LE Fast Skyrim Smelting?

[Archgaull]

I was surprised when I looked this up and didn't find anything about it (On it's own.) This idea doesn't seem radical to me, but I can't find a standalone mod that supports it, so I'll throw the idea out there.

 

What about "fast" Skyrim smelting? In that, I mean smelting ore to ingots, but instead of having to spam the activate button to smelt 60+ ores, you merely click smelt, select how many you want to smelt at a single time, and then boom, you're done. This would be very similar to how you sell items, where you can choose to sell one at a time, or if you have more than a certain number, choose to sell all at once.

 

Granted, maybe there is something of a similar nature in a overhaul mod, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm happy with Skyrim's crafting, just I feel like this would be a good addition to make smelting a lot easier.

[GrimyBunyip]

well GUISE lets you salvage stacks of items out of your inventory.

 

and Grimy Utilities has a craft-X feature that would work on a smelter.

Edited October 4, 2015 by GrimyBunyip

[Perraine]

It's probably just one of those things that people who have the skills to script such a thing, don't really see it as an issue.

 

I think the thing is, is that you're not really supposed to have that many chunks of ore in your inventory at any given time. If you are going "hardcore" and/or "cheat free" then your carry weight would never allow you to have that much ore, and then that many ingots, at one time. and certainly even the most generous mines never give you that much ore at once. They also added dozens of farms, towns, and cities with a Smelter and dozens of NPC's with which you can trade excess to (Random hunter's traveling merchants etc.) So you should never really have more than around a dozen of any given ore.

 

If you are not going "hardcore" then why are you even bothering to pick up ore in the first place?

[Boombro]

It's probably just one of those things that people who have the skills to script such a thing, don't really see it as an issue.

 

I think the thing is, is that you're not really supposed to have that many chunks of ore in your inventory at any given time. If you are going "hardcore" and/or "cheat free" then your carry weight would never allow you to have that much ore, and then that many ingots, at one time. and certainly even the most generous mines never give you that much ore at once. They also added dozens of farms, towns, and cities with a Smelter and dozens of NPC's with which you can trade excess to (Random hunter's traveling merchants etc.) So you should never really have more than around a dozen of any given ore.

 

If you are not going "hardcore" then why are you even bothering to pick up ore in the first place?

Not, just look up recipes in the CK, it just changing numbers in a pop window.

 

And because it there, and the 60+ is just an example.

[Archgaull]

My point though, I mean even just out of the beginning tutorial, if you hit Embershard Mine on the way to Whiterun you end up with 20+ iron ore, plus the ore you can mine just outside Riverwood. If you start smelting right away, it can be quite an annoyance. However, if you decide to save it for later, say to save it for Steel smelting, you can end up with 40+ iron ore from the Halted Stream Camp added to your existing inventory.

 

Besides, ores are only 1 weight each, so theoretically it is possible to have 300 ore in your inventory at one time. That's not a crazy number to think of, if you decide to start smithing right away for the best armor.

Edited October 3, 2015 by Archgaull

[Boombro]

l will give it a try, it a handy tweak for mass smithing.

[Perraine]

My point though is that your talking about some very specific cheating really.

 

In "practice" you could never have that much ore, because of all the extra stuff, including equipped items, food, potions etc you're carrying. And there are smelters all over the place. There are also many vendors who sell ore/ingots, as well as random loot ore/ingots all over the place so getting the right ones for crafting that advanced armor in twenty levels should never be an issue And you also get a player home with "safe" non respawning containers very early in the game. (not to mention that following even loosely along the "main quest path" will not only take you to many vendors and smelters, but also those vendors usually have "leveled" stock, so the required ingots for more advanced armours are readily available.)

 

And the game offers literally tonnes of random crap that you can pick up to make gold with, so buying ingots (or ore) from vendors is not really a problem.

[Archgaull]

Of course, you could totally never carry that much ore. Because, as well as know, it's completely impossible to not carry anything else in your inventory. There is absolutely no way the game gives you an option to organize your inventory in a way you see fit.

 

Practically, it could make a huge difference. Say you don't smith anything, and just throw all your ores into some chest in your house and forget about them. A couple months, or even a year down the road, you decide to start smithing to boost your smithing level, but now you have 500+ ores from various mining, looting, rewards, etc. Would you rather press a button, select a quantity, and hit smith, or spam the activate button for every ore.

 

Also, you really don't seem to know what cheating is.

Edited October 3, 2015 by Archgaull

[Boombro]

Okay, it works. But for all types of ores to be covered, it may take me a day at lest.

Now, you can make up to X5, x10, x15.......up to X60 for the iron category.

 

I can give you the esp file and you tell where to find the new recipes so you can use them as an example and edit it yourself. It very easy to do.

[Archgaull]

That would be very helpful, I've got no experience in tweaking stuff like this, but everyone's got to learn somehow right?