I downloaded Maim 2, the animation framework mod for it and the mod that adds modern pharmaceutical stuff. I also downloaded 76 needs to eat and drink. For Needs, I turned off the body injury and disease stuff so that Maim could handle that part entirely after reading online about how those can work together. I also have the Mental Health mod.
The mechanics of those mods were working perfectly as expected: injuries, treating, eating, the PTSD effects. Except I ended up getting the bug where you can't assign settlers to crops at all at any settlement. In game basic settlers, named, visitors. No one wanted to touch the crops, and they were highlighted yellow as if broken. Marcy accidentally got teleported to red rocket (don't ask).
Skk workshop utility mod has a checker thingy and it said sanctuary was basically being treated as a "camp" instead of a settlement. My only camp mod is the one that's part of 76 needs and I hadn't set it up anywhere. Deactivating that option didn't work. I tried numerous things to get its arse in gear, including restarting, but it wouldn't work. You can't plant crops at a camp with 76 needs because you can't send settlers to it, so the culprit was obvious.
I cleaned the cache, restarted. I disabled 76 needs and made sure everything else was on. Crops now look normal, and a settler was able to be assigned. Maim and everything else is fine too.
So my game works now...but would it keep working or will it break if I enable 76 needs now that I've got the gang to Sanctuary?? I was thinking having it all on at once breaks something when you come out the vault and first go to Sanctuary, I'm not quite sure how or why.
I wanted that to give food and water a purpose because Maim makes it so you can't spam water and cram in the middle of a fight. I like the survival eating and drinking at times for role-playing Nate, but giving up saves and fast traveling isn't happening, so I won't be playing on the game's survival mode. I could just have Nate (and Nora since I got a mod to make her live), farm food for money (ibuprofen and chest seals are expensive y'all) if enabling 76 Needs now will cause issues.
(I really don't wanna restart yet again. I've done it like 4 times past two days)