Improved enchantment for honed metal

A collection of patches for adding enchantments from various enchantment mods to honed metal.

As someone who really dislikes flat smithing and enchanting, honing metal instantly became an important part of my loadout order. However, in order for a Honed Metal Enchanter to learn to increase the enchantment's magic power, you have to bring them an item and destroy it, or learn the enchantment yourself, which (at least for me) breaks the immersion. This patch set aims to correct this tutorial modified enchantment into a Honed Metal enchantment.

Patches included so far

somerst

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All plugins are labeled ESL.

As always, if you have any feedback, suggestions or requests, please let me know.

Install

Download the FOMOD installer using your favorite module manager. If you choose any of the options including Summermyst, you will definitely want to install the canned scripts as well. An explanation of why can be found further below.

Loading order

Loading the patch is below its requirements and does not require any special action. Note, however, that modifying multiple patches of the "Hone Metal" form list will require additional work. Wrye bash can't merge them, and other tools probably won't either.

compatibility

As far as I know, there are only two files on SSE that modify the "Hone Metal" form list. One is honed metal - other materials (which I highly recommend you check out, btw) and patches from this range. As of now, there are no conflicts between these two modules.

If you install a modified script, keep in mind that the loose file will overwrite the file with the same name in the BSA. That's why downloading a file here is enough, but it can also cause problems once the honing metal gets updated.

Chapter 64 Enchantment

By default, Honed Metal will only process the 64 enchantments in its list. This is sufficient for all vanilla enchantments, for no particular reason. However, this becomes a problem if you plan to add enchantments added by mods. I got in touch with the author (awesome guy) and they said they'd look into the next update.

However, I'm a little impatient, so I have to figure this out myself. Following the author's suggestion, I modified one of the scripts to increase the size of the array if the number of enchantments loaded exceeds the default value of 64. This allows Honed Metal to handle even the large number of new enchantments added by Summermyst without wasting memory unnecessarily.

Note that this is not a problem if you learn all enchantments manually. This restriction only affects such patches.

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Improved enchantment for honed metal

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As someone who really doesn't like leveling Smithing and Enchanting, Honed Metal instantly became an essential part of my load order. But In order to have the Honed Metal Enchanters learn mod added enchantments, you must bring them an item and destroy it or learn the enchantment yourself, which (at least for me) somewhat ruins the immersion. This collection of patches aims to fix this teaching modded enchantments to Honed Metal Enchanters.

Patches included so far

Summermyst

Elemental Destruction Magic

All plugins are ESL flagged.

As always with my stuff, If you have feedback, suggestions or requests, let me know.

Installation

Download the FOMOD installer with your favorite mod manager. If you choose any option that includes Summermyst, you will definitely want to install the fixed script as well. For an explanation as to why, look further below.

Load Order

Load the patches below their requirements, nothing special needs to be done. Though note that multiple patches modifying Honed Metal formlists will require additional work. Wrye bash can't merge them and other tools may not be able to either.

Compatibility

As far as I'm aware, there are only two files on SSE that modify H …