iNeed CHIM

CHIM support is NPC-only. The player is human and roleplays hunger or thirst in chat. This package marks followers and can trigger a spoken line when they need food or water.

iNeed does not give followers a 0-110 meter. It uses two factions as markers:

• _SNHungryFaction when they need food and have none
• _SNThirstyFaction when they need a drink and have none

Follower Needs must be enabled in the iNeed MCM (Default or Simulated).

What players install

Two pieces ship together:

1. Skyrim patch (iNeed-CHIM-Patch.zip) — compiled Papyrus, CHIM/ineed_actions.csv, and a bundled server plugin under CHIM/server-plugins/CHIM-iNeed/.
2. CHIM server plugin (CHIM-iNeed.tar.gz) — for the CHIM plugin manager, or auto-installed from the Skyrim zip when the game starts.

Load the Skyrim patch below iNeed - Food, Water and Sleep and AIAgent.

Triggers and markers

Piece	When	What CHIM sees
Marker	NPC has no food or water	{Name} is hungry and has no food. stays in recent context until they eat/drink
Trigger	Marker is first set, or Simulated mode starts a hunger/thirst cycle	NPC speaks one short in-character line
Clear	They eat or drink	{Name} is no longer hungry.

If they already have food and eat it, nothing is sent to CHIM.

Build release archives

.\scripts\build-release.ps1

Optional, once the GitHub repo exists:

.\scripts\build-release.ps1 -GitHubRepo "hey-danielx/CHIM-iNeed"

Output in release/:

• CHIM-iNeed.tar.gz / CHIM-iNeed.tar — upload as the GitHub release assets the plugin manager downloads
• iNeed-CHIM-Patch.zip — Skyrim/MO2/Nexus package
• CHIM-iNeed/1.0.0.dwpkg — bundled inside the Skyrim zip
• github-src/ — clean tree to push (plugin files at repo root, same layout as CHIM-Custom)

The Skyrim zip also copies ineed_actions.csv and the .dwpkg into your MO2 mod iNeed-CHIM patch.

GitHub release

1. Create a public repo named CHIM-iNeed.
2. Push release/github-src.
3. Create a release tagged 1.0.0 and attach CHIM-iNeed.tar.gz, CHIM-iNeed.tar, and iNeed-CHIM-Patch.zip.
4. Asset names must match exactly. The installer looks for CHIM-iNeed.tar.gz.

To appear in CHIM's built-in plugin list, submit a PR to AIAgent ui/data/plugin_repository.json. The bundled .dwpkg already installs the plugin when the player loads a save, so that PR is optional.

Requirements

iNeed, SKSE, CHIM (AIAgent.esp).