I feel like being a blacksmith in the elder scrolls universe is probably the best profession considering everything around you is constantly trying to rip your entrails out

Can we talk about how chill Adrianna is, she just teaches you blacksmithing and ends with a wholesome, 'remember me when you inevitably become a fucking badass,' statement. And ask for nothing in return. She's like, the antithesis of 90% of Skyrim lol.

Even though it doesn't make any sense in-world, I loved the Oblivion merchants because they had infinite gold and were only limited by how much you could sell in one transaction. It made getting gold a piece of cake, even without the scroll dupe glitch.

After a thousand hours and numerous smithing focused characters I never knew that Adrienne also offers the blacksmithing tutorial line. I have always done that with Alvor in Riverwood.😮

To be honest, plundering dwemmer ruins for dwemmer metal was allways the best way for me. Its fun and can level you up really fast.

The million coins was truly the friends we made along the way.

I just started playing Skyrim and my friend told me how he was a blacksmith. I asked him if he ever used the Transmute spell, and he said he never heard of it. He was in awe when I showed how I could change iron ore to gold! He said it would’ve made his job easier lol. He also didn’t know you could fish with a fishing rod. I guess even newbies can teach long time players. Good video!

I mean in a world of war where blacksmiths are always needed they are probably pretty well off, also in a time of war armour and weapons would be worth even more

But now the real question is: *"Did you see a dog out there?"*

I love how we all finish the job when resetting merchants instead of just hitting them once

So, go to the college of winterhold and get the daedra hearts from the shady wood elf in the hall of attainment. He always has 2 in stock.

2:44 It's actually better make and temper Iron Armor because it's a better use of materials for resale (the more value you get out of materials used, the more replacement materials you can buy, the less farming up materials from the world you'll need to do).

I usually make leather bracers to supplement the gold rings for smithing training because it's one leather and two straps. For daedra hearts I normally get the one next to Kodlak Whitemane in Jorrvaskr, someone else already mentioned the college of winterhold having a daedra heart merchant so both could be a good source of the heart if you make trips or just plain use the quicksave exploit

Damn dude, your content is gold! I have to thank you because you made me play Oblivion again after so many years

Loving these videos, I've been wanting to play as a jewelsmith in skyrim and this video gives good ideas for that run. Great work!

Tip for the inventory reset on the vendors. You don’t need to kill them for the inventory to reset. They only need to become an enemy

The profits could have been higher with the trait from the stones of berenziah (gems in every container), letting you make more expensive items for less gold overall.

One trick that most forget with hearthfire, crafting the house ingedients is a fast way to level up smithy and get the houses fully furnished. (though lumber, and other items are a pain)

Eorlund Graymane hates him! Find out this man's secret now!

sigurd talking to you despite stating he's too busy, turning bald and then standing on you is peak skyrim.

From experience being a blacksmith is worth it even if you get less money out of it than you receive. You are leveling up speechcraft and crafting at the same time. And lets not forget you can't get flawless armor by buying it.

Ah yes! The ability to construct IKEA furniture is truly the one most masters could not help but envy

Your videos have such a variety and quality to them. **Chefs kiss**

I like your editing style. I reached millionaire status in Skyrim with crafting and no exploits: just play with Survival Mode on, use the carriage drivers to travel around the major cities of Skyrim while crafting and taking care of your hunger, sleep and warmth needs which takes so much ingame time that vendors in old cities have respawn their money by the time you are back.

Well, I think about it this way. I made my pure Mage character into a Spellsword with absolutely no power loss.

Few issues with your methods: -Don't sell iron daggers ,enchant them with banish ,this way they become worth around 1000 gold. -Ebony daggers ,are not good ,craft ebony bows instead ,and improve them ,because they will be worth around 3000 gold per bow for 4 ebony ingots ,you can buy those ingots then. -The best enchant for weapons when it comes to gold is banish ,you use it and weapon gains 1000 gold in worth. And few tips for people who want to be rich from smithing. -When it comes to orcish gear ,only armor is worth it ,weapons are stupidly cheap. -Never create gloves or boots, only helmets and chest pieces are worth it ,but it also depends on the material. -Deadric gear is not worth creating , it takes too much effort ,ebony is the best.

After you level up enough to comfortably raid giant camps you can get fast skins as they carry pelts of various animals. They are also greater soul level and their mammoths are grand. Their tusks also sell nicely :)

The best job in all elder scrolls is usually Alchemist, closely followed by Smithing

the shrine of mehrunes dagon (after the quest) is a free respawning 4 deadra hearts. i had it respawn twice and got a set of armor and a bow, sword, dagger and hammer

If you were a blacksmith and an enchanter, it would be considerably easier - even without glitches. Just put water breathing or something unleveled on the rings, and you double, triple, or quadruple the ring price.

Transmute spell is close to white run, take a carriage to dawnstar, mine all the iron and change it to gold and make necklaces and rings.

I been on this game sense day one and didn't know you could mine ore with a pick axe in hand like that. I always thought you had to wait for the animation

0:02 my guy did not just play the “I’m Tyrone” sound

I feel that it’s crazy that this man is doing like eight challenges in one game of Skyrim like bro might as will be eight different games at the same time because of how different you can play the same game each time

I know I'm a bit late with this, but I usually get my daedric hearts at the location where you get Mehrunes Razor, where usually there are 5 or so daedra that respawn after a certain amount of time (however long it takes for enemies to respawn in locations).

People have turned this game's various play-modes into a legit artform.

I love how u kill Sayma to do the vendor reset exploit, even tho its completely unnecesary and if anything *takes longer.* I usually just quicksave, hit them with a punch (usually a power attack) and then immediately quickload. I usually do it so fast that Belethor or the vendor reloads saying "be careful!" or "What are you doing that for?!"

An easy way to get Daedra Hearts and Ebony ingots is to do the Daedric Quest: Pieces of the Past. After completing it can go back and Daedra will be there ready to be killed. Two not sure if they spawn inside either but that's two daedra hearts you didn't have before.

For the glitches, you can hit them once to reset their inventory, and you can get three ore from one deposit, you just gotta wait until the ore disappears in the top left of the screen to hit them each time

11:11 Man, same. Always saw enchanting and alchemy as fodder, or a useless chore since its always ignored it until i needed my endgame gear, upon which i farmed it all in one go and it felt like a bother, cumbersome and stupid, same goes for Blacksmithing But recently i began a character, a pure Mage really focused on alchemy and enchanting, slowly climbing up both of those naturally through normal gameplay, enchanting the stuff i got from dungeons before selling it, and making potions to ensure my survival. And it felt great, and the enchanting feels pretty good too now and i look forward to it on future characters, so long i dont neglect it as much as i did this one. Same for alchemy, i kinda want to play around with poisons now

homie warped the fabric of space and time to fix his list.

Going up the left path is better for smithing for profit, Advanced Armors gives you Steel Plate armor and, (with Dawnguard DLC), Nordic Carved Armor. Both of which are extremely profitable to make for selling and the former especially is made solely of readily available materials (the latter uses 1 Ebony, but the rest of the materials are common). At Smithing 50, you can readily net profit by buying materials to make these armors, smith them and temper them, then sell the back to the smith you bought materials from. (both is ideal if you can spare the perk points for it, of course).

So I decided to try my hand at seeing how fast I could get up and running and start profiting off of smithing. In probably about 8 hours of gameplay total, I managed to reach level 20, max out smithing at 100 w/ all perks (just hit that now), and got Speech up to 53 (with all perks available at that level on left side spec'd), and had over 17000 gold on hand and materials enough to make easily another 3-4k in sellable items. I suspect I could make to 1,000,000 playing this way in probably under 100 hours played (most of my profiting was in about the last 2 hours as I finally got smithing high to make items from bought materials and then resell them for a non-trivial profit). I probably hit smithing 50 around the 5 hours played mark, even then I was just keeping up with expenses at first making only Orcish Armor and Steel Plate Armor (and tempering both before selling). Now I'm running out of places to sell things (need speech 70 ASAP for Investor perk, lol). I have like about 5 unspent perk points too that I could start investing into combat skills if so desired (all of assigned perk points atm are in smithing and speech, and nowhere else).

With high smithing and speech skills and relevant perks, you can just buy most of a smith's inventory of materials, make everything that optimal to make with it, sell it all back to him and others, and make a bigger profit just due to volume of transactions moreso than having the best possible ratio. Basically, you should know what your ratio is between base cost of an item and buy price for it (use something somewhat valuable like a Gold Ingot (100) to estimate this ratio. Then square that ratio (it times itself), that's the net exchange rate of buying something and then selling it back, you need to beat that number w/ the ratio between base value of materials used versus base value of the finished product. Any item you can make that has a favorable ratio is worth making. You should also know what the optimal ways to use materials are (for instance Ebony Ingots are best used to make Nordic Carved Armor, but you're likely to run out of Steel Ingots first making those, so remaining Ebony (and available Daedra Hearts) should be used to make Daedric Warhammers, after that, remaining Ebony Ingots should be used on Ebony Bows.

If you need a more reliable source of daedra hearts, enthir in the college of winterhold always has them

I always do the smithing tutorial with Alvor. Didn't know (or forgot?) That's also possible with Adrianne. Oh by the way, fun fact, there is a archery tutorial with one of the Helgen survivors

I never knew you could get ore from veins by stacking them with a pickaxe equipped. I thought you had to do the slow third person animation.

When mining you can do will pickaxes and use the one shout to increase your melee speed to mine faster

4:18 When you're at your lowest moment, that cart will remember this and be there for you.

I did something like this a few years ago. My restriction was that I couldn't equip or sell anything I didn't make. It was fun.

Thieves guild for the better gold per vendor reset, also hit up the three khajit chests for free mats, daedra hearts from mehrunes dagon shrine there's always two daedra spawns.

I was just watching the prequel to this again yesterday hahah

I still can't figure out why hitting the merchant is necessary for the reset when reloading

That was fun. I mean all your videos are...but this was particularly so :)

9:30 Your calculations are incorrect, if you also temper them (basically always better than not for resale value), Ebony Bows are better than anything else that uses Ebony (except Nordic Carved Armor and Daedric Warhammers). For Orcish Armor is optimal to make (and temper) out of Orichalcum Ingots).

The fastest way to level smithing after level 50-60 would have been to craft nordic bows. They sell for a stupid amount and they only cost quicksilver and steel ingots. Quicksilver starts showing up in vendor's inventory at around level 20-30, and you can get steel from the start, so it's very easy and cheap to make. To get to level 50 in smithing though, it's best to craft golden necklaces, not golden rings. The necklaces have a higher value than two rings, so you get more experience from making it than you do making the rings.

There's an easier way to get daedric hearts by finishig daigon Quest for that instant kill dagger ( forgot its name) every now and then demora lords will spawn inside the temple and each time they'll have daedric heart. They reset every two days more, so you'll get an infinite supply of it.

If you're on PC press control and print screen to increase game speed for mining and whatnot

4:33 what a glue sniffer

if someone dosent want to do any enchanting but only smithing then instead of wasting time making gold rings just do the fortify restoration trick and make a blacksmithing potion with high numbers and pick any random weapon or armor you want,drink the potion and upgrade it boom instant 100 smithing.enchanting is really good but its a real pain to keep clicking the button

enthir at the college always has 2 daedra hearts every 2 days also the shrine of mehrunes dagon spawns 4 dremora that drop hearts

You don’t have to kill the vendor to reset their money, you only have to attack them and then load your save.

We're going to be following the law *Kills penitus oculus halfway through video* 🤣

If you only equip 1 pickaxe, you can spam the block push & get iron way faster

Underrated item for smithing leveling: Dwarven Bows

Homie skipped over dwarven gear. Go to nchuand zel in markarth, bring a follower. You can lug about 700 ore wirth of scrap if you clean it out. Walk (while encumbered) to the stables outside markarth. When you get on a horse you can fast travel. The travel to whiterun, smelt scrap, then craft bows with 2 dwarven ingot and 1 iton ingot. Then upgrade the bows. One trip will level you from 30 to 70, a second trip to level 100

Alchemy for gold is better... but to do this you need to max out the enchantment of items to have a gear (regular clothes, low weight) that gives you advantages to alchemy and blacksmithing. You create a potion that gives you a plus to blacksmithing and you can make armor that has 10k + in total... I also recommend clothes for trade.

Quick question: if you mine faster than mining animation, will the ore respawn again without any problems?

beware the wagon. the greatest threats are always what you least expect

I know it's unlikely to get read, but I found out that for speech leveling, you need to sell one expensive item at a time to the vendor, if you stack it the xp only goes through once for the first item, after that you just get gold. So another super obscure detail to skyrim wonky skill trees

I say getting your smithing training in Whiterun rather than Riverwood is better, the trainer's line about skyforge steel is more appropriate from Adrianne than anyone else.

They do seem to have more gold on hand than any other profession.

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In some of my current playthroughs, I've made my fortune doing the usual smithing grind. Get Transmute spell, mine iron and silver ores, transmute, turn to ingots, we all know the rest. But honestly, for time reasons, I've considered but just using the Fortify Restoration exploit and getting the Smithing skill out of the way.

With enough smithing and speech skills you can buy all the materials needed for the Nordic armour and by crafting and improving it, one can easily get profit upto 1400 or more. With that you can again buy all the materials needed for it. In short improving the armour is the key. I would recommend the allure perk in the speech skills to get good prices at female vendors. With it for me the buying price of an iron ingot is just 14 septims and iron ore price is just 3 septims. My speech skill is about 55.

Lorewise, being a blacksmith in Skyrim is probably the best occupation you could wish for. The Stormcloaks need you to smith weapons. The Imperials, traitors as they are, would still need you for the same reason... in the event you happen to be unfortunate enough to live under their rule. Just hide your Amulet of Talos, keep receiving (or in the player's case: buying/mining) ore and keep on hammerin'! You'll be set for life. Well, unless maybe a dastardly dragon comes and sets your house on fire, but that risk comes with any occupation in Skyrim.

Ah yes using skyrims silly physics engine to kill NPCs my favorite

Trader in college of winterhold have always dedric hearts

I passively collected about 540k through a similar process except I choose to make silver garnet rings and enchant them with petty soul gem's which sell for alot more than standard metal ring's, now I still managed to reach level 100 on smithing in about thirty levels when using the smithing standing stone and yes it's well worth it, but I kinda gave up on the all gold hording thing and just played the game for once, now I'm going to see if I can complete the main storyline for the base game and the two dlc's at level 1 meaning no perk's for the entire playthrough, also because this special addition came out it's made it where you can at level one get a light armour set of dradric armour and a dradric crossbow which if you level your bow skill one shots deathlords and four shots litches or dragon priests, and humans it one shots standing

I have a question about earning money. What are they for?

Who was the miner and where do I find them?

awesome my friend

I hope I'm not the only one who knows what song the background music came from at 3:00

I started a new character for '23 and i found smithing and alchemy are they way to make the septim

13:55 It’s just like that time I became a blacksmith in Skyrim Lois

If you find a banishment enchanted weapon, disenchant that. Weapons enchanted with it are stupid expensive

You dont have to kill the merchant if you wanna reset there inventory. You can just punch them. Btw the banish enchantment is the most valuable one. So at i think either level 12 or 23 go to a smithing merchant and just constantly reset them till you get it. Its 100% worth it.

You could be a master of Runescape.

I don't blame you for scoot booting other miners. I am too kind to do that, but it sucks how little ore each mine has. Some have more miners than ore and they spawn already on the ore day or night, and scrape the mine clean.

Ayo the blacksmithing helps you level up so much with the iron ore to gold ore and then gold rings to getting rich. Helped me level several of my characters. Personally my main character Gilgamesh the Argonian Dragon Knight is a blackmsmith as a hobby. I would love blacksmithing in any world.

I'm watching someone use the transmute spell in their game, while I do the same thing on mine

The best profit in the crafts is found in alchemy and enchanting.

Just put a “fork” in it; that’s how to Blacksmith.

Love how he said he allows glitches but doesn’t use the duplication glitch 😂

All the smithing aside... Your kid brought a fox with her? After 11 years and countless of playthroughs my houses have been home to bunch of mudcrabs. :D

If you equipped two pickaxes and duel wield them I’m pretty sure it’s the fastest way for mining

Awesome video again

you became a blacksmith and started making arrows? erm, that's a Fletchers job

"Is being a blacksmith worth i-" Me with fully enchanted legendary dragon bone and deadric armor and weapons-"yes"

Have master barter and then you can really abuse the he merchanta