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Can't forge steel armour or weapons?

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Hi all

 

I have a strange problem. Despite having acquired the Steel smithing perk, I cannot craft steel items at forges - the option doesn't even show in the list (iron, leather, hide, etc). I'm pretty much running core Step 2.2.7 (latest), and the only mod I can think oif which might change smithing behaviour is Ars Metallica - tried disabling this but the problem persists. Any ideas???

 

I've searched around for this a bit (ie google) - my problem has been mentioned a couple of times, but no luck on finding a resolution.

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Sorry to bump, but this is really confusing me. It's my first playthrough, and I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen. For example, I also had access to crafting "Falmer" (??) stuff from the start (although I can't actually craft any of it but the option is there (just for a helmet I think), unlike steel stuff)

 

Any help appreciated

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No, what might that be?

 

EDIT:

OK, just googled. If you mean the Steam game cache verification, I did that, and it didn't find any problems (well, it said 6 files could not be validated, but their support page I was using said that this would happen and was normal)

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UM, wow, okay, it seems that game file verification thing has screwed around with a lot of stuff on my Skyrim installation...

I think it reinstalled various files, and now Mod Organiser doesn't recognise anything and even said that it was starting for the first time when I loaded it after the verification... No mods loaded or recognised...

Anywho, I decided to load into a previous save game near a forge in this completely unmodded setup, and when I used it the Falmer category had disappeared, and in its place was a "studded" category which used iron ingots, but still no steel. Is this what Vanilla is supposed to be? If so then I suppose one of my mods is causing some issues with smithing, though not sure which one, i'll have to do some testing.

In any case, toeclipper, although I know you were trying to help and nobody forced me to do the file verification, i think you should add a disclaimer/warning next time as it seems to have created a bit of a mess, although i'm sure it's nothing I can't sort out.

if anyone has any advice that'd be welcome...

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Nope, no Requiem

 

Mod list is below (not in load order, ModOrg export puts it in alphabetical order by default)

 

 

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In the vanilla game, you can forge only iron without using experience/skill to get the perks for the other armors.

Did you do the smithing tutorial thing with the blacksmith at Riverside or Whiterun? If not, that would be a good place to start.

As you earn/select perks on the smithing tree, you will have the ability to smith other types of armor.

 

The fact that you now see "falmer" is probably because you have a mod of some sort that added in smithing for it's armors without requiring perks to do so.

 

There probably is a mod out there somewhere that unlocks the whole smithing perk tree, if that is what you want; but in the vanilla game you are not supposed to have the ability to improve or craft things without the relevant earned perk.

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As stated, I have the first perk on the smithing tree, which is steel smithing.

I've googled around and it seems that the Falmer shellbug helmet is legit - it's from one of the DLCs (dragonborn or dwanguard, I forget which)

I've looked into my mods with TES5Edit and can't see why the ability to forge Steel items would be missing once I've acquired the relevant perk so I'm very confused...

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