LE Better non-metallic light armor options (mod request)

[OpenWorldAddict]

I've been thinking of doing a short 10-20 hour run as a battle mage khajiit that has allergy to things made from metals. Specifically, any skin contact with metallic substances causes a terrible rash to form under his fur that is painful and itchy. As a youngster his fur took along time to grow, and his first rash appeared when he was asked to wear a suit of armor for ceremonial reasons. The rash was so bad that he cut a deep wound in his leg with short claws due to the severe itchiness of the rash, and it took him years to recover from that injury.

 

The only problem I find is that there are 6 types of non-metallic light armor.

 

Hide Armor

Fur Armor

Leather Armor

Chittin Armor

Dragonscale Armor

 

Note: Glass armor is made out of malachite (a metal ore) and thus is not exactly purely glass

 

The issue here is:

1. The first three, (leather, fur, and hide) are bottom tier amor sets, and hide armor does not even have a complete set.

2. The next types, Chittin armors introduced by Dragonborn dlc, and thus you can only craft those armors using ingredients found of Solstheim.

3. The final type of armor is Dragonscale, which is the highest tier light armor in the game, so you don't get it until late in the game.

 

So there is nothing for my Khajjit to wear after getting Leather armor, and getting the ingredients from solstheim wearing leather armor can be quite tricky.

 

So what I am asking for is a mod that does the following things:

1. completes the set of hide armor and making ti the easier to craft.

2. make fur and leather armor more challenging to craft respectively.

3. Provides alternate recipes for Chittin armor with ingredients that can be acquired on the mainland of skyrim.

4. Provide an alternate type of glass armor that is semi-transparent white, and doesn't use metal ore, with the purpose of looking completely non-metallic.

 

If you could find other non-metallic armor types that fits well in the tamriel lore, having that in will also help.

[thumbincubation]

Hide has a cuirass, boots, bracers, helmet, and shield. There's also studded, doesn't include its own accessories. After leather, there's also scaled armor, which is very similar to studded, except with leather scales instead of just a thin leather vest. That's got stats between Elven armor and Elven Gilded armor, so it's very good, and requires the advanced armors perk to create. It has its own helmet, bracers, and boots, and I don't believe any of the metal pieces actually touch skin. That single metal shoulder guard can be removed easily, and inserted as a non-.esp-required replacer, if you want a more synced look.

 

 

There's also this, if you prefer. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/58871/?

[NinjaWarriorPoet]

Have you checked out CCOR for the more complicated leather and hide recipes you're looking for?

[OpenWorldAddict]

sorry I missed scaled armor, but it still requires metal ingots to craft and it looks very metallic, so it wouldn't be for my character.

[thumbincubation]

Since I don't know how to 3d model, I'm afraid I won't be much help but the only other things I could think of would be a craftable Thieves guild armor, or possibly a retexture of guard's armor, to have leather sleeves instead of chainmail. In most, the scales appear to be leather, so you'd have leather scale over leather jacket, with leather pants and a cloth wrap.

 

The Cuir Bouilli didn't look helpful?

[zosimo]

I too had a similar conundrum. I have 10 armor pack mods installed in amongst 230 mods. None of them have satisfied me, however I unexpectedly came across the "Forester Armor" in a mod called OBIS Loot it has a huge amount of variations and customization it even has light versions and heavyversion but at the end of the day it all comes down to looking cloth-like which was perfect for me as I wanted pretty decent armor stats while maintaining the Viking feel without going overboard.

 

 

 

edit: ofcourse I also use perkus maximus and im not entirely sure of what the original stats are but assuming none of my mods have changed the stats on this armor. It's pretty good!

Edited August 12, 2016 by zosimo

[thumbincubation]

Came across this the other day. it's craftable, with or without chainmail, and the non-chain version is set to leather material, rather than scaled material.

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56826/?