Cooking for Alchemy
by acdcdave1387

I thought it was interesting how you can mix ingredients together to create potions and earn Alchemy
experience yet when you mix ingredients together for meals you gained nothing from it.
Now I understand that cooking food has nothing to do with "Alchemy," however I disliked the fact that
cooking was added to the game with absolutely no incentive to use it.

This simple mod basically allows all types of cooking pots and fire spits to earn you Alchemy experience
when you cook anything. The amount of experience you gain is based on the game code so I can't help you if
you feel that the Alchemy experience gain is too little or too much.

~~Compatibility~~
This plugin was made with the Creation Kit and only edits the cooking pots themselves.
This means that mods which add new cooking pots to the game should also benefit from my mod.
This also means that pretty much nothing will conflict with this mod. If I am wrong please tell me so I can
update this section with conflicts with other mods.

~~Installing~~
VERY SIMPLE. Just copy over the Data folder to your Skyrim folder.
Default location for Skyrim folder in a 64-bit installation is as follows.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim

~~Uninstalling~~
Also simple. Just delete CookingAlchemy.esp or uncheck it from your load order.

~~Optional Version~~
I was also bothered by the fact that the Tanning Rack and the Smelter didn't give experience gains for
smithing yet were related to smithing. Some may argue that the Tanning Rack and Smelter only provide
ingredients for forging and also don't upgrade the weapons and armor themselves, thus they don't need to
give you smithing experience. While this is true, some mods add items you can create from these two
locations. Also, some people just want to speed their smithing up; perhaps they feel it rises too slowly?
Or perhaps they started a new game and want to get a head start in catching up to where they were.
All in all, I made this an optional version because of this.

This optional version is a replacer so to install it, just copy it into your Data folder and overwrite
the CookingAlchemy.esp that is already there.

(ps. No conflicts with crafting overhauls or mods that add new tanning racks/smelters to game.)

If you are interested in Smithing, be sure to check out my other mod WARR which "realistically" overhauls
the vanilla weapon and armor recipes so that they make more sense. Ever notice that the Iron Shield has
a wooded frame yet doesn't require wood to craft?

~~Multilingual version made entirely by miraclefreak, so all credit goes to him for that wonderful surprise!~~