Usable Butter Churns and milkable cows
⚪ Last updated 2016⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 5.7% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #13 of 15 Crafting mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Convert Milk into Butter at Butter Churns, milk cows
Usable Butter Churns and milkable cows is a small crafting mod for Skyrim that turns butter churns into functional objects, letting you convert a Jug of Milk into 3 bowls of butter by activating the churn. It also adds a work-in-progress feature to milk cows every 12 hours, though without a prompt or animation. With 794 endorsements and 13,893 downloads, it's a niche quality-of-life tweak for players who want more immersive crafting.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 794 endorsements and 13,893 downloads, showing solid support for a niche mod.
- Makes butter crafting actually useful—no more waiting for a plant-like harvest, just activate and get 3 bowls.
- The milkable cows feature, even if WIP, adds a new way to get milk without buying it.
⚠️ Cons
- The cow-milking feature is unfinished: no prompt when looking at a cow, so you have to guess where to click.
- No animation for milking or churning, which might break immersion for some players.
- Last updated in 2016, so it may have compatibility issues with newer Skyrim versions or mods that alter the same base objects.
For Skyrim players who enjoy crafting and want a more direct way to make butter without relying on plant-like harvests. It's also for those who want a simple milk source without buying from vendors. Skip if you need polished animations or a fully finished cow-milking experience—this is a functional but rough mod.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have at least one Jug of Milk in your inventory before activating a butter churn, or nothing will happen.
- When milking a cow, try activating from different angles since there's no prompt—you might need to aim at the cow's body.
- Since this mod changes base objects, it may conflict with other mods that alter butter churns or cows; test with a new save if you have a heavy mod list.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Zirrrus
- Version
- 2.0
- Downloads
- 13,893
- Endorsements
- 794
- Category
- Crafting
- Created
- 11/16/2016
- Updated
- 11/18/2016
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