Description
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Harvest Overhaul is probably the only mod of its kind. This mod allows you to harvest a realistic amount of ingredients, while keeping the balance of Skyrim, and not conflicting with other mods. Every plant and flower (but not ingredients) has been tweaked to yield a realistic amount of ingredients, but with the element of luck. This mod also allows you to gain a surplus of ingredients if you harvest everything in sight, while in Vanilla harvesting everything on sight was a requirement if you wanted to level your Alchemy without visiting shops or training.
Harvest Overhaul also takes the size of the plant into consideration. For example, you can get up to 5 mountain flowers from a single bush, the minimum being 1. You can harvest up to 12 mountain flowers from a cluster of 3 bushes, with the minimum being 3. The yield most of the times is consistent, and generally around, or below half of maximum yield. Receiving 4-8 Mountain flowers is quite common.
Two optional modes which reduce yields harvested per plant are available. The "lite mode" reduces all flora by half, excluding plants with a max yield of two. The "pseudo lite mode", on the other hand, only reduces the yields of spiky grasses and mountain flowers, which have the highest yields of all plants species. The two modes can be used simultaneously.
The chance of yielding the maximum amount of ingredients can be increased with the "Green Thumb" alchemy perk. The perk usually doubles (or even a bit more) the chance of receiving the maximum amount of ingredients. Whether that makes the perk more useful than Vanilla or less depends on what ingredients you're harvesting.
If you're not sure if Green Thumb perk is functioning correctly, type in "GetGlobalValue HarvestOverhaulPerk" in the console (without quote marks). If the value is 0, then Green Thumb perk is not taking effect, if the value is 1, then the effect of Green Thumb is applied correctly.
If you want to find out more about chances and amounts of harvesting certain ingredients before using this mod, download the optional "Data Tables" and look through them. They show the chance of harvesting each ingredient from a plant, and the amount you could possibly harvest. However, the tables and readmes are already included with the main file, just look through the archive.
Version 2.0 now features Dawnguard and SkyRe support!
Version 2.5 now features Dragonborn support!
Version 2.8 now features MCM support!
Harvest Overhaul
by Omeletter and Xubarku
Overview
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Have you ever wondered what happens to the other two Deathbells after you harvest it, or five Nightshades, or a dozen of Mountain Flowers? Where do they go if you only harvest one, does the Dragonborn throw them on the floor and walks away? Do you want to get an appropriate amount after you harvest flora, but at the same time keep the game balanced? If yes, then this is the mod for you.
You will be redirected to the Nexus Mod Manager official website.
Harvest Overhaul - Creatures
Harvest Overhaul - Creatures is a separate mod in the same style, but for Creatures. I made it so this mod has a lesser element of luck, and more realism. It is standalone from Harvest Overhaul, meaning Harvest Overhaul is not required to run this mod. This mod affects "Death Lists" of creatures and a few containers, rather than flora, meaning there are possible conflicts. This was the main reason to keep it separate.
Some general themes:
- I have removed random gold and gems on animals. I am not a huge fan of the ability to kill a bear and pull 9 Septims out of its ass.
- If an animal should logically have something, it does. You can now get spriggan sap from spriggans, and can loot up to four tusks off of a mammoth.
- There are exceptions, but usually you at least have a chance (varies depending on the creature) to get more than one of an item from a creature. Again, this is done with a certain logic. Hawks will have multiple feathers, rabbits have two (hind)legs, but deer will always only have one set of antlers.
Please see the data tables for a complete list of changes and optional features.
As of version 2.0, there is an optional file with Dawnguard support! Since Dawnguard has similar enemies to the vanilla game, e.g Bonemen = Skeletons, Vale Sabrecat = Sabrecat, etc. the drops are quite similar to what has been said above. Other changes include removing random money from creatures that obviously couldn't have had it, like Chaurus Hunters, or again, Deer.
As of version 2.5, there is Dragonborn support!
Installation
I strongly recommend using the Nexus Mod Manager to install this and every other mod out there. You will be presented with a menu where you can choose what files to install. To be safe from any conflicts, load the .esp files after any others that could possibly change flora.
The use of BOSS is recommended to resolve load order conflicts, but does not necessarily guarenteed perfection. TES5edit can be used to trouble shoot any issue, and failing that, please feel free to make a post on the forum.
An important note. To get full use of all features and options, the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) and SkyUI are required.
Additionally, Harvest Overhaul requires the use of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, Steve40's critter script bugfix, or the Flora Respawn Fix for salmon to be correctly harvested. I personally use the latter, as it also decouples flora respawns and cell resets, allowing plants to regrow without forcing you to avoid a cell for X amount of days so it can reset. That said, any of those mods will work fine. Just make sure you have one.
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Uninstallation
Just remove the .esp and .bsa files. If you're uninstalling a version from before 2.8, you will also need to remove loose scripts. There aren't any permanent glitches caused by the removal of this mod. I again suggest using NMM to do so.
If the mod is not quite to your taste, it would be nice if you posted a comment telling me how to improve this mod.
The informations, descriptions and images below are from the mod's author(s).