Desert Settler Farming - Dusty Dude Abides Immersion Mod Series

Desperados Overhaul Is Amazing

I'll admit I am quite a fan of that mod as I was with Dustbowl and others by that mod author. To bring additional attention to it I put this patch into it's own Nexus page so more people get the chance to see the mod or that people want to patch for it. I made this very minor patch with that mod as a master file. DO has precombines as of Feb 2021.

Both Prickly Pear and Silt Mesquite (so far)

As it says above you can now plant both Prickly Pear cactus and also Silt mesquite (aka Silt Bean) seeds at your settlements to allow your settlers to grow and harvest both. Snag onto one of those Prickly Pear fruit beauties from the workbench once the settlers start harvesting, eat it as-is or take it to the cooking station to make your very own Prickly Pear Juice, which heavily fortifies the body for a while (especially if you found Wasteland Survival Mag #1).

Silt Mesquite is my mod's new name to Silt Bean that you can find in the wild. Pick some pods, bring 'em back and plant them for your settlers.

In 2. 1 I also added a Desert Pear Fizz drink that doesn't use Prickly Pear at all, but is sort of the Commonwealth knock-off version with regular ingredients with a non-alcohol fizz! It ties in with one of my other mods, Whiskey Smoke, if you have it; it permits you to make a tobacco hybrid from either Prickly Pear Juice or the new Fizz. The Fizz uses regular ingredients, but takes a few more of them than the regular Pear Juice.

Like all of my mods in this Dusty Dude Abides series, it's about immersion and something different than just yet another cup of coffee or paste or whatever. As I find new items that would work with my theme I will add them here or to my other mods, especially the Desert Inspired Foods, Drinks and Other Stuff mod. Support for all my mods is primarily here, but also on my Discord channel.

No Collision Solution Mission

Desperados Overhaul does not provide collision for the Prickly Pear. It's a static meant for you to walk right through and that's that. I know jack-diddly about collision or how to manage it, but it also isn't something in my mod that I made, right?  That was the main problem to solve, and so I was on a mission. The video below describes that mission, and then there's a secondary video in that tab that shows off my testing of the patch and talking about how I came to a solution. It's a damn clever solution! Unlike Rockstar's Naturalist, you won't have any online disconnects with mine . . ..

No collision apparently means there's no way for the player to harvest a FLORA version of an object. Whether that or some other Bethesda reason, Desperados does not intend you to walk up to its static plants and harvest from them. DO doesn't add ad