Highwood Crafting Patch

[lavender_rose]

This was even easier than I thought it would be. I added some elements from the Skyrim Crafting for Oblivion mod to Highwood Farm, giving it most of the crafting options that the original mod is lacking. I tested everything in game and the crafting tools all work.

First I added the outdoor grill next to the bread oven. It needed to be scaled down just a hair (and yes, it's raining again).



In the kitchen I added a butter churn, a grinder for coffee and tea, a coffee/teapot, and some pots and pans, allowing Aeronwen to cook/bake all of the the Crafting mod's foods. Since taking this screen I moved the copper frying pan over to the oven next to the coffee pot. I also adding a small cheese aging rack inside the windmill where the grape presser is.



I then added a weaving and sewing area next to the shelf with the decorative orbs. Since taking the screen, I moved the spinning wheel and stool to the other end of the hallway near the house's study, so Aeronwen can look out of one of the windows when she's spinning the wool into thread.



Along with the changes in the screen shots, I added a tanning rack to the workshop, a rooster in the spot where I plan to place the chicken coop from Emma's COBL Farm Animals mod (you have to have a rooster to get those chickens laying eggs), a packless gray donkey to be a stand-in for Oliver, and some respawning sheep to the repaired Gweden farm paddock. Highwood is already set up for bee keeping, creating wine and flour so no changes needed to be made there. If anything else is needed, the crafting mod adds mills and suppliers to other towns, including Anvil.

And so Highwood is looking like an extremely strong contender for the family's permanent Cyrodiil home. It now has just about everything Millstone has plus the house is much more roomy than Millstone's cottage. They will also have a guest house when they obtain ownership of Gweden Farm and make it a part of Highwood's property. Aeronwen even has her lavender roses all over the buildings since Highwood's creator decorated it with the ivy plants. And the icing on the cake is that they can see Valenwood to the south, right on the other side of the river.

So...Neldor needs to stop worrying about the doom-saying Prophet and take his family over to Anvil.

Comments

[darth_eldritch]

It looks really good. Plenty of room inside and there seems to be so much to do.

[lavender_rose]

Thanks. I was really surprised at how easy it was to add everything. I also added a few more respawning animals (a bull, a cow, some chickens, pigs, and rabbits) because the animals you can buy from Emma's mod are not set up to be killed. So those animals can be used to supply the milk and eggs. The respawning ones that my patch adds are there for meat and hides.