Hi all!
If you had a peek at our (old) Discord server lately, you probably saw the announcement, but here it is for everyone else:
Althro (author of ADT, AVO, Tinvaak) and I have decided to merge our respective communities and set up a new Discord server: Aetherius Modding. All of my lists as well as the lists from everyone else on the Phoenix & Friends and Animonculory servers will now be supported in our cosy new home.
Hi!
Wow, it’s been a while. Since sometime in October (?) I have been completely silent in the modding world which is the longest time that I have been “out” of the community in about six years. The reasons for that are complex and I want to get into them, but since my personal stuff is not of interest to everyone I want to start off by talking about the directly modding-related things.
This Patreon post coincides with a preliminary release of Le...
2023-02-13 22:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Yes, I know, it's TPF 5.0 that I should be working on (I promise, I am!). But LOTF is also due for another major update in celebration of the upcoming one year anniversary of the list. LOTF 1.0 was published on 04-09-2021 and I intend to publish LOTF 3.0 on 04-09-2022.
(You know the thing with ETAs, they're never a promise.)
LOTF 3.0 will be likely be the last (major) update for the list, finalising it so I can put it aside and focus on TPF. Everyth...
2022-08-11 15:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovelies!
Against my better judgement I decided to take off the Easter holiday. I have two papers due very soon, five presentations, an essay, a group project, and then finals all within the next six weeks. Oh, and regular homework/reading assignments as well, of course. Before I started studying, everyone told me how being at University is so great because you get so much free time. That was a lie.
But while I've been largely absent on Discord over the past few wee...
2022-04-16 13:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
So this update post is long overdue. Over the past few weeks there has been basically radio silence on TPF 5.0 progress which I am terribly sorry about, but it doesn't mean there was no progress! There is a lot going on for me IRL right now so I'm completely swamped by too many things at once. Can you believe that I'll move to the Netherlands next week and start University the week after that? I sure can't.
So the whole idea of getting 5.0 out in Dece...
2022-01-13 18:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a birthday party - TPF turns four! I first started working on the manual guide in the week after Christmas 2017 and since then the bloody thing has blown up in ways I could not have imagined.
To celebrate the (approaching) fourth anniversary of TPF, we, the TPF staff and I, are bringing you an entire month's worth of awesomeness: Throughout December there will be giveaways and screenshot competitions hosted on our Discord server. In fact, we've alr...
2021-12-01 23:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey lovelies, got some updates for you all!
Yes, LOTF will get updated to Skyrim SE 1.6.318.0 when that is possible. It's the latest patch that was released alongside AE (but doesn't require you to own the AE DLC). I intend to release LOTF for Skyrim AE as 2.0 without requiring a new game. It will likely have a Creation Club profile with support / integration of SOME creations as well as a performance profile with DynDOLOD on medium and 2D trees...
2021-11-18 13:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Halloween!
Yes, I just barely managed for this to still be an October update, posting on the 31st. October was wild (most people active on our Discord server will have noticed me saying that a lot lately), I've had my final day at school and am now about to take my final exams. Biology is first, on Tuesday. I also applied to the University that I'm determined to go to in winter (somehow I'll make that happen, just you wait).
However, this a...
2021-10-31 17:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
This is a big one.
I have three more weeks of school ahead of me (plus one after the holidays) before my finals in early November. After I quit regular school just after my fifteenth birthday, I had thought I would never get to this point and all my plans for the future just evaporated in front of my eyes. I rather thought I'd off myself before I'd turn eighteen.
But I made it after all. I'm 22 now and almost done with my primary education...
2021-09-18 12:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Those of you following Lexy's Patreon know that she does monthly updates which I thought was pretty neat. Basically I'm trying to do the same now.
The last week of the holidays has now begun and as you may have noticed from my Discord update, I did not particularly enjoy my six weeks without school. It was about as bad as I had feared. I'm so spaced out I might as well be asleep and dreaming. Holidays are bad in general for me, and this year combined the "anniversary" of a...
2021-08-09 14:43:05 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
The holidays are here and I have more free time on my hands than could possibly be sensible. With about four of six weeks free to spend on modding stuff, I will hopefully Get Stuff Done before my finals swallow me up in Autumn.
As mentioned (several times now), I have finally started work on that beginner's guide and making good progress. However, the downside is that I can't switch back and forth. I can't go back to work on TPF for a bit, or even WTP, beca...
2021-07-05 09:17:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
It's that time again: I'm a nearing completion of the next major update for TPF which will be release 4.6. I estimate a release on June, 26th or 27th, provided Simon hits his own deadline for releasing Adamant 5.0 on June, 25th. Otherwise, we'll delay a bit.
As some of you may know, I am still going to school. The reasons for that are fairly complex but either way I'm almost done and will be writing my finals in October of this year. Then I will finally hold what in Germany we call Abitur in my hands which allows me apply for a programme at university wherever I choose.
Before that, during Germany's six week summer holidays, I will be going on a trip to Berlin. I've been there twice before but never have I had the big city all to myself. Be...
2021-06-05 08:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
First up, it's been awhile (almost a full month since the last update) - sorry about that. Part of the reason for the long silence is the project I slaved on for the past week or so which is now finally out: Modular Armory is a FOMOD-based alternative to Cathedral Armory with some different asset choices and obviously it was made for TPF. This is one of the big changes / additions ...
2021-05-24 10:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
I made it. The exams are all done, the final day of school was survived, it's the holidays. The next two weeks I will have entirely to myself. In the second week, with some squeezing of the ol' wallet, I will finally upgrade my PC - new motherboard, CPU, AIO cooler, and case to complement my 3080. Before that, however, I am hoping to complete TPF 4.5 which I have been working on for a few weeks by now.
Let's start with the big one: With 4.5, TPF will...
2021-03-26 18:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, baby, that's right, we have a trailer now. It was created by the amazing Adriac - so it's miles better than anything I could have come up with - and if it doesn't summon your Skyrim itch, I don't know what will.
Go watch it!
2021-03-06 11:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
You may have noticed that the frequency of updates to TPF has increased dramatically since the release of 4.0 in January. I was burned out from modding Skyrim before but 4.0 changes revitalised my motivation and I have a ton of cool things for TPF planned for the near future.
However, first things first.
Today I'm finally releasing the 1.5 update for my Fallout 4 Wabbajack list "Welcome to Paradise". It's a very niche v+ thing but I'm...
2021-03-06 10:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
TPF 4.2 is coming today and I wanted to get you up to speed on the changes it includes and, more importantly, explain them. There are two major ones: I replaced Cathedral NPCs with separate mods (many of which were also included in Cath NPC) and facegen is now regenerated by users (obviously Wabbajack users do not have to do this step and will be able to download premade facegen).
Scroll to the bottom for some other important news: There...
2021-02-17 14:49:41 +0000 UTC View PostYes, that is all, thank you.
2021-02-09 21:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostWe're here, finally, after such a long time. After months of figuring out where to take 4.0 and weeks of bringing it there, it has now reached the point where we consider it polished enough for release.
Wabbajack: TPF 4.0 will hit the UI later tonight or tomorrow.
A lot happen up till 4.0 and during the beta phase. For a full overview, please check the changelog on the website. Below is a rather limited summary but it should give you an ...
2021-02-09 12:15:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, we finally made it!
The Phoenix Flavour 4.0 is officially out in beta and available publicly. If you're interested in what's new, check the Changelog and my previous Patreon posts, especially the 4.0 Preview.
This release is a beta. Various issues may still linger somewhere in the written guide or the final setup. If you choose to install t...
2021-01-20 19:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
In the 4.0 preview post I talked about dropping the Morrowloot concept and opting for vanilla loot with some improvements instead. There are various versions of Morrowloot with different features but overall it's centered around deleveling loot and eliminating the upper tiers (Glass+) from random loot. Deleveled loot means you can get lucky at a low level and find something incredible valuable which wouldn't happen in vanilla ...
2021-01-17 15:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostSo a few months back I launched a survey for all TPF users. At the time, the next update was still supposed 3.6 so it's somewhat outdated. Nevertheless, I found the results interested and also wanted to take the time to respond to various comments and questions. The survey had 341 individual responses with 52 additional comments.
Hey all!
It's taken forever but we're almost there: TPF is receiving its next update before the end of the month and it's going to be a big one. A little over four years after TPF was first released, we have reached v4.0 which comes with a ton of changes.
It took me almost half a year to figure out where to go from here and I'm finally happy with the new direction we are taking. With 4.0, I have decided to go back to the roots. That means: Strictly vanilla plus. N...
2021-01-10 12:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo as promised here it is: My ridiculously detailed guide for Mass Effect 1. It's available on the website in the new Bioware section that will probably be filled out slowly over time with guides for ME2 and ME3 as well as the Dragon Age games.
A few things to note: The ME1 ...
2020-11-29 11:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis post has been ... overdue. Long overdue. Hilariously overdue.
After some very productive days during the autumn holidays back in October, I decided on a whim to just redo the loot system and balancing of the TPF setup myself. I've been unhappy with it for a long time and this is the easiest way to get what I want. Right? It's not terribly difficult, as far as modding goes leveled lists are probably among the easiest things to tweak. Some thought also needs...
2020-11-22 14:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
TPF for Fallout 4 was finally released a few days ago and is still being updated and polished. It's time for me to think about what's next for TPF for Skyrim SE.
The truth is that I'm somewhat burned out from modding Skyrim (I mentioned that before). I've come to the decision that I will take a full break from SSE until the start of the holidays on October 12th and then start working on TPF 3.6.
I already have some idea of w...
2020-09-29 16:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I am incredibly happy, very proud, and kinda relieved to finally announce The Phoenix Flavour for Fallout 4, a vanilla-plus Wabbajack mod list. While I have only started working on this about half a year ago, the setup is based on my own past Fallout 4 setups and includes many personal favourites.
Hey guys, just a quick heads up. TPF SSE 3.5 is now out and it still has optional mods. I decided to push their removal to the next update.
I also submitted the TPF FO4 list for testing so it should be out soon!
2020-09-05 09:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Today I have pushed a tiny update - 3.4.5 - and figured I'd take the opportunity to talk about what I am currently working on.
The next big update for TPF - 3.5 - is currently in the works. It is going to have some regular additions such as Aetherius and 2020-08-30 09:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post