I was using the Forge to create void/fire/frost salts. The recipe being 1 salt pile/1 soul gem (any kind, filled or unfilled)/and 1 Ruby or sapphire or amethyst. I put in around 300 soul gems (filled), a few unfilled soul gems, 800 salt piles, and a random amount of gems (787 amethyst/645 ruby's/596 sapphires).

I start using the forge to make a bunch of fire salts to start out with, but I get to about 95 fire salts before the forge stops. I check the box and EVERY soul gem is gone. Every site I've read says you can use one soul gem, of any kind, filled or unfilled. The forge used more than triple that amount, what the hell?

Granted it's not a huge loss since soul gems are just biproduct, but still, it's enough to where I won't bother using the forge if it requires THAT many resources.

The game does some weird stuff when stacking items. For example: If you drop fifty dragon scales as a stack and ask your follower to pick them up, you'll be disappointed to find that forty-nine of them have vanished when you go to take them back. Other odd behavior includes stacks of items being marked stolen when in fact only one of them actually is. To be safe, you would need to transmute your items one at a time

Damn. Well, that certainly won't work out for me. It's annoying enough just spamming the thing over and over to create recipes, but opening the menu and putting material in one by one is far too grindy.

Oh well, at least I know I wasn't going nuts or something.