Question about MarkforDelete command prompt

[FrostyByt3]

Short Version :

 

Does Markfordelete command will mess up my game if I make a new fresh character?

Will the item I marked will still be flagged [d] behind their ID and therefore won't appear in my 2nd character gameplay?

 

Long Version :

 

I am in the middle of cleaning bugs out of Blessing of Nature quest, and found that my old dead gildergreen tree wont disappear, with the sapling inside it ( confirmed with tcl command ). I disable it, no good. I read around and found this "markfordelete" solution. But when i read further, someone says that doing "markfordelete" will flush the tree model permanently out from my entire skyrim game.

 

I wont worry about it in my current character. However, i wont use the command if that will erase the tree for my next character and game.

 

So yeah, does that command will delete the tree for my current game/character? Or it will delete the tree from Skyrim game completely?

 

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Sorry if i post in the wrong place or what, its my 1st post. Please tell me if i should ask it in some other place or what.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

[Moraevik]

The command "markfordelete" pertains only to your current gamesave. It can't remove anything from the game, itself, because those files are protected in an archive.

 

By the way, if you go the route of obtaining the sap like the priestess asked, you won't run into this problem and you'll wind up with a beautiful, flowering, fully-restored, adult Gildergreen tree.

 

If you want instant gratification, rather than waiting for Whiterun to reset, then click on the tree and type "disable". Hit your <enter> key. Type "markfordelete". Voila, sapling is revealed and old, dead (invisible) tree will be permanently removed from your saved game at some later date when the game "cleans up" in Whiterun. I do suggest saving your game before you disable the old tree, just in case some part of the sapling happens to clip through at the point where you try to select the old tree and you wind up disabling the sapling and can't get it back.

 

I'm really surprised that this hasn't been fixed by an official patch, yet. I'm not sure if the Unofficial Skyrim Patch fixes it, although this has been known as an issue from virtually day one with this game.

[FrostyByt3]

Thanks for the fast and clear reply :) much appreciated^^

 

I see, so that people that say it will mess up my entire Skyrim alternate dimension ( the other saves ) is wrong or maybe just trolling. Thats why their voice is so little over the internet.

 

And about skinning the ( Kynareth? ) Tree to obtain the sap, it just dont fit into my good character persona, i'm somehow roleplaying in the game, and i dont want anyone who is not supposed to die, get the reaper from my action's consequences (in this case, the 2 people inside the cave). In Blessing of Nature quest, personally i just dont want my hard work being the bodyguard of that annoying pilgrim go to waste :P

 

Thanks for that disable-then-markfordelete method, i'll try it as soon as i got home. :)

 

And yes, for anything involving the tilde button, saving the game prior to it is highly recommended.

 

About the official patch, i dont know, from reading the wiki, they say that some patch fix a few bugs and glitch, but bring another bugs into the game, its about marriage if i remember correctly. But i'm sure one unofficial patch can mend this particular graphic glitch greatly, even make it to grow in a few months in-game time.

 

Sorry for lots of variable and uncertain words ( a few, some, etc etc ). I cant do research much while in the office. But i'm more curious than a cat this time, so yeah.

 

Thanks again for the reply. I'll be back later.

 

Footnote : i dont know if its a common knowledge yet or not, but that Chief Yamarz from some orc camp near Riften ( Lagrasbur or whatever ), is my favorite thrall, i dont know, but for me he is the true definition of meat-shield. Damage is pathetic but full orc armor really make him die hard.