Follower Live Package

Overview

Follower Live Package is one of the most powerful follower mods for Skyrim, but it lacks the attention and ratings it deserves. Part of the reason for this is that the author is not a native English speaker, so for us English speakers the language used is a bit obscure. That obscurity is compounded by the overwhelming number of powerful choices available to the user. This page is intended to overcome this shortcoming by providing clear documentation of the powerful features of this mod.

Feature Highlights

• Extends the default follower AI: Auto-relax, heal and buff other followers and yourself. Followers will loot bodies, can summon a ride, act on their own in towns, gather ingredients from nature, can cure disease, worship at a shrine and get the appropriate blessing. You can set the distance for your followers and how they should maintain that distance. All these settings can be applied and changed through the MCM menu or through conversation with the follower. Furthermore, followers will take care of the purchase of food, lockpicks and healing potions. They can sell firewood, food and ore. You can set quantities for trading in the MCM menu or through conversation. Followers will also find trainers to train their abilities. You can set the costs for these trainings.

• Extends the default follower interaction: When the player is not sneaking and has no weapon drawn, followers banter with you and other NPCs, sing and / or play an instrument. You can set the chance of this to happen using the MCM menu or through conversation.

• Wardrobe management: You can register up to 128 different clothing settings per follower. You can set what a follower should wear indoors, in cities and during combat. You can also set that a follower will un-equip his or her helmet and / or shield when not in combat.

• Communication between species: With this enabled you can recruit non-human followers. These followers will be added to the FLP framework. You can set this to apply to humans too so you can add the ‘normal’ followers or even non-follower NPCs to the FLP framework.

• Multi-race form: You can register an alternate race for your follower (for example werewolf or vampire). You can open the settings when you are in a sneaking position. Followers can transform into any race when in combat. You can adjust settings through conversation with your follower.

• Follower schedule: Tired of having the same follower all the time? You can your followers rotate, giving them days off, and giving you variety in your companionship and adventuring.

Compatibility Notes

Other follower framework mods

Ninety-nine percent of the functionality of these mods are replicated or improved upon by Follower Live Package, so these are not needed but you can use them together, if you insist.

• Amazing Follower Tweaks - Compatible

• Immersive Amazing Follower Tweaks - Compatible

• Extensible Follower Framework - Compatible with patch

• Ultimate Follower Overhaul - Compatible

Specialty Follower Feature Mods

• Shared Burdens - Follower Carry Weight Pooling - Compatible. This is another criminally underrated follower mod, that is easily ported to SE, and highly recommended.

• Multiple Floors Sandboxing or Multiple Floors Sandboxing SE - Compatible and recommended by the author of Follower Live Package.

• Follower Trap Safety of Follower Trap Safety SE - Compatible and recommended by the author of Follower Live Package.

• Convenient Horses - Compatible with patch

• Convenient Horses SE - Uncertain. The patch from oldrim will not work because Convenient Horses SE uses different methods to identify followers. I have not been able to determine for certain whether Convenient Horses' new methods will successfully identify followers in the FLP framework. But, at worst, this would only mean that your FLP followers would not use the Convenient Horses horses. It's certainly not game-breaking.

Custom Followers

• Companions and Followers SE - Uncertain. Followers from this mod seem to function properly within FLP. However, much of their dialogue is not voiced. I don't know if this is because of an incompatibility with FLP, or if this is a result of lack of voiced dialogue in Companions and Followers SE.

Porting to Special Edition

To port to this mod to special edition, follow these steps:

1. Install Follower Live Package
2. Extract Follower Live Package's BSA
3. Install Follower Live Package - ReTranslation overwriting the Follower Live Package plugin.
4. Open in Creation Kit for SE, then save and exit Creation Kit to convert Follower Live Package to form 44.

References

Follower Live Package

Follower Live Package - ReTranslation

Follower Live Package new player suggestions