SSE Skyrim SE Zoo

[shumkar]

I am surprised that nobody answered to the similar request for Skyrim for more than 6 years: https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1008907-skyrim-zoo

 

My searching revealed that there are 3 related mods for Skyrim, but none of them is exactly "zoo" in the full sense of the word and none of them has been ported to Skyrim SE:

 

"FNIS Zoo" - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38384 - the author writes, "This is simply my test mod for the new FNIS Creature functionality".

"Mini-zoo de Grilli" - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30218 - close in meaning but too "mini". Furthermore, it's the french translation; the original mod has been deleted.

"The Zoo" - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29659 - the closest in meaning but there are also "humanoids", because they all are the followers.

 

How I imagine it perfectly:

 

It would be connected to Hearthfire and the mod "Simply Tame" - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26490. A building with empty spaces for stables for beasts (cages for birds / aquariums for fishes / glass jars for butterflies; how to tame them?). The player builds a stable, tames a beast (not only vanilla one, but also from any animal mod he uses), tells to the beast to stay in the stable, activates a plate and writes "such a beast, tamed in such a location (from such animal mod)".

 

This would be the further development of the idea of bestiaries as in "Skyrim Bestiary" - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/31696.

This would eliminate the need to fill up the zoo for the mod author because the player is intended to do that.

This would eliminate the need to make patches for non-vanilla animals for the mod author because the player, again, is intended to fill the zoo with any animals from any mods (if they got tamed).

The minimal "landscapes" would be useful, though. Just "small wildlife areas" as said the starter of the topic for Skyrim. I think, just typical ones would be enough, to change from while building.

Edited January 16, 2020 by shumkar