Antiscamp

Antiscamp's
PRIMBY VILLAGE
Version 0.4 Beta

For Skyrim



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Your Uncle has recently passed away and you have inherited his house in Primby. This is a small trading and farming village between Riften and Windhelm, perched safely on a cliff overlooking the marshlands to the north. Here you'll find all the usual services, like a smith, a trader and an alchemist. There's also a tavern here. The village is inhabited by NPC's and farm animals.

Find the key to your new home in the barrel by the door. The house is nicely decorated and there's storage space there for your loot.

The purpose of the mod is to create a village of the size of Riverwood that looks vanilla and could have had a place in the main game. It's all supposed to fit right into the world of Skyrim. My own personal goal with Primby is to learn the CK tools and familiarize myself with the modding of the game. Go easy on me, since this is my first mod for this game. There are future plans for this; I will expand the village and I will make the things already in it work even better.

THIS IS BETA AND YOU SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS! ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR SAVED GAMES BEFORE INSTALLING NEW MODS. KEEP A BACKUP FOLDER WITH OLDER SAVES OR WHATEVER. THERE ARE SEVERAL KNOWN BUGS AFFECTING THIS MOD. REFER TO THE KNOWN BUGS DEPARTMENT OF THIS README FOR MORE ON THOSE. BY INSTALLING IT, YOU AGREE THAT YOU USE THIS MOD AT YOUR OWN RISK.



INSTALLATION

Place the PrimbyTown.esp and the folders in your Skyrim/Data folder. Merge where asked, and check that the .esp is marked in the Skyrim Launcher. Find Primby village on the map on the road between Riften and Windhelm. You can't fast-travel there the first time. You need to go on foot, so just take the road north from Riften, or south from Windhelm.



WHEN UPDATING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION

Be sure to take out all your stored good in the containers in the Player House. OTHERWISE THEY'LL DISAPPEAR WHEN UPDATING! Before installing the new file, go to Primby and take the goods with you. Leave Primby and save the game. Install the new file, and then go back to Primby.



KNOWN ISSUES

This is a Beta! You're bound to excperience glitches, weirdness and bugs. Please report these to me as soon as possible to help in the development of this mod. TAKE PRECAUTIONS. Always backup your saved games before running a new mod.

The following bugs are things I can't do anything about, but Bethesda are reportedly working on both:

1. THE NAVMESH BUG. Every time you leave Primby village and travel away, when you return, the NavMesh will have disappeared and all the NPC's will have reverted to the vanilla NavMesh. This is irritating and looks bad. You'll have NPC's not wandering on the streets anymore and guards glitching through floors and that kind of stuff. The only known solution right now is to entirely quit and reload Skyrim. This will reset the NavMesh. Companions WILL follow you anywhere in the village, but will glitch when the NavMesh bug kicks in after the second visit within one game.

2. THE GREY FACE TEXTURE BUG. Some NPC's will have weird-looking face coloration. Again, this is a bug with the CK and not on my, or your, end. Bethesda are working on both of these, and we'll hopefully see a patch soon.

3. FLOATING GRASS. If you experience grass hovering above the ground inside Primby Village, you're one of those who have encountered a specific bug that does this. It seems to strike some players, while others, like myself, don't have it. The workaround is this: Open up both Skyrim.ini AND SkyrimPrefs.ini and at the bottom of the [Grass] section add/alter this: bAllowLoadGrass=0, bAllowCreateGrass=1, bDrawShaderGrass=1 Then, in the skyrim installion folder open SkyrimEditor.ini and at the bottom of the [Grass] section add: bAllowCreateGrass=1, bAllowLoadGrass=0. Source: http://frontierskyrim.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/floating-grass-in-primby/



MORE STUFF FROM ME

If you liked Primby Village and would like to see more of what I do in Skyrim, check out my Frontier Development Blog (http://frontierskyrim.wordpress.com/). I have some pretty cool stuff in the works. I've been modding the Elder Scrolls Series since 2005, and my greatest days are yet to come. Please, do leave comments, endorsements and votes on my pages. Stuff like that keep modders going. Have fun!



VERSION HISTORY

0.1 Initial Release February 19, 2012

0.2 February 25, 2012

- Expanded the Fort. Outside and inside.
- Created five more NPC's in the village.
- More features added to the Player House.
- Retextured and created the Griffin Banner.
- Reuniformed all the guards.
- Cleared some grass here and there.
- Made ownership on the smith's chest.

0.3 February 29, 2012

- Added Sugardaddy's Bakery (do read his book on the table by the bed!).
- Created a Governor's Quarters in the other Fort Tower.
- Created an interior Griffin Banner.
- Many new NPC's have been added. The Governor and Sugardaddy, among others.
- Added more guards; Primby Sharpshooters, manning the fort walls.
- The merchant doors now lock at night.
- If you commit a crime and are caught, the guards will now send you to prison in Windhelm.
- The guards will now talk about arrows in knees and lolligaggin', like they should.
- Locked the Smith's chest.
- Updated the "History of Primby" book.
- Fixed several other small glitches, did corrections and tweaks.

0.4 March 3, 2012

- Created a farm at the end of the village. Interior and Exterior as well as NPC's.
- Created a Shrine to Dibella.
- Beautified the back of the village, with a view towards the marshlands in the north.
- Created Dragon markers where Dragons land when attacking Primby.
- Sanadara and the Jailor now speak again.
- Helda now sings and plays properly at the tavern at night.
- There is now an Enchanter in the Alchemist's Shop too.
- Fixed issue with bounties for Windhelm and Eastmarch.
- Fixed several NavMesh issues throughout the village.
- Did numerous minor corrections; moving rocks, levelling ground and such.



Antiscamp (http://frontierskyrim.wordpress.com/), Feb-Mar, 2012



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This is a collection pack of the four villages I created for Oblivion between 2009 and 2011. Some of them conflict with other mods. there are detailed ReadMe's supplied with every village. All villages have things in common; among other things, there's a player house in each of them.

RUNESTONE VILLAGE

The first village I created for Oblivion had the best location ever, hiddden away in the Great Forest area. Not many conflicts between this and other mods were ever reported. I updated the village later into Runestone Village 2 which has more houses and villagers and other nice events as well. Both of these files are included in this download. Pleas, only use one of them.

MAGE'S CROSS

This village conflicts with Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, unfortunately, as it was placed in the exact location as one of Oscuro's Ayleid Ruins on the Gold Coast. It's located south of Kvatch, east of Anvil in the beautiful area there. this can only be recommended if you don't use OOO.

LILYVALE TOWN

Lilyvale was possibly my finest looking village, but also the most conflict-ridden. It conflicts with numerous other mods, because I chose the location because of its beauty, not because of its practicality. Oh well. It's beautifully located between the Colovian Highlands and Chorrol. There are patches supplied. The one concerning Battlehorn Castle is imperative to use if you want to get it to run with that official DLC. Lilyvale also edited a lot of the landscape around the town, which made it conflict with Unnique Landscapes, unfortunately. A patch that makes those conflicts bearable (at least) is supplied with the download.

EASTBRINK TOWN

My latest village, released early 2011. This village - or rather town - is the result of all of the above, while it's also my only harbour town. Only one serious conflict has been reported and that concerns ImpeREAL - Imperial Forts. If you're using that mod, the Eastbrink tavern out by the road will conflict with one of the forts. The town is located east of Bravil on the other side of the Niben Bay, in the Nibenay Valley. There's also an optional CM Partners compatible .esp which lets you recruit three of the villagers to bring along on your adventures.