Pack it up, modders, we're done. We've scaled the peak, ascended the summit, and hit the outer limit. All previous mods were just a prelude to this, the culmination of the artform: Auto Drop for Fallout: New Vegas(opens in new tab) from Sweet6Shooter weighs in at about 4 kilobytes, and I think it could save me enough time to write the next great American novel.
We've all spent many, many hours of our lives with Gamebryo, the weird and wobbly engine that's underpinned everything Bethesda has made since The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, so you'll know that it can sometimes be a little imprecise. Specifically, it's incredibly easy to waggle your crosshair over a burned book, a rusty iron sword, or some other piece of ephemeral junk while you're trying to pick up something actually cool and valuable.
It's never a big problem until you realise you've somehow accumulated 20 kilograms of erlenmeyer flasks and cheese wheels, and you have to laboriously pick through your inventory to dump them all in some dungeon so that you can fast travel back home. It's tedious, disruptive, and makes you feel more like a wandering Collyer brother(opens in new tab) than the hero of a sprawling RPG. But Auto Drop solves that (at least in New Vegas), forcing your character to drop anything you've marked as junk the second they pick it up, as though suddenly struck by a surge of mental clarity.
It's easy to install and configure, though you will need to install the New Vegas Script Extender (NVSE)(opens in new tab), the JIP LN NVSE Plugin(opens in new tab), and JohnnyGuitar(opens in new tab) before it'll work properly. That sounds like a lot, but all you need to do is dump the relevant files into the correct directories of your New Vegas install (or
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