Forbid NPCs from using grindstones

[6252MissingSteps]

This might sound a little insane and that's fine. I want to stop all NPCs everywhere from ever using grindstones. EVER. I don't want to mute grindstones - it's tolerable when I'm the one using it. I just never ever want to hear anyone else using one.

I use MHIYH to assign my followers to various rooms around my houses/castles and someone always decides they need to be on that grindset 24/7. If I leave the interior cell while they're still using it, there's a good chance the sound will follow me into the next interior cell I enter somehow. Even if that weren't a problem that existed for some reason, I still wouldn't want to hear anyone else using it in the first place. NFF has an "ignore special furniture" option for follower sandboxing, but I think it only works for active followers and not dismissed ones, and I still don't want to hear Adrienne grinding away every time I walk into Whiterun. Even if it didn't squeak or follow me through cells, I don't think there's a sound you could use that's not repetitive enough to not be annoying.

I just absolutely hate hearing that thrice-cursed almafetching squeaky wheel when I'm not the one using it. Grindstones have been driving me insane for THIRTEEN YEARS now. Please save me.

 

EDIT: I admittedly made this thread in a fit of exasperation. I assumed this would require a lot of finnicky AI package shenanigans but it turns out furniture items have an Ignored by Sandbox flag (it's not immediately obvious in xEdit and I've not been able to get the CK to start for some time, probably due to version mismatches or somesuch). Currently testing, will upload this later if it works.

EDIT2: Be the change you want to see in the world. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/135125

Edited Friday at 03:36 AM by 6252MissingSteps

[DirebearCoat]

O.K., NOOOOWWW I can say, "Damn!  That was the fastest mod request and fulfillment that I've ever seen!"