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WPS Spouse Encounters
Adds a lightweight illustrated spouse event when leaving towns or villages with an eligible spouse nearby.
Player guide
Install, configure, and troubleshoot WPS Spouse Encounters.
Use the sections below for setup, requirements, settings, compatibility, removal, and troubleshooting.
Overview
A lightweight romantic spouse event for towns and villages.
Spouse Encounters adds an illustrated incident when leaving towns or villages with your spouse nearby. Your spouse may ask to try for a baby, giving you three clear choices with lightweight vanilla results.
Features
- Town and Village Exit Incident - A spouse encounter can appear in Bannerlord's illustrated incident window when leaving a town or village.
- Native Frequency by Default - Without an MCM override, the event joins Bannerlord's normal incident roll and cooldown mechanics.
- Optional MCM Settings - Configure separate town and village encounter chance overrides.
- Always Trigger Options - Force the event to happen every time a valid town or village exit passes eligibility checks.
- Try for a Baby - Accepting has an 80% chance to make the eligible female pregnant.
- Private Time Without Pregnancy - You can spend time together without changing pregnancy status.
- Busy Refusal - Refusing because you are too busy costs -5 relation with your spouse.
- Optional HotButter Scenes - If HotButter is active, the two romantic choices show one of its town or village romance scenes.
- Lightweight Implementation - Uses vanilla incidents and actions with no Harmony patches.
Requirements
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord singleplayer.
- Base-game modules: Native, SandBoxCore, and Sandbox.
- Optional: Bannerlord.MBOptionScreen (Mod Configuration Menu) for in-game town and village frequency overrides.
- Optional: HotButter for its town or village romance-scene popup.
- No specific Bannerlord, MCM, or HotButter version is listed; check the current Nexus requirements and Files tabs before updating those components.
Installation
- Download the latest version.
- Extract the WPS_SpouseEncounters folder to Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules\.
- Enable [WPS] Spouse Encounters in the mod launcher.
- Optional: enable Mod Configuration Menu if you want in-game frequency override settings.
- Optional: enable HotButter if you want romance scenes for the intimate choices.
Compatibility
- WPS Spouse Encounters does not patch game methods. It registers a vanilla incident and uses vanilla relation and pregnancy actions.
- Bannerlord.MBOptionScreen and HotButter are detected at runtime and are not required for the base incident.
- Another mod that changes settlement-exit incidents, spouse eligibility, relation actions, or pregnancy actions can alter the event's availability or outcome.
Troubleshooting
If no encounter appears, confirm the player has an eligible spouse nearby and is leaving a town or village. With default settings, the event remains subject to Bannerlord's normal incident roll and cooldown.
If using frequency overrides, confirm Bannerlord.MBOptionScreen is enabled, review the town and village settings separately, and verify the relevant always-trigger option only when testing.
If an optional romance scene does not appear, confirm HotButter is active and provides an applicable town or village scene; the WPS incident can still continue without that popup.
When reporting a reproducible issue on the mod's Nexus page, include the Bannerlord version, exit settlement type, spouse state, MCM settings, optional-mod versions, and a complete mod list.
Credits
- Created by Wasted Potential Studios.
- Mod Configuration Menu / Bannerlord.MBOptionScreen by the BUTR Team.
- Optional HotButter integration uses scenes provided by that mod.
Changelog
- Version 1.2.0
- Moves the spouse encounter into Bannerlord's illustrated incident window while keeping MCM chance overrides and optional HotButter scenes.
- Version 1.1.0
- Adds optional Mod Configuration Menu settings for town and village encounter chances, including always-trigger options.
- Version 1.0.0
- Adds a chance-based spouse encounter after leaving towns or villages with baby, romance, and busy refusal choices.
Request support or a new idea
Having trouble with this release? Visit its Nexus page for downloads, bug reports, and player discussions. Have an idea for a new mod, feature, port, or compatibility update? Send WPS a gamer request.