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About this mod
CACO Farm Overhaul is a lore friendly upgrade to the farms across Skyrim. The aim of this mod is to make the farms feel alive and capable of sustaining the local populace.
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- Changelogs
CACO Farm Overhaul is a complete, lore-friendly upgrade to the farms across Skyrim. The aim is to make the farms feel alive and capable of sustaining the local populace. CACO plants and new vanilla crops have been added and are neatly planted in rows. Farms have been specialized and new work areas added. The Gather Wheat quest has been completely overhauled.
SUMMARY
- Lore friendly farm overhaul
- Farm Stay Quest; chores in exchange for food and lodging
- Unique feel and purpose to farms
- Organised crops in densely planted rows
- CACO planted crops: onions, cabbages, peas and blueberries
- New plant models for vanilla ingredients: apples, garlic, frost mirriam, elves ear and tomatoes
- All crops marked as owned
- New livestock: pigs, piglets, rams, sheep, lambs, calves
- Varied vanilla livestock: 3 cow colors, 4 chicken colors
- Integration of Heathfire ovens, butter churns and apiaries
- Lots of idle markers so the farmers stay busy
- Insect spawn points added to crop areas
- CACO Absolutely Definitely Required
FARM SPECIALIZATION
Each farm has a unique feel, and careful attention has been given to the farmer's backstory to make the farms feel like a natural, lore-friendly extension to vanilla. A farm may specialize in wheat production, dairy products, baking, livestock breeding, small game hunting, apple orchards, regional crops, etc. Harvestable crates and barrels, hanging crops and new work areas -- along with a small amount of clutter -- have been added to farms to emphasize their specialty.
NEW CROPS
Complete Alchemy and Cooking Overhaul (CACO) is a hard requirement. The main purposes of this mod is to integrate the CACO food and ingredients into the Skyrim world. You will find CACO onions, cabbages, peas and blueberries growing on farms. Cooking oil, vinegar, seasoning and sugar have been placed inside farm houses. Vanilla foods and ingredients which lacked planted options in vanilla (such as apples, garlic, frost mirriam, elves ear and tomatoes) have been added and distributed to farms. All crops have been marked as owned, and taking them is stealing.
NEW LIVESTOCK
To round out the natural feeling of the farms, new animals have been included in CFO. Cows now come in 3 colors (orange, brown and black) and can have calves. Pigs and piglets can be found on certain farms. Three different varieties of chicken have been added to give diversity to the singular Skyrim chicken. Sheep, rams and lambs are a new source of wool and meat.
(WIP) FARM STAY QUEST
The vanilla Harvest Wheat quest is being completely reworked and greatly expanded upon. Once this feature is finished, the player will be able to ask the farmers if they can help with chores in exchange for food and lodging for the night. All of the chores are pretty quick and simple to complete and will include appropriate animations of your character completing the task. Once you've completed the three objectives, you will be rewarded with a few gold coins, a hearty meal, and are given access to a bedroll or cot where you can spend the night. Examples of these farm objectives include:
- till the fields
- harvest crops
- feed chickens
- milk cows
- gather eggs
- sweep porch
- grind wheat or barley into flour
- repair fence
- chop firewood and carry it to a pile
- fetch water from a well or river and use it to water animals or plants
LOAD ORDER
Complete Alchemy & Cooking Overhaul.esp
CACO Farm Overhaul.esp
COMPATIBILITY
CFO Initial Release can be used with all major city and town overhauls: JK's Skyrim, ETaC and Arthmoor's villages. Not compatible with any other farm overhaul without a patch. Possible clipping if you have another mod adding items to farms.
Some third-party patches:
- CACO Farm Overhaul Patch Collection (Ryn's Farms AIO - JK's Whiterun, Windhelm, and Markarth Outskirts)
- CACO Farm Overhaul - Some Patches (Immersive Laundry - Lux Orbis - Mihail Chickens - Mihail Chicks - SkyTEST Realistic Animals & Predators)
INCLUDED FARMS
The following farm locations have been modified:
- Markarth - Salvius Farm
- Riften - Merryfair Farm, Snow-Shod Farm, Sarethi Farm
- Solitude - Katla's Farm,
- Whiterun - Battle-Born Farm, Chillfurrow Farm, Loreius Farm, Pelagia Farm
- Windhelm - Hlaalu Farm, Hollyfrost Farm, Brandy-Mug Farm
TO DO LIST
- Orc Strongholds
- Villages - Kynesgrove, Darkwater Crossing
- Dragonbridge - Lylvieve
- Falkreath - Corpselight
- Ivarstead - Fellstar
- Rorikstead - Cowflop, Lemkil
CREDITS
The following mod authors have generously allowed for their work to be used in this mod:
- Excinerus for tilled soil meshes
- DrMonops for plantable Elves Ear, Frost Mirriam, harvestable containers meshes
- Rentall311 for use of his mod Wheat
- Bellyache for animal retextures from Bellyaches Animal and Creature Pack
- SpikeDragonLord and jboyd4 for animals from Beasts of Tamriel
- GreyFox77 for calves from Cow Calves in Skyrim
- macadamstreet for piglets from Goosy goosa +
- PlagueHush for Husky 2k Variants
- PhilSchmidheiny for Additional Windmill Meshes Resource
- Insanity Sorrow for Modder's Resources
- Oaristys for Modder's Resource Pack and Modder's Resource Pack - The Witcher Extension
- Blary for FoodContainer Resource
- Stroti and Tamira for Strotis Ovens Resource and Strotis Craftsman Tools
- Artisanix for Paintings and Frames