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Winterhold College Improved ! (NOW WITH ICE LABYRINTH!)

********* ANNOUNCEMENT FOLKS! ************************

THIS MOD HAS BEEN UPDATED TO VERSION 1.7.3

You may notice a few disturbing changes happened when you upgraded.

1) You may be Naked if you were wearing your psiijic robes. This is because I removed the old versions and created new ones. However there now is a quest to earn them.
2) You may have a lot of books on the floor. I appologise for this but it was a necessary change I had to make in order to create a compatability patch with the Immersive College of Winterhold mod.

Simply pick up your books and place them in the new bookshelves. If you'd like to roll back to the previous version so you can remove your books more easily and then upgrade or simply roll back to the previous version you can find version 1.5 here:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18273

This is a mod for all of you out there who were dissatisfied with the steril feeling of Winterhold. The goal of this mod was to expand the school a little and make it a little more sociable. I did this by adding a whole new floor to the main tower in the college of winterhold with a central dining area & shops with plenty of gold to buy your wares. I also dressed up the archmage quarters to make them a more viable player home which can be fast traveled to via a magic well at the top of the archmages tower.

That being said I highly recommend the following mods to make the archmage quarters your home:

"My Home is Your Home" - allows followers of any kind to live anywhere you want them too. Options for guarding and working as well.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/18045

"Unlimited Bookshelves" - Allows you to put anything on shelves! and many more books!
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/10891

Key Features of the Mod:

1. Improved the Archmage quarters and made it a viable Player home
- Added 14 new player chests
- 4 Autostorage chests (all Items)
- 1 Autostorage Food chest
- 1 Autostorage Gem chest
- 1 Autostorage Crafting Chest
- 1 Autostorage Ingredients chest
- 6 Static chests
- Added 2 strong boxes for enchanting/alchemy apparel
- Added 2 Mannequins
- Added 8 Weapon Plaques (6 single item 2 triple item)
- Added a 6 weapon wall rack
- put auto access scripts on both the Enchanter & alchemy table (so you can store all your items in the chest and when you use the enchanter it will pull from the chest as well as your inventory... trust me... its Awesome.
- Adds a Tanning rack with auto Access script
- Fills player closet with one of each type of new mage robe (see below)
- 5 bookshelves
- 2 Winterhold bookshelves

2. Put The Archmage's tower on the Map so you can fast travel to the rooftop of the college and put a Magicka fountain up there (In my mind I like to think of it as a teleportation node)

3. ADDED AN ENTIRE DINING HALL AND MARKETPLACE! This part is a biggie. I added an entire new floor to the college's main tower above the Aracaneum and below the archmage quarters, which acts as a central Market and dining hall for the college. Included are:

- A Tailor that specializes in Magical Robes (Also sells new robes... see below for details)
- An Enchanting shop what specilizes in spells, soul gems and Staves
- A Blacksmith specializing in weapons and bows with workbench, small forge, sharpening wheel and
Autostorage chest for crafting items... oh yeah and all of those crafting stations are all scripted to auto access
from the crafting chest ;) (we're all about convenience here at Sku11M0nkey Productions =)
- A General Merchant
- An Alchemist shop
- a food vendor
- a bartender
- Most NPCs will stop in to eat at different points of the day (main mealtimes are 12pm and 6 pm but a select
few will stop in and eat at odd hrs because of their schedules/personalities)
- All the merchants start to kick back and mill around the place after 8 pm (hey they gotta have time off
sometime... However even on their "Time Off" you can still buy from =)
- Stealing from or killing a merchant will get you kicked out of the college as well as get the ire of the shop
keeper.
- All New shop owners will recognize you as the Archmage of the college and greet you appropriately.

4. New Robes, fixes & tweaks:

- Player gets a set of Archmage robes without the hood (all abilities still retained in robes)
- player gets a set of Psijic robes in his closet
- New Mage Robes:
- Buffs Archmage robes slightly to 20% in all skills + 125% magicka regen
- Blue Mage robes = 150% magicka regen
- Black Mage Robes = Destruction spells cost 20% less + 125% magicka regen
- Grey Mage Robes = Illusion spells cost 20% less + 125% magicka regen
- Brown Mage Robes = Alteration spells cost 20% less + 125% magicka regen
- Green Mage Robes = Conjuration spells cost 20% less + 125% magicka regen
- Red & White Mage Robes = Restoration spells cost 20% less + 125% magicka regen
- Nocturnal Destruction Robes (Female Only) = Destruction spells cost 20% less + 125% magicka regen
- Nocturnal Hood (Female only) - no enchantment
- Red, blue, green, brown, Grey & black matching hoods (all with no enchantments so player can enchant
as desired)
- Most Mage hoods now allow wearing of a circlet as well as the hood
- Adds additional separate mage hoods so that players can give hoods separate enchantments or mix and
match hoods
- Playable Greybeard Robes, Boots, Hood and ring all with 20% boost in shout recovery time. Found outside of the college in a logical place in order to remain lore friendly. You must find them on your own but it's not hard.
- 2 versions of playable Psiijic robes 1 Vanilla Cloth Version and 1 blue armored version
- Added a Secret new item in the archmage quarters. See if you can find it. This is what you are looking for:
"it has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh bone and blood at the same time." good luck ;)


Workarounds That May still be needed:

1) "I don't get any dialogue options to move my spouse to any of my hearthfire homes!" - More than likely it is an incompatibility with the previously recommended mod "Spouses can live everywhere" mod. Unfortunately that mod alters the vanilla RelationshipSpouseHouseScript and it hasn't been updated for hearthfire, therefore it doesn't show those dialogue options. If you have that mod then you should remove it and replace it with the "my home is your home" mod recommeneded above. However there is the slim possibility that the script is somehow recorded in your save file. If this is the case FIRST EMPTY THE ARCHMAGE QUARTERS OF ALL VALUABLES. Then simply temporarily disable this mod. While disabled move your spouse to your hearthfire house then re-enable this mod afterwards. (if the error still occurs then it's definitely not this mod causing it)

Thanks for all your patience and support everyone!!!

INSTALLATION NOTES:

1) For a smooth installation without conflicts, load this mod last in your data files list and then place any mage robes or any appearance/texture mods after it. (I.E. I have to load my brelyna appearance mods after Winterhold Improved)

2) This mod may conflict with other Winterhold mods Particularly the archmage quarters, Arcanium & rooftop. or any mods that effect Mage robes etc. Again set Winterhold Improved to load last then load your other Winterhold mods after it.

CREDITS:

- Bethesda for making such an awesome game.
- SPARTAN VI for making the Armored Battlemage Robes (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3386 )
- Manilla Turgle for making the Automatic Item Storage & access scripts: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=12468