I am currently working on and testing changes to Skyrim's patchers. All changes for Skyrim and Oblivion should be made to 151-skyrim-patchers and wrye-bash contributors should comment on changes in this issue. 151-skyrim-patchers will be rebased off of dev each time Utumno merges changes.

Branch: https://github.com/Sharlikran/wrye-bash/tree/dev-skyrim-tes4-update

Tasklist:

• Decide whether or not to fully update LAND since it normally consumes a lot of time to process
• Update complex records from TES5Edit to simple records when applicable
• Update remaining records LAND, PERK, PACK, RACE, SCEN -> Records Refactoring #480
• Update existing 305 Patcher support for mergable records
• Update remaining Patcher support for mergable records
• Add support for Fragment Scripts for 'INFO' in VMAD

bosh.py Patchers to update:

• Alias Mod Names
• Contents Checker
• Import Actors
• Import Actors: AI Packages
• Import Actors: Death Items
• Import Actors: Factions
• Import Actors: Spells
• Import Cells
• Import Destructible
• Import Effect Stats
• Import Enchantment Stats
• Import Graphics
• Import Inventory
• Import Keywords
• Import Names
• Import Object Bounds
• Import Outfits
• Import Relations
• Import Sounds
• Import Spell Stats
• Import Stats
• Import Text
• Leveled Lists
• Merge Patches
• Tweak Actors
• Tweak Assorted
• Tweak Names
• Tweak Settings
• Race Records

Needs to be clarified or investigated:

• DESC subrecords do not appear in the Bash Patch when merging BOOK
  • Had dupe attribute 'description'
• In bosh.py: class PatchFile what does this do? Is this Skyrim or Oblivion specific? - Infernio: That is Oblivion-specific. SCPT doesn't even exist in Skyrim (due to Papyrus). Probably needs to be expanded for FO3 and FNV as well though.
• FormID Lists: new issue -> Rewrite and port the FormID Lists patcher #497
• Import Scripts: Can this be used for VMAD without destroying VMAD's functionality? - in theory yes, but it's not a good idea to touch VMAD since it interacts directly with the external script files

Note: most of Skyrims records are updated excluding those mentioned.