Emissaries of Tux - Omni-guides/Tuxborn GitHub Wiki

Tuxborn is not the only modpack created by Ouroboros. Emissaries of Tux is another, a modpack for Enderal, the total conversion mod that turns Skyrim into an entirely different game.

Github's wiki doesn't really allow for making multiple wikis on the same repo, so this page serves as an index for EoT information. Annathepiper is currently running an EoT playthrough and will add to this page as she gathers more pertinent information. We will specifically keep this page spoiler-free, since many of our players will not have past familiarity with Enderal.

You will need to install Enderal first if you want to run Emissaries of Tux. It's available for free on Steam.

Once you have the game intalled, then consult Ouro's Emissaries of Tux readme for installation instructions for the modpack.

You can also review Omni's guide to installing Emissaries using his Jackify tool.

Steam Deck players in particular, if for some reason you can't get Jackify to work for you, then Annathepiper has a guide on her blog for how installing EoT worked on her Steam Deck.

• Enderal's official wiki: Consult this for in-depth info on how the game works
• Emissaries of Tux load order: Full list of the EoT load order

Enderal, and by extension Emissaries of Tux, is overall more difficult than Skyrim, and even a little more difficult than Tuxborn at similar difficulty settings. So if you're totally new to Enderal, you may wish to start a playthrough on Novice difficulty just to give yourself the necessary breathing room to learn Enderal's mechanics.

Enderal uses Skyrim's engine, so it's really easy to assume that how things work in Enderal is the same as how they work in Skyrim. Do not make this assumption! It may be true a lot of the time, but not always, so just doublecheck mechanics to be sure.

Do not rush through the main story. Explore everything. Take the time to do side quests, in no small part because there are achievements you can get by finding certain things in the world, and you never know where those items may show up. And doing side quests will also help you level up if you reach a point of the main story where you're having trouble proceeding. If that happens, back off from that part of the story, and go do more side quests.

Enderal's leveling system is a notable difference from Skyrim. Look at the Character Progression page on the Enderal wiki for details on this if you want them. Players who know Oblivion or Morrowind may find aspects of Enderal's character progression system familiar, even though it's different from how Skyrim handles it.

Take particular note of what Enderal's wiki has to say about how you level your skills. Enderal does not have trainer NPCs like Skyrim does.

Making armor and weapons, as well as a lot of other miscellaneous items, is still done at forges and tanning racks. And it's still influenced by your levels in relevant skills. But you will also need to have blueprints in your inventory to make a lot of items. Be on the lookout for these as loot in the world, as well as items you can buy from vendors.

You may notice a good number of mods in EoT's load order that come over from Skyrim, and in particular, several that even appear in Tuxborn. Some of these are craftable armor and weapon mods. In general, do not expect craftable gear from Skyrim mods in the load order to also be craftable in Emissaries. Those mods are there to make certain changes to the details of the world. As you progress through the game, the gear in question will eventually show up. We won't go into details on where here, to avoid spoilers.

An exception to this is lanterns. As with Tuxborn, you may find initial light levels kind of dark. Emissaries is running the same lantern mod that Tuxborn is, and you can make those same lanterns in Emissaries. You will need a blueprint for the lantern type you want, but otherwise, making them will work the same way as it does in Tuxborn.

If you see jagged lines along terrain such as beaches...

As of Emissaries build 2.0.4, we have a known issue where terrain will show some strangely jagged, geometric discolorations. We do not have a real solution for this yet, as it appears to be related to something in Community Shaders. Specifically, something to do with how the current version of Community Shaders is handling Parallax.

The workaround for the immediate moment for this is to turn off the Parallax setting in Community Shaders. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Load Emissaries, at least as far as the main menu screen, so that you have access to Community Shaders. (Loading the rest of the way into the game is also fine.)
2. Hit your End key to launch the Community Shaders UI. If you're on a Steam Deck, you may wish to bind the End key to one of your available back buttons to make it easy to do this. Putting it onto a radial menu item would work as well.
3. In the Community Shaders UI, on the left sidebar, scroll down to the Materials section of settings. Steam Deck players, you will need to hold down your Steam button and use your right trackpad to get a mouse pointer to do this. Use your right trigger to initiate a click, or hold down the trigger to do a scroll.
4. Select Extended Materials.
5. In those settings, deselect "Enable Parallax".
6. Save your settings by clicking on the first of the three icons in the upper right corner of the Community Shaders window.
7. Once you load into the game, doublecheck Community Shaders settings again to make sure that option remains deselected. You may need to create a new save to make sure it persists.

Alternately, if you are playing on PC, you can play on the ENB profile instead of the CS ones. The issue does not reproduce on that profile.

We do not have separate channels for Emissaries of Tux on the Aetherius Modding Discord, where Tuxborn and Emissaries are both hosted. If you need help with Emissaries, though, it's okay to post questions in the #txbn-general channel. Just make it clear you're asking about Emissaries vs. Tuxborn.

And if you need direct support from Ouroboros, it is also okay to post in #txbn-support for help. Use the provided "Enderal" tag to flag your post as related to Emissaries.

Thanks to the following players on the #txbn-general channel for contributing to this page:

• soul01z, for confirming that the jagged lines issue in Emissaries 2.0.4 does not reproduce on the ENB profile on PC