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Issue Data
Status: New
Issue Type: Bug Report
Project: Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch
Component: Skyrim SE: Vanilla
Category: Audio
Assigned To: Nobody
Platform: Windows PC
Severity: Very Low
Votes: 0
Watching: N/A
Opened By Cashkingb on Jan 6, 2026 9:49 pm

Issue #36152: No block sound for animals when using shields

 
Various animals, wolves, mudcrabs, bears etc don't seem to play the block sounds associated when using a shield. Blocking with a weapon on it's own plays the correct sound however. I decided to focus on mudcrabs and check out if perhaps the impact data was not set up correctly. they use FXMeleeClawMedium (0001f272) and it doesn't look like anything was wrong with it. Out of curiosity, I made an unplayable copy of the unarmed weapon (000001f4) and assigned it FXMeleeClawMedium in the impact data section and then added it to EncMudcrabGiant. When I spawned it to test, it played the shield block sound as intended. I have no idea why exactly this is happening, and adding separate unarmed weapons for each impact data type for every creature seems a huge pain and potentially a compatibility pain, so I'm hoping this at least provides a start to a more creative solution.