New Oghma Infinium bug?

[Kursan]

I have recently completed the quest "Discerning the Transmundane" at the end of which one receives the book "Oghma Infinium" and one gets the choice of gaining 5 levels in one of 3 skill trees.... Except this time nothing happened.

 

I have played this quest before, but with this char it was for the first time at level 49. I have completed the Dragonborn main questline but not all the Black book quests involving Hermaeus Mora the same Daedric lord involved in the Oghma Infinium quest and I wonder if that has something to do with it?

 

I have the game patched to the latest official patch (unfortunately) and all the Unofficial patches are up to date.

Has anyone else experienced this glitch and found an answer?

Thanks

[Kursan]

Well I guess maybe no one else has had this problem as of patch 1.9....?

In case someone else has trouble with this, I have found a solution to the problem though I still do not know what caused it.

For some reason when I picked up the book Oghma Infinium, the game did not register that I did for whatever reason and so did not close the last stage in that quest which is to pick up the book and that should prompt the increase in the desired skill trees.

Even though I had the book in my inventory and picked it up and read it repeatedly, the quest would not close in my journal and the final event would not trigger.

 

Solution: open the console (~) and type: setstage DA04 100 and hit enter then exit the console.

This advances the quest to the final stage, you should get the message to that effect and now if you open the Oghma Infinium you will get the prompt to choose your 5 point skill increase.

By the way if you want to keep the book either for your collection or to sell (worth 2500) you must drop it while the skill increase process is taking place otherwise the book vanishes from the world (that is intentional).

[Georgiegril]

Hi...just to confirm--you successfully kept the book using that procedure with the 1.9 patch?

I'm asking because that glitch was supposed to have been "fixed" by Bethesda....personally I am kind of a book freak so I was afraid I'd have to choose between the perks and the book on my shelf.

[Kursan]

Hi there, yes I absolutely kept the book. I have not read that the 1.9 patch was supposed to fix it but I take your word for it. I have the very latest 1.9.32.0.8 patch installed and also the latest versions of all 3 Unofficial patches (for all DLCs).

There is a chance that I was able to keep the book because of the bug that prevented the quest from closing, but I doubt it.

 

Just make sure that you either drop it to the ground if you activated it from you inventory or place it on a bookshelf and open it from there, then leave it on the bookshelf.

Either way make sure that you drop the book BEFORE the skill upgrade process is complete. It cycles through 4 or 5 skills so there is plenty of time, but the process keeps going whether you stay in the inventory or not.

I simply dropped it and after the skill upgrade process was complete I was able to pick it up and do whatever I want with it. I love collecting books as well so it sits on my shelf :)

 

By the way if you don't use it already I highly recommend the Book Covers mod by DEFAULT, all the books look amazing with it and even more worth collecting.

 

Good luck, cheers

[Jahooba]

Solution: open the console (~) and type: setstage DA04 100 and hit enter then exit the console.

 

 

Thank you! I can confirm this works! My book did disappeard after choosing which perks to upgrade. I'm running the latest version of Skyrim as of September 11, 2013.

[Thamp1977]

Just an idea that will most likely not work for this problem, Could you drop the book on the ground and pick it up,give it to a follower, or place it in a container, to fix it?

 

Just asking. Thanks!

[Kursan]

Just an idea that will most likely not work for this problem, Could you drop the book on the ground and pick it up,give it to a follower, or place it in a container, to fix it?

 

Just asking. Thanks!

Nope, as I said I dropped it several times and it did not bring up the quest reward level up. Since the "reading" of the book is what triggers that event, picking it from a follower or bookcase or the ground should not matter.

The console command is an easy fix anyway.

About the question by Georgiegril whether this bug was fixed by 1.9 patch, actually what was fixed was that before you could repeat the process of receiving the 5 level ups infinite times, as long as you stored the book in a bookshelf before the process ended; then you could pick it up again and it would trigger again the 5 level up of your choice and so on... That loophole was closed I think by the 1.8 patch, what remains is the ability to keep the book as long as you store it before the level up process ends, otherwise it self destructs.

[Spiritt311]

Same problem happened with me too. In the last stage i pick the book but nothing happens i tried dropping reloading an old save etc etc. Using console command was the only way for me. I did this quest normally when i played back in my time in different chars. maybe mods maybe something else i don't what causes this.. Console command only solution. Thanks for writing your solution.

[Erushiel]

It is probably not. I had the same problem, but I thought it over. I had smart loot activated, which I guess a lot of ppl uses, because of it, I did not pick up the book as per usual. I tried going back to the place where I go it, dropped it in there, and then I picked it up. Worked like a charm. Hermaus mora held me up, which I was confused about him neglecting before.

[Darkstyler35]

I had a similar problem for another quest few weeks ago and the fix I found needed to :

• Console command player.additem 'the book ID' 1
• Place the item in a chest / leave the chest
• Take the book and read it

and it worked perfectly.