Skyrim Highly Advanced (or Hopefully Acceptable ) Role Playing Enhancements presents:

SHARPE Craftsmanship: Materials

Is your MISC crafting category overflowing with items that really belong somewhere else? This mod will help! By painstakingly assigning correct materials to virtually every item in the vanilla game, items now appear in their correct categories in the crafting menu, provided a recipe is available to construct them (new recipes are NOT included).

The following new crafting categories are provided:
CLOTH (for clothing, replaces STUDDED - the Studded Cuirass is now in the HIDE category)
SILVER (for silver weaponry, silverware)
GOLD (for gold coins and certain Thieves Guild items)
GEMSTONE (for gems, soul gems, crystals)
IVORY (for anything made out of Mammoth tusks, Horker tusks and Sabre Cat teeth)
CHITIN (for anything made out of Chaurus Chitin or Mudcrab Chitin, such as Falmer arms and armor)
PAPER (for books, notes, maps, etc.)

In addition, this mod serves as a modders resource in that it establishes new categories that mods can use. Simply make sure that this mod is installed and make your items go into the correct category by attaching Keywords to them (and, if necessary) creating Constructible Object recipes for them. Here's a list of the Keywords to use:

CLOTH: ArmorClothing (don't use ArmorMaterialStudded anymore)
SILVER: WeapMaterialSilver
GOLD: SHRPCraftingMaterialGold
GEMSTONE: SHRPCraftingMaterialGem
IVORY: SHRPCraftingMaterialIvory
CHITIN: SHRPCraftingMaterialChitin
PAPER: SHRPCraftingMaterialPaper

Dawnguard: COMPATIBLE + ADD-ON COMING SOON
This mod by itself is compatible with Dawnguard. To fully benefit from this mod when using Dawnguard, please install the Dawnguard-specific add-on to this mod COMING SOON. Note: you will need BOTH this mod and the Dawnguard add-on.

Load order:
This mod should be as high in the load order as possible. It should even go above Dawnguard. To change the load order, click "Data Files" in the Skyrim launcher, select this mod and click the up-arrow.

Get it from http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92024365
Get it from http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23113/

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Yes, you're reading it right: custom crafting categories are now possible! I've figured out how to use this facility that was most likely introduced with Skyrim 1.7. However, because it requires a bit of configuration in a few dark corners of the CK, I guess it has gone unnoticed till now.

There are in fact 10 custom categories that can be configured using the CK. The Dawnguard DLC uses one of these slots for certain quest-related items, but the rest of the categories are available for use. I've looked at what kind of items are available in vanilla Skyrim and Dawnguard and based the categories in this mod on that.

I've reconfigured the vanilla STUDDED category, because there's only item that uses it: the Studded Cuiras. I've set it's description to CLOTH and configured it to use the ArmorClothing keyword, so all existing clothing should go into that category (yay! finally haute-couture mods are possible! ). Doing it this way saves one of the custom slots.

The other categories I've introduced do use up 6 of the custom slots and use custom keywords. I'm hoping other mods will use my mod as a base (it doesn't do anything other than define the categories and assign the appropriate keywords to the vanilla items. No scripting, no new recipes), so it should work well as a modders resource.

I'm working on a Dawnguard-specific add-on to this mod that assigns correct materials to the items introduced in the DLC.

You, (presumably) sir, are a god(ess). Now to get all of the mods I use to play with this...

... Bravo! Now we just need to find a way to implement new perk trees...