LE Speed-up mining & chopping animations

[stebbinsd]

Mining ore and chopping firewood is slow as molasses. At least in the vanilla game, chopping wood is only for getting start-up cash. But with Dawnguard, you need firewood to make arrows!

 

Many other mods require the use of firewood for various other things as well.

 

The need to mine ore never goes away.

 

Is there a mod out there that can speed up the animations for these tasks so that you can plow through them faster? This may be unrealistic, but come on; the fact that you can make an unlimited amount of money from firewood alone is already unrealistic!

 

To reduce the tedium even further, make it so that ore veins give ore with every tap of the pickaxe, rather than every three taps, and that the vein can yield up to nine ore before it depletes.

 

Also, try increasing the number of times you spend spend chopping wood before you need to press the "E" key again from 3 to 999,999,999. You can manually cancel out of the animation whenever you like (though if its 90% the way through the existing chopping animation, it will complete that animation before cancelling out), so this shouldn't create problems with the game, as long as you restrict this increased number of cycles to only yourself and your active followers (that way, NPCs will still do only three chops before automatically cancelling, in order to prevent them from being stuck in that animation forever).

 

This way, you could leave the game unattended overnight, and come back the next day with a TON of firewood to sell!

 

Any takers?

[faffman]

You might want to check out Complete Crafting Overhaul. It comes with an MCM menu where you can adjust both the speed of mining/chopping, as well as the number of ore/wood acquired.