The World of Kiddo: Wildlife, Weather and Visual Overhaul

An environment overhaul mod designed to increase realism and immersion.

Kiddo's World: Wildlife, Weather & Visual Overhaul

🎉 **Welcome! **

This is a collection of personal gameplay tweaks designed to create a more realistic and immersive environment. It includes everything from deeper darkness, sharper wildlife, seamless weather, persistent dirt, slower reload speeds, the removal of forced scopes, and a host of other quality-of-life tweaks.

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🎮Original friendly module

This mod is suitable for the vanilla game experience, but may conflict with many other visual mods. It's packaged "all in one" with a clear and easy-to-understand folder structure, saving new players the time and frustration of finding these adjustments individually.

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🌙 dark

• **Night** was now shrouded in deeper darkness. Moonlight is salvation on a clear night, but in bad weather and dense forests, you may need a lantern to navigate. Encountering wild predators, ambushes or bounty hunters at night is now difficult and dangerous.
• **Exposure Adaptation** has been slowed down by a factor of 2, increasing the realism of the natural adjustment of the eye as the player moves from dark to light, indoors to outdoors (or vice versa).
• **Lanterns** now have a warmer tone as they are essentially oil lamp fire sources.

⏳ time scale

• **Time Pass** is now twice as long as the original, allowing players to do more during the day, enjoy the sunset longer, and then move into the night to experience the horror aesthetic or go on a nocturnal hunt. Just like real life, sleep now takes on environmental and functional meaning.

👁️ Perception

• **Law Enforcer Perception** is significantly reduced at night, with visibility and noise detection capabilities further reduced during rainfall and weather events. This gives you better room to prepare and execute when hiding from bounty hunters at night, with the occasional opportunity to score a stealth kill before being detected.
• **Animal Sense** including vision, smell and hearing have been enhanced to make hunting more realistic. Animals and birds will detect you earlier, and mammals will flee further when frightened, making **Scent Mask** and Sneak Crouching more sense.

🐾 wild animals

• **Animals** Ground spawn rate increased by 2%. Although small, it is enough to see additional animals in the herd or increase the likelihood of a predator attack.
• **Animal Behavior** Subtle adjustments have been made, reducing the duration of basic idle states and increasing the possibility of activities such as drinking, eating, playing, hunting, howling, etc. Animals become hungry more frequently (+30%) and the behavior lasts longer.
• **Birds** The spawn rate has been increased by 20%, achieving more realistic bird flock sizes, with more birds flying out of the bushes.
• **Scavenger Birds** hovered around the carcass longer before landing, and took longer to feed.
• **Fish** now swarm more frequently and jump out of the water 25% more often.
• **Dog** Barking frequency reduced by 50% when in non-aggressive state.

🌡️ Temperature

• **Temperature** Maximum thresholds in north-central areas (such as Roanoke Ridge, New Hanover, and East Grizzly) have been reduced by 1 to 4 degrees, allowing players to wear warm jackets and clothing more frequently in more areas.

🌧️ Weather

• **Weather** Events now last 2x longer and transition 5x to 10x slower. Heavy rain will be preceded by drizzle, clouds will form more slowly, and certain weather events will have more pronounced and higher wind speeds. Weather events no longer appear or disappear suddenly.
• **Raindrop Particle Fix** Prevents vanilla raindrop particles from looking like milk when passing through light beams.

👁️ Visual effects

• **Weapon pickup glow** has been removed. No more flashing weapons in the dark.
• **Drying time** has been slowed down for both player and environment, and scaled based on temperature, allowing wet clothes and puddle …