[LE] Creating Harvestable Plants

[ben446]

I just wanna say sorry to the OP, ive got a question to ask similar to this subject. I don't wanna highjack this thread but thought there seems to be a lot of knowledgeable people in this area in this thread. I know this is an older thread, but I'm hoping someone still pops in from time to time and maybe able to help with my problem. I'm working on my 3rd house mod, and its gonna be the biggest ive done so far, in my previous two house mods I wanted to add an apple orchered but couldn't find the apple trees, so I left them out, this time its something I want to add, just to give it that polished touch. The house will have everything from a hatchery to a working saw mill, ive got fences and other merchants so this would just finish the mod off. If anyone could tell me how I can have harvestable apple trees in the mod from the start. Kinda like the trees you get when you plant an apple, but without having to plant the apple first. I hope that makes sense and any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Once again sorry to the OP, I hope you don't mind I didn't mean to high jack your thread but its the only one I came across that even comes close to what I'm looking for

[ElioraArin]

Hi Ben, I'm probably too late but just in case this is really easy to do!

 

First you will need a suitable model for your tree - I really like the apple trees from ChickenDownUnders "Harvestables" resource at www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15108 for existing fruit trees in house mods as they are nice & big.

 

If you follow my edited "tutorial" post you will not need to add Hearthfire as a master & you will only need to follow the steps up until editing the plant formlists (which you will not need to do). To make trees for vanilla apples ONLY follow the steps that instruct you on how to:

* Copy & adapt a BYOHHouseFood for the fruit that you will harvest from the tree.

* Copy & adapt a BYOHHouseFlora for the new tree that you want to add to the game.

* Adapt script properties in BYOHHouseFood.

If you were making a pre-existing plant that grows a custom food you would obviously also need to follow the steps to copy & adapt a vanilla food, but to harvest apples it makes more sense to skip this step & just use the vanilla ones.

Also, if you are ever making pre-existing plants & are going to use vanilla models instead of custom ones be aware that the BYOHHouseFlora plants tend to be smaller to fit in planters, if you want the model of the plant you are copying to be bigger use the TreeFlora version instead.

 

Once this is done you can start placing your tree in the world. When you test in game you should be able to walk up to the trees you have placed & harvest them. The vanilla respawn rate for plants that aren't grown in Hearthfire plots is quite long, so I would make the harvest amount quite high, especially for a tree, so it is more realistic than the vanilla one item per harvest!

 

As you don't need to adapt the form lists your mod will still be compatible with mods that add new harvestable plants.

Edited October 27, 2018 by ElioraArin

[jeyoon]

ElioraArin,

Thank you for posting this! It was very helpful.