Spell Research - Convenience Add-on

Adds some quality of life improvements to the spell research model via IronDusk33 - refining recipes for large amounts of solutions, dealing with mental exhaustion more easily, converting destroyed books into paper, and more.

Overview

Spell Research is one of my favorite mods. It adds so much to the Magic game that it feels like DLC and I think it's a must-have for any Mage game. However, I thought some details could be improved, so I made this patch. Changes include the following:

During academic activities (just like when sleeping), the screen now fades to black - for greater immersion.

Messages/notifications are in first person rather than third person.

Alembics provide alchemical experience (when refining solutions, creating flutes, etc.) - using this method makes more sense for advancing alchemy than creating countless poisons that can never be used.

If you have enough materials, refining recipes now have a '30 to 10' version - it's easy to get hundreds of solutions after dissolving a lot of ingredients, and refine them with the default '3 to 1' recipe. It's much faster when you can extract more at once.

Recipes for "downgraded" solutions ("2 to 1") are now only visible if you have the "Herbal Guide to Skyrim" book in your inventory - I never need them, and they tend to get in the way when refining. I don't want to remove them entirely, so adding an extra requirement for them to appear seems like the best way to handle them.

The weight of these papers and rolls is reduced - a single roll is as heavy as a complete book with a leather cover. So now a roll weighs 0.1 (it's 1 vanilla) and these weights depend on how much paper is written on them (0.1-0.5).

I added a novice change spell that turns a destroyed/burnt book into 2 rolls of paper. While this isn't strictly necessary as you can use the books directly for writing, it's in addition to my weight variation - each book weighs 2, and there are a lot of them in some dungeons, making it easy to reach carrying capacity. If you turn them into rolls, it will weigh 10 times less. This spell can only be obtained through research.

You can fully recover from mental exhaustion if you sleep 8 hours or more - I see a lot of people complaining about mental exhaustion and wishing it away, but I personally think it makes sense that it's included - its real question is how long recovery takes. Often even 12 hours is not enough, and this is not great for demand patterns. If you don't like the default value of 8, you can change it by typing _SR_GlobalExhaustionRecoverySleptHours to

Manual installation

Extract the archive into the Skyrim Special Edition\Data folder.

compatibility

Incompatible with editing anything from the same record and master spell research script (_SR_QuestScript.pex). The only thing that can be done right now is the experience book, but I've provided a patch. Installed and loaded it after my add-ons and books, and let it overwrite the script.

All files are tagged ESL (ESP-FE format) so they are not limited to 254 by the plugin.

integral

IronDusk33 (Spell Research)

UrbanVibes (experience book)

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Cathedral weather - various seasons

Greybeard Meditation

NPC dragon soul absorption

chattering dragon

Odahviing improvements

Ash Pile - Texture Replacement

Combat fixes for Flying Mod Beta

Cleaned and improved mage robes

Remove magic effects

Better Akatosh Blessings

Dragon Aspect - Mage Edition

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Overview

Spell Research is one of my favourite mods. It adds so much to magic gameplay that it feels like a DLC, and I think it’s a must-have for any mage playthrough. However, there were a few details I thought could be improved, so I made this patch. The changes include the following:

The screen now fades to black when time passes during scholarly activities (just like while sleeping) – for more immersion.

Messages/notifications are said in first person instead of third.

The alembic gives alchemy experience (when r …