LE Animal AI, Companion, and Follower Mod

[Thechanger13]

So Animal companions! I have always liked the dog companions in Skyrim, but I wish they had a better follower system, and I would love to see more animals and creatures be able to become companions. I'm pretty sure people would love to have one of the elk, wolves, bears, or sabre cats or even mammoths running around as followers through a cool nature quest or some such, maybe even serve as a mount too depending on the creature (there are mods out there for unique mounts, but the horses still have the best mods).

 

Your human companions can already warn you about danger and react to the environment around them. Why not animal companions too? The dogs bark incessantly which should be toned down into a reaction AI, even if the animal is not a follower. If they don't fight or if they are too small and timid, perhaps they can provide other services such as healing, stealing for you, or much like the dogs in fallout (there is technically already a mod for this, but it only feels right to add it into the AI mod), go and find things for you. It would be even more awesome if they could be added into the various follower overhauls out there.

 

I'm aware that there are mods out there for unique coats, more dog breeds and other species of animals, and animal mounts as well, so if there were patches for allowing these to be added together, that would make this mod all the more awesome.

 

EDIT: Wishing I could delete my own post. I didn't go into detail while exploring BFF Animal Companions, although I feel like it could use more animals, but I do think someone should make a sister mod for creature companions, not vampires and werewolves, but Draugr and Spriggans and the like, even giants, creatures you end up fighting in the game and never making friends with, but in this mod you could do so through nature quests by earning their trust. That would be awesome!

Edited March 31, 2016 by Thechanger13