irift001 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I'm not really sure what happened, but ore veins no longer work for me. I can activate them and play the animation, but I don't get anything. Switching to my pick and smacking it doesn't do any good either. Some of the veins I've tried are in far away cells loaded for the first time and still nothing. They worked when I first started this new save, but quit and haven't worked since. Is there any fix for this sort of thing? I have a ton of mods but I really don't think any of them have the slightest to do with mining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 There is a bug that happens on occasion where you don't get anything when you mine while the animation keeps on going. Usually exiting and retrying works. But if it is happening all the time, maybe something has happened for the mining script to think that your character is an NPC rather than the player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irift001 Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 There is a bug that happens on occasion where you don't get anything when you mine while the animation keeps on going. Usually exiting and retrying works. But if it is happening all the time, maybe something has happened for the mining script to think that your character is an NPC rather than the player. It seems like something like this is happening. I've had it bug out before where re-entering an area fixes it, but now no amount of that seems to help. Veins in cells I've never even loaded before won't give me ore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Have you made any changes to your game at all? Perhaps updated a mod or added a new mod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irift001 Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Mods that I've added in the time frame that this has started would be: Simply Improved Breezehome: Hearthfire Edition Skyfalls - Animated Distant Waterfalls Training Dummies Provide XP Disable Health Regeneration Intricate Spider Webs SkyHaven Temple Glory Castle Volkihars Glory College Of Winterhold Glory Days Magic Duel - Reborn Konahrik's Accoutrements Dwemer Goggles and Scouter I'm not exactly sure when this started happened so I've included a pretty big time window. I suppose I'll start disabling these and see if one is somehow making this happen. I haven't made any recent non-mod changes to Skyrim though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irift001 Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 I've found the culprit, "Traps Make Noise" option "Mining Makes Noise" was causing the issue. It was hiding from me on my NMM list until I changed views. Thanks for the response though IsharaMeradin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woofyhugger Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I've found the culprit, "Traps Make Noise" option "Mining Makes Noise" was causing the issue. It was hiding from me on my NMM list until I changed views. Thanks for the response though IsharaMeradin. Sorry to drag up and old post, but I just want to say thank you! I had exactly the same issue, I could not mine ore at all, new veins, replenished veins, anything at all. I removed "Traps Make Noise - Mining Makes Noise" and I could mine again. So that mod was definitely the cause for me also as it was the only change I had made. Incidentally, I can only mine with a pickaxe actually equipped and attacking the ore. Just hitting E just goes through the motions with no result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamefever Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 There are a few realism mods that force the player to attack ore to actually get the ore, Thing is I cant remember which ones as soon as I read that was in the mod I kept walking. I think there might have been a pickaxe mod too that did this. All I can say is read the descriptions carefully-Avoid mods that have not been updated to DragonBorn-thing is some mods are old and fine as they are but others >< your dropping something into your game that will break it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorFreak Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 (edited) wait a minute. i'd installed traps make noise and are dangerous, plus the follower trap safety patch...but, i'd forgotten to install the mining option. Yet, here i am with the bug where the animation plays but no ore is mined (i tried 'attacking' the ore deposit. stupidest suggestion ever. maybe that's only for console games) It may be that i overwrote the main file without making a different mod folder in MO...that's probably it. hmmm. i'll reinstall traps make noise and try again. blech...been reading about too many issues with the mod. going to use subliminal traps & killing traps (they seem to be updated more recently)Too bad about the noise thing...guess the developers didn't code this in because of script issues making the game borked Edited September 7, 2015 by MajorFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boycad Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 (edited) Much later... I have a similar bug in Enderal. Its hard to tell how much they may be related, but in my case, I have a message saying I dont have a pick-axe. Strange... I do. Manually attacking the ore vein yields nothing. Edited October 4, 2016 by boycad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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