Bikini Armors & EXP¶
SexLab Survival integrates with The Amazing World of Bikini Armor (TAWOBA / BikiniArmors) so that skimpy, revealing armor is treated as exactly that in-world: barely-there protection worn by a woman who has few other options. It also lets you re-tune how fast skills level. Both live on the Bikini Armors & Exp MCM page.
Bikini armor rating¶
Bikini and skimpy armors keep the look of protective gear but give only a fraction of the defence a full set would. SLS scales a bikini armor's rating down to a share of its original value — selectable tiers of 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, 10% or 5% of the record's base armor rating (armor rating as % of original).
This is a deliberate trade. Skimpy armor is light, cheap and everywhere, but it leaves you exposed — both to weapons and to the Misogyny & Inequality systems that read how you are dressed. Wearing a bikini is not just a defence choice; it signals exposure, and the world reacts to it.
Protection vs. reality
A bikini set will not carry you through a hard fight the way real plate would. If you choose it, you are choosing mobility and availability over survivability — and accepting the exposure consequences that come with it.
BuildBikinis¶
SLS needs to know which of your installed armor records actually are bikini armors. The BuildBikinis process scans the installed bikini-armor plugins and builds that list so the rating reduction can be applied to the right items.
Missing bikini plugins are skipped automatically
BuildBikinis only adds armors whose plugin is actually loaded, so entries for bikini plugins you do not have are skipped rather than erroring. Records for the LADX set (LADX_SSE.esp) ship parked in a disabled section of BikiniArmors.json and are folded back in automatically when that plugin is present, so you do not need to edit the file.
Bikini breakdown (optional patch)¶
SLS can make ordinary armor break down into TAWoBA bikini pieces under stress. The armor-break configs and meshes ship as the optional Bikini Armor Break (TAWoBA) FOMOD component and require The Amazing World of Bikini Armors REMASTERED. Install that patch during setup if you want listed armors to shed into bikini parts rather than simply reducing in rating.
Exp — skill experience tuning¶
The Exp options let SLS scale how much skill experience you gain. Survival in this Skyrim is meant to be slow and hard-won, so you can dial experience gain up or down to match the pace you want — a lower multiplier makes every level a longer, grimmer road; a higher one softens the grind.
Set the multiplier to taste in the MCM rather than expecting a fixed rate; the exact scaling is configurable.
Note
Both the bikini armor rating tiers and the experience scaling live on the Bikini Armors & Exp MCM page. Run BuildBikinis there after changing your bikini-armor plugins.