Creatures can take objects

[Joben]

I don't know if this is well known or much thought of, but Creatures can take objects from the game world and put them in their inventory.

I wrote a very silly script for an Easter Egg that takes advantage of this.

This script is attached to a fake Amulet Of Kings in the dog's inventory.

It starts when the dog dies and the player takes the amulet.

scn SRJdoggieAmuletSCRIPT


Begin OnAdd Player


messagebox "The dog known as Rusty is the real ruler of Tamriel. Give him his amulet back please. Just drop it and he will find it. I know he looks dead, just do it."


END


begin OnDrop Player


SRJemilyDogREF.Resurrect 1

SRJemilyDogREF.addscriptpackage SRJdoggietakeback ;A simple Find package with the amulet as a specific target


end


Begin OnAdd SRJemilyDogREF


Messagebox "Rusty says thanks."


end

This could be turned to something much more reasonable.

For example with a little more work you could probably make a dog that plays Fetch.

Something like this maybe added to the ball item:

Begin OnAdd Dog

dog.addscriptpackage [find player]

end

and on the dog:

OnpackageEnd [find player]

dog.removeitem Ball 1

player.additem Ball 1

End

[WillieSea]

Chase a ball trick, that would be funny.

This is known.

There is a specific kitty in SI that looks for things. But its bugged because he usually gets caught 'stealing' and killed by the guards. And the quests associated with him will be un-achievable.

[Joben]

Actually come to think of it I think i saw a companion creature on the Nexus once that would loot for you or something.

Still it's not something that's implemented very often, I'm gonna play with it some more.

[InsanitySorrow]

CM Partners companions all loot for you, I have not seen many pets doing it. It was only my list for my pet shop but I thought it was to far fecthed for a pet to be looting, I do plan to add fecthing into v1 (whenever that is). You just have to make sure the item the animal is retrieving has either no owner or player owned so you avoid the issue Will mentioned above.

Tis fun, should be implemented more often

[WillieSea]

In Fallout 3, you can have Dogmeat find all kinds of things for you. He has a great sniffer!

[washington]

In Midas Magic, there's a white tiger that just loves boar meat.

[Joben]

I just learned that some of the sheep outside Skingrad follow you if you have an apple.

I'd seen them following, but never knew why.

[WillieSea]

Really, an apple? I never knew that! LOL! That is funny.

[washington]

I remember that when I first started playing Oblivion a sheep was following me around Aleswell. I just thought it was freaky, but I had no idea that it just wanted the apple!

[Joben]

Sadly though critters have even more limited animation then NPC actors.

At least the humanoids have that bend down and take/inspect animation.

My dog just barks as his amulet then it disappears.

[WillieSea]

My dog just barks as his amulet then it disappears.

MAGIC!!!

[Joben]

I made a dog that plays Fetch.

Also one with randomized behavior.

Download (pending approval)