Brutal Flora Harvest Fix (Obsolete)

Non-SE Version

These files should actually work in original Skyrim as-is.

Newer Fix - Native SKSE Plugin (Recommended)

Scrambled Bugs - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43532

(recommended instead of this fix; please see "Uninstall Steps" below if switching over)

Requirements

Requires SKSE64: https://skse.silverlock.org

Additional Information

Skyrim has an annoying bug where harvested plants don't respawn when loading a save game.

This is covered in great detail on the following mod pages:

bluedanieru's Flora Respawn Fix

wiseman303's Flora Fixes (OG Skyrim only?)

wiseman303 wrote a Technical Details article explaining in more detail how these fixes worked.

Brutal Flora Harvest Fix takes a different approach - inserting a script "hook" into ObjectReference.

A modified ObjectReference script inserts a single function call into each of the following events:

• []OnActivate - to store our last harvest time (into a single new float value).

  []OnCellAttach - to fix any references last harvested more than 10 days ago.

This has some advantages:

• []It is universally compatible with any harvestable object in the game, vanilla or modded.

  []It is retroactive on existing saves, and may also be safely uninstalled at any time.

  []It is efficient, with any reference's OnCellAttach hook only firing once per save load.

  []It is lightweight, making minimal/no changes to references and adding no event registrations.

  (Specifically, non-instant respawn times make a single saved change - see Save Notes below)[]Like other harvest fixes, it decouples harvest respawning from cell resets.

  And also some disadvantages:

  • []It only applies after a cell change (due to the scope of available events to the script).

    []Respawn times are instant the first time something is harvested (same reason as above).

    []It adds a (negligible?) script overhead to the otherwise empty hooked events.

    []It would need an update if SKSE's ObjectReference.pex script ever changes (it hasn't in years).

    []The OnCellAttach hook can fail on references to null forms, dumping an error to Papyrus log.

    (This seems harmless as the default OnCellAttach event would otherwise be empty anyway)[]In certain rare cases, it's possible to miss updating a reference's mesh (see script source).

    []It's still not as clean as a native SKSE plugin could be. :P

    Defaults to a 10-day respawn time (Skyrim's default cell reset time).