Collect wheat overhaul

Try to solve some problems with the "Collect Wheat" quest, which is responsible for giving you rewards for harvesting crops.

LE version

how it works in vanilla

In Vanilla Skyrim, you can harvest any crop from your farm for free. Afterwards, you can do whatever you want with them, including selling them to a merchant. You can sell them to any farmer for full price through dialogue.

So what's the problem?

You can collect crops that are not your own for free.

You don't actually work for a farmer, you just sell your crops, or not. They must be blind because they cannot tell their own identity from the eyes of others, nor from the rotten cabbage in the bucket.

You can buy it at full price. Although even in Vanilla Skyrim everything you sell is 3.3x less than its price without using Speechcraft technology, you can sell your crops to farmers at full price. If workers are given such high wages, farmers will suffer losses.

Skyrim Landscaping and Waterscape Restoration make all crops actually owned by the farmer, you need permission to harvest the crops, but that's the only difference. Collecting Wheat Overhaul requires SLaWF and uses its changes as a base.

How does this mod work

This way, you actually work for the farmers instead of just selling your crops. What does this mean?

With SLaWF, you can not only harvest crops for free. First, ask a farmer to harvest crops for him. Since then, what happens when activating a crop has changed. When sneaking, the default action will be performed. When you're not sneaking, you can only harvest crops owned by the quest giver. Any crops harvested this way will not be added to your inventory, but will be counted. After harvesting your crops, return them to the farmer to get your rewards. The rewards are smaller than in vanilla and are affected by your speaking skills. By default, farmers won't be your friends after this either (unlike vanilla), so you won't be able to harvest crops for free.

After completing the mission, you can repeat it once with any farmer. You should ask the farmer again every time. You can only perform one mission at any time, and if you start harvesting for another farmer without completing the first mission, you will not receive rewards from the farmer.

Require

Skyline landscaping and water restoration

SKSE

Install

Install with your mod manager.

Click "Track" at the top of the page to start tracking mod updates.

compatibility

Instead of this Smod, patch a mod for SLaWF that adds more crops to a vanilla farm or moves vanilla crops, as GWO only works with owned crops. I won't patch anything.

Even if you add ownership, it won't work with mods that add new farms. Patches can be made by changing the form lists OwnerFactions and QuestGivers.

Place the GWO behind all mods related to that quest and its dialogue, and make sure the GWO covers any conflicting scripts. Some mods that change alchemy or economy (including CACO) alter this quest. Due to some changes CACO has made to crops, CACO's native compatibility script is included, but this script only works with new games.

The Collect Wheat quest and dialogue are the only original records touched by this mod, so it does not conflict with mods that change the appearance of farmers.

Modules that add crop activation options may conflict after activating a mission

Adds a mod that activates animations - not tested. Some of them may be in the previous group.

Compatible and recommended to use BlockSteal (SKSE version).

Place this model after the "Relationship Dialogue" overhaul

Customization

The Collecting Wheat overhaul includes some global variables that can be customized.

Setting GatherWheatMakePlayerFriend to 1 will make him your friend after you work for him once, just like in vanilla (after that you will be able to harvest all of his crops and other cheap items for free).

The reward is calculated as

Crops Harvested*(1+(Speechcraft-CropsRewardSpeechLevelFor1X)/(100-CropsRewardSpeechLevelFor1X)*CropsRewardSpeechBonus …