Area Harvest - Gather Nearby Plant Clusters

Area Harvest

Requirements:

Oblivion Script Extender

Description

Another quick one.

This mod makes it so that harvesting an ingredient harvests all flora of the same type in a short range (harvest chances are accounted for). The affected plants will have a fain glow for a brief period so you can see which plants were harvested. Essentially, this makes harvesting patches of the same plant less of a chore, especially if you use a mod which reduces the harvest chance.

The message that displays when you harvest an ingredient will also now state the number of ingredients harvested, e.g. “You successfully harvest 5 Fly Amanita Cap(s).”

Owned plants can still only be harvested one at a time, and will glow a different colour.

How it Works

This mod actually works in a very similar way to my Harvest Whilst Waiting mod. In that mod, whenever you waited a dummy actor (a nice doggo) in a remote cell is scripted to activate all ingredients within a radius of the player. The doggo’s inventory is then checked to see if it actually harvested anything and, if it did, those items are transferred to the player with a message. This prevents the earrape and message spam that would be caused by the player directly activating the ingredients, and allows me to display a message dependent on the number of ingredients harvested.

This mod’s method is similar; however, the trigger for the harvest is you attempting to harvest something rather than waiting, and the range is much reduced.

Extras

I've also included an extra optional file that reduces all harvest chances to 40% of their original for all vanilla flora (excluding quest-related flora and flora with 100% harvest chance). This requires the Wizard's Tower DLC.

The template files used to edit the harvest chances have been provided as a modders' resource in the miscellaneous files section. These sort records for all the vanilla flora into separate .esp files depending on their harvest chances. I recommend using the xEdit Quick Change script from Mator's Automation Tools to change the harvest chance fields for a set of flora all at once, then copying the edited records together into a single new file. Also, be aware that the field for the Summer harvest chance has a space at the end of it, so it is referenced as "PFPC\Summer ". Keep in mind too that Autumn is misspelled as "Fall".

Installation

This mod requires the Oblivion Script Extender.

Standard installation procedure: