That is an excellent tip hadn't though of that. Damn I should have put in "get the aetherial crown and Equip the lady stone and the steed stone". Bam 2 elements of survival mode fixed in 1 go, regen and carry weight 😂
Not sure if it’s been mentioned or not, but the “clear sky” shout is invaluable! Make a harsh blizzard turn into a warm sunny day and you’ll start to warm up!
Yeah that's a great tip, I think it was mentioned but I wasn't using it on my let's play series and someone mentioned it there as well and it's been a life saver at times!
You can still hire a carriage or have your house steward acquire one for fast traveling. The latter is significantly more helpful as you don't have to pay to ride. Plus, your personal carriage can take you to places other than the holds, such as Dragon Bridge, Shor's Stone, Rorikstead, etc.
@rpfrompr you can ask just about anyone who is eligible for a follower Housecarls (like Lydia), mercenaries, etc can be stewards that can upgrade your house.
Hawk Feathers' first effect is cure disease, so you can carry a few of these at 0.1 lbs each instead of the potions at 0.5 lbs each. Save up a bit of carry weight. Great video, though. Loved it.
Across from Riverwood on the path to the old tower that leads Bleak Falls Temple. Just after meeting the solo wolf there is a tree that a hawk nests into, when it lands shoot into the nest with an arrow and the hawk falls down. Another nest is above that old tower that you will come to next. That’s 6 hawk feathers.
@@mike-thegamingdad It counts as an alchemy ingredient, so it's not food like raw meat would be. But, ya, it is silly when you actually think about it.
An alternative to Hawk Feathers, especially if you get Golden Hills, is to make garlic bread. Garlic bread weighs 0.1, cures diseases and has 220 food value. One cure disease potion weighs 0.5 so the equivalent weight in garlic bread gives 5 disease cures and a total of 1100 food value. To make garlic bread you need an oven, 1 butter, 1 garlic, 1 standard loaf of bread. This will make 2 serves of garlic bread. Golden Hills can produce 4 milk a day which can be churned to butter. The only working butter churn in Skyrim (to my knowledge) is in the kitchen in the Golden Hills Farm. You can buy butter from time to time and find or make garlic bread in other places but for a steady supply Golden Hills Farm is best. You need to buy or collect garlic at every opportunity. Only Hearth fire homes (kitchens) or the new homes in the Anniversary Edition have ovens. The latter homes usually have a few garlic bread available. If you fight the zombies a lot (good for levelling many skills at once) you will almost always be infected with Brain Rot whether in survival mode or not so a quick light cure is handy.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Great tips in here. The value of fur armor and veg soup cannot be overstated! Thank you for pointing out the value of restoration and campsites…especially placing a campsite near long-winded Paarthurnax! His rants can be deadly in survival. 😂
No problem at all 😁. I can't remember who shared the tip on the camp atop the Throat of the World, may have been MC Malave on my Let's Play, but I thought it was a great tip worthy of including 😁
Can you believe that after 40+ hours of survival mode I had NO IDEA you could have backpacks, fire camps and sleeping bags?? I thought that was only in Frostfall mod and I was so pissed LMAO thank you!
Survival honestly terrifies me because I can barely keep myself alive irl, but I'm planning an rpg playthrough and was considering this. Thanks for the tips, man!
If you dont want to shell the money but want a house around falkreath and Whiterun, go to Anise cabin, go into the cellar, read the note, go outside, and kill Anise when she tries to murder her, go bacl to the cellar, loot all containers and store items wherever you want in the basement cellar. The bed becomes unowned, the cellar containers never respawn, you get a alchemist table, an emchantment tables and essentially a player home. Also the ground floor dresser and wardrobe also never reapawn, but the barrel and apothecary container on the ground floor will respawn so, unsafe. So you get a ton of free storage, crafting tables, not far from riverwood, Falkreath, and Whiterun, all for free, and a bed that gives you rested. Its honestly my favorite nonpurchaseable player homes in skyrim. In addition there are many such other places throughout Skyrim that you can do the same with. And helps spice up places to homebase in besides the unpleasant purchaseable homes.
Thanks for sharing yeah I've used that shack as an early base before. After you dispose of her you can get attacked by a mob sent by her sister I think? But they aren't that hard to deal
@@mike-thegamingdad At low levels on legendary they can be a pain. But if you make sure in 3-4 days after you kill her you are near giants or at winterhold or the greybeards you can get other people to kill them for you.
I love how it has pushed me to really utilize materials, ingredients, food, and potions. I used to just keep my inventory full of tons of stuff like that. Now, I am actually leveling up alchemy and smithing much more than I did in prior saves, and I have been using potions to really help me in certain battles. It's more challenging, engaging, and immersive. I love it.
@@jonesygrets6029 I can agree with that! It feels like you need to keep a set of fur armor and some hot soup on you at all times when hitting any areas up north.
I’ve played the game for around 11 years but survival mode is so refreshing. It forces me to be conscious about my choices. It almost feels new again. Imo this should’ve been the default for the game.
Thanks for all the tips, I've been loving playing in survival mode as it adds a new layer to the game and makes it slightly more difficult but more realistic. One thing though about curing diseases, if you can find or steal some potions then it's great, or find some hawk feathers to carry with you. But buying a potion costs like 230 gold while the shrines only cost 100 gold. So I would rather use the shrines than buying the potion early on. Also if you have a shrine in your house, like in Tundra Homestead or Myrwatch, using those are free.
Small tip if you play on legendary. Always keep a good eye on your health when fighting in the cold. Especially around two handed bandits. Sometimes I forget that my health is practically sliced in half. With that certain bandits will lock you into their killcams. Not fun. Your armor can be stupidly strong, but nothing beats the skyrim cold (I guess soup)
Yeah true, and it makes weapons with the frost enchantment, or frost mages more of a problem. Frost was always the weakest of the 3 magic schools but now it doesn't just damage now, it lowers your warmth rating which lowers your overall health
Great video.... as always! One tip that you may have forgotten to mention in the 'chopping wood' part..... another advantage is that once you sell the wood to the innkeeper you get a bed in the inn for free! Also with Goldenhills and the money you get from your steward! It can add up to quite a lot ESP if you go a few days between collecting it! Also Goldenhills steward is another good reason to get Feandal at the very beginning and use him for his archery skills (if you are doing a archer build) and then after he is all 'used up' hire him as steward!
Yes that is true, I think I thought about it but I'd mentioned free beds a few times so left it out 🤣 but its a good point as I use that bed all the time 🤣
@@louisbrewer1260 and a load of people you do favours for as well, I think if you give a mammoth tusk to Ysolda you can sleep in her bed as well (ahem 😅).
@@mike-thegamingdad True! In case anyone missed it, there is a mammoth tusk in the Bannered Mare above a cabinet behind the reception desk. Hulda usually has her back turned, so it's very easy to steal at early levels.
@belmontzar it gives you some resistance to cold yes and it's sprint is useful to get around cold areas where you can't fast travel. Werewolves aren't as strong as vampire Lords unfortunately when it comes to survival mode as your resistance to cold is better and you also get poison and disease and you can hover over freezing water plus a few other benefits like extra magicka and what not
With venison make stew/soup (.5units) instead of chops (2 units) as you can carry 4 stew/soup to each chop. Salmon steaks at .1 units becomes you most common food. To keep your weight burden down. If you use mods, Convenient Horses is a great mod as you can call your horses to you and have them not attack. Their factors if of strength, speed and endurance can be improved.
You'll always find a bunch of Salt in Fish-Barrels all over Skyrim and I highly recommend "Garlic Bread" as a Food as well, it satiates your hunger as well as cure you off of any disease you have. 2 for 1 :D Speaking of... if you bake them yourself (Garlic + Bread + Butter) you'll always get 2 at the same time and they weigh only 0.1 each. like Hawk Feathers. :D If you plant wheat at goldenhills, you'll be able to mill them into flour and make Apple Dumplings for example (Flour + Red Apple + Green Apple) which satiates Hunger and fortify Archery. Pretty cheap recipe as you'll almost always loot apples in SM anyways^^ You can also churn your milk from Goldenhills into butter (in HF Homes at least, Goldenhills don't have it IIRC). Bread is surprisingly expensive to bake for yourself, so always loot/buy some wherever you go, as it's sold pretty cheap. --- If you have "too much" Wheat you can sell your surplus to the farmer in Rorikstatt next to the Goat-seller for good cash^^ Hope this helps :3 EDIT: Oh and btw. "half-Bread" and "full-Bread" both count the same in terms of baking. So collect them both :)
Thanks for the great tips! Wasn't aware of the apple dumplings recipe, but I have used garlic bread before, I find butter surprisingly rare in Skyrim, so yeah having a kitchen and making it yourself seems to be the way to go.
Great tips. My addition would be that you can earn even more money if you make potions with wheat. For example Forst Miriam + Purple Mountain Flower + Wheat (tx Sgt Slack for that haha)
I was there on 11.11.11, and i have played ESO for years too. Now i am just returning to Skyrim for the first time since about 2015, and i think giving survival mode a go sounds like a very interesting challenge. Thanks for the brilliant video.
@@mike-thegamingdad yeah I forget the name but it won’t be red to steal, instead you can just take it like any horse you own. It doesn’t follow you around the same way but I mean shoot, it’s free.
If you have Anniversary Edition, the quest Tilted Scales gives you a set of studded dragonscale armour with the same warmth rating as the fur armour. It's a quick and relatively easy quest that can be started by reading the book The Crimson Dirks, v4 in Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm. It has a base armour rating of 90 with 20 weight.
i really love survival mode it can suck traveling some times but it makes it much more immersive, also it makes things like cooking having a horse and a ton of little things worth doing or having, one thing i didnt see was there is pets you can summon you can buy a goat right by the farm and you can fill them with potions arrows or anything you may want and summon them to you for a restock or have them carry things to sell very useful and they are fun to have
Once l'd played survival mode, l can't play any other way. I've had many, many lives in Skyrim, and l still enjoy starting over. Take your time, see the sights. Some at certain times of day or night, are amazing. Enjoy.
I just downloaded Skyrim on PS5 and omg.. the movement is flawless and smooth. I decided to start off where I left of from. I saw there was a survival mode and need this video for tips. As for now starting off on regular mode until I get rid of some items and weight.
Awesome I'm glad you are enjoying it 😁. Yeah sure thing, survival mode is definitely more of a challenge. My let's play series is also survival mode based if you are into that sort of thing
First and most important Tipp: Best Race for survival mode is Nords. Because you will never be low on food (its free everywhere) and sleep. You can even sleep in most of the Dungeons. But warmth.... Guys Not even the 15% of kajith ist enough. You will freeze to death a lot. Also the most resistance build is without survival bratons because of the 25% Magic resistance from the start. but in survival They Miss the 25% warmth and nords have only a 0.6 damage disadvantage more at freez Magic attackers compared to trade. because you have the 50% cold resisance already can enchant Magic resistance on your Armour instead of a freez resistance enchantment. Since you only need 15% Magic resistance and the max is 23 and the freez resistance enchantment is 50 by nords from the start and can only be 54 max without glitches you trade the 0.6 more damage each 100 freez magic Attack vs freezing to death a lot with the 25% warmth bonus. It makes the Nords the most balanced and resistance race in survival mode. Even their starting skill warcry is like a shout you can use once a day and will Help you even out on legendary. Only the orcs Double damage Skill is better but even though orcs look good too in paper, they have even less warmth then kajith which renders everything else they got useless.
LOL great video! Was about to restart Skyrim and was finally considering upgrading to the Anniversary Edition then noticed that the Anniversary edition was on sale at Amazon. I decided to buy the hard copy ($2 cheaper LOL) this will be my 4th version of Skyrim that I've purchased over the years - 2 on the PS3 and 2 on the PS4. Could never find a PS5 so I decided to skip it... Yea I like Skyrim, retirement is great. Oh did I mention love your videos very informative! Now I have to wait til next Tuesday to restart Skyrim... :(
That's great and awesome you've purchased the AE version! I'm similar this is my 3rd copy now. First was PS3, then PS4 Special Edition, now its AE on PC. Thank you I'm glad you are liking my videos, is Tuesday when your new copy gets delivered?
@@mike-thegamingdad Found out this morning that Skyrim will be delivered this afternoon - can't wait but will be happy when the 2-3hrs of updates are loaded during installation on the PS4
I know that for a lot of regular Skyrim players, they all thought Survival was really challenging. However, as someone who's put almost as many hours into Ark Survival Evolved, this is pretty tame. It's even tame compared to the old mod Frostfall
Yeah I've heard it's not as severe as frostfall. It's funny that hunger can't kill you as well but cold can. You just end up famished and it never gets worse than that
@@SciFiUncensored Ark has a little bit of luck involved, but if you are aware of your surroundings, and think ahead, early game isn't so bad. In fact, if you talk to most Ark veterans, they'll tell you that they regularly start new character on different servers, or in SP, so they can enjoy feeling vulnerable again. I mean, end game with your ascended tek gear, you don't even really care if a Rex walks up on you. However, when you are new, like legit new, then it can seem incredibly difficult. (For context I'm not comparing Ark PvP to Skyrim because that would be unfair to Skyrim). Never really got into DayZ, I know I played it at least once, but my favorite zombie survival is 7 Days to Die. Horde night can be brutal. Unlike most in the genre, once every 7 game days, at sundown, a massive horde of omnipotent zombies show up to tear your base apart. Stealth is useless during a horde night, because they always know exactly where you are, and therefore no stealth damage multiplier. There are ways to fudge the AI with certain building pieces, placed in certain arrangements. It's funny because designing horde bases is one of my favorite things, but I never do the fudgy meta bases. I actualy really enjoy Skyrim's Survival mode. However, one of my pet peeves, as far as survival games is concerned, is lumping food and drink into the same stat. Seriously, drinking water shouldn't make my hunger go away lol. Fallout 4 does survival mode better than Skyrim SE did, but if I remember right, Skyrim got survival mode befor FO4 did. Proof that Bethesda listens to feedback if true. Frostfall was one of the most popular mods when SE came out, so they cobbled together a survival mode. Then they got feedback from players saying that they wished survival mode had X feature from Frostfall...then lo and behold, FO4 survival has some of those features. Most importantly though, the inability to fast travel makes Skyrim and Fallout survival well worth it, to me. It had such an impact on me, having to go back to Morrowind style transportation, that I actually refuse to use fast travel in Oblivion and Fallout 3 now lol. I even started a new non-survival game in Skyrim and find myself forgetting that fast travel even exists.
@@mike-thegamingdad I just discovered something very useful that you can add. My character went to see the graybeards for the first time, early in the morning and it started snowing. Which set the temp to Treacherously Cold. One of them LOK VAH KOOR'ed in my ear to clear the sky. I got to thinking, can I do that too? So when it started raining or snowing in Skyrim, I used Clear Skies and Poof, I controlled the weather. So Clear Skies is really useful on Survival.
Many thanks! 👏 I'm a longtime player in my first survival mode playthrough. I found many sets of warm fur armor pieces in many bandit camps. Not many fur helmets, though. I prefer to use the Aetherium Crown, anyways, and I am in the process in acquiring that one. I agree about the veggie soups! In survival mode, I find my Restoration skills upgrade faster, too. 7:57 - if you check the other barrels there, you should be able to find about 20 bottles of the Honningbrew meads. 9:40 - if you have garlic, salt, and some kind of cheese, you can make garlic bread in an oven. These will cure all diseases, too. Becoming a werewolf should prevent diseases, too (like in the main game). 13:00 - great tip about campsites! I'll have to try that one. 😄 14:40 - an extra tip is getting married early, and requesting a "home cooked meal" each day. These are free and really help in survival mode. 15:58 - After I got the Goldenhills Plantation, I spoke to Lucia in Whiterun, and agreed to adopt her. For whatever reason, she is stuck there, and I can no longer speak to her. Very strange. (Could this be a bug in the survival edition)? Moreover, regarding Sissel (in Rorikstead), it seems her father keeps dying in strange ways in each of my playthroughs. After he passed away in front of me, I couldn't find Sissel or her hateful sister. Is adoption glitched in survival mode? I'll continue to try and see if I can adopt Sofie (Windhelm), or from the orphanage once I get there. Many thanks!
Thank you, someone else mentioned mentioned garlic bread as well, I'd forgotten that cured diseases 🤣. No problem at all about the campsites, it was someone on my let's play that mentioned that to me, trying to think who it was, may have been MC Malave. Thought it was an excellent tip. Yeah that homecooked meal is awesome isn't it, I think I'll get married in the let's play eventually and then I can pick some of those up That does sound like a bug as I've never had any issues myself personally with adoption either in survival mode or not. I'll have a play around though, and I'll ensure it's included in the let's play series as well in the future, see if we encounter any issues then 😅
@@mike-thegamingdad No worries! I'll keep plugging away. For example, my player's goal now is to become thane of Falkreath and build the Lakeview Manor. Once that's done, I'll move my family there. I can ask the housecarl to build a carriage there, too, making it easier to get around without fast travel. After doing a couple of quests around Falkreath, I tried speaking to Sinding. I stood there, and he never walked over. I slept in the Inn, got the "Mother's Comfort" bonus (which means the game thinks I adopted Lucia), went back, and Sinding spoke to me to trigger that quest. Very strange. I'm on a Nintendo Switch, though, at this point, I doubt anything is console specific. We shall see... 😃 Many thanks!
@@XEV_ being a vampire has its perks definitely, it depends on how you want to play really and what you want to focus on. So for example if you use illusion magic, it's very strong as vampires have something called seduction, so it makes illusion spells stronger. The obvious drawbacks are weakness to sunlight and weakness to fire. So if you like to travel on foot a lot in daytime it can be an issue. Weakness to fire can be negated through potions or by being a dark elf. Also townsfolk generally react negatively towards you if you are a vampire so you may just not like being one because of that. The main benefit to a vampire is the necromage perk though, it's in the restoration tree. I recommend looking up effects of necromage on vampires, the list is quite extensive. But I use it when doing enchanting and potion making as it affects both of those things.
Fast Travel Tip: You can fast travel in survival mode if you open your map immediately after you walk out of a door or cave.. and quickly click the place you want to go. As long as you have discovered it. It might not work the first time.. but keep trying. it will work.. and it has been helpful for sure!
i have a small set of main mods i play with as a set that i will not play without any more, hunterborn, campfire, bandoliers and backpacks, and live another life. omg makes for a much differant gameplay especially if playing with survival mode the bandoliers and backpacks mod is a lifesaver.
I don't know if it counts cheesy by if you have a pet like Hilda the goat you can let them carry your potion and food on them for emergency. Summon them when you need them. And let them go back to home on their own since they're essential and cannot die.
Bound weapons are amazing if you’re doing a low level build. Having free-weight to carry more potions and soups is just too good to pass up. And if you’re not a fan of carrying warm armor that also weighs a lot, you can buy the holiday set, warmest clothes in the game. This can save up to 100+ pounds.
Riften fishery is a good place to get salt and salmon for food early too that you don't need to steal. Just do a small favor for someone and you get in.
I enjoyed the fishing questline there in general, surprised how long it was. I think the argonian has maybe 4-5 seperate quests but I'm sure the redguard woman I ended up doing loads for and you get loads of unique items as well
Late but a tip I’ve found useful is having Hilda the goat set up at home, whenever you need gear taking back just summon her to you and unload all your things for her to walk home for you, if she’s not home before you just summon her home.
if collecting vegetables for food is too easy for you, try survival mode with hunterborn/apothecary- an alchemy overhaul/gourmet- a cooking overhaul/salmon slicer. with apothecary potions are heal over time with many other changes. gourmet, with survival mode enabled, removes soups, adds stews, and you need to buy recipes to advance the ability to cook. salmon slicer lets you fish whole salmon and slice it into meat so you can cook it without salt pile, i personally found this more immersive for fishing.
Instead of the spell calm use the spell courage. If you dont one shot an animal when calm is active theyll flee. If you use courage it prevents them from fleeing. Although you will have to fight them
Vegetable soup does not restore much hunger. It is good for health and stamina but not hunger. Having a horse will let you travel while over-encumbered. And Restoration is a valid school of magic.
Started trying Skyrim for the 3rd time and something's I like about arrival mode, some I don't. I like learning the roads, not just taking the straight line then fast traveling once the location is found and having to think about armour warm and weight. What I don't like is the hungary meter and how cooked foods have a much higher level then say apples, seam a little unrealistic.
Missed a tip I would consider big. Hearthfire homes offer free carriage service, and if you build the shrines, free disease mitigation. Also, build a shrine at Goldenhills instead of a child bedroom. Join the College. Go to the Midden and craft fire salts at Atronach forge. The Crab Stew is better than Veggie Soup. Learn to fight on horseback. Keep Frost for yourself. Certain pets can carry stuff and have a teleportation spell. There is a free fire cloak spell between Dawnstar and Winterhold, found at the fiery explosion site. Get the Agent of Mara.
@@weixingyang898 health regen does work in survival mode from soups and stuff. But normal regen doesn't. Could it be that it's not noticeable because it's so small? What I would do is test it by saving and then eating like 20 or something. See if you can see the regen then. If you chug a load and still nothing, it could be you've encountered a bug. Try turning Survival off and on again, see if that resets it.
@@mike-thegamingdad I try turning off and turning back on the survival mode, the soup health regeneration will only work for a few seconds then it'll stop.
@weixingyang898 hmm that does sound like you've encountered some sort of bug. Are you on PC or console? Have you tried looking online/reddit? I bet someone somewhere will have posted about it
using courage on animals makes them stop running. Frostfall mod makes the top of the Throat of the World warm, presumably because of the presence of a dragon and the Time Wound. And, as you point out, the ridiculously long talking that will kill you from exposure.
Ah that is Tundra Homestead, its one of the 9 new homes added in the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim which came out November 2021. Think it contained about 80 new pieces of content, homes, weapons, armor, quests etc. Costs about £15/$15 for the upgrade
Unfortunately on the Switch, the game crashes whenever you get too cold. It makes travelling anywhere north almost impossible. Even if you take a carriage, the game will immediately crash upon arriving. Its the only thing keeping me from leaving survival mode on all the time.
5:54 Look out for the giant and his mammoths nearby before going to Greenspring Hollow. If killing the predator is too difficult, draw it over and let them kill it while you run away!
Nice you are in for a treat, lots of new stuff in the game now with the special edition and anniversary edition additions 😁. Just make sure you get the latest or upgrade to the latest version if you want it all 👍🏻
@dylanarmour6727 yeah I can imagine! I'm playing on master currently on my let's play, could probably crank it up again as the last episode felt fairly straight forward. Starting on legendary is a real challenge though
@@mike-thegamingdad I like to play as a pure warrior in ancient Nord armor the whole time it helps with role play. No magic just shouts feels lore accurate. It’s fun to build a camp under the stars before going into a hard dungeon really immersive. I just use melee shouts a bow and a lot of vegetable soup for endless stamina. My follower always has ancient nord Armor too sorry I’m nerding out here
Hey because in survival mode you don't regen anyway, I've found the effect is very small, almost barely noticeable unless you stop and watch it. Check your effects tab and make sure you don't have food poisoning, that could be stopping it. Also check to see if health regen and stsmina regen are in the effects. If that doesn't work, turn off Survival Mode in the menu. Exit out of the menu and let it save the settings. Go back into the menu and turn Survival Mode back on and let it save the settings again.
Great tip for goldenhills (and comical role play) once you make it your home you can send your spouse to it. I usually marry Camilla and make Faendal/Sven my steward. You can collect money from both every time you visit plus lover’s comfort and a home cooked meal
@SkyBloopers I discovered the wonders of garlic bread a few months back. Even though its far easier to eat a Hawk feathers I found it amusing that garlic bread cured all diseases 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad see I never used it. I honestly don’t use the cooking system enough… I usually stick to venison/vegetable soup same thing but one adds health, Khajit fondue and there’s another soup towards the top that gives you health and stamina regen.
@@mike-thegamingdad also something I would add to your list of tips to go along with firewood, ARROWS…. They spike your smithing level pretty fast for starting off so you can make enough arrows to clear some dungeons… get the shadow bow for ebony arrows and give one to your follower they will never run out and you can occasionally collect them off dead bodies. Additionally silent moon is next to halted steam camp which has transmute spell and tons of iron.
You forgot the most important tip... if you're up in the throat of the world in the middle of the night obv you're gonna freeze so don't go up in the night. In the daylight you won't freeze anywhere obv.
@freemindmusic2824 yeah that's true time of day does make a massive difference. I can't remember if I mentioned it as well, probably not, but any poor weather (snow, rain etc) can be cleared with the clear skies shout. This is particularly good in survival because if you stop the bad weather, it usually results in the temperature rating climbing up a level. Can make a huge difference between almost freezing to death and making it wherever you need to go.
Honestly the only issue i have with regen is healing between fights, i find that regen only ever helps me when i wait an hour to refresh my health for the next fight, i dont think i've ever used regen in a fight or anything like that.
@@mike-thegamingdad with the campfire mod (and a survival patch) you can keep warm, cook and sleep anywhere in skyrim which makes the lack of fast travel alot easier to deal with. You can also cook meat for free on the fires in campfire, so you can save your salt piles for making fire salts for hot soups.
I got my trusted goat 🐐 Hilda that carry stuff for me. Plus I can get milk from her! Founder her on cafm when I accidentally clicked on a farmer and he was selling a goal. I couldn't pass that up. Found out after I bought her that she could carry my things which is game changer. She is a bit slow but I would recommend getting her. ❤
> I married Janessa early and kept her as a follower. She gives you a daily meal and a 15% learning bonus for the skills you use for 8 hours whenever you sleep.
Nice yeah that 15% will be the lovers comfort bonus I think, you get it when sleeping in an abode with your spouse 😁. The homecooked meal is awesome though, easily one of the best foodstuffs in the game!
@joshgilbert3239 I think it is yeah, as someone who's played this game a lot, I thought it was quite refreshing and added in a more extra challenges. It also forces you to walk a lot so you end up seeing a lot more random events, easter eggs, locations etc that you might have normally missed.
Please help! Idk if my game is broke but i cannot have any backpacks, and second problem soup doesnt hive me helth back at all in survival... is my game broken?
Hey do you have anniversary edition? As backpacks were an addition in that. If you do have it, it may be that the content isn't installed. The easiest way to check is if you click into Creations/Creation Club on the main start menu (unless you play on Switch, i think it's somewhere else on Switch) and check in there. That's where all the content is held. It should hopefully say install or download if you have it. If it says purchase or buy you have an earlier version and would need to upgrade. Re. Soup not replenishing health. If you eat one and go into your active effects, can you see the replen stamina and replen health boosts listed in there? Is there also food poisoning listed as well? As that stops the regen I believe If the boosts are there but its not working. Turn off Survival Mode in the menu. Exit out of the menu and let it save the settings. Go back into the menu and turn Survival Mode back on and let it save the settings again. It could be that you need to "reset" Survival Mode. Sounds silly but it's worked for me, like turning something off and on again
I kinda feel like adding a charge of 100 gold to a shrine makes them somewhat useless. No way you're going to slow travel across the map to pay 100 gold for a blessing to boost your prices...
Yeah I don't really use them, more often than not I've taken a potion or some Hawk feathers, although on my let's play we found a necklace of disease immunity and have been wearing that since
I think there might be yeah, try set timescale to (number). The default speed is 30. So 30 in game minutes is 1 real minute. So if you set it to 5, it would 5 mins in game = 1 minute. 1 would obviously be real time. I'd do some research on this though before you try it. I've never done it so I don't know if it can mess anything up, there may be some watch outs.
I love Skyrim but I’m not very good at it, I tried survival mode for like 5 minutes and turned it off. 😂 I was like nah this is too much happening at once I’m distracted
Quick tip: If you activate the Lady Stone it re-enables health regeneration.
Oh really that’s awesome
That is an excellent tip hadn't though of that.
Damn I should have put in "get the aetherial crown and Equip the lady stone and the steed stone". Bam 2 elements of survival mode fixed in 1 go, regen and carry weight 😂
I purposely don't get that stone in order to raise my Restoration ^_^
How much does that stone regenerate your health? A lot or not overly?
@@YARZ88 It's slow but it's better than nothing.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned or not, but the “clear sky” shout is invaluable! Make a harsh blizzard turn into a warm sunny day and you’ll start to warm up!
Yeah that's a great tip, I think it was mentioned but I wasn't using it on my let's play series and someone mentioned it there as well and it's been a life saver at times!
survival mode definitely makes some useless things absolutely necessary again
You can still hire a carriage or have your house steward acquire one for fast traveling. The latter is significantly more helpful as you don't have to pay to ride. Plus, your personal carriage can take you to places other than the holds, such as Dragon Bridge, Shor's Stone, Rorikstead, etc.
Yeah that is handy
This is a life/money saver of epic proportions
How do you get your steward in survival mode?
@rpfrompr you can ask just about anyone who is eligible for a follower
Housecarls (like Lydia), mercenaries, etc can be stewards that can upgrade your house.
..getting back is the thing 😄
Hawk Feathers' first effect is cure disease, so you can carry a few of these at 0.1 lbs each instead of the potions at 0.5 lbs each. Save up a bit of carry weight.
Great video, though. Loved it.
That is cool, can you eat them without ill effect? Haven't tried that, if so great! Odd that you can eat feathers but raw meat is a big no no 🤣🤣
Across from Riverwood on the path to the old tower that leads Bleak Falls Temple. Just after meeting the solo wolf there is a tree that a hawk nests into, when it lands shoot into the nest with an arrow and the hawk falls down. Another nest is above that old tower that you will come to next. That’s 6 hawk feathers.
@@michaeltelson9798 And there's another nest in riverwood itself. Towards the mountain. Just look you'll see the hawk. So that's 9 in riverwood.
@@mike-thegamingdad It counts as an alchemy ingredient, so it's not food like raw meat would be. But, ya, it is silly when you actually think about it.
An alternative to Hawk Feathers, especially if you get Golden Hills, is to make garlic bread. Garlic bread weighs 0.1, cures diseases and has 220 food value.
One cure disease potion weighs 0.5 so the equivalent weight in garlic bread gives 5 disease cures and a total of 1100 food value.
To make garlic bread you need an oven, 1 butter, 1 garlic, 1 standard loaf of bread. This will make 2 serves of garlic bread. Golden Hills can produce 4 milk a day which can be churned to butter. The only working butter churn in Skyrim (to my knowledge) is in the kitchen in the Golden Hills Farm. You can buy butter from time to time and find or make garlic bread in other places but for a steady supply Golden Hills Farm is best. You need to buy or collect garlic at every opportunity.
Only Hearth fire homes (kitchens) or the new homes in the Anniversary Edition have ovens. The latter homes usually have a few garlic bread available.
If you fight the zombies a lot (good for levelling many skills at once) you will almost always be infected with Brain Rot whether in survival mode or not so a quick light cure is handy.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Great tips in here. The value of fur armor and veg soup cannot be overstated! Thank you for pointing out the value of restoration and campsites…especially placing a campsite near long-winded Paarthurnax! His rants can be deadly in survival. 😂
No problem at all 😁. I can't remember who shared the tip on the camp atop the Throat of the World, may have been MC Malave on my Let's Play, but I thought it was a great tip worthy of including 😁
I always find it interesting when you see the campsite in the flashback😊
@@mcmalave2789 the camp travels through time 🤣
Can you believe that after 40+ hours of survival mode I had NO IDEA you could have backpacks, fire camps and sleeping bags?? I thought that was only in Frostfall mod and I was so pissed LMAO thank you!
No problem at all 😁👍🏻
Dude why you want to download these other mods if you have all in one Frostfall?
@pazeros6424 this isn't a mod. It's just part of the game.
Survival honestly terrifies me because I can barely keep myself alive irl, but I'm planning an rpg playthrough and was considering this. Thanks for the tips, man!
No problem at all 😁
If you dont want to shell the money but want a house around falkreath and Whiterun, go to Anise cabin, go into the cellar, read the note, go outside, and kill Anise when she tries to murder her, go bacl to the cellar, loot all containers and store items wherever you want in the basement cellar.
The bed becomes unowned, the cellar containers never respawn, you get a alchemist table, an emchantment tables and essentially a player home.
Also the ground floor dresser and wardrobe also never reapawn, but the barrel and apothecary container on the ground floor will respawn so, unsafe.
So you get a ton of free storage, crafting tables, not far from riverwood, Falkreath, and Whiterun, all for free, and a bed that gives you rested.
Its honestly my favorite nonpurchaseable player homes in skyrim.
In addition there are many such other places throughout Skyrim that you can do the same with.
And helps spice up places to homebase in besides the unpleasant purchaseable homes.
Thanks for sharing yeah I've used that shack as an early base before. After you dispose of her you can get attacked by a mob sent by her sister I think? But they aren't that hard to deal
@@mike-thegamingdad At low levels on legendary they can be a pain. But if you make sure in 3-4 days after you kill her you are near giants or at winterhold or the greybeards you can get other people to kill them for you.
@@Ahglock nice yeah thats a good tip, get the giants to yeet them into space 🤣
Nevr knew anything about this. thanks so much. plz let me know if there are other places.
Great tips
Just started survival for the first time
Loving it
Everything feels like it’s used in the world now
Thanks and that's awesome! Yeah it definitely does
I love how it has pushed me to really utilize materials, ingredients, food, and potions. I used to just keep my inventory full of tons of stuff like that. Now, I am actually leveling up alchemy and smithing much more than I did in prior saves, and I have been using potions to really help me in certain battles. It's more challenging, engaging, and immersive. I love it.
@@joedkat yeah totally
While I love it, I feel that there should be better warm clothing that actually helps more in the blizzards
@@jonesygrets6029 I can agree with that! It feels like you need to keep a set of fur armor and some hot soup on you at all times when hitting any areas up north.
I’ve played the game for around 11 years but survival mode is so refreshing. It forces me to be conscious about my choices. It almost feels new again. Imo this should’ve been the default for the game.
Damn you've done it again. Soon as I start watching your videos I get this incredible urge to fire up skyrim immediately.
Thank you 😁 I guess I'm doing it right then haha 🤣
Thanks for all the tips, I've been loving playing in survival mode as it adds a new layer to the game and makes it slightly more difficult but more realistic. One thing though about curing diseases, if you can find or steal some potions then it's great, or find some hawk feathers to carry with you. But buying a potion costs like 230 gold while the shrines only cost 100 gold. So I would rather use the shrines than buying the potion early on. Also if you have a shrine in your house, like in Tundra Homestead or Myrwatch, using those are free.
Yeah thats a good point about the shrines in houses 😁. Glad you are enjoying survival mode I am as well!
I'm way more religious in Skyrim than real life because of this. If only it helped in real life...
Small tip if you play on legendary. Always keep a good eye on your health when fighting in the cold. Especially around two handed bandits. Sometimes I forget that my health is practically sliced in half. With that certain bandits will lock you into their killcams. Not fun. Your armor can be stupidly strong, but nothing beats the skyrim cold (I guess soup)
Yeah true, and it makes weapons with the frost enchantment, or frost mages more of a problem. Frost was always the weakest of the 3 magic schools but now it doesn't just damage now, it lowers your warmth rating which lowers your overall health
There is one torch in the game that doesn't burn out unless it was removed- I think I picked it up in association with golden glow estate
Oh really did not know that!
Great video.... as always! One tip that you may have forgotten to mention in the 'chopping wood' part..... another advantage is that once you sell the wood to the innkeeper you get a bed in the inn for free! Also with Goldenhills and the money you get from your steward! It can add up to quite a lot ESP if you go a few days between collecting it! Also Goldenhills steward is another good reason to get Feandal at the very beginning and use him for his archery skills (if you are doing a archer build) and then after he is all 'used up' hire him as steward!
Yes that is true, I think I thought about it but I'd mentioned free beds a few times so left it out 🤣 but its a good point as I use that bed all the time 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad of course that should apply to ALL inns in Skyrim! So you could essentially have a free bed in every single town/city in Skyrim!
@@louisbrewer1260 and a load of people you do favours for as well, I think if you give a mammoth tusk to Ysolda you can sleep in her bed as well (ahem 😅).
@@mike-thegamingdad very true
@@mike-thegamingdad True! In case anyone missed it, there is a mammoth tusk in the Bannered Mare above a cabinet behind the reception desk. Hulda usually has her back turned, so it's very easy to steal at early levels.
If you are a werewolf you become immune to disease (even when not in werewolf form), so its a good idea to complete the companions questline early on
Yeah thats true, the only drawback is not being able to get resting bonuses anymore but it's a small drawback
Possibly silly question but if you transform and get all fuzzy does that warm you up, or give cold resistance?
@belmontzar it gives you some resistance to cold yes and it's sprint is useful to get around cold areas where you can't fast travel. Werewolves aren't as strong as vampire Lords unfortunately when it comes to survival mode as your resistance to cold is better and you also get poison and disease and you can hover over freezing water plus a few other benefits like extra magicka and what not
With venison make stew/soup (.5units) instead of chops (2 units) as you can carry 4 stew/soup to each chop. Salmon steaks at .1 units becomes you most common food. To keep your weight burden down.
If you use mods, Convenient Horses is a great mod as you can call your horses to you and have them not attack. Their factors if of strength, speed and endurance can be improved.
Thank you for the great tips 😁👍
You'll always find a bunch of Salt in Fish-Barrels all over Skyrim and I highly recommend "Garlic Bread" as a Food as well, it satiates your hunger as well as cure you off of any disease you have.
2 for 1 :D Speaking of... if you bake them yourself (Garlic + Bread + Butter) you'll always get 2 at the same time and they weigh only 0.1 each. like Hawk Feathers. :D
If you plant wheat at goldenhills, you'll be able to mill them into flour and make Apple Dumplings for example (Flour + Red Apple + Green Apple) which satiates Hunger and fortify Archery.
Pretty cheap recipe as you'll almost always loot apples in SM anyways^^ You can also churn your milk from Goldenhills into butter (in HF Homes at least, Goldenhills don't have it IIRC).
Bread is surprisingly expensive to bake for yourself, so always loot/buy some wherever you go, as it's sold pretty cheap.
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If you have "too much" Wheat you can sell your surplus to the farmer in Rorikstatt next to the Goat-seller for good cash^^
Hope this helps :3
EDIT: Oh and btw. "half-Bread" and "full-Bread" both count the same in terms of baking. So collect them both :)
Thanks for the great tips! Wasn't aware of the apple dumplings recipe, but I have used garlic bread before, I find butter surprisingly rare in Skyrim, so yeah having a kitchen and making it yourself seems to be the way to go.
I raid every barrel I come across.
Great tips. My addition would be that you can earn even more money if you make potions with wheat. For example Forst Miriam + Purple Mountain Flower + Wheat (tx Sgt Slack for that haha)
@@arnoeagleeyes Great Idea :D
I was there on 11.11.11, and i have played ESO for years too. Now i am just returning to Skyrim for the first time since about 2015, and i think giving survival mode a go sounds like a very interesting challenge. Thanks for the brilliant video.
Welcome back and thank you 😁👍🏻
Regarding horses, if you beat up Uthgerd then you get to use her horse. Very useful for getting over to golden hills early to get set up on a run.
Ah nice which horse is hers? Is it the one at the stables?
@@mike-thegamingdad yeah I forget the name but it won’t be red to steal, instead you can just take it like any horse you own. It doesn’t follow you around the same way but I mean shoot, it’s free.
If you have Anniversary Edition, the quest Tilted Scales gives you a set of studded dragonscale armour with the same warmth rating as the fur armour. It's a quick and relatively easy quest that can be started by reading the book The Crimson Dirks, v4 in Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm. It has a base armour rating of 90 with 20 weight.
Oh really, that is awesome I've never got that before I'll check it out
Ohhhh thank you thank you! I had this quest in massive list, and map markers but honestly this is what I needed to go find ✨
ty for the effort you put into this video, i am replaying for the first time in 9 years
No problem and welcome back 😁
i really love survival mode it can suck traveling some times but it makes it much more immersive, also it makes things like cooking having a horse and a ton of little things worth doing or having, one thing i didnt see was there is pets you can summon you can buy a goat right by the farm and you can fill them with potions arrows or anything you may want and summon them to you for a restock or have them carry things to sell very useful and they are fun to have
Another tip is if you're playing with mods that add enemies to the game take it slow and abuse the campsite as a home
Once l'd played survival mode, l can't play any other way. I've had many, many lives in Skyrim, and l still enjoy starting over. Take your time, see the sights. Some at certain times of day or night, are amazing. Enjoy.
Yeah I agree, the map is a masterpiece, just great to wander through it taking your time 😁🙌🏼
Your channel is so underrated
Thank you I'm glad you are enjoying it 🙌😊
if you go up the pickpocket skill tree there a perk called deep pockets or extra pockets I think . which increases the amount you can carry
Excellent thanks for the tip 😁👍🏻
I just downloaded Skyrim on PS5 and omg.. the movement is flawless and smooth. I decided to start off where I left of from. I saw there was a survival mode and need this video for tips. As for now starting off on regular mode until I get rid of some items and weight.
Awesome I'm glad you are enjoying it 😁. Yeah sure thing, survival mode is definitely more of a challenge. My let's play series is also survival mode based if you are into that sort of thing
Not downloading the anniversary edition. Heard creation club has also been having issues lately. I’m just sticking with leveling up.
First and most important Tipp:
Best Race for survival mode is Nords.
Because you will never be low on food (its free everywhere) and sleep. You can even sleep in most of the Dungeons.
But warmth.... Guys Not even the 15% of kajith ist enough. You will freeze to death a lot. Also the most resistance build is without survival bratons because of the 25% Magic resistance from the start. but in survival They Miss the 25% warmth and nords have only a 0.6 damage disadvantage more at freez Magic attackers compared to trade. because you have the 50% cold resisance already can enchant Magic resistance on your Armour instead of a freez resistance enchantment. Since you only need 15% Magic resistance and the max is 23 and the freez resistance enchantment is 50 by nords from the start and can only be 54 max without glitches you trade the 0.6 more damage each 100 freez magic Attack vs freezing to death a lot with the 25% warmth bonus. It makes the Nords the most balanced and resistance race in survival mode. Even their starting skill warcry is like a shout you can use once a day and will Help you even out on legendary. Only the orcs Double damage Skill is better but even though orcs look good too in paper, they have even less warmth then kajith which renders everything else they got useless.
LOL great video! Was about to restart Skyrim and was finally considering upgrading to the Anniversary Edition then noticed that the Anniversary edition was on sale at Amazon. I decided to buy the hard copy ($2 cheaper LOL) this will be my 4th version of Skyrim that I've purchased over the years - 2 on the PS3 and 2 on the PS4. Could never find a PS5 so I decided to skip it... Yea I like Skyrim, retirement is great. Oh did I mention love your videos very informative! Now I have to wait til next Tuesday to restart Skyrim... :(
That's great and awesome you've purchased the AE version! I'm similar this is my 3rd copy now. First was PS3, then PS4 Special Edition, now its AE on PC. Thank you I'm glad you are liking my videos, is Tuesday when your new copy gets delivered?
@@mike-thegamingdad Found out this morning that Skyrim will be delivered this afternoon - can't wait but will be happy when the 2-3hrs of updates are loaded during installation on the PS4
@@lucv13 ah well that's amazing! 4 days ahead of schedule just in time for the weekend 😁
Survival does not disable regeneration, it just sets it normal calue to 0, so all regen bonuses work normal.
A note about warmth with Fur..
If you go for heavy armour it usually works just as well if not better
dragonborn jumps into ice water.. 4 sec later, dead... ...meanwhile russian ivan jumps into icewater before breakfast "hold mý vodka, bljat.."
"You consider Restoration a valid school of magic, worthy of study, don't you? Don't you?"
I know that for a lot of regular Skyrim players, they all thought Survival was really challenging. However, as someone who's put almost as many hours into Ark Survival Evolved, this is pretty tame. It's even tame compared to the old mod Frostfall
Yeah I've heard it's not as severe as frostfall. It's funny that hunger can't kill you as well but cold can. You just end up famished and it never gets worse than that
I’m a Dayz player and this survival mode is actually fun compared to dayz. Dayz is sooooo difficult/luck based early game. even as a vet
@@SciFiUncensored Ark has a little bit of luck involved, but if you are aware of your surroundings, and think ahead, early game isn't so bad. In fact, if you talk to most Ark veterans, they'll tell you that they regularly start new character on different servers, or in SP, so they can enjoy feeling vulnerable again. I mean, end game with your ascended tek gear, you don't even really care if a Rex walks up on you. However, when you are new, like legit new, then it can seem incredibly difficult. (For context I'm not comparing Ark PvP to Skyrim because that would be unfair to Skyrim).
Never really got into DayZ, I know I played it at least once, but my favorite zombie survival is 7 Days to Die. Horde night can be brutal. Unlike most in the genre, once every 7 game days, at sundown, a massive horde of omnipotent zombies show up to tear your base apart. Stealth is useless during a horde night, because they always know exactly where you are, and therefore no stealth damage multiplier. There are ways to fudge the AI with certain building pieces, placed in certain arrangements. It's funny because designing horde bases is one of my favorite things, but I never do the fudgy meta bases.
I actualy really enjoy Skyrim's Survival mode. However, one of my pet peeves, as far as survival games is concerned, is lumping food and drink into the same stat. Seriously, drinking water shouldn't make my hunger go away lol. Fallout 4 does survival mode better than Skyrim SE did, but if I remember right, Skyrim got survival mode befor FO4 did. Proof that Bethesda listens to feedback if true. Frostfall was one of the most popular mods when SE came out, so they cobbled together a survival mode. Then they got feedback from players saying that they wished survival mode had X feature from Frostfall...then lo and behold, FO4 survival has some of those features.
Most importantly though, the inability to fast travel makes Skyrim and Fallout survival well worth it, to me. It had such an impact on me, having to go back to Morrowind style transportation, that I actually refuse to use fast travel in Oblivion and Fallout 3 now lol. I even started a new non-survival game in Skyrim and find myself forgetting that fast travel even exists.
Very useful that Mike, might be time for yet another playthrough.
Excellent 🙌😁
This is a great tips video. I haven't made use of the Plantation yet, but given it's location it's worth looking into.
Thank you I appreciate it 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad I just discovered something very useful that you can add. My character went to see the graybeards for the first time, early in the morning and it started snowing. Which set the temp to Treacherously Cold. One of them LOK VAH KOOR'ed in my ear to clear the sky. I got to thinking, can I do that too? So when it started raining or snowing in Skyrim, I used Clear Skies and Poof, I controlled the weather. So Clear Skies is really useful on Survival.
@@mcmalave2789 ah that is awesome I will try that out thank you👍
Many thanks! 👏
I'm a longtime player in my first survival mode playthrough. I found many sets of warm fur armor pieces in many bandit camps. Not many fur helmets, though. I prefer to use the Aetherium Crown, anyways, and I am in the process in acquiring that one.
I agree about the veggie soups! In survival mode, I find my Restoration skills upgrade faster, too.
7:57 - if you check the other barrels there, you should be able to find about 20 bottles of the Honningbrew meads.
9:40 - if you have garlic, salt, and some kind of cheese, you can make garlic bread in an oven. These will cure all diseases, too. Becoming a werewolf should prevent diseases, too (like in the main game).
13:00 - great tip about campsites! I'll have to try that one. 😄
14:40 - an extra tip is getting married early, and requesting a "home cooked meal" each day. These are free and really help in survival mode.
15:58 - After I got the Goldenhills Plantation, I spoke to Lucia in Whiterun, and agreed to adopt her. For whatever reason, she is stuck there, and I can no longer speak to her. Very strange. (Could this be a bug in the survival edition)? Moreover, regarding Sissel (in Rorikstead), it seems her father keeps dying in strange ways in each of my playthroughs. After he passed away in front of me, I couldn't find Sissel or her hateful sister. Is adoption glitched in survival mode? I'll continue to try and see if I can adopt Sofie (Windhelm), or from the orphanage once I get there.
Many thanks!
Thank you, someone else mentioned mentioned garlic bread as well, I'd forgotten that cured diseases 🤣.
No problem at all about the campsites, it was someone on my let's play that mentioned that to me, trying to think who it was, may have been MC Malave. Thought it was an excellent tip.
Yeah that homecooked meal is awesome isn't it, I think I'll get married in the let's play eventually and then I can pick some of those up
That does sound like a bug as I've never had any issues myself personally with adoption either in survival mode or not. I'll have a play around though, and I'll ensure it's included in the let's play series as well in the future, see if we encounter any issues then 😅
@@mike-thegamingdad No worries! I'll keep plugging away. For example, my player's goal now is to become thane of Falkreath and build the Lakeview Manor. Once that's done, I'll move my family there. I can ask the housecarl to build a carriage there, too, making it easier to get around without fast travel.
After doing a couple of quests around Falkreath, I tried speaking to Sinding. I stood there, and he never walked over. I slept in the Inn, got the "Mother's Comfort" bonus (which means the game thinks I adopted Lucia), went back, and Sinding spoke to me to trigger that quest. Very strange. I'm on a Nintendo Switch, though, at this point, I doubt anything is console specific. We shall see... 😃 Many thanks!
thanks for the tips i wanted to play survival again after a long time so the video and comments helped refresh my knowledge
No problem at all. I'm glad it was useful 😁👍🏻
I was thinking about starting a survival game thx so much❤️❤️
I recommend it, I've really enjoyed it so far, much more immersive than I was expecting 😁.
@@mike-thegamingdad ill definitely try it
@@mike-thegamingdad i also have a question is vampire any good?
@@XEV_ being a vampire has its perks definitely, it depends on how you want to play really and what you want to focus on. So for example if you use illusion magic, it's very strong as vampires have something called seduction, so it makes illusion spells stronger.
The obvious drawbacks are weakness to sunlight and weakness to fire. So if you like to travel on foot a lot in daytime it can be an issue. Weakness to fire can be negated through potions or by being a dark elf. Also townsfolk generally react negatively towards you if you are a vampire so you may just not like being one because of that.
The main benefit to a vampire is the necromage perk though, it's in the restoration tree. I recommend looking up effects of necromage on vampires, the list is quite extensive. But I use it when doing enchanting and potion making as it affects both of those things.
@@mike-thegamingdad ok ty
Awesome video bro . Appreciate the content
Thank you 😁
This was so clutch for my current survival playthrough, thank you!
No problem at all 🙌🏼😁
Fast Travel Tip: You can fast travel in survival mode if you open your map immediately after you walk out of a door or cave.. and quickly click the place you want to go. As long as you have discovered it. It might not work the first time.. but keep trying. it will work.. and it has been helpful for sure!
Thanks for the tip will have to try that out 👍🏻
i have a small set of main mods i play with as a set that i will not play without any more, hunterborn, campfire, bandoliers and backpacks, and live another life.
omg makes for a much differant gameplay especially if playing with survival mode the bandoliers and backpacks mod is a lifesaver.
@remirez2k3 nice, live another life has always interested me. Seen a lot of players using that and starting off elsewhere away from Helgen
That abandonned bed and burned out house is exavtly what i was looking for
@@daltoncrow6486 awesome 😁👍🏻
the short sleeve version on the fur shirt has the same warmth rating. the only ones with weaker warmth are the fur kilt and the fur kilt with cape
11:25 the dragon just got into "aw hell naw" mode
I don't know if it counts cheesy by if you have a pet like Hilda the goat you can let them carry your potion and food on them for emergency. Summon them when you need them. And let them go back to home on their own since they're essential and cannot die.
Yeah I recently discovered the joy of pets and their carry weight 😁
Bound weapons are amazing if you’re doing a low level build. Having free-weight to carry more potions and soups is just too good to pass up. And if you’re not a fan of carrying warm armor that also weighs a lot, you can buy the holiday set, warmest clothes in the game. This can save up to 100+ pounds.
@Samevistan great tips thanks for sharing! 😁👍🏻
Riften fishery is a good place to get salt and salmon for food early too that you don't need to steal. Just do a small favor for someone and you get in.
I enjoyed the fishing questline there in general, surprised how long it was. I think the argonian has maybe 4-5 seperate quests but I'm sure the redguard woman I ended up doing loads for and you get loads of unique items as well
Part of me likes that i dont have passive health regen, cuz i actually use healing more and that perk tree has some pretty good choices. Lol
Late but a tip I’ve found useful is having Hilda the goat set up at home, whenever you need gear taking back just summon her to you and unload all your things for her to walk home for you, if she’s not home before you just summon her home.
That's a great tip thank you 😁
Tip get the Dragon priest mask Hevnoraak for the 100 percent resist disease if you can't find a necklace of resist disease.
For food, simply go to a tavern and buy the food there. Best weight/food ratio is salmon steaks and seared slaughterfish
There's a few sweet rolls you can devour in there too 😅
Getting Goldenhills Plantation also helps immensely. You can farm food and make a lot of money too
Yeah very true!
if collecting vegetables for food is too easy for you, try survival mode with hunterborn/apothecary- an alchemy overhaul/gourmet- a cooking overhaul/salmon slicer. with apothecary potions are heal over time with many other changes. gourmet, with survival mode enabled, removes soups, adds stews, and you need to buy recipes to advance the ability to cook. salmon slicer lets you fish whole salmon and slice it into meat so you can cook it without salt pile, i personally found this more immersive for fishing.
Nice thanks hadn't heard of those 😁
Wow I never knew about the father's love buff that's awesome
It's cool isn't it 😁 I love it when I find out a random little effect like that I didn't know about
Instead of the spell calm use the spell courage. If you dont one shot an animal when calm is active theyll flee. If you use courage it prevents them from fleeing. Although you will have to fight them
@douglassparks3591 great tip thank you 😁👍🏻
Vegetable soup does not restore much hunger. It is good for health and stamina but not hunger. Having a horse will let you travel while over-encumbered. And Restoration is a valid school of magic.
Very helpful! Thank you!
You're welcome 😁👍🏻
Started trying Skyrim for the 3rd time and something's I like about arrival mode, some I don't. I like learning the roads, not just taking the straight line then fast traveling once the location is found and having to think about armour warm and weight. What I don't like is the hungary meter and how cooked foods have a much higher level then say apples, seam a little unrealistic.
Yeah those are all valid points, hunger does deterierate too quickly in my opinion. And yeah some foods offer absolutely no hunger fulfillment at all.
Missed a tip I would consider big. Hearthfire homes offer free carriage service, and if you build the shrines, free disease mitigation. Also, build a shrine at Goldenhills instead of a child bedroom. Join the College. Go to the Midden and craft fire salts at Atronach forge. The Crab Stew is better than Veggie Soup. Learn to fight on horseback. Keep Frost for yourself. Certain pets can carry stuff and have a teleportation spell. There is a free fire cloak spell between Dawnstar and Winterhold, found at the fiery explosion site. Get the Agent of Mara.
@GlendonPerkinsgp great tips thanks for sharing 😁👍🏻
Start a new re-play after so many years and I notice the health regeneration in stew/soup do not work in survival mode... just wonder is this a bug.
@@weixingyang898 health regen does work in survival mode from soups and stuff. But normal regen doesn't. Could it be that it's not noticeable because it's so small? What I would do is test it by saving and then eating like 20 or something. See if you can see the regen then. If you chug a load and still nothing, it could be you've encountered a bug. Try turning Survival off and on again, see if that resets it.
@@mike-thegamingdad I try turning off and turning back on the survival mode, the soup health regeneration will only work for a few seconds then it'll stop.
@weixingyang898 hmm that does sound like you've encountered some sort of bug. Are you on PC or console? Have you tried looking online/reddit? I bet someone somewhere will have posted about it
When I contract vampirism, I just shovel garlic bread into my face.
Super tasty and cures vampirisim, what's not to like 😁🙌🏼
using courage on animals makes them stop running. Frostfall mod makes the top of the Throat of the World warm, presumably because of the presence of a dragon and the Time Wound. And, as you point out, the ridiculously long talking that will kill you from exposure.
Those are great tips thanks for sharing 😁👍🏻
I just found out about the revelers in my latest immersion playthrough
Having to set up camp to survive a parthanac conversation haha
I know right 😅
Enjoyed this thanks
No problem and thanks for watching 😁👍🏻
Great video!
Thank you 😁👍🏻
I wish flame cloak kept you warm
It allows you to swim in freezing water without getting cold or taking damage but yeah this seems kinda silly that it doesn't outside of the water
What house was you in towards the end when adopting a child? Was it a house mod?
Ah that is Tundra Homestead, its one of the 9 new homes added in the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim which came out November 2021. Think it contained about 80 new pieces of content, homes, weapons, armor, quests etc. Costs about £15/$15 for the upgrade
8:36 This is a good tip for your use of the Legacy mod. Just saying.
@@scottpascoe562 yeah much needed 🤣
Now the bow of the stag price is useful!
It is yeah great suggestion 😁👍🏻
illusion is underated magic
Unfortunately on the Switch, the game crashes whenever you get too cold. It makes travelling anywhere north almost impossible. Even if you take a carriage, the game will immediately crash upon arriving. Its the only thing keeping me from leaving survival mode on all the time.
Oh man that sucks that sounds like an awful problem.
Excellent video
Thanks 😁
Excellent video!
Thanks glad you enjoyed it! 😁🙌🏼
5:54 Look out for the giant and his mammoths nearby before going to Greenspring Hollow. If killing the predator is too difficult, draw it over and let them kill it while you run away!
That's good 😁👍🏻
The golden hills plantation is vital for food, ingredients and gold
Yeah its a great little money spinner.
Hey ,thank you, l'm playing this and you made me miss it:) Hilda will also give you a free bed, providing you haven't rented one yet. ❤
No problem, and thank you for the tip! 😁👍🏻
Now I know how to get backpack only 20 hours deep servival, haven't played since 2012.
Nice you are in for a treat, lots of new stuff in the game now with the special edition and anniversary edition additions 😁. Just make sure you get the latest or upgrade to the latest version if you want it all 👍🏻
I didn't know you can make back packs in survival mode. Is that a mod?
@benpottmeyer9059 it was added in as part of the anniversary edition of Skyrim
Survival mode is fun on legendary difficulty very challenging though
@dylanarmour6727 yeah I can imagine! I'm playing on master currently on my let's play, could probably crank it up again as the last episode felt fairly straight forward. Starting on legendary is a real challenge though
@@mike-thegamingdad I like to play as a pure warrior in ancient Nord armor the whole time it helps with role play. No magic just shouts feels lore accurate. It’s fun to build a camp under the stars before going into a hard dungeon really immersive. I just use melee shouts a bow and a lot of vegetable soup for endless stamina. My follower always has ancient nord Armor too sorry I’m nerding out here
@dylanarmour6727 don't be sorry that's awesome 😁👍🏻 I love role playing as characters and choosing their skills/weapons/armor as appropriate
I hear you can always pickpocket the drunk revelers. You don't need the mead.
Haha nefarious I like it 🤣
Vegetable soup for me doesn’t passively recover health…. Anyone knows why?! I have no MODS installed
Hey because in survival mode you don't regen anyway, I've found the effect is very small, almost barely noticeable unless you stop and watch it.
Check your effects tab and make sure you don't have food poisoning, that could be stopping it. Also check to see if health regen and stsmina regen are in the effects.
If that doesn't work, turn off Survival Mode in the menu. Exit out of the menu and let it save the settings. Go back into the menu and turn Survival Mode back on and let it save the settings again.
@@mike-thegamingdad hmmmm okay. I’ll try turning it off and back on again, because i have no negative effects
Great tip for goldenhills (and comical role play) once you make it your home you can send your spouse to it. I usually marry Camilla and make Faendal/Sven my steward. You can collect money from both every time you visit plus lover’s comfort and a home cooked meal
The home cooked meal is amazing isn't it
@@mike-thegamingdad heck yeah I combine it with a couple other soups and I can power attack or conjure summons constantly.
@SkyBloopers I discovered the wonders of garlic bread a few months back. Even though its far easier to eat a Hawk feathers I found it amusing that garlic bread cured all diseases 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad see I never used it. I honestly don’t use the cooking system enough… I usually stick to venison/vegetable soup same thing but one adds health, Khajit fondue and there’s another soup towards the top that gives you health and stamina regen.
@@mike-thegamingdad also something I would add to your list of tips to go along with firewood, ARROWS….
They spike your smithing level pretty fast for starting off so you can make enough arrows to clear some dungeons… get the shadow bow for ebony arrows and give one to your follower they will never run out and you can occasionally collect them off dead bodies. Additionally silent moon is next to halted steam camp which has transmute spell and tons of iron.
You forgot the most important tip... if you're up in the throat of the world in the middle of the night obv you're gonna freeze so don't go up in the night. In the daylight you won't freeze anywhere obv.
@freemindmusic2824 yeah that's true time of day does make a massive difference. I can't remember if I mentioned it as well, probably not, but any poor weather (snow, rain etc) can be cleared with the clear skies shout. This is particularly good in survival because if you stop the bad weather, it usually results in the temperature rating climbing up a level. Can make a huge difference between almost freezing to death and making it wherever you need to go.
Gonna need to get a second home because I can't have a child and a library at Gildenhills Plantation at the same tjme.
I had that same problem yesterday when I tried to adopt one of the whiterun urchins and I didn't have room 🤣
I may upgrade to AE from SE and I was wondering if I would have to start a new character if I just upgraded from the system.
Honestly the only issue i have with regen is healing between fights, i find that regen only ever helps me when i wait an hour to refresh my health for the next fight, i dont think i've ever used regen in a fight or anything like that.
Yeah thats true its massively reduced in combat I think
@@mike-thegamingdad with the campfire mod (and a survival patch) you can keep warm, cook and sleep anywhere in skyrim which makes the lack of fast travel alot easier to deal with. You can also cook meat for free on the fires in campfire, so you can save your salt piles for making fire salts for hot soups.
Or just soups im general for stamina/health regen.
If you give wood to Hulda and you haven't bought a room yet you can sleep in the bed for free.
Yeah I use that little room upstairs all the time now 🤣
😮😮😮lal
I got my trusted goat 🐐 Hilda that carry stuff for me. Plus I can get milk from her! Founder her on cafm when I accidentally clicked on a farmer and he was selling a goal. I couldn't pass that up. Found out after I bought her that she could carry my things which is game changer. She is a bit slow but I would recommend getting her. ❤
Nice yeah I've seen a few other comments recommending the goat as well 😁👍🏻
> I married Janessa early and kept her as a follower. She gives you a daily meal and a 15% learning bonus for the skills you use for 8 hours whenever you sleep.
Nice yeah that 15% will be the lovers comfort bonus I think, you get it when sleeping in an abode with your spouse 😁. The homecooked meal is awesome though, easily one of the best foodstuffs in the game!
is survival mode really worth it?
@joshgilbert3239 I think it is yeah, as someone who's played this game a lot, I thought it was quite refreshing and added in a more extra challenges. It also forces you to walk a lot so you end up seeing a lot more random events, easter eggs, locations etc that you might have normally missed.
Please help!
Idk if my game is broke but i cannot have any backpacks, and second problem soup doesnt hive me helth back at all in survival... is my game broken?
Hey do you have anniversary edition? As backpacks were an addition in that. If you do have it, it may be that the content isn't installed. The easiest way to check is if you click into Creations/Creation Club on the main start menu (unless you play on Switch, i think it's somewhere else on Switch) and check in there. That's where all the content is held. It should hopefully say install or download if you have it. If it says purchase or buy you have an earlier version and would need to upgrade.
Re. Soup not replenishing health. If you eat one and go into your active effects, can you see the replen stamina and replen health boosts listed in there? Is there also food poisoning listed as well? As that stops the regen I believe
If the boosts are there but its not working. Turn off Survival Mode in the menu. Exit out of the menu and let it save the settings. Go back into the menu and turn Survival Mode back on and let it save the settings again. It could be that you need to "reset" Survival Mode. Sounds silly but it's worked for me, like turning something off and on again
Question: does becoming a werewolf on survival mode still give you disease immunity?
It does yes, same as vampirism which gives disease and poison immunity
@@mike-thegamingdad hell yeah
quick tip: Use hotkeys
I kinda feel like adding a charge of 100 gold to a shrine makes them somewhat useless. No way you're going to slow travel across the map to pay 100 gold for a blessing to boost your prices...
Yeah I don't really use them, more often than not I've taken a potion or some Hawk feathers, although on my let's play we found a necklace of disease immunity and have been wearing that since
I like to have hilda with me to carry the camping stuff and raw foods if you don't want to cheat with your follower simply picking up everything
Yeah ive seen a few other comments recommending getting the goat 😁👍🏻. Out of interest which farmer is it that sells her again?
@@mike-thegamingdad In Rorikstead I think his name is halvar . The quest starts in whiterun. There is a for sale note in the inn
@maxpower4909 nice thanks! 👍🏻
Is there a command to make days longer? or is that timescale something same as fallout?
I think there might be yeah, try set timescale to (number). The default speed is 30. So 30 in game minutes is 1 real minute. So if you set it to 5, it would 5 mins in game = 1 minute. 1 would obviously be real time. I'd do some research on this though before you try it. I've never done it so I don't know if it can mess anything up, there may be some watch outs.
Just found this
levelskip.com/rpgs/How-to-Change-the-Timescale-in-Skyrim
Thanks, Dad.
No problem 😄
I love Skyrim but I’m not very good at it, I tried survival mode for like 5 minutes and turned it off. 😂 I was like nah this is too much happening at once I’m distracted
Haha yeah it's certainly more of a challenge 😂