Respawn Cells and Restock Merchants Daily

We've all done it - running from vendor to vendor or abusing the wait menu to get cells or vendors to reset. Now, that suffering can be a little less time consuming. This mod alters the respawn timer for cells to be daily than every three days. Actually, it will be 23 hours because the game rounds up to the next hour when you leave the relevant cell, so if you use the wait menu for 24 hours and rush back in you will be a tad early. To avoid this, I used 23 hours.

My original intention was just to make the vendors reset more, but unfortunately as best as I can tell their restock is directly tied to the 72 hour cell respawn. So, it's a package deal. The exact behavior of these cell resets is unknown to me however. Food and enemies seem to respawn/reset, but not non-food or player dropped objects. This is the same as vanilla. I just changed the timer on it.

I also made other options for every other day (47 hours), weekly (167 hours), and every decade (87599 hours). Why? Suffering.

I tried to make an hourly version (where a one hour wait would be sufficient), but this does not work because the game rounds up to the nearest hour. For example, if you exit the ship at 2:11, it will not reset until 4:00. I tried setting it to zero to avoid this problem, but that broke the reset altogether. So, every other hour is the best I can do.

Installation is rather simple. I only know how to do this manually at this time, but I am certain it could be automated. For Steam users, extract the mod (.esp file) into:

Steam > steamapps > common > Oblivion Remastered > OblivionRemastered > Content > Dev > ObvData > Data

For GamePass users, extract the mod (.esp file) into:

XboxGames > The Elder Scrolls IV- Oblivion Remastered > Content > Dev > ObvData > Data

You should see Oblivion.esm in this same location, at least on Steam.

Moving on, there is still one more step. Open Plugins.txt and add a line to the bottom with the name of the .esp you opted to download. For example, if you are using the main version, you would want RespawnCellsRestockMerchantsDaily.esp as the last line. That's it! The mod should be working. While conventional wisdom is that new playthroughs are best for new mods, this type of mod should not be able to break any existing saves.