Nightmare Follows

Your sleep is no longer safe

Nightmares Will Follow

🌙 **Nightmare Follow** completely improves the sleep system of "The Outer Worlds: Redemption 2" and introduces **Dynamic Nightmare Mechanism**, making every night a gamble. Inspired by the Nightmare debuff from **KCD1**, this isn't just a return - it's a complete reimagining, built from the ground up with deeper mechanics, immersive conditions, and escalating consequences.

**Your night is no longer safe. **

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🎭 Nightmare triggers

Various factors affect whether you experience nightmares while sleeping - from where you rest, to the items you carry, to your level of filth, damage, or guilt.

🛏️ **Bed Quality**:

• Sleeping in a noble bed or hotel reduces the risk of nightmares
• Haystacks, dirty straw or dilapidated shelters can make your sleep vulnerable to darkness

❤️ **Player Health**:

• Falling asleep with high health (above 80%) can reduce the chance of nightmares
• Injured or dying? Get ready for disturbing dreams

🔮 **Sleep related items**:

• Certain items provide subtle protection
• Carrying it in the inventory can slightly reduce the probability of nightmares
• These bonuses stack moderately - not enough to be safe, but enough to make a difference

🌧️ **Rain Exposure**:

• Nightmares are more likely to occur when sleeping outdoors when it rains - now with lasting effects
• If there is no shelter, even light rain may trigger the **wet debuff**, reducing stamina and stealth
• Stronger storms bring harsher punishments

💩 **Dirtyness**:

• You are more likely to dream about darkness if you are covered in dirt, blood or sweat
• Keep it clean for a peaceful rest

⚖️ **Indulgence (sin)**:

• Your sins don’t sleep – they accumulate
• Enough indulgent debt and sinful sleep hours and you may start suffering from **Guilty Nightmares**

⏰ **Sleep Duration Tracking**:

• Short naps (less than 2 hours) will not trigger nightmares - but still count towards guilt accumulation
• Don't think you can get away with being a lazy farmer. Your conscience remembers every hour

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🌟 Quality sleep reward

😴 **Good night sleep buff**:

• If you sleep 7 hours or more, indoors or in a dry environment, and avoid nightmares - you may wake up feeling **really refreshed**
• This provides powerful buffs: improved stamina regeneration, charisma and vitality
• But the night must be calm. One nightmare or one drop of rain and the opportunity is lost

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⚡ Nightmare Consequences

⚡ **Nightmare sleep now drains your energy**: Waking up from nightmares now **decreases your energy (exhaustion)** - a state that determines how alert you feel.

• **Severe Nightmare** consumes more energy
• **Longer Sleep** slightly reduces penalties and gives your body a chance to recover
• Just like in real life, aim for more than six hours of sleep

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🌈 Nightmare Type

There are currently three different **nightmare types**, each with three **severity levels** - mild, moderate and severe. This means there are a total of nine possible **Nightmare debuff**, each with a unique name, effect, and description.

• **Default Nightmare** reflects general unease or stress
• **Storm Nightmares** are related to weather and primal fears
• **Guilty Nightmares** are triggered by the crimes you commit - tracked by your indulgences and guilty sleep hours

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🎮 Compatibility

Skills like **Next to Godliness**, **Nightcap**, **Body Heat** and **Wanderer** should be compatible with this mod as they are recognized in the displayed bed quality and faster energy regeneration.

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📦 Installation instructions

• Manually install to the **mods** folder
• Press **§** in the game to open the console
• Make sure you see this line of text: **Nightmares Will Follow initialized! Sleep will never be the same..** This just confirms that the module has been initialized and working properly

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🔮 Item system

Certain items in the game now subtly affect your chances of avoiding nightmares if you keep them in your in …