About this mod

Adds the Fallout 4 burrowing functionality, Cazador nest, and a few new creatures. Complete with an MCM to toggle parts of the mod you do and don't want.

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Over View:

-This mod adds Burrowing Radscorpions, Bark Scorpions, Mole Rats, and Cazadores to the game. Complete with an MCM to toggle what parts of the mod you do and don't want. Radscorpions and Bark Scorpions will burrow in the dirt. Mole Rats you can hear tunneling underneath you. Cazadors make nest in the dirt that can be looted. Excavators are new Cazador variants that can burrow mid combat to close distance on the player. All of these creatures have been added to vanilla leveled list via scripts for maximum compatibility.

-This is a proper merge of my Burrowing Cazadores, and Tunneling Creatures mods.
These mods are part of a series of mods that are focused on integrating new lore friendly creatures into Fallout New Vegas.

-Please post any un-lore friendly and immersion breaking aspects, or inconsistencies with this mod. I want this mod to be as lore friendly and as well integrated as possible. Any feedback is appreciated. :)

-if you wan to learn how to make your own burrowing creatures, I have a tutorial up on nexus now: Burrowing Creatures Modders Resource at Fallout New Vegas - mods and community (nexusmods.com)

New Creature Details:
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Young Excavator:

Young Excavators can dig holes and pop up behind, or under the player mid combat and will try to dodge the players attacks when in close proximity.
(All Excavator Variants can do this. and have the ability to flee combat, and burrow back underground.)

Excavator:
Adult Excavators can spawn "Hot-Kake's" (Baby Excavators) to aid in combat.

Hot-Kake:
Hot-Kake's (Baby Excavators) are tiny Excavators that pop out to help Adult Excavators

Small Glowing Excavator:
Small Glowing Excavators will spawn up to 2 Radioactive Hot-Kake's that will run at the player and emit an explosion from there body before burrowing back underground.

Glowing Excavator:
Glowing Excavators will spawn up to 7 Radioactive Hot-Kake's

Radioactive Hot-Kake:
Radioactive Hot-Kake's will run at you and emit radioactive waves from there body when they get close. This is physically exhausting for them to do, so they burrow back underground right after.



Cazador Nest:
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-Cazador Nest are small burrows that Cazadores dig, and cover with dirt to stay hidden from the out side world.
-Cazadores will attack anyone who gets to close. firing your weapon while in close proximity to a Nest may also alert the Cazador inside.
-Nest have a chance to spawn vanilla Cazadores along with any of the new Excavator variants.
- They are hand placed around the map, and can be Destroyed, and looted.
- Your sneak skill will play in how close you can get to the nest. And the amount of sound your gun produces also will effect how close you can get to the nest while firing your gun.
- If you see an NPC is standing near a burrow. Try firing your weapon to see what happens >:)


MCM Details:
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-MCM will allow you to toggle any of the creatures on and off. You can alternatively disable the unique textures for the Excavators if you want them to use vanilla textures. Under advanced, you can customize the radius of the burrows, and change variables of the function that control how effective your sneak skill is. There is a Debugger if you want to test the outputs for different levels of sneak.


Incompatible Mods:
None, Tell me if you find any.

Credit:

Draloa for creating the Cazador textures and allowing me to use her textures to create all kinds of new creature variants.
Critters Retexture Pack:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58942

CyrusMonroe For letting me use his Xander root textures.
Better Looking Xander Root:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/63600

RageBear1984 for helping me with rigging the burrows mesh in 2.0

Mindboggles for letting me upload her custom Radscorpion skeleton to prevent the scorpions from getting stuck in the ground. -You want this, and you need this.

My other mods:
Cloaked Scorpions:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/67184
Mojave Emperor Scorpions:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66846

Discord:
https://discord.gg/SE9uEEHUtn