Ultimately Im looking to dynamically change different items gold value. For now, I want to try and get all the items within a certain chest and make them worth 2 times as much. These items could be anything put into a container. I thought there would be a function somewhere to see what's in a container but I can't seem to find it.
Any help or tips towards this would be appreciated.

You could check the script at PlayerBookShelfContainer. It uses OnItemAdded and OnItemRemoved events to check what gets in and out. But notice that is limited to a max number of references...So maybe you should work with an ObjectReference array instead of 18 properties.

Let us know how it works. I'm curious about it, maybe i'll try tomorrow

I'll take a look and report back, thanks

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Ok, so thanks for leading me to the bookshelf, it had a lot of helpful things to look at which lead me to more things and so on... namely:
Event OnItemAdded
Event OnItemRemoved
GetItemCount()
GetBaseObject()

Form.GetGoldValue()

As you may tell, the majority of my problems are knowing the functions...

So next I want to SET the gold value (in code), since I know how to do it from the object editor, any more finger pointing would help as I search.