Bad Weather Has Consequences

What this demonstrates

• current_weather
• object_type and record_id
• transform and create
• Activation-time processing

Why it works

When a selected statue or shrine becomes active while the player's current weather is an ash storm, SSS twists it and scatters bones nearby. The weather map requires both isStorm: true and the name substring ash, so ordinary rain does not qualify.

The memorable rule is the boundary: weather is a condition, not a trigger. An ash storm beginning does not wake every statue in Vvardenfell. A statue entering the active scene while the storm condition already matches can be changed.

The catch

• current_weather reads weather in the player's cell at object activation time; it is not an event subscription.
• once: true makes the mutation persistent per object after it succeeds. Changing the weather later does not undo it.
• The transform runs before the creation pool and always changes the target. Therefore once: true is recorded even when the 40% bone pool misses; this is a one-shot creation roll, unlike the probabilistic-only rules in the Low Health and Compound Interest experiments.
• The fixture uses vanilla static record IDs; add more statues or shrines only after checking the active content load order.
• Created bones are world objects, not temporary weather particles.

Complete YAML

The source fixture is Examples/InstanceModifier_BadWeatherHasConsequences.yaml.

log_name: Bad Weather Has Consequences
priority: polish

instances:
  - conditions:
      - object_type: Static
      - record_id:
          - ex_dwrv_statue00
          - ex_imp_dragonstatue
          - ex_v_vivecstatue_01
          - ex_v_vivecstatue_02
          - furn_6th_ashstatue
          - furn_shrine_vivec_01
          - furn_shrine_tribunal_01
      - current_weather:
          isStorm: true
          name: ash
    once: true
    actions:
      - transform:
          rotate:
            z: { min: -12, max: 12 }
      - create:
          furn_bone_01:
            count:
              max: 2
            chance: 0.4
            position:
              x: { min: -80, max: 80 }
              y: { min: -80, max: 80 }