Vanilla Drinks Overhaul

Makes drinks in the base game useful by providing a small buff independent of the potion stack.

introduce

One mod that I absolutely love in all my playthroughs is the Wow Category Food Overhaul by Ninakoru. It provides a small but persistent bonus to all vanilla foods, making them worth eating even when not forced into survival mode. However, WLFO doesn't touch the drinks at all, which always annoys me.                    So in the end, I set about making an extension module that would make the same changes to vanilla drinks. As soon as I started, I started to realize why WLFO might not have touched the drinks: half of the drinks in Vanilla Skyrim are quests that only appear once!

Well, that's the first thing this mod changes. Every drink (alcoholic beverage) can now be found in stores, but some are rarer than others. However, this mod does not add any new items. It's meant to be light and as close to vanilla as possible.

Just like WLFO, all bonuses provided by drinks are of the same archetype as those provided by vanilla potions. However, drinks in this mod will stack independently of WLFO-changed food and potions, meaning you can stack bonuses from all three different sources at the same time. However, if two drinks have the same effect, the more powerful one will override the less powerful one.

how does this work

The purpose of this mod is to make all drinks in the game useful by giving the player a slight buff. These can be skill enhancements, resistances, enhanced hp/mp/sp, basically all kinds of bonuses you can find in vanilla standard potions.

In addition, all drinks in the game are divided into 3 different categories, each related to different effect archetypes:

Beer will instantly restore 25 health/mecca/stamina and reduce your magicka/stamina regeneration by 20%, among other effects

Wine will instantly restore 35 health/mecca/stamina and reduce your magicka/stamina regeneration by 30%, among other effects

Liquor does not restore any health/magic/stamina and reduces your magic/stamina regeneration by 50%, but has a higher strength bonus

All duration-based effects in the drink will last 180 seconds or 3 minutes. Rewards for the same time will not stack, but magicka/stamina regen malus will, just like in vanilla. So if you get too "drunk" you'll find little to no regenerative stamina or magic.

Each drink also has two different rarities. Common drinks are almost always carried by merchants (in this case, mostly innkeepers), while rare drinks either rarely appear as random items in shops or are only found in one location. Likewise, merchants in Skyrim will rarely have the opportunity to "import" a drink from Solstheim, with the exception of Sadri's Sujamma, which is understandably unique to Geldis Sadri's Tavern.

Common beers include:

Ale

black mead

Mead

north mead

Mazt (on Solstheim)

Ashfire Mead (on Solstheim)

Rare beers include:

Mead with Juniper Berry (except rarely found in shops, also available in Helgen)

Argonne beer

dragon's breath mead

White Gold Tower (only for sale in Riften by Talen-Jei)

Common wines include:

Alto wine

Alto Wine 2 (now renamed Nordic Ice Wine)

wine

Wine 2 (now renamed Sweet Wine)

Fire brand wine

Sheehan (on Solstheim)

Rare wines include:

Argon Liquor (can also be found in Hearth Fire Houses)

Surilie Brothers Wine (also found in Hearthfire houses)

Black-Briar Reserve (sold at Black-Briar Meadery, rarely sold elsewhere)

Spiced wine (sold in Solitude by Evette San and rarely sold elsewhere)

Jessica's wine

Emberbrand wine (launched by Dragonborn, but there's no indication it's exclusive to Solstheim)

Velvet Lechance (Only Talen-Jei sold at Riften)

Common wine includes:

rhombus brandy

Flynn (on Solstheim)

Sujamma (on Solstheim)

Sugarma of Sudri (on Solstheim)

Rare wines include:

Love brandy

Stross MacCam Rum

Cliff Racing (only sold by Tarenger in Riften)

In terms of beer and wine, common brands will only have 1 additional effect on top of the prototype baselin …