Is Honest Work in Skyrim Worth It?
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Is honest work in Skyrim really worth it? Let's find out together!
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00:00 Intro
00:32 The Farmer
02:48 The Cook
04:02 The Lumberjack
05:58 The Miner
08:49 The Alchemist
09:56 The Hunter
10:59 The Merchant
11:20 Conclusion
11:35 Epic Outro - Ігри
If honest work isn't worth it, then that's probably why there are so many bandits in Skyrim.
They figured it out!
The economy these days...
then wtf are they stealing
@@quiet5811 skoomas or sweetrolls. No I take that back, it's "owned" bucket
if honest work isn’t worth it they should go to a different place so the environment isn’t drastically altered by the population over time, since scarcity is the prime determinate of the most necessary goods.
You forgot that Anniversary Edition added fishing to Skyrim. It's definitely one of the fishing minigames of all time.
Oldrim always superior
I know, in another vid perhaps?...
@@MonstertruckBadass Skyrim AE is literally like Oldrim but with more content.
@@fransthefox9682 nope
@@MonstertruckBadass Elaborate.
"Never did an honest day of work, didya lad?"
Him: "Fuck you. Yes i did!"
These Skyrim NPCs need to learn how to show some damn respect...
Always bothered me that I can't challenge Brynyolf to a duel for trash talking me.
@@kevinmencer3782 that’d be cool. If there was a feature that allowed you to just challenge people to Duels, I’d love that.
@@ironwraith852 especially with the pretty hardcore honor code the Nords seem to live their lifes by. Someone like Brynyolf getting all up in your cheese and calling you a crook should result in you Fus Ro Dah-ing him straight out of Riften, and no one would say a damn thing (other than the guard who's pissed at you for Shouting) because that's just not something that you do.
@@ThatsCoolDude That's like expecting a dog to learn to stop barking at you. Why be bothered by the opinion of lesser creatures?
One of the mods I installed the first time I played Skyrim was "infinite wood chopping" because I was too lazy to go on adventures. I left the PC on and let my character chopping wood infinitely, the next day I returned I was able to afford the Breezehome fully furnished. Such an honest work it was.
Wow! There's a mod for everything huh?
😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️
You know I thought I was mad after using jewelry mod (which switches making jewelry from jewelry bars instead of ingots (1 ingot = 10 bars)) and gathering dwarven metal remaking it into bars and I have over 8000 of these stacked in my house ready to be remade into amulets (1:1 = 230 gold) AND enchanted after that cause I need to level up enchantment, but I don't think that anymore. Leaving a pc for a day without using it is kind of strange, though passive income also isn't so bad
At this point just use the console to give yourself gold
and then clear a dwemer ruin, go back in and haul every single scrap metal, forge thousands of dwarven arrows and now your smithing is at 100
I once tried to do honest work in Riverwood, but accidentally hit a chicken while dicking around... Needless to say, I wasn't welcome there anymore. :'(
Now that's an old joke.
Lolssssss
Reading this made me happy. 😆
😂😂
my dad did that in fable and they called him a chicken chaser or some shit
murder most fowl
It wasn't about the journey, it was about the merchant we became along the way
Yes!
Accurate af
That mudcrab who was just dodging all the arrows was in ultra instinct the entire time. That final sidestep was just to add the nail to the coffin.
Insane moves indeed
Beerus and whis be trainin' some mudcrabs
I would just let it live at that point, bro earned it.
This is why you install mods and patches that remove that from enemies and laugh when they try to juke, ^_^
...Then cry when it's all about timed blocks and penalties for stamina being too low. TuT
I find selling npcs their own inventory a lot more profitable
They never see it coming...
I always keep a hunter character in reserve for when I want to relax. It's not very lucrative, but satisfying to play. One of the most fun playthroughs I've had was with a non-fighting wandering alchemist. I only leveled speech and alchemy, hired some bodyguards, and eventually bought a home and started a family.
Good way to roleplay as well! Some followers are absolute beasts, especially on those first levels, where you as a player get absolutely destroyed by monsters...
That's a great idea for a playthrough! Gonna try that some time.
It is fun, also works well with blacksmith so you equip the bodyguards with what you crafted.
Love doing that on survival. Leave my combat gear at home, go out with some leather armour and hunt some dear. If you see a dragon , tough luck, go run to the nearest town under protection from the guards or hide out in a cave. That’s immersion for me
Wait you can hire bodyguards?
Black smithing is literally the best out of all (at higher levels). Purchase ingots, leather stripes and make an armor that values more than all of them combined
That's why it needs a whole separate clip!
@@ThatsCoolDudeI use a followers house in the early game to store all my loot instead of selling it all also free house to sleep in, then I go to all the iron mines and then get the transmute spell turned iron into gold to raise my blacksmithing to level 100 well I'm creating all of these rings and necklaces I'm using for enchantment I sell my finished work to raise my persuasion I'll eventually make a set of persuasion jewelry which allowed me to level persuasion faster twice finally able to get the perk that increases every merchants cash by $1,000
@@byronrush9802 What follower house?
@@DIEGhostfish there's the one in Riverwood it's the elf follower that you can get free training from for archery and there's also the one in Whiterun
Or you combine it with the miner profession and then become a master smith and extremely wealthy by crafting tons of golden jewelery with all the gemstones you gather mining.
‘The Enchanter” is a play style of honest work I’ve done before, and it’s actually pretty fun, and relatively profitable too. You just enchant weapons and armor (either from loot or bought from blacksmith) and then sell them
Good to combine with that Blacksmith job!
How do you get the souls though ? Only buying them ?
I do a similar play style but it's a jewelery only.
@@KaptifLaDistillerietrue, filled soul gems are mad expensive
@@KaptifLaDistillerie You could always use the Black Star to save some black soul gems
Would be cool to actually make it into a challenge: *survive in Skyrim on an honest wage alone*
You not only have to make money, but also spent it on food and shelter and see if so-called "honest work" is sustainable
With max hours, buying beer sometimes and having to buy clothes to you and your family
Rules:
-Only money you can make is through honest work, quest rewards, selling things you made yourself or finding it in the world.
-The quests you do must not involve illegal activity unless morally justifiable. What is "morally justifiable" is up to player discretion.
-Survival mode is on.
-You cannot eat raw meat and raw fruits and veggies are only to be eaten in a pinch.
-You cannot sell things you didn't make yourself.
Being an enchanter + jewelry smith makes you fabulously wealthy.
Enchanting is insane too!
I spend a lot of time doing this have over 100 grand in my current playthrough
@@colin6543 I became a millionair doing this once, I'm not trying as hard to build wealth with my current character but I have 650.000 septims and made enchanting legendary three times, smithing once or twice.
And that even without the alchemy/ enchant exploit.
@@danilima6970 Yes
First time playing Skyrim I chopped wood for hours to get better armour than realized the first dungeon I went into and killed a bandit I could get equipment way faster and more effectively 😂
What a brave soul you are. Those dreaded dungeons are filled with undead mummies! Yes I am a baby and Skyrim is too scary so I'd stay chopping woods by the river until the day I die
@@akunformalitas the most wholesome comment I’ve ever read
apparently, being a housewife/house husband is extremely lucrative compared to everything else except alchemy
Ysolda being a sugar momma is the dream
Hunting can be fun if you know magic. While the weak Nord hunter sneaks around, hides from bunnies like a scared little girl, and has to be wary of running out of arrows, the Chad spellcaster can cast fury on a deer and fistfight it to the death.
Dude they literally do not eat bulls from bullfights because it spoils the meat what the heck you literally shouldn't cast fury on the deer literally like what the h
@@ogfridgeman5546 you simply do not have an advanced enough palate. The food you eat should fill you with as much Hate as the creature you slaughtered had during life.
@@ogfridgeman5546 Then cast calm
I once came across three deer standing right next to each other. I Fus Ro Dah’d them and my brother, who was watching me play, yelled ‘STRIKE’
omg hahahahah chad spellcaster fistfight XD XD
There's actually a really cool mod called Hunterborn. It overhauls the entire hunting system and it can lead to a self contained playthrough.
I love that mod. I use it with the camp mod and ineeds, makes you really plan out your route. Can be fun to get fcked up by a snowbear but eat the meat and chill with the boys around the campfire.
A rare instance where the direction is Art imitating life: Honest Work doesn't pay.
This is why it was so easy for Brynjolf to say; "Never done an honest days work for all that coin you're carrying, ey lad/lass!"...Because you're carrying so much of it compared to an Honest Skyrim Worker.
Very true! They make literally nothing...
Pretty sure dragon slaying is plenty honest
@@Damianweibler tell that to Paarthurnax.
@@GothamandGomorrah as if anyone kills Paarthy
@@Damianweibler Every time
That's exactly how I expected a briar heart versus wabbajac battle would go
It was epic
*and super easy*
Farming only worked for me once I got the Golden Hills farm from a CC content. Because once you plant blisterwort and wheat can earn you a very tidy sum once your workers harvest it. I think I was making over 2000 gold every few days. But for me without that content, selling firewood was the fastest way honestly to make gold.
Indeed, Golden Hills is basically infinite easy gold. Or if u wanna go waaaay cray cray you can grow herbs for alchy and create potions that are so expensive that you will clean out all the vendor gold in no time...
Or get the player house w/the fishery... Even more expensive alchy ....
I actually do make a lot from Goldenhills Plantation, I always get it so I make bank every few days and it’s a nice home to have
If you're playing with mods, there's also Heljarchen Farm which can make a damn good profit either passively or by manual harvesting.
Honest working Rag to riches playthroughs are probably the best playthrough I have, add mods that improve said honest work and its bearable
What mods are good for that
I have the mod Jobs of Skyrim
My main money maker was alchemy. Fast travel between each shop, buy everything, make potions on site , sell everything to get back all the money they just made off you, stash the healing potions for later, repeat. I think I looped that skill tree like 5 times by the end...
You can also grow ingredients in the hearthfire home which helps with alchemy
ravage potions are lucrative af
Fast travelling is cheating the game
@@AD-cc7bj Ain't cheating to use a system that's built into the game as intended.
@@AD-cc7bji saw nice travel overhaul watching somebodies videos on tube. He had that thing that he was able to ask inside the inns at the bar if he can order to be picked up from inn. Then he has to wait a bit and carriage dude walked inside and took a sit. You do not needed to interact with him immediately just when you decided and he will take you to destination. Also there was far more points where carriages could take you. Nice mod should be present in the game from the get go. I also tried to find some mod to make rent of the bed in taverns for longer periods like for example month or so (even better as long you like) but was not successful. I wanted to play game without buying a house. Just waking up in taverns and have company of people there warm food and music. I do not know why Bethesda became so lazy to implement such simple details like this which will make game more immersive.
wow, cool...
Like you
What's more honest than cracking a couple of hundred bandit, and forsworn, and necromancer, and vampire skulls for the bounty?
It's almost a public service!
I came up with this whole backstory of my Dragonborn being a chef so she's pretty much just running around making soup the whole game
What about The Fisher? You can go around skyrim and fish at all the little places by the rivers and lakes. Then you sell your catches at a market!
true but im an argonian who thinks he's a cat so i just dive underwater and grab with my handfeets ;p
Tip: Don't mine ore veins by attacking them. I mined a lot and I found that hitting the ore instead of entering the mining animation yields 10% less ore.
Edit: Apparently everyone who ever played Skyrim has better RNG than me. Y'all aren't even bragging anymore, just mocking me for being less fortunate.
I know, but this makes it more like Minecraft!
Even faster, if you equip a dagger offhand and use the elemental fury shout and then attack the ore veins!
@@insertusername9755 that's a fun way to do it, but it would be a better idea to put the pickaxe in the offhand. The weapon in the offhand hits one more time than the mainhand during the dual wield power attack. It'd make it ever slightly so faster.
@@MrLandShark55_55 Dual pickaxes. They have the same attack speed as daggers so you're not wasting hits.
@@torvus249 what sociopath has 2 pickaxes in their inventory?
The lumberjack was always my go-to starting money farm method in almost every playthrough. It's very easy and generates infinite money from nothing. Also, it's the best way to farm arrows when combined with mining.
It's pretty darn relaxing too
The second I saw this I started thinking of my oblivion potion seller build...I sold potions...and that was pretty much it.
I need your strongest potions.
@@fang4223literally XD
Potion seller, I am going into battle, and I need your strongest potions
I used to be an adventurer like you, then got sidetracked and forgot what the quest was.......want to become a dragon slayer?
The idea that a protagonist can just push the responsibility to somebody else is grand, thank you.
I usually combine some of those. You mine iron ore, transmute it into gold, then smith it into jewelry, enchant it, sell it to mages and merchants to buy some more soul gems and start over. Couple of days doing that and you have enough to buy any house completely furnished, plus is a great way to level up.
You have the miner but forgot the minor where you abuse your youth, cuteness and innocence to beg for money
Also where you abuse your invicibibility...
Gosh, I love your humor. And I honestly spent my last run as a lumberjack. Only to buy the new added house outside of Whiterun. Yes, it costs 7500 gold and it took me a long while. In the end, I'm happy with.
Also fishing is something I adore a lot more as anything else. To get enchanted gear or even strong gear without killing random bandits, is quite relaxing.
bandit clearing and enchanting is kind of an honest work if you have the black star.
Dragonborn has some serious dragon size horns growing there, considering the fact that his wife has so much income while he is mostly absent. The clients must leave his vicinity really satisfied.
This video was actually really cool! Great job
I love the random guard glitch walking during the lumberjack section
Alduin, the world eater, is terrorizing all of Skyrim and the Dragonborn is out picking flowers and catching blue fucking butterflies
There's a mod that adds a bunch of regular jobs to Skyrim just called Jobs of Skyrim which ads these as employable jobs and I always become a smith to earn gold while leveling up my smithing skills
Well, depends on which honest work pays the most.
-Farmer: Anniversary Edition, Goldenhills Plantation, your own farmstead, that's a good way to generate plenty of money if you use the right plant.
Believe it or not, simply plant nothing but Blisterwort in every soil and it'll generate at least 1100 gold PER DAY.
(Not because of mushroom stereotypes, but Blisterwort is the basic ingredient for healing potions. So, with the war going on... yeah)
-Cook: Nah, forget it. Only living to be made is simply keeping your hunger at bay if Survival Mode is on. Otherwise, no real profit to be made.
-Lumberjack: I suppose find which NPC pays the most for firewood and just go from there. Waste of time, if you ask me. Gets repetitive.
-Miner: I know that the mine by Narzulbur pays good money for Ebony Ore. Second is the Quicksilver mine in Dawnstar.
Sure, you can do the cheesy Transmute idea, but where's the real gratification of honest prospecting in that?
-Alchemist: Best that you fully master the perk tree until trying to make a market for selling self-made potions.
Because, let's face it, this is another dead-end profession when it comes to trying to make quick gold.
-Hunter: You'd be better off trying to hunt Bandits. Because Skyrim's wildlife is mostly just for the processing of leather.
-Merchant: Well, ALL THE TIME you're a merchant. All that dungeon loot: enchanted equipment, gems, jewelry, always sell those off.
But also make sure it's lightweight gear, such as mage robes, necklaces and rings. The more you can carry, the better the profit to be made.
And of course, the one you missed,
-Blacksmith: Perhaps craft high-end jewelry and sell that? No, don't get started with the Iron Dagger joke. Craft things that're worth more points.
Nothing like honest pay for honest work. Screw that time to explore the nearest dark and dangerous cave/ruin
Making cicero chop wood is a big power play
They don't show mining in Skyrim VR so you could stand next to a resource and click it to mine everything immediately. Or in the case of stone and clay, you can wait as it rapidly increases your stock of those resources. It's been a while since I've played it so it may have been patched.
happy you did this my friend
thanks for the alchemy ideas
the goldenhills plantation add-on with the anniversary edition streamlines farming so much and makes it actually profitable
I made a decent living as a bartender in Fable
I've never explored the pickpocket levelling before. Time to go back
I think this would have been great to do on survival mode. That way you actually have to worry about eating, sleeping and finding shelter while trying to work like everyone else and make money. It would add a layer of complexity to it. Just a thought. Subscribed!
Being honest AND in Survival sounds interesting!
@@ThatsCoolDude Id watch the heck out of that video my friend.
I love playing this way, it especially gives you time to come up with a backstory for your character.
Frostfall my friend...
Frostfall
@@lukassanjaya9953 Yep
I've always wanted to be able to do smithing or enchanting services for the people of Skyrim. Once I was done with one of my characters, my headcanon ending for him was becoming a custom-order blacksmith in the forest near Riverwood
I don't know what it is about your editing style and scripting but it's just so entertaining to watch, keep it up Dude :D
Happy you like it!
The *thunk* sound of hitting your target with a arrow will never not be satisfying
There's also bounty hunting, which is doing the radiant quests to kill bandit leaders/giants and turning their bounties in with the Jarls/stewards of different holds. It is a legally recognized job, and thus, honest work.
You deciding honest work in Skyrim is boring reminds me of one of the Discworld novels where one of the very old barbarian heroes says to his comrade "Remember the time when you stole a farm and said you were going to quit being a barbarian and raise pigs? You gave it up after - what - three hours, wasn't it?"
Yeah, not being honest is better!
@@ThatsCoolDude Doing a boring honest day's work is what I play video games to get *away* from!
The honest man with a Necromancer Amulet hahahaha
This dude has more jobs than Johnny Sins
Wow…
Just not the one Johnny Sins has.... Yet.
@@ThatsCoolDude unless.....
Okay I know I'm late but I love your character he looks amazing
I remember buying the house in whiterun chopping wood the first time i played skyrim
I love how you picked the unhinged Jester to be your Log chopping buddy
He's the best guy for doing honest stuff......................
I must say, I do remember using Honest Work legitimately in some of the more hardcore mods. Namely in Requiem, where it was by far the safest way to get the gold to buy your first real weapon and set of armor, and pay for enough skill training to not instantly run out of stamina as soon as you swung your weapon once.
Reminds me of a time that I transmuted ores on my playthrough. Good times.
i’ve learned that if you quit mining a vein when you get ore, you’ll end up getting three ore before depleting the vein
wow thank you dude
Farming can be done passively with anniversary edition. Someone else also made a good point about fishing. You can also sorta pull off a mercenary with the companions. While limited, you can even go as far as errand boy.
Building a house and working for my family hunting etc is my fav way to play Skyrim I’ve literally never beaten the game
There's also enchanting and fishing. Also the alchemy one is actually worth it, but only if you intend on doing the fortify restoration loop. You can actually make potions worth more than any npc can have on them.
Anniversary edition quite changes a good bit of this, for example you can own a farm and be a farmer that way (when finished it gives quite a bit of money based on what you have planted)
I remember playing Skyrim with my older brother, and the silver people kept cutting his head off and he was getting so pissed
My favorite Magic the Gathering card was Jinxed Idol. "Here."
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how long this would of taken
Just be a weapon merchant. Kleptomania and business can go hand in hand
The golden hills plantation is honest farming work that actually makes pretty good money, and you can actually interact with your animals
It's funny how much faster you mine without actually using the mining emote. Espescially dual wielding
Never realized that farming was less profitable than looting tombs of nobles who died millennia ago and selling their rare jewelry.
Ikr
I can't believe he gave alchemy a 9/10. Even with the Merchant perk, I make stacks of potions worth more than all the combined gold of every merchant in several towns.
One run through bleak falls barrow, sell the junk, and that's enough money to start alchemy through buying ingredients. After that, repeat fast travelling runs through all major cities until you get max alchemy and at least 50 speech.
The profit from alchemy can fund every other thing you might want to do.
The gigachad honest man build
The best part of the alchemist is that as you make more potions and improve your skill level, the potions you make become more valuable. Which is incidentally how alchemy levels: eating weird plants you find on the ground or making potions (skill experience is based on the value of the potion created, poisons are generally more expensive).
Golden Hills Plantation is great for farming and I use it when I rp agriculture and crafting.
5:33 dat guards be practicing moonwalk for his concert dayum
They always do...
Missed oportunity to put a breaking bad joke at the "cooking" section.
I was employed as a thief for a local guild.
We had quotas, it’s was all above board.
The rich would pay an annual fee and arrange for a convenient time to be robbed.
The poor would just be asked in the street for a donation and given a promise to not be visited again for 3 days.
We sold merchandise and you could even buy what we called “shadowmarks. “ for the premium package we could guarantee no theft would happen to you or your home.
It massively reduced crime as unsanctioned thieving was not permitted and usually ended in execution.
The taxes collected from this operation allowed the city to prosper immensely.
We even created new work sectors like insurance companies.
Farming is probably the best one though, there's a farm (which I forgot the name of) which you can take over for free, then you just need a housecarl and you'll get tons of money with only farming
Were
@@tulip5210 it's a bit west of whiterun. there's a ghost outside of the house close to a village. then you'll get the quest
With the cc farm house you can plant a ton of ingredients and sell the potions you make
I loved that Mitten Squad could beat Skyrim with Torch Bashing by literally eating Vegetable Soup.
im waiting on that blacksmith video-
You can run a profitable farm in Skyrim if you only farm wheat. Wheat can be sold at the farms at White Run and Solitude for 5 gold each. If you have the green house and garden and only plant wheat you can make a healthy profit every 3 days. Every day if you replant the wheat each day.
Best way to farm is the farm you get a rorikstead pays so much
"cozy little profit" *proceeds to give her husband 1000 gold*
Alchemy is my favorite way to make money in Skyrim. At higher levels I make potions so expensive a single one can wipe out a merchant's entire budget.
I thought he was going to do the alchemy glitch and completely break the game. Definitely the best Skyrim profession
One thing that makes farming, woodcutting, and mining (well actually not sure if mining does this, but) worth it, at least once per applicable NPC, it makes them like you, which counts towards becoming thane, and could get you a random, usually not worth much gift when passing near them later. Take me a good few hundred hours to figure that out.
Wake up babe, new cozy game dropped! (Playing Skyrim in survival mode but you only do odd jobs around the towns, live with your spouse and don't interact with any combat at all)
A peaceful life
I actually made a character who was a hunter. I never spawned dragons, just went around shooting deer, selling their meat and processing their hides into leather armor. Actually a really chill take on Skyrim, though sometimes my definition of "hunter" extended to bounty hunting.
I didn't know most of this was an option
Nah man. Just go to the giant ebony mine the Orcs control, and get all of that delicious ore. Wait 30 days, and get right back to mining.
Also possible!
Your character looks like he might have once been a member of the Misfits. 🤘
What I did to make that 100k gold achievement was buy and mine quicksilver ore and make armor. Then upgrade that armor and sell it back to blacksmiths.
The hunting section is why I always play with Hunterborne.
I actively play as a fisherman/hunter with mad fish/animal things in my house, just takes a while
You forgot to mention something about mining...
1. You can instead of using the pickaxe like you normally do, you can just whack the ore vein with it.
2. Now here's where things get interesting: If you equip the pickaxe in the RIGHT hand instead of the LEFT hand, go into 3rd person, and strafe back and forth repeatedly as fast as you can while you hammer that left hand button, you can mine ore even faster. Because sometimes it glitches, causing the strike to hit twice or even thrice instead of just once. Sometimes.
3. You can combo this with the shout that increases your weapon speed for even more shenanigans.