Oh really that’s awesome

That is an excellent tip hadn't though of that. Damn I should have put in "get the aetherial crown and Equip the lady stone and the steed stone". Bam 2 elements of survival mode fixed in 1 go, regen and carry weight 😂

I purposely don't get that stone in order to raise my Restoration ^_^

How much does that stone regenerate your health? A lot or not overly?

@@YARZ88 It's slow but it's better than nothing.

Yeah that's a great tip, I think it was mentioned but I wasn't using it on my let's play series and someone mentioned it there as well and it's been a life saver at times!

Yeah that is handy

This is a life/money saver of epic proportions

How do you get your steward in survival mode?

@rpfrompr you can ask just about anyone who is eligible for a follower Housecarls (like Lydia), mercenaries, etc can be stewards that can upgrade your house.

..getting back is the thing 😄

That is cool, can you eat them without ill effect? Haven't tried that, if so great! Odd that you can eat feathers but raw meat is a big no no 🤣🤣

Across from Riverwood on the path to the old tower that leads Bleak Falls Temple. Just after meeting the solo wolf there is a tree that a hawk nests into, when it lands shoot into the nest with an arrow and the hawk falls down. Another nest is above that old tower that you will come to next. That’s 6 hawk feathers.

​@@michaeltelson9798 And there's another nest in riverwood itself. Towards the mountain. Just look you'll see the hawk. So that's 9 in riverwood.

@@mike-thegamingdad It counts as an alchemy ingredient, so it's not food like raw meat would be. But, ya, it is silly when you actually think about it.

An alternative to Hawk Feathers, especially if you get Golden Hills, is to make garlic bread. Garlic bread weighs 0.1, cures diseases and has 220 food value. One cure disease potion weighs 0.5 so the equivalent weight in garlic bread gives 5 disease cures and a total of 1100 food value. To make garlic bread you need an oven, 1 butter, 1 garlic, 1 standard loaf of bread. This will make 2 serves of garlic bread. Golden Hills can produce 4 milk a day which can be churned to butter. The only working butter churn in Skyrim (to my knowledge) is in the kitchen in the Golden Hills Farm. You can buy butter from time to time and find or make garlic bread in other places but for a steady supply Golden Hills Farm is best. You need to buy or collect garlic at every opportunity. Only Hearth fire homes (kitchens) or the new homes in the Anniversary Edition have ovens. The latter homes usually have a few garlic bread available. If you fight the zombies a lot (good for levelling many skills at once) you will almost always be infected with Brain Rot whether in survival mode or not so a quick light cure is handy.

No problem at all 😁👍🏻

No problem at all 😁. I can't remember who shared the tip on the camp atop the Throat of the World, may have been MC Malave on my Let's Play, but I thought it was a great tip worthy of including 😁

I always find it interesting when you see the campsite in the flashback😊

@@mcmalave2789 the camp travels through time 🤣

No problem at all 😁

Thanks and that's awesome! Yeah it definitely does

I love how it has pushed me to really utilize materials, ingredients, food, and potions. I used to just keep my inventory full of tons of stuff like that. Now, I am actually leveling up alchemy and smithing much more than I did in prior saves, and I have been using potions to really help me in certain battles. It's more challenging, engaging, and immersive. I love it.

@@joedkat yeah totally While I love it, I feel that there should be better warm clothing that actually helps more in the blizzards

@@jonesygrets6029 I can agree with that! It feels like you need to keep a set of fur armor and some hot soup on you at all times when hitting any areas up north.

Thank you 😁 I guess I'm doing it right then haha 🤣

Thanks for sharing yeah I've used that shack as an early base before. After you dispose of her you can get attacked by a mob sent by her sister I think? But they aren't that hard to deal

@@mike-thegamingdad At low levels on legendary they can be a pain. But if you make sure in 3-4 days after you kill her you are near giants or at winterhold or the greybeards you can get other people to kill them for you.

@@Ahglock nice yeah thats a good tip, get the giants to yeet them into space 🤣

Oh really did not know that!

Yeah thats a good point about the shrines in houses 😁. Glad you are enjoying survival mode I am as well!

I'm way more religious in Skyrim than real life because of this. If only it helped in real life...

Yeah true, and it makes weapons with the frost enchantment, or frost mages more of a problem. Frost was always the weakest of the 3 magic schools but now it doesn't just damage now, it lowers your warmth rating which lowers your overall health

Yeah thats true, the only drawback is not being able to get resting bonuses anymore but it's a small drawback

Possibly silly question but if you transform and get all fuzzy does that warm you up, or give cold resistance?

@belmontzar it gives you some resistance to cold yes and it's sprint is useful to get around cold areas where you can't fast travel. Werewolves aren't as strong as vampire Lords unfortunately when it comes to survival mode as your resistance to cold is better and you also get poison and disease and you can hover over freezing water plus a few other benefits like extra magicka and what not

Thank you for the great tips 😁👍

Yes that is true, I think I thought about it but I'd mentioned free beds a few times so left it out 🤣 but its a good point as I use that bed all the time 🤣

@@mike-thegamingdad of course that should apply to ALL inns in Skyrim! So you could essentially have a free bed in every single town/city in Skyrim!

@@louisbrewer1260 and a load of people you do favours for as well, I think if you give a mammoth tusk to Ysolda you can sleep in her bed as well (ahem 😅).

@@mike-thegamingdad very true

@@mike-thegamingdad True! In case anyone missed it, there is a mammoth tusk in the Bannered Mare above a cabinet behind the reception desk. Hulda usually has her back turned, so it's very easy to steal at early levels.

Welcome back and thank you 😁👍🏻

Thank you 😁

No problem and welcome back 😁

Excellent 🙌😁

Thanks for the great tips! Wasn't aware of the apple dumplings recipe, but I have used garlic bread before, I find butter surprisingly rare in Skyrim, so yeah having a kitchen and making it yourself seems to be the way to go.

I raid every barrel I come across.

Great tips. My addition would be that you can earn even more money if you make potions with wheat. For example Forst Miriam + Purple Mountain Flower + Wheat (tx Sgt Slack for that haha)

@@arnoeagleeyes Great Idea :D

No problem at all 🙌🏼😁

Thank you I'm glad you are enjoying it 🙌😊

You're welcome 😁👍🏻

Oh really, that is awesome I've never got that before I'll check it out

Ohhhh thank you thank you! I had this quest in massive list, and map markers but honestly this is what I needed to go find ✨

Ah nice which horse is hers? Is it the one at the stables?

@@mike-thegamingdad yeah I forget the name but it won’t be red to steal, instead you can just take it like any horse you own. It doesn’t follow you around the same way but I mean shoot, it’s free.

Thank you I appreciate it 😁

@@mike-thegamingdad I just discovered something very useful that you can add. My character went to see the graybeards for the first time, early in the morning and it started snowing. Which set the temp to Treacherously Cold. One of them LOK VAH KOOR'ed in my ear to clear the sky. I got to thinking, can I do that too? So when it started raining or snowing in Skyrim, I used Clear Skies and Poof, I controlled the weather. So Clear Skies is really useful on Survival.

@@mcmalave2789 ah that is awesome I will try that out thank you👍

No problem at all. I'm glad it was useful 😁👍🏻

Excellent thanks for the tip 😁👍🏻

Yeah I agree, the map is a masterpiece, just great to wander through it taking your time 😁🙌🏼

No problem and thanks for watching 😁👍🏻

That's great and awesome you've purchased the AE version! I'm similar this is my 3rd copy now. First was PS3, then PS4 Special Edition, now its AE on PC. Thank you I'm glad you are liking my videos, is Tuesday when your new copy gets delivered?

@@mike-thegamingdad Found out this morning that Skyrim will be delivered this afternoon - can't wait but will be happy when the 2-3hrs of updates are loaded during installation on the PS4

@@lucv13 ah well that's amazing! 4 days ahead of schedule just in time for the weekend 😁

Thank you 😁👍🏻

Awesome I'm glad you are enjoying it 😁. Yeah sure thing, survival mode is definitely more of a challenge. My let's play series is also survival mode based if you are into that sort of thing

Not downloading the anniversary edition. Heard creation club has also been having issues lately. I’m just sticking with leveling up.

It's cool isn't it 😁 I love it when I find out a random little effect like that I didn't know about

Thanks 😁

*Cries in Argonian* 😅

I recommend it, I've really enjoyed it so far, much more immersive than I was expecting 😁.

@@mike-thegamingdad ill definitely try it

@@mike-thegamingdad i also have a question is vampire any good?

@@XEV_ being a vampire has its perks definitely, it depends on how you want to play really and what you want to focus on. So for example if you use illusion magic, it's very strong as vampires have something called seduction, so it makes illusion spells stronger. The obvious drawbacks are weakness to sunlight and weakness to fire. So if you like to travel on foot a lot in daytime it can be an issue. Weakness to fire can be negated through potions or by being a dark elf. Also townsfolk generally react negatively towards you if you are a vampire so you may just not like being one because of that. The main benefit to a vampire is the necromage perk though, it's in the restoration tree. I recommend looking up effects of necromage on vampires, the list is quite extensive. But I use it when doing enchanting and potion making as it affects both of those things.

@@mike-thegamingdad ok ty

Yeah I've heard it's not as severe as frostfall. It's funny that hunger can't kill you as well but cold can. You just end up famished and it never gets worse than that

I’m a Dayz player and this survival mode is actually fun compared to dayz. Dayz is sooooo difficult/luck based early game. even as a vet

@@SciFiUncensored Ark has a little bit of luck involved, but if you are aware of your surroundings, and think ahead, early game isn't so bad. In fact, if you talk to most Ark veterans, they'll tell you that they regularly start new character on different servers, or in SP, so they can enjoy feeling vulnerable again. I mean, end game with your ascended tek gear, you don't even really care if a Rex walks up on you. However, when you are new, like legit new, then it can seem incredibly difficult. (For context I'm not comparing Ark PvP to Skyrim because that would be unfair to Skyrim). Never really got into DayZ, I know I played it at least once, but my favorite zombie survival is 7 Days to Die. Horde night can be brutal. Unlike most in the genre, once every 7 game days, at sundown, a massive horde of omnipotent zombies show up to tear your base apart. Stealth is useless during a horde night, because they always know exactly where you are, and therefore no stealth damage multiplier. There are ways to fudge the AI with certain building pieces, placed in certain arrangements. It's funny because designing horde bases is one of my favorite things, but I never do the fudgy meta bases. I actualy really enjoy Skyrim's Survival mode. However, one of my pet peeves, as far as survival games is concerned, is lumping food and drink into the same stat. Seriously, drinking water shouldn't make my hunger go away lol. Fallout 4 does survival mode better than Skyrim SE did, but if I remember right, Skyrim got survival mode befor FO4 did. Proof that Bethesda listens to feedback if true. Frostfall was one of the most popular mods when SE came out, so they cobbled together a survival mode. Then they got feedback from players saying that they wished survival mode had X feature from Frostfall...then lo and behold, FO4 survival has some of those features. Most importantly though, the inability to fast travel makes Skyrim and Fallout survival well worth it, to me. It had such an impact on me, having to go back to Morrowind style transportation, that I actually refuse to use fast travel in Oblivion and Fallout 3 now lol. I even started a new non-survival game in Skyrim and find myself forgetting that fast travel even exists.

Thank you, someone else mentioned mentioned garlic bread as well, I'd forgotten that cured diseases 🤣. No problem at all about the campsites, it was someone on my let's play that mentioned that to me, trying to think who it was, may have been MC Malave. Thought it was an excellent tip. Yeah that homecooked meal is awesome isn't it, I think I'll get married in the let's play eventually and then I can pick some of those up That does sound like a bug as I've never had any issues myself personally with adoption either in survival mode or not. I'll have a play around though, and I'll ensure it's included in the let's play series as well in the future, see if we encounter any issues then 😅

@@mike-thegamingdad No worries! I'll keep plugging away. For example, my player's goal now is to become thane of Falkreath and build the Lakeview Manor. Once that's done, I'll move my family there. I can ask the housecarl to build a carriage there, too, making it easier to get around without fast travel. After doing a couple of quests around Falkreath, I tried speaking to Sinding. I stood there, and he never walked over. I slept in the Inn, got the "Mother's Comfort" bonus (which means the game thinks I adopted Lucia), went back, and Sinding spoke to me to trigger that quest. Very strange. I'm on a Nintendo Switch, though, at this point, I doubt anything is console specific. We shall see... 😃 Many thanks!

Thanks for the tip will have to try that out 👍🏻

Yeah very true!

Yeah I recently discovered the joy of pets and their carry weight 😁

There's a few sweet rolls you can devour in there too 😅

I enjoyed the fishing questline there in general, surprised how long it was. I think the argonian has maybe 4-5 seperate quests but I'm sure the redguard woman I ended up doing loads for and you get loads of unique items as well

That's a great tip thank you 😁

Nice thanks hadn't heard of those 😁

It is yeah great suggestion 😁👍🏻

No problem, and thank you for the tip! 😁👍🏻

Yeah those are all valid points, hunger does deterierate too quickly in my opinion. And yeah some foods offer absolutely no hunger fulfillment at all.

That's good 😁👍🏻

I know right 😅

Nice you are in for a treat, lots of new stuff in the game now with the special edition and anniversary edition additions 😁. Just make sure you get the latest or upgrade to the latest version if you want it all 👍🏻

Yeah its a great little money spinner.

Those are great tips thanks for sharing 😁👍🏻

Oh man that sucks that sounds like an awful problem.

I think there might be yeah, try set timescale to (number). The default speed is 30. So 30 in game minutes is 1 real minute. So if you set it to 5, it would 5 mins in game = 1 minute. 1 would obviously be real time. I'd do some research on this though before you try it. I've never done it so I don't know if it can mess anything up, there may be some watch outs.

Just found this levelskip.com/rpgs/How-to-Change-the-Timescale-in-Skyrim

Haha nefarious I like it 🤣

It doesn't unfortunately

Hey do you have anniversary edition? As backpacks were an addition in that. If you do have it, it may be that the content isn't installed. The easiest way to check is if you click into Creations/Creation Club on the main start menu (unless you play on Switch, i think it's somewhere else on Switch) and check in there. That's where all the content is held. It should hopefully say install or download if you have it. If it says purchase or buy you have an earlier version and would need to upgrade. Re. Soup not replenishing health. If you eat one and go into your active effects, can you see the replen stamina and replen health boosts listed in there? Is there also food poisoning listed as well? As that stops the regen I believe If the boosts are there but its not working. Turn off Survival Mode in the menu. Exit out of the menu and let it save the settings. Go back into the menu and turn Survival Mode back on and let it save the settings again. It could be that you need to "reset" Survival Mode. Sounds silly but it's worked for me, like turning something off and on again

I had that same problem yesterday when I tried to adopt one of the whiterun urchins and I didn't have room 🤣

The home cooked meal is amazing isn't it

@@mike-thegamingdad heck yeah I combine it with a couple other soups and I can power attack or conjure summons constantly.

@SkyBloopers I discovered the wonders of garlic bread a few months back. Even though its far easier to eat a Hawk feathers I found it amusing that garlic bread cured all diseases 🤣

@@mike-thegamingdad see I never used it. I honestly don’t use the cooking system enough… I usually stick to venison/vegetable soup same thing but one adds health, Khajit fondue and there’s another soup towards the top that gives you health and stamina regen.

@@mike-thegamingdad also something I would add to your list of tips to go along with firewood, ARROWS…. They spike your smithing level pretty fast for starting off so you can make enough arrows to clear some dungeons… get the shadow bow for ebony arrows and give one to your follower they will never run out and you can occasionally collect them off dead bodies. Additionally silent moon is next to halted steam camp which has transmute spell and tons of iron.

Yeah thats true its massively reduced in combat I think

@@mike-thegamingdad with the campfire mod (and a survival patch) you can keep warm, cook and sleep anywhere in skyrim which makes the lack of fast travel alot easier to deal with. You can also cook meat for free on the fires in campfire, so you can save your salt piles for making fire salts for hot soups.

Or just soups im general for stamina/health regen.

Hey because in survival mode you don't regen anyway, I've found the effect is very small, almost barely noticeable unless you stop and watch it. Check your effects tab and make sure you don't have food poisoning, that could be stopping it. Also check to see if health regen and stsmina regen are in the effects. If that doesn't work, turn off Survival Mode in the menu. Exit out of the menu and let it save the settings. Go back into the menu and turn Survival Mode back on and let it save the settings again.

@@mike-thegamingdad hmmmm okay. I’ll try turning it off and back on again, because i have no negative effects

It allows you to swim in freezing water without getting cold or taking damage but yeah this seems kinda silly that it doesn't outside of the water

He has a great name 😉. And no problem at all thank you for watching 😁

Ah that is Tundra Homestead, its one of the 9 new homes added in the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim which came out November 2021. Think it contained about 80 new pieces of content, homes, weapons, armor, quests etc. Costs about £15/$15 for the upgrade

Haha yeah it's certainly more of a challenge 😂

Nice yeah I've seen a few other comments recommending the goat as well 😁👍🏻

Yeah I don't really use them, more often than not I've taken a potion or some Hawk feathers, although on my let's play we found a necklace of disease immunity and have been wearing that since

Yeah ive seen a few other comments recommending getting the goat 😁👍🏻. Out of interest which farmer is it that sells her again?

@@mike-thegamingdad In Rorikstead I think his name is halvar . The quest starts in whiterun. There is a for sale note in the inn

@maxpower4909 nice thanks! 👍🏻

Oh man yeah they are so clutch in survival mode 😢. I guess you could go for the steed stone. And there is also that amulet you can get that increases carry weight. If you always carry a bottle of Honningbrew mead with you, when you find the revellers, give it to them when they offer you one. They'll give you the amulet in exchange

@@mike-thegamingdad i think the carry weight is a bit manageable, im having problems with the drained fatigued etc effect thoguh

@TheDemonAngel28 yeah that one can be debilitating. It drains quicker if you sprint a lot I've heard, I've not tested this to see how much of a difference it makes, but if you ride on horseback rather than on foot it should drain slower.

@@mike-thegamingdad oh wow, i didnt really know about the sprinting thing. Might try it out. Also trying to make a purely magic build is hard in survival mode, think you can make a guide about it? (no archery, one handed, two handed normal weapons, only works if its bound weapons)

@@TheDemonAngel28 Yeah I can add it to the list definitely, I've got a few other videos lined up but I can look at it after that 😁

I guess if that's your first experience then yeah it will be a lot easier 🤣

Super tasty and cures vampirisim, what's not to like 😁🙌🏼

Yeah I agree, I was sceptical at first, but it makes you scrutinise your decisions and has made other elements of the game like fishing, hunting and cooking much more relevant whereas before they were gimics

Yeah I use that little room upstairs all the time now 🤣

😮😮😮lal

Yeah that is true. As a lover of garlic bread myself it amused me when I found out it has healing properties in Skyrim 🤣

Nice yeah that 15% will be the lovers comfort bonus I think, you get it when sleeping in an abode with your spouse 😁. The homecooked meal is awesome though, easily one of the best foodstuffs in the game!

It does yes, same as vampirism which gives disease and poison immunity

@@mike-thegamingdad hell yeah

Ha yeah restoration is very good, I'm seeing the benefits in my survival mode playthrough where health regen is switched off

Yeah good if you can find or produce the butter for it 😁

@@mike-thegamingdad I just found this out,the hard way. I finally decided to get Goldenhills Plantation.Feels a bit like cheating, getting a free farm, but.... I'll get over it. Fee butter😇

@timothymcgraw8404 yeah the AE homes do make a mockery of what you had to do previously 🤣. 25k for Proudspire Manor in Solitude, 36k if you want to full furnish it. Or, complete a quest and get a free farm (Goldenhills). Face a Nord in a duel, win and get a free longhouse (Hendraheim), use a flame spell on a seal and get another home for free (Myrwatch). All too easy. I still love the Hearthfire homes as it felt nice to build your own and furnish it how you wanted. The kitchen is really useful in those, plus I like filling the library with rare books 😅

Yeah ive really enjoyed it to be honest, I was on the fence when it first appeared but its exceeded my expectations

Definitely get arvak for a necromancer build if you can 😁 works really nicely with that play style

Yeah I get that, and the hunger meter is too severe I think, peckish is anything less than 100% more or less and hungry comes not long after 😅 feel like I never stop eating. Other than that it's great though

@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah you go hungry too fast, so hunting feels like it matters and its defenetly fun and I feel like survival mode would be 10/10 for immersion if the innkeepers sold more than 1 salt pile at the time. Not only that it would solve the issue, but youre telling me the innkeeper who sells food only has enough salt for a single baked fish? Real shame

No problem 😄

Maybe I should narrate some short horror stories 😅