"Activate Bookshelf" : V

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:10 am

Apparently you can activate bookshelves in the game.

I'm assuming this means you can use an inventory-like system to place books on the shelves now instead of having to pick them up and stack them one by one?

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:21 am

Apparently you can activate bookshelves in the game.

I'm assuming this means you can use an inventory-like system to place books on the shelves now instead of having to pick them up and stack them one by one?

that would be awesome if the books stack themself in the shelf after you added them

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:46 am

Apparently you can activate bookshelves in the game.

I'm assuming this means you can use an inventory-like system to place books on the shelves now instead of having to pick them up and stack them one by one?

Where did you see this, in-game?

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:27 pm

Where did you see this, in-game?

Yes, but I wasn't playing, so I wasn't able to mess around with it. Just saw the crosshairs fly over a bookshelf and it briefly said, "(X) - Activate bookshelf"

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:39 pm

Yes, but I wasn't playing, so I wasn't able to mess around with it. Just saw the crosshairs fly over a bookshelf and it briefly said, "(X) - Activate bookshelf"

I understand - I'm asking, where in the game did you see this? What area / town / building?

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:29 am

That would save so much time on my interior decorating. What? You know you do it...

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:04 am

that would be a really cool feature, especially for all the packrats.

It COULD have been a special bookshelf that worked as a doorway to a secret room though. "activating" the bookshelf might just have made it spin and voila! secret room

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:15 am

that would be a really cool feature, especially for all the packrats.

It COULD have been a special bookshelf that worked as a doorway to a secret room though. "activating" the bookshelf might just have made it spin and voila! secret room

I agree this would be a great feature, but I think you are proberly right, a secret room :sadvaultboy:

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:33 am

I agree this would be a great feature, but I think you are proberly right, a secret room :sadvaultboy:

If so then it wasn't much of a secret...

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:48 pm

Sweet! Inventory on bookcases! I like it!

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:56 pm

Most likely a secret room behind the bookshelf... but if not... this would be the best feature added to Skyrim.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:46 am

that would be a really cool feature, especially for all the packrats.

It COULD have been a special bookshelf that worked as a doorway to a secret room though. "activating" the bookshelf might just have made it spin and voila! secret room

i did read a preview a while back where someone fought some theive's then read a note talking about "oh yeah the wine's here to" and like he searched and searched but never found it until he looked behind a bookshelf and like it turned out to be a secret passage way.

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:47 am

I don't have a link, but someone was discussing this earlier.

It's confirmed from some not so legal sources that bookcases, weapon racks and shelving units can be activated and you can place the items on them without propping everything up for hours on end.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:35 pm

That would be awesome, as long as the books still show up on the shelf, its the perfect solution to the tedius book placement.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:22 am

I don't have a link, but someone was discussing this earlier.

It's confirmed from some not so legal sources that bookcases, weapon racks and shelving units can be activated and you can place the items on them without propping everything up for hours on end.

The question is if they are normal containers or if they show what you place in them.

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:57 am

You can only add books to book cases,weapons to weapon racks etc and yes they do show up on the shelf you can even grab them off it if you want like a normal one.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:46 am

You can only add books to book cases,weapons to weapon racks etc and yes they do show up on the shelf you can even grab them off it if you want like a normal one.

Man you get best of both worlds with this, neater placement and still being able to grab, I don't often say this but this feature has achieved perfection, very nicely done.

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:09 am

So what about misc. stuff like crystal balls, skulls, etc. No shelfing?

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:03 am

that would be a really cool feature, especially for all the packrats.

It COULD have been a special bookshelf that worked as a doorway to a secret room though. "activating" the bookshelf might just have made it spin and voila! secret room

ooh that would be awesome if u could do that. i love secret passages

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:14 am

So what about misc. stuff like crystal balls, skulls, etc. No shelfing?

yeah it would svck if we could not decorate shelfs whit other stuff.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:24 pm

I don't have a link, but someone was discussing this earlier.

It's confirmed from some not so legal sources that bookcases, weapon racks and shelving units can be activated and you can place the items on them without propping everything up for hours on end.

Finally maybe I'll actually collect them this game then.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:38 pm

I don't have a link, but someone was discussing this earlier.

It's confirmed from some not so legal sources that bookcases, weapon racks and shelving units can be activated and you can place the items on them without propping everything up for hours on end.

The fact this is in vanilla rather than needing to be modded in is great news. I worked a bit on some weapon rack and bookcase mods for Oblivion, and let me tell you - they weren't pretty. Having them as part of the base game is some of the best news I've heard yet.

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:32 am

You can only add books to book cases,weapons to weapon racks etc and yes they do show up on the shelf you can even grab them off it if you want like a normal one.

Screw the improvements to combat; this is the best addition ever!

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:38 am

As long as my random loots sit nicely on shelves and don't explode like a frag grenade when I stroll past three feet away I'll be happy. Cool to hear about bookshelves. No more "ghostbuster library scenes" in TES hopefully :biggrin:

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:56 am

Man you get best of both worlds with this, neater placement and still being able to grab, I don't often say this but this feature has achieved perfection, very nicely done.

Agreed. I have absolutely NO complaints with this. This was one of those things that I saw on a PC mod that my roomie had, and I REALLY had my fingers crossed that we'd see it implemented for us console gamers this time around. (PC guys had a solution, so I wasn't so much worried about their convenience.)