Hello everyone, I'll try to be as clear as possible about what I attempted. Please note I am still struggling to grasp Papyrus, but more than that I'm trying to understand where and how Papyrus and the CK interact with different things.

I was going along playing my character, who is a smith, and finding that I needed charcoal more than I could find in various towns. So I thought it would be neat if I could mine *mineral* coal like an ore (giving the player a piece of charcoal renamed as coal).

Here is what I did:

1. Used an ebony ore vein and gave it a new editorID, which created a new form.

2. Used the "Charcoal" miscitem and gave it a new editorID, which created a new form.

3. I changed the keyword of the Coal to make it a Vendor Ore Item instead of a Vendor Tool something or other (not sure if I actually needed to do this)

4. Changed the "Ore" property in the Creation Kit of the new vein to the editorID of the coal.

5. Put my new vein in the world (outside, near Riverwood) and set it up with the appropriate mining furniture marker

6. Linked the vein and the furniture marker

7. Tried to use the auto-fill button, but couldn't tell if it worked or if I was supposed to do that.


What I thought would happen: I thought I would go out and mine coal

What actually happened: The vein gives me no indication of being an ore vein at all. I can't mine it, and it doesn't have any overtext that tells me it is a vein.

I added a regular Corundum ore vein right next to it just so I could make sure I set everything up right. The Corundum ore vein worked just fine.

I even changed the Ore property of the regular Corundum ore vein to my new coal miscitem, but it still gave me Corundum (!)


I searched for a script or place where ores were specifically defined but did not find any except in the FavorJobsOre script, which I don't think applies to what I was trying to do. I did not alter any scripts nor create any new ones, since it seemed like mining was just tied to generic scripts. Here are the scripts I could find that pertained to mining:

mineorefurniturescript
mineorescript
favorjobsmineorescript

The top two didn't seem to have any specific information about what constituted an ore, which led me to believe that I could simply substitute another miscitem. I was wrong. What am I missing?

did you give your coal vein a visible name (not the editor ID)?

The auto fill only works when the script's property is using the same name te object has in the CK, while sometimes the objects meeting that requirement are filled automatically. So, the 'nothing was filled' message could mean that nothing was needed to be filled or that something couldn't.

In the case of mineorescript, which is the script attached to ores, the only properties that are defined in the CK and can't be auto filled are ore, which you have already edited and Failuremessage, that needs to be set as pickaxefailuremessage.

EDIT: There is another property you need to fill. Depletedmessage needs to be set as MiningDepletedMessage