I want to create a special weapon that does bonus damage against a specific type of enemy, bears for example. Does anyone know the best way to do this? I figure it probably needs to be an enchantment, based purely on looking through existing items and enchantments and how they work. Any ideas to point me in the right direction?

You can do it with an enchantment or an on hit event script on the weapon if you want it to still be enchantable.

To do it with an enchantment set magic effect conditions on the magic effect you link to the enchantment.

Thanks for the response. I was going to do an enchantment that can not be learned to keep my weapon unique, but if I can just write a script and put it on the weapon, that might be even better! You got my mind churning now.

So now I have new questions.

• Looking at the wiki (maybe a mistake, but... http://www.creationkit.com/Weapon_Script) I don't see an OnHit event for weapons. So what should my weapon script extend?
  
• Also, once I do get an OnHit event to fire, how do I get a reference to the actor I just clobbered?

Once I get there, I think I can figure out the rest.

Sorry I've mislead you it does have onHit since weapon extends object. But sadly that is called when an object is hit so would have to be on the target.

However if you want to give a weapon multiple effects the The magic effect for the enchantment can be scripted to add a number of disease magic effects you define to the target on start and remove them on end. ensure you tick the box so they ignore disease resistance

the way the silver weapons work (bonus damage to undead) is it equips a hidden perk to the player whenever you equip the weapon, and then removes it when you unequip the weapon

Oh - perks! I'll look into those. Thanks!

Scripts attached to weapons shouldn't extend http://www.creationkit.com/Weapon_Script, they should extend http://www.creationkit.com/ObjectReference_Script.

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You could also take a look at the Lunar weapon enchant (damage to beasts) thats on a couple weapons in addition to the Silver one.

the way wuuthrad does it is an onequip event to add a perk to the player as long as the weapon remains equipped, then an onunequip event to remove the perk when the player takes the weapon off

the perk it added to the player created a bonus damage with conditions set that the race the player was attacking was identified as one of the elven races

I'd look into keywords...those can work...

like

if Target.HasKeyWord(WhateverKeywordIndicatesTheRightTargetType)   Target.DamageAV("Health",AmountOfBonusDamage)endif

J'zargo's infamous scrolls do it by checking the target for the Undead keyword, and dropping a fireball if it has it.

Depending on what type of enemies you want it to effect, you could use apply a script to a spell, then add the spell to the race(s) you want to be effected. You can use a script that extends that magic effect (ActiveMagicEffect) and use an OnHit event in it.

Beware, though, there are some races that I cannot get to accept "racial spells."

Doesn't "OnHit" only fire for the target being hit, and not the thing doing the hitting? I ran into that when I was thinking of making a weapon that could "Knock the ore" out of a vein (I.E. Detect when it had hit an ore vein, deplete it, and just drop the ore at your feet.)

I ended up looking at how Ysgramor's Blade is implemented. It basically adds a perk on equip that multiplies weapon damage when the target meets certain conditions. Although, looking at similarly named forms in the base game, apparently Ysgramor went through a few itterations. There are an enchantment and a magic effect for this weapon which are no longer used as far as I can tell.