Oblivion-Style Leveling – Overengineered Edition
Sleepytyme replaces Fallout: New Vegas’ instant level-up system with an Oblivion-style “sleep to level up” experience.
When you earn enough XP to level, nothing happens immediately.
Instead, you receive subtle reminders — a HUD icon, and optional toasts — encouraging you to find a bed and rest, where you will then get relevant dream messages depending on the wasteland that the player is in (TTW).
This was inspired by Demorome's “Sleep To Level Up - Oblivion-Style Levelling” mod and started as a simple ESPLess conversion, but then I decided that I wanted more control over the different dream messages for TTW so that I would get relevant messages depending on if I was in the Capital or Mojave Wasteland for my TTW playthrough.
For the dream messages I used AVladimir1994's Custom Messages for TTW which are available from Demorome's original mod page. Then I split the Capital and Mojave based messages to their respective sections, duplicated the generic ones, and finally filled in the gaps for both wastelands up to level cap.
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Oblivion-Style Leveling
You only level up after sleeping once you’ve earned enough XP. -
ESPless & Lightweight
No ESP/ESM plugin required. Implemented entirely via NVSE scripting and UI injection. -
Level-Up HUD Icon
A configurable HUD icon appears when you are ready to level. -
Dream Messages on Level Up
Optional, configurable dream-like messages appear when you sleep and level up (separate wasteland messages for TTW). -
Optional Reminder Toasts
Periodic, customisable reminder notifications. -
MCM Extender Support
Full in-game configuration via MCM Extender:- Toggle level-up icon
- Move the icon anywhere on screen (X / Y sliders)
- Choose a custom icon style
- Override icon color with RGB picker
- Toggle XP meter & XP sounds
- Configure toast timing, duration, and text
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XP Meter & Sound Suppression
Optionally hides the vanilla XP meter and disables XP/level-up sound effects for a cleaner Oblivion-style experience. -
Fade-to-Black Sleep Transitions
Custom image-space effects for smoother, more immersive sleep → dream → wake transitions. -
Highly Compatible
Designed to coexist cleanly with popular UI, HUD, and gameplay mods.
- Gain XP as normal.
- When enough XP is earned, no immediate level-up occurs.
- A subtle HUD icon appears indicating you are ready to level.
- Optional reminder toasts may appear.
- Sleep in a bed.
- Experience a short fade and dream message.
- Level up.
Sleepytyme uses MCM Extender for all configuration. No manual INI editing required.
You can:
- Enable / disable the level-up icon
- Move the icon freely on the screen
- Select a custom icon graphic
- Override the icon color using an RGB picker
- Enable or disable repeating reminder toasts
- Set reminder intervals and duration (seconds)
- Disable the vanilla XP meter and XP/level-up sounds
Changes apply in real time unless otherwise noted.
- Fallout: New Vegas
- NVSE
- JIP LN NVSE
- JohnnyGuitar NVSE
- UIO
- MCM Extender
- Plugins+
No ESP/ESM plugin is required.
Sleepytyme is designed to be safe and modular.
- Compatible with most HUD mods (UIO-based)
- Compatible with popular gameplay overhauls
- Optional support for Stewie’s Tweaks hotkeys
- Safe to add to existing saves
- Does not permanently alter vanilla records
This may not be compatible with anything that affects the sleep/wait system, though this mod does use SetONSleepWEventHandler to try and mitigate any timing issues.
- Disable the mod in your mod manager.
- Remove the Sleepytyme files.
- Load your save — leveling will return to vanilla behavior.
No baked-in changes are left behind.
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AVladimir1994 – Custom Messages for TTW
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Stentorious – Gribbleshnibit8: MCM Extender
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Pistol Payback – Plugins Plus (and being so helpful while I was learning the Kit scripting syntax)