INTERACT - BUILD - DECORATE

Interact is a catch-all mod I've been slowly developing for years, consistently adding more and more systems that allow you to interact with and make your mark on the world. Despite all the systems, this mod is well-contained, with only a few changes to some vendors' inventories and some building materials. It should be compatible with just about everything.

This mod has no convoluted hotkeys to use, does not require SKSE, and can be used with controllers.

I've listed below all that can be done with this mod. To get started with any of them, you should head to a lumber mill and find a woodworking station nearby. There you can craft "Decorating Tips", which teaches the "Interact" lesser power. Everything this mod adds can be toggled on and off by using the "Interact" power.

Decorating

The main feature of Interact is a new system to replace the vanilla "grab and flail items wildly" decorating system. After using the Interact power, you should see "Now Interacting..." in the top left of the screen. Now, when you activate or drop various objects, you will get new options on how to interact with it.

If you select furniture, weapons, armor, or other items, you will have the option to Adjust them. Selecting this gives the option to Move, either upright or with current orientation, Rotate, or Nudge. Rotate and Move items by simply moving your crosshair. Crouch to stop Moving and Rotating. Moving or Rotating an item prevents it from being affected by gravity or other items, select Nudge to re-enable this for the item. This system also prevents the bug of items returning to their original dropped position when re-entering the area.

Furniture Building

At Woodworking benches and normal forges, you can create all sorts of furniture, containers, and crafting stations. After positioning them using the decorating system above, you can activate them and select Place to turn the item version of the furniture into the usable version.

Common furniture only requires firewood and basic building materials to be built, while more elaborate and more obscure furniture requires better materials. Talk to lumberjacks and mining foremen to purchase wood and stone needed for building in bulk.

Additionally, you can take some containers from dungeons for yourself. Simply use the Interact lesser power and select Take when activating containers.

Cabin Building

Using a Woodworking bench, you can create the necessary shack parts to build your own cabin anywhere in Skyrim. It's recommended you don't build your cabin in populated areas, but beyond that, anything can be built anywhere.