Skyrim Anniversary Edition: 20 New Player Tips I Wish I Knew When I First Started Playing!
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- Skyrim Anniversary Edition: 20 New Player Tips I Wish I Knew When I First Started Playing!
Even after 11 years Skyrim continues to bring in new players, so I thought I'd pull together a quick 20 tips I wish I knew when I first started playing! There are a ton more I could have shared though (and likely even more I've forgotten!) so please share any tips you have in the comments below!
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0:00 Introduction
0:53 Saving Your Game
1:40 It's My Cabin Now
3:50 Companions
4:45 I Wish Animals Would Leave Me Alone
7:41 Faster Mining!
8:15 Wait Horses Can Climb?
8:55 Carry Weight Pt.1
9:55 Carry Weight Pt.2
10:39 More Bang For Your Buck
11:02 Cooking Is Your Friend!
12:09 And Baking!
13:02 Fus Ro Dah? Or Just Fus?
13:41 Save Poor Margret
14:28 Player 1-0 Pressure Plate
15:05 Stole Someone's Heart, Quite Literally
16:00 Name Your Gear!
16:34 Marriage In Skyrim Is Worth It
17:55 Firewood = Bed & Free Stuff
18:34 Stealing Is Easy!
19:11 Go Off The Beaten Track
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When naming your custom enchanted gear, put a space in front so that they will all be at the top of the list. Also, group things you use together with the same first word (Alchemy ring, Alchemy necklace, etc.)
😀 So I'm not the only one who does that. I didn't think too much of it as a tip but now that you mention it.
That's a good tip!
Magnificent
Thanks for the tip bro
Nice!
Throwing this out there for all of the new players as well as for any of us older players that may not know. There's a quest you can get to go and collect 20 Jazbay Grapes for a Dunmer woman that grows Nirn root. This is normally a painful undertaking as they are hard to find or buy. HOWEVER, if you listen to why she needs them, it gives you a clue where to find them in abundance.
The thermal vents. Go to the region just south of Windhelm and You will find them growing everywhere. In and around the thermal vent area is a gold mine of Jazbay Grapes.
Your welcome.
Another option is to plant them at your home or farm - limitless supply!
@@markposner4735 this is true. The thermal vents are for of you need a bulk quantity quick as in the case of the quest. 20 Jazbay can be had in minutes.
Thanks doing this now!
Myrewatch or Bloodskull Cavern have the potting soil. Definitely worth planting along with creeping cluster, scalia something and, another fungus that creates one of the most valuable potions in the game
Yea. I just explored that hot spring area recently and found grapes every step I took 😂
Anise, once you take over her cabin, is a great candidate to level up conjuration. Drag her corpse by her bed, and start casting soul trap on her. Instead of waiting one hour, you can sleep in her bed for one hour, get the "Well Rested" bonus, and keep casting soul trap on her. Also, using the barrels, cupboard, and satchel in the basement seem to be fine - they don't respawn like the upstairs barrels.
I was thinking about that, I wasn't sure u would own the bed, and with the barrel being a respawning one was discouraging
I’ve tried the soul trap thing to level, but it seems like it doesn’t work on the dead?
@@IronnGhost Sorry to hear that. Make sure you are aiming the soul trap spell at the dead being, and the dead being should have a bluish aura if you are doing it right. Has worked for me in many playthroughs.
When looking around at books, if the value of a book is 50 or more it's almost always a skill book. Helpful to know when determining if a book is a lore book or skill book
THANK YOU. yo i will always go through everyone to get some skill but this makes so much sense.
20 gold I think
Here’s a tip.
when you have a follower you can make them pick up items and bypasses their weight capacity. You can make this much easier as well if you place items in a container that they can reach such as a chest barrel or drawer, when you put items in a container you can also make them take loot that is marked stolen.
Also casting the “muffle” spell will level you up and you can save the perks for other skill trees.
Find a bear or troll and block their attacks to level up block, get hit by enemies to level up your heavy or light armor, get a house and build a garden and greenhouse to farm potions, i farm paralysis because they can help you kill hard enemies, I carry around 30.
That’s all I can think of 😅 hope it helps some people!
The steed stone is the best . enables better carry weight and hold more items.
I am so glad they added back packs to enable better carry weight and extra perks. We needed this very badly for so long.
Yeah I agree it's a great addition 😄👍🏻
@mike-thegamingdad I actually have not played this game in 7 years. and I got reunited with the game. I forgot all about the steed stone and seeing video's on you tube about the steed stone refreshed my memory.
My most useful tip for any fellow loot hoarder that doesn't play with fast travel:
get your hands on a resurrection staff as soon as possible, then simply kill some rabbit/ wolf/ bandit and stack them full with your mountain of loot.
For whatever reason undead followers resurrected with staffs instead of the regular conjuration spell don't turn to ashes when their timer expires, so you can just keep on resurrecting your mobile loot truck and don't have to worry about dragging items or loot filled corpses all the way to the nearest trader.
Also a useful tip for survival playthroughs/ people trying to get leather: casting the illusion spell calm on deer and their likes that can be hard to one shot early game on harder difficulty will stop them from running away from you letting you run straight up to them
Two great tips there thanks for sharing 😁
Freak me out 😄👍👍👍
Great Tip to🏆
Can't wait to kill my first Portable Dead head ...
Also hilarious to do in a campful of baddies ... You have time to practice your one liners on them 😄
I knew almost all of these. Here is a tip: If you like to make all your armor color match, rename them with the color when you enchant them. Example: Black Daedric Armor and Black Mages Hood. That way you have all your armor color coordinated without having to wear the same in a set. Also, find a scroll of Magelight or Candlelight as early as possible (some merchants sell them). They are great for lighting up dark cave corners where chests can be hidden.
Magelight also sets off traps.
I've literally never had to use magelight in over 2k hours
Thank for the helpful info, I didn't know some of these.
I also agree that exploring Skyrim rather than using fast travel can be very exciting. I've replayed the game multiple times and it wasn't until I played in survival mode that I found a new quest( new to me) just off the path heading to Falkreath. It was both unexpected and exciting.
Yeah thats the best part when you end up discovering something completly new or going off on a random quest 😁
It certainly depends on why you're you playing. There are days I wanted to fast travel and just get to the quest. Don't always have time to spend 30 minutes walking/riding between quests. But when I do explore, there's always something to discover. You can play this game for 10 years and not come close to finding everything even if you're exploring every nook and cranny of the world on foot.
Renaming enchanted clothes is great for fashionisto/fashionista builds. Just have an entire clothing set for every purpose with the same first name. Winter wear, swashbuckling wear, archery gear, traveling gear, etc.
Thank you for very useful tips!
I'd like to add my rule for Carry Weight management. In early game pick only crahting materials and items which min. Value to Wheight ratio is 10/1 or more Later only 20/1 or 50/1.
No point draging a Iron Greatsword (16/50) to sell when you could bring 16 pairs of Hide Boots (1/10) with same encumbrance.
Yeah I agree on the value to weight ratio 👍
Restoration loop. Carry weight your boots to 100k carry weight you'll never have a weight problem again. Yuh can do this super early in the game . Get stamina,magic n health with the loop aswell and you'll be invincible never tired and never run out of magic all can be done before level 9 . Best of luck. Unlimited stamina means yuh can run thru n discover the map faster too
Been playing Skyrim for about ten years now, and I started again recently with Anniversary Edition on my switch. I learned a couple new things here - like the Lover's Comfort buff, and I feel silly, but I didn't know you could pick up items and carry them out of sight to steal them!
I just learned the pickaxe thing a couple weeks ago and holy heck, LIFE CHANGING.
That's awesome I'm glad a few of the tips helped you out 😁👍
How do you pick up things on the switch? I couldn't figure it out! 😢
Just stumbled onto this video nvr actually beat any of the elder scrolls just starting a Skyrim attempt again but found your comment funny. The carry things away and dropping on the ground to steal has been a thing since the earlier entries lol
Do NOT use telekinesis on a stolen item, even if you don't take it.
i knew almost every single one of these.. and i wanna add one more tip. instead of interacting with your follower just to ask them to do something for you, what you can do instead is hold the interact key and it will quickly bypass the interactions, skipping it to quickly asking them if they can do something for you. pretty useful and i believe you can do this from a distance as well
How do u get the interact key?
@@femmenic its a button on your keyboard. the default key is E
Great tip!
I go for Aarvak in the soul cairn every time to ease my over encumbrance problems. It's just handy to have a horse you can summon in more places. Especially when dragons start attacking when your trying to loot the hidden chests. Before that, I buy a horse. Hire a carriage to take me to each of the towns with hidden chests. My horse appears right there and I ride to the chest, empty it and get back on to take my loot back to Anise's cabin for disenchanting and storage.
Hear you loud and clear. In case you weren't aware, in your Mods section look for ARVAK under "XTUDO". She has an amazing array of MODS, imm a big fan of her Armor. Everything she puts up has enhanced detail. Just have a look an ARVAK
If you do Feandal’s favour, you can use his house as much as you like, especially if you take the key from his inventory. You can also sell firewood to the owner of the bannered mare and she’ll let you sleep in her room above the kitchen.
Ah, I didn’t see bannered mare bit before I commented! I was on break at work and only saw the first half.
You can also train archery for hardly any gold if you have him as a follower, pretty well known fact but I used it every time I started over.
When Sven asks you to give the letter to Camilla (the one he faked as if it was written by Feandal), does doing so remove the option to have Feandal as a follower?
I helped Sven out because, well, bros before hoes, then realised who Feandal was and he didn't offer me any quests or anything
@@disobeytoday4685 I think whichever of those you choose to help, you lose the option of having them as a follower yeah. They'll often say things like "you're nothing but trouble" when you approach. I could be wrong but I think the outcomes run:
Get Faendals letter, go ahead with the lie = lose Sven as a follower
Get Faendals letter, drop him in it and say he's trying to set Sven up = lose Faendal
Get Sven's letter, go ahead with the lie = lose Faendal
Get Sven's letter, drop him in it = Lose Sven
I imagine it's because the decision changes the friendship level in the background. There's basically a number which determines the players relationship with any NPC and it ranges from -4 = worst enemies to +4 = spouse. So like a friend is +1. I've never used it but there is a console command for PC players where you can amend this number, I bet if you did it it might unlock the follower option
It's this one here:
skyrimcommands.com/command/setrelationshiprank
Quick tip for more fondue, the cheese can be a little tricky to find. With the plantation in full working order, you get 12 jugs of milk per reset. Combined with salt pile ( which lets be honest, is fucking EVERYWHERE ) you can make your own cheese wheels each time you pick up all the stuff from the plantation stash. I have played this game for AGES and just figured this bit out last week lol.
Nice thats awesome thanks for sharing!
I chop wood early game for Hulda to start out. Even on my current power hungry evil demon, I worked around it making a ~~servant~~ follower do it. Didn't think about that bed though. That's new for me after God knows how many hours/years. I always see people pay for the inn. I can just take a look up there now. All this knowledge of item duping and Ahzidal armour on a Necromage Vampire and a new thing to discover is a bed in the most popular city/inn lol.
Its crazy isn't it, that's what I love about Skyrim. I've been playing long enough to feel confident to post videos on certain topics. And then within an hour of posting, someone will say oh you can also do x using this and I'm like, did not know that lol. Also even know I'm still discovering new quests (I've only just done the gauntlet one in the Midden, seen it loads, never bothered to actually find out what it did until now haha)
I've played this game so many times and I never knew that about Anise's cabin. Having to travel all the way to Whiterun to breakdown enchanted items was such a pain in the early game before I built my own home. I lost it at 'The Khajiit cocaine'. 😆
Haha I'm glad you enjoyed!
The cabin is overrated, safe storage is everywhere, although it is the closest enchanting table to helgen. So there's that.
The fastest way to mine is by block bashing ore with a pickaxe.
Ha! Even when you think you know Skyrim, there is always another way 🤣😁
Agreed! It’s crazy fast especially if you cook up some veg soup to regen a few stamina every second means you can do it constantly
Bruh. I’ve played Skyrim for 10 years and I never knew this 🤯
Does the ore vein still respond though? I read that it doesn't, unless you do the slow animated mining.
@@rocketta.chique5761 I didn't know that baking was a thing. 😳
I remember unrelenting forcing the glowing orb out of curiosity when skyrim came out! I was so excited!
I'm so thankful I found your page! Been playing forever and still finding stuff!
I bet that was awesome to discover it just by chance 😁. Glad you are enjoying the channel, It's funny as I thought I knew a lot about this game, due to playing it for over a decade, but then I've learnt tons since then through everyone's comments 😁
Well done my friend, well done. There's more you can add to this list, but this is fairly comprehensive. Makes me want to do another playthrough.
Thank you! Yeah I had a short list of other stuff as well but didn't want to reel off loads and it become too heavy. Also wanted to give people the opportunity to post bits which seems to be working, had loads of good comments so far!
Wow! I’ve played Skyrim through so many times over the past 10 years and I didn’t know half of the things you mention in this video. Maybe I’ll play again some day and use all these helpful tips. Thank you.
No problem at all 😁👍🏻
I just found out, reading the stones of High Hrothgar in addition to making animals not be aggressive toward you, the same effect applies to vampires, though not their thralls. If you attack a vampire, they'll be hostile, but attacking one won't turn their vampire allies against you, allowing you to slaughter a vampire camp one bloodsucker at a time.
Nice that is good to know! 😁👍
Dude, this is a nice selection of tips that I must try next time I get the chance to play. You have a knack for explaining and showing how it is done too. Maybe you could make a part 2 to this video. I bet you have a ton of knowledge involving this game.
Thank you I'm glad you found it informative 😁. Haha yeah you could do a whole series on tips, I might do another one in the future though, 20 more tips or something, been some great ones shared in the comments as well below 👍.
@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah. That would be great. The comments had some good ones for sure. Can't wait to see more of your vids. :D
@@obieldenook1142 thank you! I did a community poll over Xmas on what did everyone want next and let's play and survival mode came out as 1st and 2nd so I've posted the first episode of that today. I'll release other stuff in between as well, I've had a lot of requests to do a spellsword build guide so will be starting working on that either tonight or tomorrow (I work full time and have a young family so at the moment I have to do this as a side project at really unsociable times like at midnight 🤣 but I'm making it work just about lol)
@@mike-thegamingdad It's not easy to juggle everything like that. Well, I'm eager to see more. Those do sound right up my alley so that works too. :D
Great video, the beggar buff is a great tip! I've recently started back on this game and am totally immersed again like it was just released! The music, the cozy inns and nice guards.... shows me how much i played the villain all those years ago lol
That's awesome 😁. I'd love to be able to go back and play it all again like it was new 🙌
Same with kids. Plus kids give not only lover with spouse. But also parent. Giving a massive buff. Then give ur kid a few coins for the shop discounts
Have started playing again after some years (never completely finished Skyrim actually ;)) and you give me some very interesting tips indeed, thanks for that. I didn't know the one with the tablets and the animals, I will take the path to High Hrothgar again to get this perk. Also the faster mining is very cool :)
No problem at all and welcome back to Skyrim 😁👍🏻
Mining without using the animation can make the ore glitch and not respawn.
When taking Anise's cabin you will eventually be attacked by three contract killers. So there is a bit of a penalty and they will follow you across Tamriel. I've been attacked at Bleak Falls Barrow and on the road to Solitude.
Ah the old contract killers, I remember doing the Whispering Door quest recently. Towards the end of the quest, one of the tasks is to obtain the key to open the door. Farengar is one of the two owners of the key, so I snuck up on him and stole it. Didn't think anything else of it until a few days later, 3 bruisers turned up with a bounty on me, from Farengar 😂. Needless to say, they came off worse, so I went to pay Farengar a visit, and he acts like nothing has happened 😂
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“Where is this head going?”
It’s heading somewhere.
Even as a long time player, I didn’t know about some of these so thank you! Very helpful
No problem at all and thank you for watching 😁👍🏻
I knew some of these, some I didn't, and some I'd forgotten. Thanks for the tips, seeing as I am about to load the game and play it for the first time in a few years. Oh! I just subscribed too!
Thanks very much! That's great you learnt something new and great you are jumping back in 😁
Thank you for the great video and tips! New, happy subscriber.
Just thought to mention, there's two additional ways to up your carry weight.
1. The Steed Stone - NNE of Wolfskull Cave, to the West of Solitude. (Adds 100 carry weight; equipped armour weights nothing and no movement penalty from armour. )
2. The effects this stone grants are nearly identical to the Conditioning perk in the Heavy Armor skill tree, the Unhindered perk from the Light Armor skill tree and the Extra Pockets perk in the Pickpocket skill tree. Combined with the Extra Pockets perk in the Pickpocket skill tree, a Dragonborn can have 200 units increase of carry weight.
No problem glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the sub 😁. Ah yeah I always forget about the steed stone, thanks for sharing!
@@mike-thegamingdad My pleasure. 😁
Hitting mines with a pickaxe!!!! I love you so much for teaching me that one.
Very useful tips, even learned a few things and I'm not new comer to ES Skyrim. Somethings I like to add:
1. as he says: EXPLORE, the game is insane for sure just learn to change your current active quests so your not following 100 quest markers or get yourself confused by following the wrong marker. It took me awhile to figure this out my first playthrough, and keeping track of certian quests was confusing.
2. Get a player owned house/storage of some sort ASAP. You get ALOT of things in this game, you will want 80% of them, just not all the time at your current level/character progression. Saving these soul gems and ingredients in a player owned storage (chest inside your house) and amassing them for later on when you can mass produce and go sell them. You can store all of your regular dungeon gear inside a storage and travel with more items to sell.
3. As others have said, with the hearthfire DLC, get a house ASAP and start using the garden/greenhouse to grow your own ingredients, even for the long term just stockpile them. Its ridiculous money
4. Using skill trainer merhcants is an amazing way of "recycling" the money your paying to them for training back into your own hands by selling them loot. At level 50 speech you can unlock a perk to sell any type of good to any merchant, so those potions you made can be sold to a black smith etc. This is amazing to just hit up whiterun/felkreith etc. and clear all the merhcants of their gold even though your only trying to sell one type of item. Think of potions, iron daggers, loot amased from dungeons etc.
5. Try out "Role Playing" for after your first playthrough/character. The first character is all goofed and about exploring and figuring out how the game works, but when you clear the game a few times its fun to RP as a character, staying true to his/her's morales and ethic's while also bringing some realism into it. Example: I abuse alchemy on alot of my characters, but say I make a 2h orc berserker. Unless i want to, the idea of a berserking brute being well versed in magic, enchanting of gear, or brewing alchemy potions isn't common. They are known for their superb strength, and smashing things, I wouldn't use alchemy or any magic at all. This will make the game harder in alot of places, and even restrict your character from doing alot of content intended for those types of character classes but it brings something new to the game for people who've played a bunch.
Thanks for sharing your tips 😁
oh man I've played this so much and you had several I didn't know! NICE!
I've learnt some just from the comments section alone. This game is actually insane after 12 years there's still undiscovered stuff 😅
You nailed that necromancer with 2 perfect head shots and she still wouldn't go down 🤣
Haha I know, pretty sure one of the bolts was sticking out her cheek when she lunged at me. She was a tough cookie 😂
Finally playing it for the first time as for some reason it never peaked my interest. Now I’m kind of addicted to it, thanks for the tips!
No problem at all and welcome to Skyrim! I'd love to be able to go back and experience it all again for the first time 😁👍🏻
Yeah, if you can spare the weight it's useful to carry 1 unit of Firewood on you to sell to people to get free access to all items in their home worth 30 gold or less, plus a bed. Selling crops to farmers has a similar effect. The last is selling ore to a mine owner. Certain heavy drinkers will also accept Ale or Mead to become their friend.
Severius Pelagia in Whiterun will leave you a bequest if he dies after you've picked crops for him. =^[.]^=
3:14 Blue Mage Robes are worth 150 Septims, and at only 1 weight unit, are, like many enchanted clothing items, very valuable by weight. For that matter, almost any alchemy ingredient with an actual value are some of your best loot for cash. Getting Voice of the Sky is a lot of work; might as well just kill the critters and level up your combat skills, or just find and power up the Kyne's Peace shout. For baking, Heljarchen Hall (the Hearthfire home you build at the edge of the Pale) is the only home with a mill for making flour. You can grow Wheat in the garden and mill it for flour, if you haven't found enough in the various sacks and barrels of Skyrim. Selling Firewood to Hulda also makes Brenuin the beggar's quest absurdly simple. He asks you to *steal* a bottle of Argonian Ale for him, but once you're friends with Hulda, you can just take it. =^[.]^=
Only been playing for a couple weeks but I learned that those robes are by fast the easiest way to make money. I got a robe, forget who from, but instead of the normal 155 (I am playing on an xbox that doesnt have the patch) its worth 2600......imagine a few dozen at that price!
And its easy to enchant the robes to make them worth way more too!
Goldensprings farm available at level 10 also has a mill, but you have to build it. It also has a butter churn
@@Blessed_V0id I just got lakeview manor lmao. Tried to save some of the building and development, but he just wants to kill, kill, KILL.
Luckily, I like the tedious stuff lmao. I will look into Goldensprings!
@@Blessed_V0id So, you can have a bunch of homes in game, so what is the advantage of one over the other? I used Anise's cabin as my dumping grounds for stolen goods first starting out but now have Breezehome and Lakeview Manor.
Lakeview seems to have a problem where if I leave stolen goods, they disappear. And my dragonbone sets dont like to be the ones displayed on the mannequins, even despite only leaving them as the only option to be displayed. I used display cases and not only were they open (after I specifically stocked them and closed them) but the stuff is gone, and not just "around the room". So....Breezehome is my "safe home"....
Is this a normal problem? Playing on a 360 with no skyrim updates in over 8 years.
Additional carry weight tip: a horse let's you fast travel when over encumbered. I believe in dawnguard you get a summonable horse pretty nifty to help navigate via fast travel.
I never sleep, except when I return home to drop my loot off, so that ghost quest at the end is 100% new to me and I’ve been playing this game since release! Cheers for that bro, gonna try it now
Excellent 😁👍 makes me wonder what else is out there that I've still not discovered 🤣
Cheers and thankyou so much for all the great help and advice
No problem at all thank you for watching 😁
Even I, a veteren of this game, never heard of that ghost quest. As a lover of the Undead, I'm greatly appreciative dude. Looks like I got a new quest to do
No problem buddy 😁👍
If you sell 2 pieces of firewood to the inn keeper at the banared mate 8nn, you become her friend and can move into the room at the top of the stairs. You can also pick all her herbs , loot all the barrels, take her gold off the bar....you get the point. This saves you from having to join a faction at the start of the game.
Thank you for the walk down memory lane :)
No problem 😁
More things:
Using Unrelenting Force on a waterfall can, depending on your timing, kill salmon trying to jump up it. You'll have to go searching for the dead salmon though. Salmon harvesting is the only way to get Roe for alchemy use.
Make sure not to use the shout too close to a city or the guards will become hostile. It also can get a letter delivered to you from "a friend" telling you about the location of a word wall.
Using more shouts outdoors will increase the chances of a dragon attack when you approach a creature spawn point.
Shock Auras can ruin a slaughterfish's day if it attacks you while swimming in the water. You can't use a weapon if your feet aren't planted and they swim away once you're on shore so this is a good solution.
I'm not sure if the Aura works for salmon if you stand on a rock in the middle of a waterfall, but it might. I always think of testing this but never bother.
Yeah I like using Unrelenting Force on waterfalls, I only found out a month or two ago that you can use a Nord's Battle Cry to kill all the Salmon at the base of a waterfall. Had never thought to try it before.
@@mike-thegamingdad Wood elfs "Command Animal" works too for salmon roe collecting.
Heh. I just collect Salmon Roe from Heathfire houses with Kitchens. It respawns pretty frequently, especially if you don't visit a house for a while. =^[.]^=
@@MrHrannsi that is good! 😁
@@Raycheetah If you have the hatchery at Windstad Manor and use Fus on the salmon you can harvest roe from them, too.
Another good video. I like to name my favourite enchanted gear "a [power] ring" or "an [other power] necklace" to keep them at the top. Was planning on doing a Things I Wish I'd Known About Skyrim video myself, but you've covered a lot of the recommendations I would have given in here. Nice work.
Thanks buddy 😁
Good day! One thing I wanted to say is that you mention that also in Anis's cabin there is a skill book for alchemy (Song of the Achemist) on the table at the end of the bed! Thank you for this guide! If I see anything else that you might have missed I will let you know!
That's the book that the alchemist in Morthal is looking for. She won't care that it's stolen.
@@kentowakai1234 actually all skill book are never marked as red steel.... Of course it is one of two of of that book that you can find early on.... I can't remember where the other book is but I had two of them when I was visiting that Achemist! I have been playing Skyrim since it was first released 11/11/11 but had taken a several year break from it until just about one week, my Birthday I bought a Xbox controller for my PC and re-download the game off my STEAM account!
Ah yes forgot that was there thanks for reminding me!
@@kentowakai1234 I just found the 2nd "Song of the Achemist" it is in the secret laboratory downstairs in Goldenhills Plantation BUT you have to get it BEFORE you finish the quest to get that house!
Give that book (songs of the alchemist) to the alchemist in morthal she'll boost yuh up another level. The barrel in the basement yuh can hide your goodies there after offing anise and they'll remain there. I use anise cabin until I can buy solitude home then go get ally stuff from the barrel n transfer to solitude. Best of luck. Fun fact anise sister is below morthal north west of white run in a nice house yuh can also borrow but don't store nothing there it'll go missing.
Great video, learned some new stuff after playing for 2 years
Thanks and that's great! 😁
I had to do several "say what" moments. Like for example I was also unaware of the Old Hroldan inn ghost. A few weeks ago until Kaidan and I stopped off there and got this quest. Just goes to show no matter how long you have played or how experienced you are there is always something new around the corner. 😁 which makes Skyrim like no other game.
Yeah that's what I love about this game, still feel like there's new stuff to discover 11 years later 😁
You forgot the cave off to the right after the standing stone before Riverwood. It's a good early source gold, iron ore, weapons, armor, food, spell books, potions, crafting items. We could use of the shadows in your bow and you can go through completely untouched. Don't forget to shoot the bag of gold over the doorway in front of the first bridge. What exit off the other end right at the gates of Riverwood. 3 levels higher, 2000+ gold, 3 new spells, turn on boat load of stuff to sell to the blacksmith and merchant. Normally I sell everything in by my first full set of heavy steel armor. (Steel sword found in the cave).
About early beds. Taking one firewood to the bannered mare gets tou acces to three of the beds in the inn and lets ylu take a lot of items from the bannered mare. Plus, helping the people lets you also take some things from the general merchant. I always take the veggtables from the food vendor and the general merchant shelves.
What i like about stealth characters is you can put all your points into stamina for carry weight and never get hit if your stealth is high enough
Get the 100 carry weight stone 😅
I've been playing since 2011 and knew only the last one, the secret dragon in Black Reach. Thanks for the info, I subscribed!
Thank you very much glad you found out some new stuff! 😁
Great video didn't know most of the stuff.
Thanks glad you found it useful 😁👍🏻
I occasionally encounter ore veins that are positioned so they can't be attacked and you have to use the slow mining animation, or they can only be attacked at one specific point on the vein while standing at a certain place and facing a certain direction. It's possible that's one of the mesh replacers I'm using changing the collision on the vein though.
Ah that is interesting!
The slow animation can actually be faster if you consider the time it takes for you to switch out weapons manually. SkyUI can make this switch instant, however.
Personally I don't mind the extra time once in a while. Gives me a moment to take my hands off the controls/keyboard and drink something.
great tips. i'm playing again for the 700th time and really trying to focus on exploring and i have been getting pretty tired of being on horseback, walking a few yards, swarmed by wolves or bears, get off, kill them, get back on. don't think i've read those shrines since 2011!
Thank you! Yeah it gets quite annoying I find, its a bit immersion breaking when its happening so often, I'm always like there's no way bear attacks would be this frequent. Otherwise no one would ever travel between settlements 😂 There's more wolves and bears in Skyrim than people unless you use mods! 😅
Perfect brother, great job and God bless!
Thank you 😁
The briar heart pickpocketing thing id amazing
Yeah I love that trick 😂
Amazing video i just started playing on ps5 the graphics are stunning thanks for the help
No problem at all glad you found it useful 😁👍🏻
Another solution for being over encumbered and needing to fast travel is a horse. Specifically arvak the one you can summon via spell thanks to the soul cairn side quest.
Never knew about the Voice for wild animals or the lover's meal!
Glad you learnt something new!
I max out enchanting asap so I can make a full set of gear that reduces two schools of magic to zero cost, then run around casting free spells for the rest of the game. Also enchanting with banish makes crazy expensive gear to sell to merchants.
Ty so very much I play Skyrim and I didn't know any of these tricks ty again
No problem at all and glad you learnt some new things!
@@mike-thegamingdad 💞
Regarding the firewood selling to Hulda, you can also sleep in the big bed above the main room, as long as you don’t buy a room first,,,☺️..
Oh really? I've tried that one and it hasn't worked, maybe I've paid for it in the past 🤔
Great content! Make me want to play again.
Thank you 😁🙏🏻
The only tip you need: Forsworn Briarhearts and Draugr Deathlords (with ebony bows) must be fought with alternative tactics. A straight-up fight is not possible with enemies who can hit for 300-500+ damage per critical hit. Must paralyze, 'heart pickpocket', chip damage sneak attack, or any other viable way to take out these monsters.
The food buff from Veg soup also stacks.. so if you eat 10 at once. instead of health regen being 1 per second, its 10 per second! Pretty sure all the food buffs all stack together too.. Make enough and not run out of health/magica or stam!
I find it annoying that you can grow all the ingredients for veg soup, but not tomatoes. There is a mod which fixes it, but in vanilla skyrim after a while I find I always low on them unless you duplicate them 🤣
yeah! I noticed that too.. i was about to plant them at Goldenhills plantation and low and behold, no option to plant tomatoes.. Then i thought, there are no tomato plants in Skyrim.. we just 'find' them everywhere.. There are a few places where there are a few around, cant think of where off the top of my head as i havent played in a while.. Think a few houses in Whiterun have a collection.. usually in baskets or cauldrons etc.. Duping also work.. Also, to duplicate stuff, the location you chose is good, and you only need to go outside whiterun and come back in.. I have noticed alot of vids about the dupe process say to fast travel across the globe.. but just out the door works too.
Great vids. Im going through them all now =P
@darthstabous yeah I've since learnt that you don't need to fast travel, just walk out the door and back in and it works 😁 dunno why I thought you needed to fast travel, probably saw it done somewhere and never bothered to check.
Awesome thank you for watching! Hope you enjoy them 😁
There's also the harbingers axe in kodlaks room you can pick pocket the key to the display case from him and the axe is awesome it's my main weapon aside from an elven sword that fills gems
New one I learned is if you cast fury on the wounded spider in BFB she will sometimes attack and kill the dude in the web... And sometimes he will break free of the web and help attack her....however the game makes you cut the web before you can interact with him.
Wow that is a complete new one to me! Love it thanks for sharing!
One tip i never see anyone suggesting is to read the installed content descriptions in the pause menu. It tells you how to start each of the anniversary edition quests and how/where to buy the special items
That's a good tip 😁
Haha I always got around the weight carry limit by doing the lunging power attack or having a reanimated corpse to carry everything 😂 Dead Thrall is the best one to use since they won’t turn into ash pile.
That's a good way of doing it definitely 😁👍🏻
Fantastic video. Just wish I'd seen it sooner 😅
Thank you 😁👍🏻
@mike-thegamingdad just a quick question. I recently picked up the Umbar sword at level 25. I see it can be levelled up at the grindstone. Can I get it to Max, or should I have waited until I was level 50 to get it?
@garyd2978 I'm pretty sure umbra isn't levelled no so you are fine you've not missed out on a better version. I've not tested this myself but people online have said they've picked it up as a low level/high hevel character and got the exact same stats so I'm trusting them to be correct lol
Not only can horses climb mountains, but you can ride them when you are over weight and you travel at normal speed.. even fast travel while you are over weight. Wont help in towns, but if you use the Whirlwind Sprint will help. You may even get a letter from a friend that tells you where you can find a new power and mark it on your map as a quest. Guards don't like it when you do that though and they will ask you to stop.
Get shadowmere from dark brotherhood. Turn up his difficulty to legendary and blast him with the destruction spell and healing hands you'll boost destruction an restoration up to 100 quick. Best of luck
In mining you forgot to mention that manually mining the vein grants an extra ore every time. You get 3 instead of 2!
quick note to add on the Voice of the Sky from the tablets from the 10,000 steps also affects vampires for some reason or another they fall under the wild animal hostility bracket
Yeah that is true 👍🏻😁 very strange quirk but it's funny when it happens
Oh yeah on the subject of walking around and not fast travel.... Yes totally can find cool stuff and skill books and whatnot! Two places (of MANY I have discovered in my 11 years of playing Skyrim) 1) Nord puzzle off the road between Whiterun and Roricstead
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the tips re. carry weight! Ah yeah I know the nordic puzzle you mentioned, I love all the little details Bethesda including like that
I think the altar you are referring to is in a sparse wooded area a bit northwest of Riften. Has a mage/necromancer at it and most of the dwemer items are in a lockbox on one of the pillars. If you sneak up on the mage you can dispose of them pretty easy since they don't patrol or move about. Then all the stuff is yours.
Just have your follower pick the lock if you can't get it.
@@emrek99205 yes that sounds like it... It has been several years since I have played Skyrim and I have not yet gone to find it! One of the first big hauls of dwermer metal outside of a dungeon....
I’ll never get tired of this game .
You and me both 👍🏻😁
Thanks.
No problem 😁
Awesome
I just started my millionth character and I didn't know so many of these!
Happy to help out 😁👍🏻
Wow. 5 or do playthroughs and this is the first time I've heard of the Way of the Voice. I always use the shout...Kyne's Peace I think...for animals, but that's more of a mid vs. early game thing.
Yeah that works also, glad you learnt something new though 😄!
Been playing since launch and I had no idea about that ghost quest 🤣
Yep, makes me wonder what else is out there I've missed all these years (will definitely be more 🤣)
In regards to saving, I came across the bug where after the battle of whiterun bugs out and the city never comes back on the map and the battle music is stuck.... so im glad I saved right before I started the battle.
That's a relief! And the exact reason why its good to keep frequent saves! Love skyrim, hate the bugs lol
for the weight limit a couple more things: A) you can do better then the drop an item and carry it.. kill a small creature (rabbit, fox or wolf..) when you loot the corpse, transfer a bunch of your stuff, then you can carry the corpse by clicking it and holding the button for a second. unless they fixed it, you can put hundreds of items on even a dead rabbit and carry it, then with it. fast traveling or entering buildings may drop it tho.
2) Pets! there is multiple pets included in the AE pack or available in the CC without AE (no modding needed) one is always free, the dwemer mud crab, it only carries a little.. but the "pets of skyrim" and a few others can carry more weight, and most importantly, you get a Teleport spell to bring them instantly to you and they CAN NOT DIE.. summon (not conjure, it just teleports them to you) a pet even in a dungeon, give it as much as it carries and either tell her to go to town or house of your choice or travel with her AND the other pets. goat carries 140 (-1 for her pack) nix hound carries 75, bone wolf 200.. this is also a way to basically have a pickaxe and wood cutting axe on command instead of carrying one all the time freeing up 10 - 20 carry weight, give a pet one of each, then summon that pet when you need the pick axe or wood axee, use it and give it back.
3) you can gain 100 carry weight easily: get your pickpocket skill to 50, thru use and / or pay for training (the beggar in windhelm is one)
4) adding a point to stamina also increases carry weight.. i don't recommend it tho, magicka and health are SO much more important.
5) there is also backpacks added with AE (or with the CC) that add 75 to carry weight, possibly other bonuses (like 20 magicka) and they are found in a lot of dressers (you may want to sneak and take one or two... i'm sure you'll return it later) followers can use them as well.
i still don't find carrying stuff worth less then 10 times it's weight worth it if you are just selling it, later on money is very easy anyway.
thanks these are great tips, had no idea about the dead animal trick that is crazy! Will have to try that out see if it works 🤣
Can also use whirlwind sprint when over encumbered if only travelling short distances such as from Breezehome to the store for example.
It is what is known as a "body bag" in Skyrim. It won't let you go through doors, however, but still very useful. At minimum you can drop the body outside the door and then slow walk the shorter distance in to sell the loot.
Also sometimes if you're sprinting with the bag it can catch on something and go flying out of your grasp in a random direction. Bit annoying to go repelling down a cliff to recover it.
If you’re playing with the Legacy of the Dragonborn mod (the Museum one where you collect artifacts) I highly recommend the mod Better Adventurers Backpack which makes them add 300 carry weight and also a permeant rested buff if they have a bedroll!
@@BananaNationTV If you're using the Legacy mod just use the ability that ports stuff back to the museum.
Or if you link the crafting stations worldwide with your materials inventory all you have to do is find an appropriate crafting station and activate it. When you leave the station it will pull out all of that loot from your inventory. Bit of a pain when you needed flowers to complete a quest and forget that it would do this but oh well.
You can get a free house at L2 in Markarth. Just start the House of Horrors quest. Kill the vigilant and go talk to Molag Bal. As soon as you’ve done that, you have a free property with safe storage and a bed.
Ah yeah never thought to use that place. Funnily enough I've just been doing that quest today, using the mace in a build guide I'm working on!
Thanks!!!🤩🤜🤛🤩
No problem 😁👍
AFK train all 3 armor classes by wearing at least 1 of each and enchant health restoration on as many that can.
Near Whiterun aggro a mudcrab and pull back near town entrance and go AFK.
However you may not want to do this if you intend to do the 5 trainings between each level.
You can fast travel while over encumbered. Just get on a mount and you can fast travel. I do this when changing houses and want to move all of my stuff.
Good tip thanks for sharing!
The mining animation is slow but I don't think the vein respawns if you just bash it
That's what learned in the Skyrim subreddit. It may be faster, but you've also ruined it for future use.
You are incredibly cool, 😎 thank you for all your fun and experience
Thanks a lot 😁
1. The first one is the most important by far.
I have steady saves at various points in the game, more often than not, at the end of gaming when I return to my player home, unload all of my keeps (armor, items, etc.), and get rested. Those don't get saved over.
And when I venture out again, I have 3-5 saves that I rotate though. I'll used the tilde key (~) and type SAVE "name". For me it's save through save 5, and I'll keep saving over them as I progress through the game.
They're timestamped and appear in order so I know which one was used last.
2. Anise's cabin - there is a mod that makes the entire cell a home cell, so that all of the storage areas are safe. I used that place a long time, just because of the tables in the cellar.
3. Voice of the Sky also works on the vampires. No, it's not a bug. It applies to vampires, followers, and animals for 24 hours.
This is particularly useful if you're doing a quest that you need to kill a single vampire, like the radiant quests, or if you're in a cave of vampires, which happens on some quests.
For example, that quest with Laelette during the Laid to Rest quest? A lot of people try to figure out how to get around her so she isn't hostile? Voice of the Sky.
4. There is a mod to fix the homecooked meal bug where our spouse stops making them.
Awesome, thanks for sharing your comments 😁 hadn't thought to use Voice of the Sky on vampire quests but that's really cool! 👍🏻
@@mike-thegamingdad Once you attack a non-hostile you lose it though. It's actually good for loot quests where you dont have to kill anything.
It's a bit like dual casting pacify or harmny on bandits on bandits and stuff when you want to go through a cave to get a chest. lol.
@dexternelson yeah losing it I've fallen foul of before. I picked the boon up on my let's play series, but then got startled by a wolf walking through the Rift afterwards and struck it without even thinking 😅. The wold would have likely just stood there and watched me go past but I didn't even give it chance 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad lol! That's how I found out I lose it when attacking something passive.
But it was a bear. I was recruiting Sorine and Gunmar, and Gunmar is always out hunting something.
I figured I'd just kill the one, then all of them attacked.
If it weren't for whirlwind cloak I'd be dead.
Saving games. The original was so "single player" that multiple members of the household could not save theri own "special" games. I wrote a silly little batch file (ouch with no error handling.) that would change the name of the default "SAVE" FOLDER and swap it out for a SAVE Folder with YOUR name on it. Just renamed the folder, nothing more. Then, after running the batchfile all of YOUR saved games would be there. You had to run the batch file at the end to get it to change the SAVE folder back to YOUR name. It really worked.
Skyrim, when it came out, was pushing the envelope of computer hardware so hard that a lot of folks had issues with loosing progress when the game crashed.
You've got the follower extra carry weight one but theres a much better way. If you're in a dungeon dump everything in a chest or corpse and tell him to loot it, he will collect it all so you don't have to drop indivdual items and spend ages telling him to pick it up. This works extreamly well in dwarven dungeons to make the ingots from dwarven components. You can get 300+ dwarven ingots in a single run. Makes smithing a breeze.
This also means you can move everything in one house to another quite easily but theres a bug with that where everything he takes gets marked as stolen. If you repeat the loot chest action with all marked stolen items it marks them unstolen. That works for actual stolen items too.
Awesome thanks for sharing the tip 😄👍🏻
I totally get this new age gotta know everything g before I play cause of UA-cam and betas. But I love going into a game blind and having to figure stuff out that's fun and it's part of skyrim all you need to know is what the controls are and a spontaneous adventure
Yeah thats how I discovered it back on the PS3 about 11 years ago 🤣. Those were the days!
also for mining u can eat vege soup and block attack with pick axe for even faster miner
After taking absences from Skyrim for 6 years, I’ve recently started playing again, there’s a lot that’s escaped my memory. I know full well I’ve climbed those 7,000 steps over 100+ times back on all my different build runs and I never knew those damn statues have a purpose!! I just thought they was simply like praying stones, all this damn time they do something! Curse my 1st play through back in 2011 because I’ve always ignored them due to me looking at it once and thought “looks like a praying stone” and ignoring it for many years!
Glad you back in the game! Haha yeah and it's quite a good effect as well, just a shame it requires walking up each time but it's probably 5 mins tops so not too bad 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad thank you! I’m currently playing on survival on legendary and this is a must to have on these difficulties because some animals are way OP. Great vid tho keep it up 👍🏻
@@duggy92 survival on legendary wow now that is a challenge! I'll be starting a survival let's play very soon but I wasn't going to crank it up that high 🤣🤣
Another early house you can gain free access to super early is the Riverwood Trader house after you do the Golden Claw mission. And you don't even have to sleep with Camilla the town bicycle! 🍻
Not heard her called that before 😂😂
Nice job..
There is a mod called “Peaceful Skyrim” or something like that. It makes all of the animals non-hostile so you can explore the woods and really the whole map without a wolf, bear, Sabre cat, or spider popping up every 45 seconds.
Nice will have to check that one out 😁 I haven't really delved into modding yet
Ill throw in my lockpicking tip here. Cause i still see people struggle to lock pick.
Use the image in the background as a sort of "gauge"
Find the sweet spot and pick something in the bacjground image as reference, now you know exactly where you were before it broke, and can get a good idea of how much farther to move it.
The harder the lock, the further down the pick you look
You can pick master locks at 15 with a handful of pick
Thats a good tip not seen anyone comment that before 👍🏻😁
Even better tip lol hoard lockpicks! They dont weight anything so you can have 200+. Not to mention the skill increases evertime they break and if you crouched and hidden it doesnt matter cause no one even knows your there. Though I have the skeleton key right now so I cant break picks to get the skill up sigh. Every other lock is master now ugh.
Also: save before attempting lockpicking, then know that every time you enter the lockpick ui, it resets, so you can do this infinitely while just not dragging around the lockpit but trying in the starter position all the time until it's set there.