LE Better farmers

[pippinstrano]

I like to cook in Skyrim, a lot. I also garden, in real life. So I am completely confused as to why the farmers want to BUY produce. I don't buy produce. I SELL produce (when I have more than I need personally). In Skyrim, I'd like to buy produce from the farmers. Further, if someone walked into my garden, I'd chase them off with a rake. And hit 'em with a shovel if they wouldn't leave and also started raiding my vegatables! So why are the farmers in Skyrim complete doofuses?

 

Yes, I know the idea is that the farmer is paying you for harvesting their produce. Well, that's absurd, frankly. The size of the farms involved do not support the idea of paying someone to do your harvesting for you. I imagine the problem was that it was decided it would be too much of a hassle to have the farmer do the harvesting. Well, given the mad skillz I've seen on the Nexus, I've got to imagine that it should be too difficult for a modder to pull off.

 

I saw an earlier request of this type in 2013, that was answered with the Farmers Sell Produce mod. Unfortunately, that mod has not been updated in quite some time and appears to no longer be supported. What I am looking for would do four things -

 

1) mark the vegatables as owned

2) automate the famers harvesting the vegetables

3) turn off the farmers conversation thread to buy vegetables

4) add a regular merchant interface to allow players to purchase the vegetables the farmer has gathered

 

As an aside, the scripting to automate the harvesting could also be applied to regular merchants who have pickable plants on premise.

[CaptainsCritical]

This seems like a reasonable statement. Ill see what I can do. PM me with anymore info that you want to include.

[pippinstrano]

Let me know how I can help! The modded Skyrim expierence is amazing, but it makes the couple of things missing stick out like sore thumbs. Thank you for taking a look!

[CaptainsCritical]

Add me on some sort of social place to communicate faster, it would help

[pippinstrano]

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[TheNexusLurker]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up before. I think about it every time I raid a farm for cooking ingredients. Lol.

 

I could see the picking part if they were old or crafting things but, the fact that I can pick their whol ed farm clean without consequences, always seemed odd.

[RuubixObsidian]

This would also be fun if compatible with RE-Real Estate, so you can own and operate a farm and foster deals with individuals that could produce real income. Which would also be accurate for the times when food was a more profitable commodity.

[Avastgard]

Interesting point! Perhaps add an option to make the player harvest the vegetables in return for money.

[pippinstrano]

I haven't seen a farm in Skyrim big enough to take on laborers to handle harvesting. At the sizes presented, even if you consider that the farms are trying to represent ones ten times the size shown in the game, the family is going to do the work themselves. The compatibility with RE - Real Estate would be great, once we have it functioning otherwise.