(crafting) mod suggestion - materials close to hand

[Zanzubaa]

So I had a look at current mods but could not find something that does this (correct me if I am wrong though). I think it is a good idea which is why I am posting it here. I also tried to make the mod myself but I am kind of useless lol

 

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Wouldnt it be nice if you did not have to have all those crafting materials in your inventory but instead just had to have them close at hand, (say 10 feet). Much like real life you do not have to have the materials you are crafting with in your backpack, you would have them in boxes and containers near you and take the parts you need as you need them.

 

Come back home after a long day in the Mohav, unload your materials into boxes near your work bench and craft. No need to sift through piles of junk to find the materials you need, thats just a pain and with the way the inventory system works in FNV (even modded) it is tedius.

 

I offer this idea up to anyone who can make the addon work.

 

Thankyou

[senterpat]

There are a couple of house mods that have this feature, well actually they add all the items in the containers to your inventory, then moves them back to container afterwards. However the effect is only limited to boxes and benches in the player home, and I don't think anyone has a version that covers all boxes. The only way this could work (I think) is adding scripts to all the containers near benches in the game, even then I don't think that you could craft with the items in the container without a ridiculously long script, so there would have to be an item sorting function as well... All in all it'd be a pretty large project for a very small effect.

 

It'd probably be easier to add the function to just work with a few benches, i.e. towns and player houses. Even then I think it'd be a lot of work.

[Zanzubaa]

Ty for reply Senterpat. i knew it was either going to be really easy or really hard, shame it was the later =p

[Gribbleshnibit8]

The work has already been done by Tunaisafish in the Sortomatic mod. It's a modder and player resource that adds full sorting and configurable storage to any house with almost no work in the setup on the mod author's part, and absolutely no work on the user's part except just using a rather natural feeling system.

 

You can take a look at several houses that have the system in them in my mod Sortomatic Faction Safehouses, the description has more information.

 

The short of it is, Sortomatic is a dynamic system that can use as many containers as you can fit in an area, all configurable in game by the player as to what should and shouldn't be sorted into a container. There are two ways to determine what sorts into a container:

1. Place that item in a container. The system will then make an effort to always place that particular item in that container, even if you remove them all later, so long as you don't put them somewhere else.
   
2. Grab+Activate any container and a menu will pop up that will let you configure categories of items to sort into a container. Examples include light armor, heavy armor, power armor, head gear, shotgun ammo, energy ammo, shotguns, rifles, pistols, food, water, soda... well, you get the idea. The system is also intelligent, and will not let you assign more than one container for a type of item.

 

The system can also be expanded any time, if you decide you want more containers. Sortomatic also includes a display system which allows for display of nearly every item in the base game. Dynamically and from items stored in any container in your house. These displayed items can be activated for access to only that item in all your containers, giving access to every one of that particular item. This works for weapons, ammo, food, etc.

 

The power behind the whole thing is a sorting computer that will let you quickly sort through all your items from one place, getting all shotguns and ammo for them, all pistols and their associated ammo (all types included, even mod added ammo will sort correctly, so long as it's added to the vanilla ammo lists).

 

The final object is the inventory manager, which lets you define how much of each time of item to remove from inventory, what to leave, and what to add back if you're out. So you could say, come home from a day of exploring, dump in all your new gear and junk, and automatically have you water, food, and ammo supplies restocked instantly.

 

If you like the idea of it, but don't find a place in my mod you like, or you have a house of your own or another location you'd like to have, let me know via PM. I'll probably make it. I like making houses, and Sortomatic houses are a fun challenge, because I can clutter them a lot, and then the clutter shows up as you explore and build your character.