Dovahkiin can lean Sit Kneel Lay down and Meditate etc too

Dovahkiin can lean, sit, kneel, lay down, meditate here too

Have you ever noticed that npc's can do certain things that you can't?

Like lean on walls/posts, meditate, sit on  ledges, on logs, crossed legged on the floor, or lean on counters on stalls/in shops?

Ever wondered "Hey why I can't I do that?" Well now you can, for selected markers.

What's covered? Well theres:

Various invisible chair markers (npc's sit down despite there being no actual chair visible)

Lean on counter

Greybeard meditate

Lean on wall/post

Guard lean on wall/post

Lean on table

Lean on rail

Search chest

Sit cross legged

Drink from mead barrel

Hammer on wall

Hammer on table

Carriage driver's seat

Others may be added as and when I find them but thats the major ones.

So why did you make it?

Everytime I wandered into Whiterun there'd be Jon Battleborn leaning on a post in the market and I thought "Why can't I do that?"

Everytime there'd be an NPC sitting on a ledge or sitting cross legged on the floor I thought "Why can't I do that?

When I found my way to High Hrothgar and found the Greybeards meditating and thought... well you get the idea.

Was I envious? You bet.

So I looked into it. It turns out they're a type of furniture thats not so different from regular furniture that you can interact with i.e. chairs and benches they have just have a few things different and lack a visible mesh for the most part. I also found that some of these special furniture markers were almost certainly intended for the Player to use but for some reason Bethesda never implemented it, namely various Player Invisible Chair markers that the player has never infact been been able to interact with.

The best example of this are the stone benches that surround the Bard's College in Solitude. Theres all these potential places to sit but you can't actually sit anywhere some places would be really nice such as the ones that look out to sea . Well as it happens they all have Player Invisible Chair markers but guess what, only NPC's can use them. Why? No idea but its probably another one of those cases where Bethesda's left hand doesn't know what its right is doing. Well after a little tweaking and fettling of some meshes later voila you can now sit to your hearts content gazing out to sea as you were intended to do all along.

So, does this have any real purpose?

To be honest it probably doesn't but hey, its a bit a fun, right?

It may even be of interest if you've ever wondered "Why can't I...?"