About this mod
Mr Gardener robot for providing gardening services within a Fallout London settlement
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Version 1.0
Description:
Mr Gardener robot for providing gardening services within a Fallout London settlement.
Key Features:
• Automatic Operation
• Limited to one Mr Gardener per Settlement
• Mr Gardener restores damaged crops to healthy condition
• Mr Gardener harvests ripened crops and stores them in the Workshop
• Create multiple Assistant Gardeners per Settlement
• Assistant Gardeners tend the crops for harvesting by Mr Gardener
• Assistant Gardeners are automatically assigned to crops for tending
• Assistant Gardeners increase settlement population just like Settlers
• The robots each provide a workshop rating Happiness Bonus
• Activate a Station Pod or Mr Gardener to modify global default settings
• For construction, look for Gardener Robots (a coiled Garden Hose icon) towards the far right of the Workshop's main menu
• Four categories: Mister Gardener (Pre-War), Assistant Gardener (Pre-War), Mister Gardener (Post-War), Assistant Gardener (Post-War)
This mod provides a "lore friendly" approach for automatically providing gardening services within a Settlement by enabling you to assign that task to a RobCo Mister Gardener Protectron robot. Simply place the robot's station pod on the ground with easy access to settlement crops, and then feel free to resume your adventures. The robot will perform a sensor scan periodically to find crops that need tending in the surrounding area and returns to its station pod when that work is completed.
Mister Gardener restores crops that have been damaged or destroyed by Raiders and other settlement enemies. It is then the task of Settlers (or Assistant Gardener robots) to tend those crops for a sustainable food supply. When crops ripen they are automatically harvested by Mr Gardener and transferred to Workshop inventory.
Activate a Station Pod (or Mister Gardener) to modify the default settings that apply to all Mister Gardener robots, and to reset Mister Gardener robots if they become confused or stuck while traveling.
Assistant Gardeners increase settlement population and automatically tend crops for eventual harvesting by Mr Gardener (if present). They are an optional alternative for regular crop-tending Settlers -- a single Assistant Gardener is able to tend as many crops as a single Settler. Assistant Gardeners can be transferred to other settlements when needed elsewhere, or dismissed with their original construction resources restored to the workshop.
If too many Assistant Gardeners are created for too few existing crops, the idle robots will be indicated (in Workshop mode) as being Unassigned. Simply ignore it, or scrap the extra robots, or plant additional crops so that the extra robots can be automatically assigned to those crops by the game.
How To Build:
Mister Gardener is placed in a settlement by using a WorkShop to build a Station Pod. The station pod can be found in the Gardener Robots (a coiled Garden Hose icon) section of the WorkShop's main building menu.
It is best to position the Station Pod on the ground (not in a building and not on a platform) near the settlement's garden, or in a central area if crops are in multiple places around the settlement. If positioned above ground, be sure to build appropriate ramps and stairways that can be easily used for leaving and returning to the pod.
Assistant Gardeners can also be constructed for settlements, but unlike Mr Gardener they do not have a Station Pod.
Various choices for robots are provided and include both Pre-War and Post-War models.
How To Dismiss:
Mr Gardener can be dismissed from gardening service either by using Store to place his station pod in the settlement's workshop, or by using Scrap for disassembly. These can be done while Mr Gardener is strolling idly near the pod or while slumped inactive near the pod. If currently standing inside the pod, first issue a "Check Crop Status" command and wait for the robot to exit from the pod, and then either use Store or Scrap while Mr Gardener is strolling idly nearby or is slumped inactive.
The gardening assistants (Mr Farmer, Mr Fireman, Mr Handy) can be dismissed by instructing them to "Pause Crop Tending" or to be disassemble via "Dismiss This Robot".
Installation:
Install using a mod manager, or unpack the mod and copy the .ESL and .BA2 files into the game's \DATA folder, then enable the mod.
Position this mod's .ESL file to be as low as it will go in your "Load Order" sequence. This helps to ensure that the robots perform as best they can by overriding any conflicting mods. If you know with absolute certainty that there are no conflicting mods, then this mod can be positioned anywhere your installer normally allows.
Requirements:
Requires Fallout 4 plus the Fallout London "total conversion". I strongly suggest that players install (or upgrade to) Fallout London v1.01 or later in order to avoid various crashes which the update resolves -- especially the fix for railway travel crashes after completing the prologue.
Compatibility Limitations:
None at this time.
Known Issues:
• These robots have not been tested with other mods that assign or reassign settlement workers, or mods that control worker behavior and activity, and so might have issues if/when such mods attempt to do those things; e.g. Sim Settlements.
• "You cannot use this at this time" or various "Busy" messages might appear when interacting with a Station Pod -- wait a moment and try again, or interact with Mr Gardener instead. Similarly for the Assistant Gardeners.
• The robots might not always be able to travel to crops that need tending. A robot might instead have difficulty figuring out how to get from one place to another. When that happens the crops will be tended automatically. Activate the Station Pod to issue a "reset" if Mr Gardener ever becomes completely stuck or confused, and activate the individual robot to issue a "reset" if a Gardening Assistant ever becomes completely stuck or confused.
• Mr Gardener might not always be able to successfully re-enter his pod after harvesting crops. If it becomes troublesome, try moving the pod to a different location.
Known Conflicts:
If you are not able to find this mod in the Workshop's main menu, then you probably installed a mod that alters the basic construction categories of the game. In which case you may not be able to build the Station Pod, and hence will not be able to use this mod -- if you are lucky, the conflicting mod may have simply rearranged items, with the Station Pod now residing elsewhere in some other category or subcategory instead of where it was intended to be.
To Uninstall:
Uninstall with the mod manager that was used for the original install, or delete SettlementGardenBotLONDON files.
Permissions:
This mod may not be reused in part or whole for any purpose other than its original intent. It may not be uploaded to any other web site.
*** Uploads of any kind without permission is NOT ALLOWED / PROHIBITED / FORBIDDEN ***
Get in touch with me if you wish to discuss translation into a non-English language -- Prior approval is mandatory.
Change Log:
See the Change Log to review what is included in each update.
Credits:
Bethesda Softworks - for the original Models and Textures [I merely provided the ingenuity and scripting to bring Mister Gardener "to life"]
My Fallout London Mods:
Settlement Tidy Bot LONDON: "Mister Tidy" can be found Here.
Settlement Medic Bot LONDON: "Mister Medic" can be found Here.
Settlement Repair Bot LONDON: "Mister Mechanic" can be found Here.
Settlement Gardener Bot LONDON: "Mister Gardener" can be found Here.
Carry-Your-Stuff Robots LONDON: "Buddy Bots" can be found Here.
My Fallout 4 Mods:
Workshop Menu Fixer can be found Here.
Shield Bubble can be found Here.
Qwirky can be found Here.
Sparky can be found Here.
Silver Streak can be found Here.
Silver Streak UFO can be found Here.
Whirly can be found Here.
Whirligig Sentry can be found Here.
Settlement Radar Station & Drone Defenders can be found Here.
Settlement Tidy Bot: "Mister Tidy" can be found Here.
Settlement Salvage Bot: "Mister Salvage" can be found Here.
Settlement Police Bot: "Mister Law" can be found Here.
Settlement Repair Bot: "Mister Mechanic" can be found Here.
Settlement Gardener Bot: "Mister Gardener" can be found Here.
Settlement Delivery Bots: "Mister Caravan / Mister Express / Mister Postman" can be found Here.
Carry-Your-Stuff Robots can be found Here.
Alien Disruptor can be found Here.
Alien Blaster Long-Barrel Fix can be found Here.
Enjoy!