What started as a small Proof of concept has grown into a feature rich Mod, that should satisfy a few of your farming sim desires. I've added a few treats here and there to make it a better overall experience.
Needs to be installed client and server side. And both need EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) to be turned off! There is no server-side only version of this mod as it contains custom code.
Currently there is only the Ride-On Lawn Tractor Model from Zilox. There might be more in the distant future, like a manual lawn mower.
Special Thanks to all the people that made this mod possible!
This placeable vehicle is unlocked either by finding (or buying) the schematics for the chassis and the accessories, or by unlocking Grease Monkey Level 3. In its base configuration, it can only remove grass and bushes, but doesn't collect any items.
Lawn Tractor with equipped Crop Protector and Collector:
The assets used in this mod are paid and are not to be re-used under any circumstance without you acquiring the proper licenses yourself. The unity models and textures are only provided for educational purpose and for easier collaboration. These assets would be included anyway in the final unity3d file. Please support and respect content creators.
- https://rescue3d.com/2020/12/30/riding-lawn-mower-low-poly-3d-model/
- https://www.soundjay.com/lawn-mower-sound-effect.html
In order to enable the mowing/harvesting, you have to press F. The function will toggle alternating with the light, so to only toggle mowing/harvesting, press it twice.
Once you equip your first Lawn Mower, a journal entry will be added:
The Lawn Tractor has various modifiers to upgrade its capabilities.
This is the simplest modifier that you should be able to get quite early. It will only collect items from grass and bushes, and the yield will be significantly lower than when harvesting by hand/tool. You can get a fully functional grass collector from harvesting pristine lawn mowers. Otherwise you can find or buy the schematics, or unlock Living Off the Land Level 1.
With this modifier you will also harvest and collect items from various other small plants, like cotton, coffee or mushrooms. Yield is also significantly lower than when harvested by hand/tool. You can get a fully functional plant collector from harvesting pristine lawn mowers. Otherwise you can find or buy the schematics, or unlock Living Off the Land Level 2.
Upgrade for the plant collector, that gives much better yield, a bit less when harvested by hand/tool though. It should be able to collect every growing crop and also gives seeds back. You can get a fully functional plant collector from harvesting pristine lawn mowers. Otherwise you can find or buy the schematics, or unlock Living Off the Land Level 3.
Basic mod that protects all player plants, so you don't have to worry that you accidentally mow down your own plants when tiding up the surroundings. You can get a fully functional plant collector from harvesting pristine lawn mowers. Otherwise you can find or buy the schematics, or unlock Advanced Engineering Level 2.
Upgrade for the crop protector, that will automatically reseed player plants when harvesting. Seeds must be filled into the vehicle inventory, as you will not get enough seeds back from harvesting mostly. Speed for harvesting and reseeding has been limited to make it a bit more realistic and to make it not too overpowered.
There are 3 different damage level variations of the Lawn Tractor, which all come in 7 different colors, so 21 new randomly placed vehicles in the world. They can all be harvested for parts and give the same resources as regular cars, plus a few additional items. Pristine Lawn Tractors have a good chance to drop either a fully functional modifier part or one of the other rare resources you need to build the recipes. A damaged Lawn Tractor sill has a small chance to give you a rare resource for the recipes, while a wrecked vehicle will only give the usual scrap that cars would give you.
Simply download here from GitHub and put into your A20 Mods folder:
- https://github.com/OCB7D2D/LawnMower/releases (master branch)
- Add emission support for front and brake lights
- Lower spawn rate of vehicle in world substantially
- Add modern asset exporter and change format to LZ4
- First steps for Undead Legacy Compatibility (thx @Ivinedra)
- Fix regression with grass harvester not harvesting fibers
Done by fixing vanilla block extend code for harvest drops
- Change drop destroy to harvest, since it doesn't obey tags
Additional seeds for Harvester were also given on manual harvest - Add automated translations for 27 languages via DeepL
- Add support for "FoodExpansion" mod
Harvest wheat, tomato, onion and cabbage crops
Plant Collector will only collect some Wheat
- Fixes dedicated server issues
- Adjust blade and reseed intervals
- Renames "Lawn Mower" to "Lawn Tractor" (more fitting by now)
- Lowers necessary Grease Monkey Level from 4 to 3 (same as minibike)
- Adds multiple item modifiers for advanced capabilities (see README).
- Adds harvestable prefab variants to spawn like other cars in the world.
- Adds Initial Darkness Falls compatibility (needs more testing).
- Initial working version
I've developed and tested this Mod against version a20.6 (b8).