Try to relax Quest item proscription

[SteveTownsend]

This is a longstanding PITA for many. Common items are marked as Quest items even after the QUST is done.

Nexus user nexodexo

Items that are normally associated to a quest are glowing purple even if those quests aren't active. Mammoth tusks are one such item, likely because of the Ysolda or Madesi quests. I believe it also does this for Blackbriar mead bottles. Not sure why, but maybe it's related to the quest where you have to take that keg to Ivarstead. I like the option to turn off autolooting for quest items, but still want to autoloot items such as tusks and mead.

user aragonit

I am done with those quests for AGES, but still Mammoth tusks and Black Briar Mead are purple. Is there a console command to remove an item from the quest item list for Smart Harvest?

again nexodexo

Another one it does it to is the Dibella statues, probably because of the shopkeeper quest in Markarth. Seems like there would be a way to code it to only apply to targets of active quests.

Another one I ran into is the tomb in Raven Rock where you have to clear out all the ash spawn. Auto-loot doesn't work on their ash piles because the mod sees them as quest targets. You have to complete the quest by talking to the one guy and then returning to the tomb where you can successfully auto-loot. Seems like this shows that the mod can differentiate between targets of active and inactive quests.

Either that or perhaps implement a whitelist of some kind to allow the user to make exceptions to the quest target rule.

Quest item handling is very strict and this causes understandable and wide frustration. A while ago I implemented conditional Quest Item handling and it ought to be possible to extend this to exempt common items that happen to feature in a QUST in one context to be auto-looted in other instances. That said, its complex, risky and I have a ton of backlog already and very little time to do much apart form keep up on recording the reports and this forum. So it's unlikely to be updated for several months at least. An easy catch all that might work would be to check if all associated QUSTs for a proscribed item are marked done, and none of them is repeatable.