LE Dungeon auto-loot

[stebbinsd]

It's really, really annoying to have to painstakingly find all the alchemy ingredients in a given area. Sure, there are mods out there that allow me to pick flowers just by walking over them, but I still have to know where they are.

 

Finding all the ore veins in a mine is a similar chore.

 

Also, trying to figure out what's the best loot to take (e.g. weight-to-value ratio) is a pain in the ass. At the beginning, you try to take items with a 10-to-1 value-to-weight ratio, but then, in most dungeons, you've still got some space in your inventory (especially if you've split the weight with your followers), so you'll want to take a little MORE loot. What loot do you take?

 

Later in the game, when Draugr start carrying tons and tons of ebony weapons and shields, it becomes an even bigger pain-in-the-ass, trying to figure out what to take, just to have enough loot to sell so that you can finally reach 100 in Speech!

 

We have mods that simplify these chores to some extent. Kace Auto Loot can allow you to automatically take certain types of loot from corpses, but even then, that only applies to corpses, and only if you slay them yourself (e.g. follower kills don't count).

 

Then, we have a utility mod out there that sorts your inventory by value-to-weight ratio, but that still requires that the items are already in your inventory.

 

I'd like a mod that gives you a lesser power. When you activate this lesser power, as long as you are allowed to use the wait feature, the screen will fade to black, some time will pass in-game, and when the screen comes back up, all the loot in the cell that matches your criteria will have been added to your, and your followers' inventories.

 

In an exterior area, the area to be looted would be a 100-ft radius from where you're standing.

 

You could only loot the corpses of enemies who are already dead (e.g. no pelts off of living wolves).

 

You could only mine ore if either A) you have a pickaxe in your inventory, or B) there's a pickaxe in the lootable area that can be taken without stealing.

 

Your criteria would be highly configurable. You can set it to loot some items (such as ingredients and ores) first, and then, tell it to loot everything else in the cell until you max out your encumbrance, looting everything in order of highest to lowest value-to-weight ratio, until the inventories of you, and all your followers are all maxed out.

 

Any takers?

Edited November 27, 2014 by stebbinsd