I really like the idea of having a bank in Skyrim, but there's really no point in it currently. So, I was thinking that if gold was made to be an actual item, rather than just a number on the UI, with a weight of say 0.01 (1 unit of weight per 100 gold.) it would give you a reason to store your gold, rather than carrying around 100 grand with you at all times. (That would weigh 1000 btw.) This way, you could use a bank mod to store the money, and make a little profit on interest without the whole process seeming entirely pointless. (This would also let you drop gold as a side effect.)

gold already is an actual item that can have a weight attached to it. literally all you'd have to do is open the window and change a number.

have you really not modded anything since Morrowind? everything's completely different now bro. we livin in the future and [censored].

I've already made a mod that adds weight to gold. Check my sig for a link

I checked before posting this, and I haven't a single gold coin in my inventory. It just says "Gold 9000" in the bottom right of the UI. Sure, there may be single gold coins lying around the world, but when you pick them up they just disappear and add one to your gold number. Don't they?

No, I never did get the hang of oblivion modding, and I haven't tried it for Skyrim yet.

Coins are weird, they appear in your inventory only when you have a container open (to prevent the player from dropping 200k gold and crashing the game? )

They mean change it in the creation kit. Gold doesn't have a weight in the vanilla game.


Yep , do just that!


Well, what are you waiting for?!

i really wanna fill my house with gold coins now...

Adding weight to gold seems kinda... lame compared to other alternatives. Sure it should weigh something, but that isn't WHY anyone would put gold in a bank. The real reason to put money in the bank would not be to avoid encumbrance, but to keep it safe, and to earn interest. It would be interesting to see the players home branded with one of those thieves guild markers which means "something of value here" and then start seeing various random thieves trying to break into your house, and the more spare gold and treasure you have, the more frequent and more stuff they could run off with. Would make for a great radiant quest to go hunt down the scum who stole your money and or artifact. Just a thought.

It's sort of on my really ill-defined "to-do list," but since I don't actually use my weighted gold mod it's a never been a priority. It'd be neat if someone else did something though.

i...know. that's what i said. he was talking about making a dummy item with weight equivalent to how much gold you currently have because that's the sort of thing you would've had to do in Morrowind, but gold is already considered an item in Skyrim so there's no reason to do that. then he edited that part out and i didn't feel like updating my post.

Ah, ok.

There's also Weighted Items - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=6630. It makes arrows weigh as well, and comes in a few different varieties.

As people discuss on the comments there, what would be very useful is different denominations - so you can have one single "50 gold piece" coin for example...rather than carrying around 50 separate "1 gold" pieces.

Oh wow, yeah that's an awesome idea. It'd be cool if there were pickpockets and the like as well.

Is there anything like that already made?

Did somebody say radiant quest? Hm...