I need to make some money to buy a house and for enchanting supplies so any help would be appreciated

alchemy, buy the ingredients at alchemy shops, make potions, sell the potions back

I do Alchemy and make jewelry to sell. There are lots of places to mine and I can get the Transmute spell from a place near Whiterun so I can turn iron into gold and silver.

Kill the emperor(Note, only quick if you're already at that point in the questline)

Alchemy is quick but only if you have the ingredients. Do you happen to have 20 giant toes lying about? If you have no skills and no prior experience, you make really weak potions that do not pay that well.

Enchanting is quick only if you have the right enchants. Do you know Banish enchant? No? How about Paralysis? Damage Stamina?

Smithing can make you lots of money too, but it takes a while to level up your skills and get the right perks. My favorite way if I'm going light armor route is to make lots of Steel Plate Armor, but that takes Advanced Armor perk and time and money to gather up the raw materials. If I were to go heavy armor route, you can make a lot of money raiding Dwemer ruins and make lots of Dwarven bows.

So it all depends on your circumstances. Also raiding a typical dungeon should net you 2000 gold or so.

What if you just chop wood all day long, how much money can you make in a day?

Also you can make a few dragon armors for quick cash.

Chopping wood is the best bet for a low level toon.

Become a begger

This takes a smithing score of 30 and the Dwarven Smithing perk. Depending on what your character's stats are, this could be very easy or a PITA (actually it's a PITA no matter what). Anyway...

Go to Markarth and be sure to have a follower with you. Find Cacelmo near the Dwarven ruin there. Get the quest from him to kill Nime the giant spider. Then search the Imperial soldier in front of the Dwarven doors and you will be given a quest to find three dead guys.

The ruin is a tough one but well worth. By completing the quest you have access to a mountain of Dwarven Metal. It took Lydia and I 3 full trips with both of us fully loaded to get it all back to Whiterun.

The take resulted in about 370 Dwarven Ingots. That comes out to 92 Dwarven armors you can make, with each one improved. If you don't want to improve any of them that's 123 Dwarven armors. But improve them because you get way more bang for your ingot.

As you pump these items out, your smithing score skyrockets. By the end you'll be making epic to legendary Dwarven armors that you'll be getting around 400 coin for each. Average it out to around 250 each from start to finish and you'll make 23,000 septims.

The biggest problem is the steel you need for each piece of armor. However, that's avoidable if you just pump out gads of Dwarven bows. Then you can make 185 of them and only need 1 iron ingot per, you should be able to hit your goal of 15K in one playing session as well level up quite a few times during the process.

With the armor you make more money and your smithing score improves more. With bows you don't need any steel (only 1 iron ingot per) and you can get it done a lot faster and still up the hell out of your smithing score. Take your pick but the bow is the path of least resistance.

The reason this is better than alchemy for making money is that it's for sure. The material you need is in Nchuand-Zel, there's no cross country search or traveling from alchemy shop to alchemy shop buying stuff. If you go the bow route, iron ingots and ore are cheap and plentiful. If you need more there's lots of places to mine for it.

Then there's the selling part but no matter what method you choose, that'll be the most tedious part of the process. Good luck.

Chop wood (it's a grind) and use the house buying exploit.

Making potions with Giant's Toe, Hanging Moss and Bear's Claw is a good way, but it can be hard to find vendors with enough gold to buy them at the start.

If you don't want the bother with alchemy or smithing, get the transmute tome and mine/buy iron ore. Turn it into gold ore and sell it to Pavo at full vendor price after you have liberated Kolskeggr mine (dont turn it into bars!). I got around 7000 at the start of a game this way, by clearing Embershard Mine, Halted Stream Camp and Kolskeggr mine

Get a spouse they will open up a shop and give you a share every day.

Dungeon raiding, a LOT!

And work hard on Smithing!

If you don't mind Alfstand and Blackreach level locking early, you can get a good amount of gold from both of those dungeons.

100 gold a day. I guess you can get married and sleep for 150 days. zzzz

6 units of firewood per tediously drawn out wood chopping animation
5 gold per firewood
6 * 5 = 30 gold per tediously drawn out wood chopping session

15000 / 30 = 500 lame wood chopping sessions

I think each wood chopping session takes at least 2 minutes (seems like 10 minutes though, because it's so lame)

500 * 2 = 1000 minutes of your life wasted with chopping wood in a video game

That's 16,7 hours.


Is the purpose of your advice to make the OP loathe the game?



Edit: I'm probably off with the estimation about how long these lame-arsed tedious and annoying wood chopping animations are. Still, 500 of them would turn anyone either into a mindless zombie stance or ready for a school-shooting spree.

I've never done the math, but I know it took me less than 8 hours to get enough for Breezehome and get a good start at Smithing. I just do it while watching movies or posting here. It's far less frustrating to me than running back and forth between dungeons and containers and vendors and having to wait for them to have cash again. Plus, at low levels Draugr are far more dangerous than wood-chopping animations.

It was merely an example of what I do. I loathe games much quicker when I can only carry a few pieces of armor and am running back and forth to sell it.

One of us, one of us...

If you get your follower to chop wood for you it's a little faster, as you don't have to keep readjusting the cursor, but yeah it's not the fastest way to make money at any rate, it's just one of the easiest.

I have around 255k and I made it all by alchemy really. I mean most of it. The greatest potion to make is: Wheat, Giants Toe, and Hanging Moss. Assuming that your a low level all of these item can be easily obtained by any alchemist. Enjoy P.S. Any item item that makes the potion more powerful, you WILL get more money out of that potion.

Oh I forgot to add, you will need to spent some money, but you will absolutely make profit. Starting off with 2k should work out for you.

Lol to me everytime i visit my spouse i get 500-900 gold

Go find the Khajit storage places. Take everything and sell it. Wait 48 game hours. Repeat.

I know of 2 places, so far. One by Solitude and one by Dawnstar.

Kill dragon, rip out the bones and scales from it's carcass. Sell the dragon parts to different shops since they will never have enough to buy every part. That's about 1,500-2,000 gold right there, depending on speech level and speech perks. Of course, it will depend on whether or not you get dragon encounters frequently like me...

There's also a hidden chest in Markarth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3VB4KA7wq8

Huh? At low levels you'll maybe get 5-600 total septims for that stuff. That's around 25 dragons at those prices. With the frequency of their appearance I'd say he'll have his 15,000 septims from dragon remains at around level 60 or 70.

The chopping wood idea isn't too popular but it's faster than waiting around for dragons to show up.

If you've got extra jewels and soul gems, make fancy jewelry and enchant them with high value spells (fortify carry weight if possible).

player.additem f 15000