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New Discord Server
Hi all!If you had a peek at our (old) Discord server lately, you probably saw the announcement, but here it is for everyone else:Althro (author of ADT, AVO, Tinvaak) and I have decided to merge our respective communities and set up a new Discord server: Aetherius Modding. All of my lists as well as the lists from everyone else on the Phoenix & Friends and Animonculory servers will now be supported...
February 2023 Update
Hi!Wow, it’s been a while. Since sometime in October (?) I have been completely silent in the modding world which is the longest time that I have been “out” of the community in about six years. The reasons for that are complex and I want to get into them, but since my personal stuff is not of interest to everyone I want to start off by talking about the directly modding-related things.Legend...
Legends of the Frost 3.0 Preview
Hey all!Yes, I know, it's TPF 5.0 that I should be working on (I promise, I am!). But LOTF is also due for another major update in celebration of the upcoming one year anniversary of the list. LOTF 1.0 was published on 04-09-2021 and I intend to publish LOTF 3.0 on 04-09-2022.(You know the thing with ETAs, they're never a promise.)LOTF 3.0 will be likely be the last (major) update for the ...
April 2022 Update
Hello lovelies!Against my better judgement I decided to take off the Easter holiday. I have two papers due very soon, five presentations, an essay, a group project, and then finals all within the next six weeks. Oh, and regular homework/reading assignments as well, of course. Before I started studying, everyone told me how being at University is so great because you get so much free time. That was...
January 2022 Update
Hey all!So this update post is long overdue. Over the past few weeks there has been basically radio silence on TPF 5.0 progress which I am terribly sorry about, but it doesn't mean there was no progress! There is a lot going on for me IRL right now so I'm completely swamped by too many things at once. Can you believe that I'll move to the Netherlands next week and start University the ...
TPF Anniversary Month & More News
It's a birthday party - TPF turns four! I first started working on the manual guide in the week after Christmas 2017 and since then the bloody thing has blown up in ways I could not have imagined.To celebrate the (approaching) fourth anniversary of TPF, we, the TPF staff and I, are bringing you an entire month's worth of awesomeness: Throughout December there will be giveaways and screensh...
November 2021 Update
Hey lovelies, got some updates for you all!Legends of the Frost 2.0Yes, LOTF will get updated to Skyrim SE 1.6.318.0 when that is possible. It's the latest patch that was released alongside AE (but doesn't require you to own the AE DLC). I intend to release LOTF for Skyrim AE as 2.0 without requiring a new game. It will likely have a Creation Club profile with support / integration of SOME...
October 2021 Update
Happy Halloween!Yes, I just barely managed for this to still be an October update, posting on the 31st. October was wild (most people active on our Discord server will have noticed me saying that a lot lately), I've had my final day at school and am now about to take my final exams. Biology is first, on Tuesday. I also applied to the University that I'm determined to go to in winter (someh...
September 2021 Update
Hey all!This is a big one.The Personal StuffI have three more weeks of school ahead of me (plus one after the holidays) before my finals in early November. After I quit regular school just after my fifteenth birthday, I had thought I would never get to this point and all my plans for the future just evaporated in front of my eyes. I rather thought I'd off myself before I'd turn eighteen.Bu...
August 2021 Update
Hi all!Those of you following Lexy's Patreon know that she does monthly updates which I thought was pretty neat. Basically I'm trying to do the same now.The last week of the holidays has now begun and as you may have noticed from my Discord update, I did not particularly enjoy my six weeks without school. It was about as bad as I had feared. I'm so spaced out I might as well be asleep ...
July 2021 Update
Hi all!The holidays are here and I have more free time on my hands than could possibly be sensible. With about four of six weeks free to spend on modding stuff, I will hopefully Get Stuff Done before my finals swallow me up in Autumn.Next upAs mentioned (several times now), I have finally started work on that beginner's guide and making good progress. However, the downside is that I can't ...
TPF Release 4.6 Preview
Hey all!It's that time again: I'm a nearing completion of the next major update for TPF which will be release 4.6. I estimate a release on June, 26th or 27th, provided Simon hits his own deadline for releasing Adamant 5.0 on June, 25th. Otherwise, we'll delay a bit.Features Adamant 5.0 Open World Loot integration (a new loot overhaul). Increased performance impact due to new INI and Dy...
Thank You
As some of you may know, I am still going to school. The reasons for that are fairly complex but either way I'm almost done and will be writing my finals in October of this year. Then I will finally hold what in Germany we call Abitur in my hands which allows me apply for a programme at university wherever I choose.Before that, during Germany's six week summer holidays, I will be going on ...
TPF May Update
Hi all!First up, it's been awhile (almost a full month since the last update) - sorry about that. Part of the reason for the long silence is the project I slaved on for the past week or so which is now finally out: Modular Armory is a FOMOD-based alternative to Cathedral Armory with some different asset choices and obviously it was made for TPF. This is one of the big changes / additions in th...
The State of TPF 4.5
Hey guys!I made it. The exams are all done, the final day of school was survived, it's the holidays. The next two weeks I will have entirely to myself. In the second week, with some squeezing of the ol' wallet, I will finally upgrade my PC - new motherboard, CPU, AIO cooler, and case to complement my 3080. Before that, however, I am hoping to complete TPF 4.5 which I have been working on f...
The Phoenix Flavour - Cinematic Trailer
Yeah, baby, that's right, we have a trailer now. It was created by the amazing Adriac - so it's miles better than anything I could have come up with - and if it doesn't summon your Skyrim itch, I don't know what will.Go watch it!
March Update - Fallout 4 and Skyrim SE
Hey all!You may have noticed that the frequency of updates to TPF has increased dramatically since the release of 4.0 in January. I was burned out from modding Skyrim before but 4.0 changes revitalised my motivation and I have a ton of cool things for TPF planned for the near future.However, first things first.Welcome to Paradise 1.5Today I'm finally releasing the 1.5 update for my Fallout 4 W...
The Phoenix Flavour - February News
Hey guys!TPF 4.2 is coming today and I wanted to get you up to speed on the changes it includes and, more importantly, explain them. There are two major ones: I replaced Cathedral NPCs with separate mods (many of which were also included in Cath NPC) and facegen is now regenerated by users (obviously Wabbajack users do not have to do this step and will be able to download premade facegen).Scroll t...
TPF 4.0 is up on the Wabbajack UI
proper linkYes, that is all, thank you.
The Phoenix Flavour - Release 4.0
We're here, finally, after such a long time. After months of figuring out where to take 4.0 and weeks of bringing it there, it has now reached the point where we consider it polished enough for release.Wabbajack: TPF 4.0 will hit the UI later tonight or tomorrow.Summary of changesA lot happen up till 4.0 and during the beta phase. For a full overview, please check the changelog on the website....
The Phoenix Flavour 4.0 Beta Release
Hey all, we finally made it!The Phoenix Flavour 4.0 is officially out in beta and available publicly. If you're interested in what's new, check the Changelog and my previous Patreon posts, especially the 4.0 Preview.This release is a beta. Various issues may still linger somewhere in the written guide or the final setup. If you choose to install the beta, I would ask you to report issues i...
Vanilla Balancing Improvements
Hey guys!In the 4.0 preview post I talked about dropping the Morrowloot concept and opting for vanilla loot with some improvements instead. There are various versions of Morrowloot with different features but overall it's centered around deleveling loot and eliminating the upper tiers (Glass+) from random loot. Deleveled loot means you can get lucky at a low level and find something incredible...
2020 TPF Survey Responses
So a few months back I launched a survey for all TPF users. At the time, the next update was still supposed 3.6 so it's somewhat outdated. Nevertheless, I found the results interested and also wanted to take the time to respond to various comments and questions. The survey had 341 individual responses with 52 additional comments.General Questions So apparently the Wabbajack version is almost t...
The Phoenix Flavour 4.0 - Preview
Hey all!It's taken forever but we're almost there: TPF is receiving its next update before the end of the month and it's going to be a big one. A little over four years after TPF was first released, we have reached v4.0 which comes with a ton of changes.It took me almost half a year to figure out where to go from here and I'm finally happy with the new direction we are taking. With...
Mass Effect 1 Modding Guide Release
So as promised here it is: My ridiculously detailed guide for Mass Effect 1. It's available on the website in the new Bioware section that will probably be filled out slowly over time with guides for ME2 and ME3 as well as the Dragon Age games.A few things to note: The ME1 guide isn't comparable with my Bethesda stuff. At all. The instructions are for about a dozen mods, that should give y...
November Update
This post has been ... overdue. Long overdue. Hilariously overdue.The ProblemAfter some very productive days during the autumn holidays back in October, I decided on a whim to just redo the loot system and balancing of the TPF setup myself. I've been unhappy with it for a long time and this is the easiest way to get what I want. Right? It's not terribly difficult, as far as modding goes le...
Next up for TPF Skyrim SE
Hey guys!TPF for Fallout 4 was finally released a few days ago and is still being updated and polished. It's time for me to think about what's next for TPF for Skyrim SE.The truth is that I'm somewhat burned out from modding Skyrim (I mentioned that before). I've come to the decision that I will take a full break from SSE until the start of the holidays on October 12th and then sta...
The Phoenix Flavour - Fallout 4 Release
Hey everyone!I am incredibly happy, very proud, and kinda relieved to finally announce The Phoenix Flavour for Fallout 4, a vanilla-plus Wabbajack mod list. While I have only started working on this about half a year ago, the setup is based on my own past Fallout 4 setups and includes many personal favourites. TPF Fallout 4 on the Wabbajack Gallery. Join us on Discord. Official website / documenta...
TPF SSE - Update to 3.5
Hey guys, just a quick heads up. TPF SSE 3.5 is now out and it still has optional mods. I decided to push their removal to the next update.I also submitted the TPF FO4 list for testing so it should be out soon!
August 2020 Update
Hey all!Today I have pushed a tiny update - 3.4.5 - and figured I'd take the opportunity to talk about what I am currently working on.The Phoenix Flavour 3.5The next big update for TPF - 3.5 - is currently in the works. It is going to have some regular additions such as Aetherius and Mundus to complete the existing suite of gameplay mods by SimonMagus. I removed Subtle But Classless as the mod...
