A quick update on my recent work and finalizing 1.5.

The bulk of the respawn overhauling is mostly done now. I'm mainly just doing a 2nd pass on items now. I tested some of the respawns in concord, and it works great so far. This is something I've wanted done for a long time now. It will make your playthrough feel a lot more immersive, balanced, and active, all at the same time.

What this means, is NPCs can respawn much faster now, but all the good placed items never respawn. It's all been painstakingly hand-edited (meaning I didn't use any automated scripts to just "phone it in.") Junky common items will still respawn (like empty bottles, cans, dirty water, etc.) so that the area still looks like the NPCs are doing stuff... yet appropriate stuff never respawns. Leaving a lot of the junk in there also cuts down on cell edits. Keeping edits as low as possible should help not increase saves and load times much.

All these cell edits are done in an optional (although recommended) separate ESP (and a 2nd one for all DLCs), so you can load these files higher up in the load order (above horizon), so they don't clash as much with other mods that edit cells.

This addon contains a ton of cells edit, however it should be as efficient as possible. I purposely tried to avoid editing cells that didn't need it (like workshops), although this is kind of hard to avoid completely, because of how mind-numbing this work was already. I may have some cells in there that aren't needed, but it shouldn't hurt anything.

There's other mods out there that do similar edits like this to world items, but like I said, all of this is hand-edited to balance with Horizon, so its very finely tuned. And like I said, I'm trying to keep it efficient too.

I've reduced some loot in many areas to balance it better. Horizon already did this for a few cells (reducing purified water and such), but obviously this new addon is WAY bigger.

Some containers will respawn, but not all types. This allows you to still search for some random items, but not as much as when you first cleared the area.

I may even add an option in game to change how often cleared cells can respawn. Possibly something like: 10 days, 20 days, 40 days, Never. So players can choose this independently, regardless of which mode they pick. The default for cleared cells in survival mode is like 80 days or something crazy.

I hate giving timeframes, but I'm really hoping to finalize this stuff for 1.5 this week.