dragovianwarrior95 Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 This is something I've wondered for a long time. So if you rob a place clean, will said place eventually "reset" after a certain amount of time and respawn the items? And what about books? If you take a book from a certain spot where it spawns, could the book respawn after enough time passes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeddBate Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Most "specific" items (such as quest items and major loot) will not respawn, but "general" items and loot will (sorta) respawn. By sorta, I mean that new items will be chosen by the game from the level lists and placed in the various locations. I think average time is one (game) month, but I believe this varies quite a bit depending on the locations looted. "Specific" loot locations (e.g. a treasure map chest) will not respawn. Containers that are "safe" (such as the drawers, chests, closets, etc. in your house) never spawn or remove items (because they are YOUR storage.) However, if you hide some gold in some random barrel, then come back for it weeks later -you're liable to find only a few moldy potatoes instead. (You can imagine that you made some wandering adventurer or bandit very happy.) NOW you know why you occasionally find some decent loot in a random box or barrel. You just made some other adventurer, rogue or bandit very UNhappy. Books I don't know about. I suspect that they are treated as general items and a new random book will spawn at the looted location. Spell books I believe are a specific item and likely don't respawn. On the other hand, there's so frikkin' many of them throughout Skyrim I can see why folks might be tempted to think that they DO respawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalloweenWeed Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 (edited) Most "specific" items (such as quest items and major loot) will not respawn, but "general" items and loot will (sorta) respawn. By sorta, I mean that new items will be chosen by the game from the level lists and placed in the various locations. I think average time is one (game) month, but I believe this varies quite a bit depending on the locations looted. "Specific" loot locations (e.g. a treasure map chest) will not respawn. Containers that are "safe" (such as the drawers, chests, closets, etc. in your house) never spawn or remove items (because they are YOUR storage.) However, if you hide some gold in some random barrel, then come back for it weeks later -you're liable to find only a few moldy potatoes instead. (You can imagine that you made some wandering adventurer or bandit very happy.) NOW you know why you occasionally find some decent loot in a random box or barrel. You just made some other adventurer, rogue or bandit very UNhappy. Books I don't know about. I suspect that they are treated as general items and a new random book will spawn at the looted location. Spell books I believe are a specific item and likely don't respawn. On the other hand, there's so frikkin' many of them throughout Skyrim I can see why folks might be tempted to think that they DO respawn. Also if the location is a modded location, it depends on the setting of the mod author. The entire interior (or outdoor cell?) could completely "reset" after a certain amount of time - and other possibilites. And the times stated above, for non-modded locations, could be changed by a mod as well, including most "loot" mods. Edited August 26, 2016 by HalloweenWeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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