[SE]Hire laborers to loot for you

[thumbincubation]

Hi all,

 

Wondering if anyone would be willing to create a mod that lets the player clear enemies from dungeons and forts, without looting, and hire laborers to go in and clean out the loot, for a fee.

 

In my mind, it would be an NPC "agent," who would have dialog options along the lines of "I'd like to hire your crew to clean out a location for me," and then a list of possible locations. I don't know the best way to go about that, maybe only a one-time thing and it can read a list of locations with the "cleared" flag, within say 7 in-game days of hiring, or something like that. Maybe it would be a one-time thing per location.

 

The NPC would be somewhere near a couple of carriages, maybe with some basic non-dialog workers, and several large storage containers, maybe oversized wardrobes or lootable crates. Once hired, the NPC tells you to return later or sends a courier when ready, and then charges you a fee in gold. Go back to the agent later, and the loot is in a container that respawns in 10 days or so. Or possibly even an option to have the goods delivered to one of the base game or Hearthfire homes. I would imagine there is a way for the system to read the items populated in the dungeon, disable them there and spawn a copy of the list in your container or home.

 

This way, the carriages don't have to be moved and nobody needs to travel. They're just there to give it a sense of an operating moving/storage business, but all the work happens behind the scenes, hopefully keeping the mod small and lightweight.

 

Could this be done?

Edited November 5, 2023 by thumbincubation

[Eidann]

Nether's Follower Framework already have an option for follower to loot the area
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/55653

[thumbincubation]

Yeah, there are a couple follower-loot options. Was looking for more of a way to RP by hiring laborers to do it.