How I change the happiness penalty for killed settlers?

[AtomsChosen]

In the game there is a penalty for when settlers die of about -20 happiness. This is a problem since I am playing with a mod that makes settlers mortal and am using endless warfare to spawn enemies all over the place. I want my playthrough of Fallout 4 to feel very unforgiving and like all my settlements are in extreme danger at all times. Settlers die often during my playthroughs if you reach a certain amount of low happiness then settlements become unowned. Now I know its possible to make it so that workshops can't become unowned with low happiness but this requires going through each workshop and editing each which could take a while and add more conflicts. So I want to know if anyone knows how to edit the happiness penalty for when a settler dies? And I'd rather not raise the health of settlers as I have already done that and I want to be punished for not protecting the settlers properly and setting up good defenses. 

[RaidersClamoring]

It would be cool if the settlers also celebrated and became happier from "successful" defense against attacks, governed by some threshold. Possibly with a group cheering mass-idle. 

Anywho -- this value can be directly set through game setting "sWorkshopRatingHappiness [GMST:00247720]". The values are recalculated upon entering a settlement so there is probably an event, perhaps a custom one, that you can register for in a script to rebalance them directly *after* the game has updated them. I'm not sure whether it will also reupdate any decision they've made regarding ownership though.

If this is only a problem for your personal playthroughs you can create the script and inject it directly into the player character using "PRID 14" and then " APS "PathTo.ScriptName" ". It should be a script extending ObjectReference or Actor.

[SKKmods]

You can either: 

(a) hack WorkshopParentScript which is A REALLY BAD IDEA

; happiness modifier when an actor dies
float actorDeathHappinessModifier = -20.0 const

(b) run a regular process to remove the happiness debuffs, I tend to use WorkshopRef.OnUnload which will be after the player has been on site for death inducing combat:

Function UpdateHappiness(Objectreference WorkshopREF)    

If (WorkshopREF.GetValue(pWorkshopRatingBonusHappiness) < 0) 
    WorkshopREF.SetValue(pWorkshopRatingBonusHappiness,0.0) ; usually settler deaths 
EndIf

If (WorkshopREF.GetValue(pWorkshopRatingHappinessModifier) != 0) ; usually settler deaths 
    WorkshopREF.SetValue(pWorkshopRatingHappinessModifier,0.0)
Endif

EndFunction
 

 

[AtomsChosen]

On 12/14/2023 at 3:39 AM, RaidersClamoring said:

It would be cool if the settlers also celebrated and became happier from "successful" defense against attacks, governed by some threshold. Possibly with a group cheering mass-idle. 

Anywho -- this value can be directly set through game setting "sWorkshopRatingHappiness [GMST:00247720]". The values are recalculated upon entering a settlement so there is probably an event, perhaps a custom one, that you can register for in a script to rebalance them directly *after* the game has updated them. I'm not sure whether it will also reupdate any decision they've made regarding ownership though.

If this is only a problem for your personal playthroughs you can create the script and inject it directly into the player character using "PRID 14" and then " APS "PathTo.ScriptName" ". It should be a script extending ObjectReference or Actor.

Can you elaborate what you mean by game settings? 

 

On 12/14/2023 at 3:57 AM, SKK50 said:

You can either: 

(a) hack WorkshopParentScript which is A REALLY BAD IDEA

; happiness modifier when an actor dies
float actorDeathHappinessModifier = -20.0 const

(b) run a regular process to remove the happiness debuffs, I tend to use WorkshopRef.OnUnload which will be after the player has been on site for death inducing combat:

Function UpdateHappiness(Objectreference WorkshopREF)    

If (WorkshopREF.GetValue(pWorkshopRatingBonusHappiness) < 0) 
    WorkshopREF.SetValue(pWorkshopRatingBonusHappiness,0.0) ; usually settler deaths 
EndIf

If (WorkshopREF.GetValue(pWorkshopRatingHappinessModifier) != 0) ; usually settler deaths 
    WorkshopREF.SetValue(pWorkshopRatingHappinessModifier,0.0)
Endif

EndFunction
 

 

I am going to give this a try soon as I can manage to get my script complier working or at least find a script compiler I can use.