it difficult to do this in the CK) I want to release what I've done so far - I've tested it myself in my own game and it works great for me - but in case there are any issues or suggestions for implementation, I'd like to know before I spend the additional time adding the triggers to the rest of the geysers. This is a beta release intended for testing.

You can grab the latest version from http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/21889.

Nice

Great idea.

Yeah, it was something that really irked me in the original game.

The older version that does blanket damage is still available at the Nexus to download. It's quite amusing seeing the hunters just sit there going "ouch!" constantly until they boil to death. In most cases they'll already be dead by the time you've reached that area of the cell.

Hopefully the individual geyser damage version will provide a more sensible way of doing things.

Sweet idea, I would like to make a request for an optional plugin though if you don't mind. Only damage rates, scolding volcanic water...we know that that would do in RL so if you could make a version with 10-20x the damage (I've not actually tried this yet to that amount might be a bit excessive) but just an amount to make you actually panic that would be appreciated

The new version I uploaded does much more damage - if you don't move out of the way immediately, you''ll die within a second or two.