Hogwarts After Dark (nightlife expansion)

Tired of Hogwarts feeling like a ghost town once the sun goes down? This mod brings the castle to life by populating the halls, common rooms, and courtyards with students hanging out and mingling after dark!

Main Features:

- More Nighttime Activity: Adds a significant number of NPCs to Hogwarts at night for a more immersive, lived-in atmosphere.

- Performance Optimized: Exclusively uses T3 and T4 NPCs (background characters). These NPC tiers are designed to use less resources than named NPCs.

- Hogwarts Only: This mod only affects Hogwarts. No changes are made to Hogsmeade or the surrounding hamlets to ensure compatibility and stability.

Compatibility Note:

- This mod should be compatible with NPC Schedule Enhanced, just make sure you load Hogwarts After Dark AFTER Schedule Enhanced to retain the performance optimizations this mod implements.

- This mod is NOT compatible with Night Curfew and likely incompatible with other mods that alter NPC schedules in Hogwarts.

(2026.03.25 - CHANGELOG)

Significant Performance Optimizations

- Complete rewrite from the ground up with the goal of optimizing performance.

- NPC count remains unchanged at night. Restores daytime NPC count to Creator Kit defaults.

- Alters the ActivityDefinition table to free up resources at the end of day/night shift change.

- T3YoungStudent should be seen and not heard - they go to bed earlier now.