Dead Chickens

[StayFrosty05]

The oddest thing has begun happening in my game....all the chickens are dead, one even fell out of the sky and landed at my Dovahkin's feet....Plus I play in third person and every time my Dovahkin goes through a door or loading gate the camera does a little jump forward then back again and only moments ago when he looked upwards he would start swimming...on land....Has anyone come across this before and possibly know where I should be looking for answers to these strange occurrences?

[nakakita]

I've had the 'feet don't touch the ground' or 'swimming' issue. I come across it just about every day, and there's no permanent fix. Just jump until it corrects. I have not had all my chickens die though. I have had mammoths fall out of the sky and drop dead.. I have also had horses with riders do the same thing, while flying around at weird angles... That was today actually. Not the mammoths. That happened about 5 times last month.

 

Things falling out of the sky seems pretty normal in Skyrim honestly.....

[ArtMurder]

Things falling out of the sky seems pretty normal in Skyrim honestly.....

I have to agree with this. Skyrims havok is wonky at best. Here's a pick I took just today, a giant that got 'stuck' to a dragon.

 

As for the dead chickens, have you tried looking in several other areas with chickens, or are all the chickens in one area dead? it's every single chicken in your entire game, my only suggest would be wait 3-30 days, and see if they respawn, if they don't, or they respawn dead, it's possible a mod you installed recently accidentally tags all chickens as 'dead on load' or whatever. Also, try and find some chickens in doors if possible, if they are alive and the rest aren;t, it's possible a mod edited the chickens to be spawned way up in the air, or the game is just decided to spawn them way up in the air for some reason.

 

The mod 'warzones' makes things teleport way up in the air a LOT for me, part of why I disabled it. That and I would get very annoying CTDs, when the game would all at once spawn dozens of enemies all around in the middle of nowhere unexpectedly. My computer can run crysis on the high settings with graphics improvement mods installed, so I know that mod particular does some weird stuff to skyrim. Which is sad, because it's awesome...

[StayFrosty05]

Yes, I had the falling Mammoths since day one of Skyrim well before I added mods, the falling Mammoths seem to be a common feature for many people in their games.....The chickens though are something new for me....all the chickens in Riverwood and the three farms near Whiterun are dead....I did come across one live one but then it had disappeared when I went back to re-check it's status....only one chicken fell from the sky that I noticed anyway, the rest are just dead.... I have two animal mods....'Friendly Creatures'....and ....'Birds of Skyrim'.....Friendly Creatures shrinks the attack radius of aggressive animals (wolves, bears) and makes skeevers unaggressive. Birds of Skyrim adds wild birds....I don't have 'War Zones' and have had the usual expected weird occurrences before Bethesda fixed a number of glitches such as the spinning Dragons, etc (once again before I modded)....But never had such an odd occurrence in my game such as the dead chickens before.....I guess I will be searching for chickens in my Skyrim in the next number of plays and see how their faring.....will try that spawning chickens in doors too, see what happens to them....though rather than waiting for respawns this is the start of a new game (thus my small area of note) and will just try beginning a new game if every chicken appears to be dead in Skyrim and maybe that may clear the dead chicken issues up.

 

Edit: Just checked out the Giant and Dragon pic....I haven't seen anything like that before....LOL.... :biggrin:

Edited November 1, 2012 by StayFrosty05

[ArtMurder]

Yes, I had the falling Mammoths since day one of Skyrim well before I added mods, the falling Mammoths seem to be a common feature for many people in their games.....The chickens though are something new for me....all the chickens in Riverwood and the three farms near Whiterun are dead....I did come across one live one but then it had disappeared when I went back to re-check it's status....only one chicken fell from the sky that I noticed anyway, the rest are just dead.... I have two animal mods....'Friendly Creatures'....and ....'Birds of Skyrim'.....Friendly Creatures shrinks the attack radius of aggressive animals (wolves, bears) and makes skeevers unaggressive. Birds of Skyrim adds wild birds....I don't have 'War Zones' and have had the usual expected weird occurrences before Bethesda fixed a number of glitches such as the spinning Dragons, etc (once again before I modded)....But never had such an odd occurrence in my game such as the dead chickens before.....I guess I will be searching for chickens in my Skyrim in the next number of plays and see how their faring.....will try that spawning chickens in doors too, see what happens to them....though rather than waiting for respawns this is the start of a new game (thus my small area of note) and will just try beginning a new game if every chicken appears to be dead in Skyrim and maybe that may clear the dead chicken issues up.

 

Edit: Just checked out the Giant and Dragon pic....I haven't seen anything like that before....LOL.... :biggrin:

That is really really odd, none of those mods sound like they would effect it. Maybe one of the NPCs gained true artificial intelligence and became a mass chicken murderer? It's the only logical solution.

 

I think everyone has those kinds of glitches in vanilla skyrim. XD I once had a dragon that got stuck in a mid flight animation, and just floated there not moving. When I killed him, I absorbed his soul normally, and his bones stayed in that position, in the air, until the game eventually despawned them. It was very amusing.

 

And for the pic, the giant just stayed there until the dragon landed, (he circled me for a good 2 minutes) the giant occasionally waved his hammer at the dragon, acting like he was still standing on the ground. When the dragon landed the giant went hyper spastic and shot off into the sky team rocket style, I never saw him come down. :tongue: It was rather odd. I wanted that toe too dammit.

[StayFrosty05]

Now that's interesting....I just found out the 1.8 update was released yesterday....I wonder if there's a connection....Bethesda do seem to have some interesting issues with their chickens, aka the bounty when Skyrim first came out...the 1.8 release does coincide with my dead chickens.....Unless it is that genocidal chicken serial killer.... :biggrin: ....I already have a naked Courier, so why not a chicken serial killer..... :turned:

 

How long ago did this Giant bounce ArtMurder?.....If it is only a recent event I wouldn't give up on that toe just yet....I have noted gravity does apply in Skyrim too, granted sometimes it takes awhile but still eventually what goes up must come down....usually on Dovahkins head.... :biggrin:

[TheGreenLion]

I've also had strange happenings, like guards appearing dead in towns and such...I blame it on dragons....invisible ones. This was way before this new update though.

[steve40]

Birds of Skyrim is the likely suspect, as most of those birds are re-sculpted re-textured chickens, and I think the mod makes some tweaks to the chicken's factions and AI packages as well.

[StayFrosty05]

Birds of Skyrim is the likely suspect, as most of those birds are re-sculpted re-textured chickens, and I think the mod makes some tweaks to the chicken's factions and AI packages as well.

 

What about your perching birds mod?....That does look very good.

[volnaiskra]

I have to agree with this. Skyrims havok is wonky at best. Here's a pick I took just today, a giant that got 'stuck' to a dragon.

 

 

Now THAT'S fast travel 8)

 

I too have had mammoths falling out of the sky frequently. It seems that heavy creatures (that have a harder time finding sufficient space to walk in) do that more. It seems odd that chickens would do it. And certainly extremely odd that they would all be dead. I'm sure this is not just a havok bug. My bet is on a conflict between one of those bird mods and the 1.8 patch