immersive dog

Added possibility of adopting a dog that behaves naturally and feels alive.

immersivedog

A comprehensive dog mod built from the ground up. What started out as a personal project has grown into a feature-rich system with **breed-specific behavior**, **advanced AI interactions**, and unique mechanics like **hat picking** and **prey recovery**. This mod focuses on **seamless world integration**: your companions can adapt to combat, camp life, and exploration while maintaining a durable appearance and realistic animal behavior.

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🐕 Long-lasting appearance

• **Persistent Appearance**: Your dog's coat color/pattern is saved and remains the same between game sessions.
• **Consistency**: Prevent random color changes from breaking immersion.

🦌 Tactical expulsion

• **UNIQUE FEATURE**: Dogs can drive deer and other game animals to your location.
• **Tactical Hunting**: Activates when you target an animal: the dogs will flank them, pushing them into your sight.
• **Breed Specific**: Shepherd breeds (such as Collies and Poodles) excel at this behavior.
• **INTELLIGENT POSITIONING**: Dogs calculate the movement patterns of animals and effectively position themselves to guide them.

🦆 Prey recovery

• **Core Mechanism**: Dogs will automatically detect and retrieve small game/birds you hunt (**Poodle and Retriever breed only**).
• **Intelligent Recognition**: Can distinguish between prey you killed and prey that died naturally - only retrieve your prey.
• **Practical Benefit**: Save time collecting scattered small prey (especially birds dropped in hard-to-reach places).
• **LIMITATIONS**: Will not retrieve large prey (true behavior) and has a cooldown to prevent abuse.

🎩 Hat retrieval

• **Universal Retrieval**: Dog will detect and retrieve any hat you drop, no matter how it was lost.
• **All Scenarios**: Valid in any situation - combat, exploration, accidentally dropped or deliberately discarded.
• **Unlimited**: Unlike other mechanics, there are no situational restrictions or cooldowns for picking up hats.

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🏠 How to adopt

To adopt a dog, just start petting it and press the "Adopt" prompt, then select its name. It will be yours forever.

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⚙️ Installation and Compatibility

• **Requirements**: Requires ScriptHook (V2 version recommended), just place the .asi and .ini files into your game folder.
• **⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE**: **Not** compatible with the Dog Companion mod. Please choose one of the two to use.
• **Version Status**: Beta testing phase has ended, thank you to all players who provided feedback and reported bugs. Game crashes are most likely **not** caused by this mod.