Horse Management

Horse Management v1. 31

================================== DESCRIPTION ================================== This mod has four separate features to allow for the care and feeding of your equine companions:

• -Stable Markers--
• If you want to use a particular exterior location as a stable area (i.e., the exteriors of house mods often come with a non-functional stable or fenced yard), buy a stable marker and drop it in that location.  To stable a horse at a stable marker, simply ride the horse up to the marker, dismount, and activate the marker.  You'll see a message, and a spell effect will play on the horse, confirming that the horse is now "parked".  That horse will contentedly remain right where you left it last, even if you fast-travel or mount another horse.  You can keep using the same marker to park horses until you have filled that marker's capacity.  To "un-park" a horse, simply mount it; this will free up a slot for another horse to be parked.

Stable markers are available for sale at most vanilla general goods vendors.  They come in three varieties: 3-horse, 6-horse, and 12-horse.  A greater number of horses require a greater amount of space, so each type of marker is designed with this in mind; thus, you should use the one that best fits the spacial capacity of your stable area.  You can use multiple markers in any quantity or combination you like.  You can place them in most any exterior, except in dangerous places like Oblivion planes.  If you are going to use multiple markers in one location, I recommend you space them apart, allowing the horses plenty of wander space (intersecting horses are creepy, k?).

If you pick up a stable marker while horses are still stabled at it, the horses will revert to their vanilla behavior.

• -Stable Supplies--
• Most vanilla general goods vendors now carry a small assortment of basic decorative stable supplies.  Bales of hay; fillable water troughs; buckets of apples, carrots, and oats; stable blankets; even a Dwemer stable heater can be purchased and placed in your stable area to keep your horses warm and cozy.

The bales of hay, buckets, and water troughs all start out grabbable and draggable, so you may place them as you like.  Activating them will pull up a menu, offering you the choice of locking them in place/unlocking them so they can be moved again, or picking them up.  You can sneak + activate to pick them up without the menu.  Water troughs will have an additional option to fill or drain.  Due to Havok issues, the blankets start out locked in place and just above the ground; however, they can be unlocked or locked just like the other items.

The heater will always be static (locked in place).  When you drop it, it will automatically