ingots : V

» Fri May 18, 2012 2:35 pm

any1 know where i can find good source for steel and up ingots?. the merc just dont have enough for me. only found some iron ore around so far

» Fri May 18, 2012 3:50 pm

You have to mine ores. Get a pickaxe from Riverwood and make them yourself by finding the rocks that you can mine, and then go to Whiterun to make them into ignots.

» Fri May 18, 2012 10:58 am

This will make the whole smithing thing kinda easy, but here goes:

In the far southeast of skyrim there's a dwemer ruin. If you go inside, it tells you that you need the key, but luckily you don't need to go there. Near the main building is a smaller building, which is a storage building. Inside are lots of ingots, and enough other resources so that you can end up with 30+ dwarven metal ingots after smelting.

» Fri May 18, 2012 11:18 am

You have to mine ores. Get a pickaxe from Riverwood and make them yourself by finding the rocks that you can mine, and then go to Whiterun to make them into ignots.

i know that. but i need some locations. only found iron ores so far. havent seen anything else

» Fri May 18, 2012 7:58 pm

If you go to the workbench (where you improve your armour) in Riverwood. Down the side of it are around 5 steel ingots and under the workbench there are around 5 iron ingots. I am unsure how often they respawn but they DEFINATELY respawn as I have picked them up 3 times throughout my 14 hour save. Hope this helps.

» Fri May 18, 2012 3:14 pm

I took the ones from Alvor! It was dark, pretty much no one was around, I was hidden...so I took 'em, even though Alvor's a friend.

Then a day or two later, some "Hired Thugs" tried to kill me. They did once or twice, actually, but I got 'em in the end! And they had a note from my friend Alvor! Somehow even though I was "Hidden" he still knew...

» Fri May 18, 2012 8:40 pm

This will make the whole smithing thing kinda easy, but here goes:

In the far southeast of skyrim there's a dwemer ruin. If you go inside, it tells you that you need the key, but luckily you don't need to go there. Near the main building is a smaller building, which is a storage building. Inside are lots of ingots, and enough other resources so that you can end up with 30+ dwarven metal ingots after smelting.

some more details plz. i went to the south east corner and all i found was stendarrs beacon, forelhost, broken helm hollow and black briar lodge.
forelhost requires a key but there was no small building there, and there was a guy giving me a quest there to open the place up. am i on the right track?

» Fri May 18, 2012 12:09 pm

You can't mine steel ore... you have to combine iron and corundum ore at the smelter to make steel. There are a lot of mines, but most of them have iron. Other ores like gold have one or two mines, and can also be found outside of mines if you look enough.

» Fri May 18, 2012 6:25 pm

There is a Spell tome that teaches you how to turn raw iron into raw silver and raw gold; one spell does it all, just takes some time...

» Fri May 18, 2012 3:58 pm

Go to the mine outside markarth. The miners will talk about a gold mine inhabited by forsworn. Go to the mine, kill them, and since no one is at the mine, all veins are in tact. Mine them all. I got 26 ores from it, creating 13 gold ingots.

» Fri May 18, 2012 8:53 pm

this may be slightly off topic but if you want to powerlevel smithing, just make iron daggers. travel to every cities blacksmith and buy the iron (stocks 30-40) and you will be 100 in no time.

Theres an orc stronghold southeast of Windhelm naz-something, behind that is a mine called Gloomhide or something filled with Ebony ore.

» Fri May 18, 2012 12:44 pm

Talk to the orcs in the first stronghold you get in, they will tell you where the rest of the strongholds are and they all have mines. just got 30+ ebony from one of the mines

» Fri May 18, 2012 2:24 pm

my question is: how much coin can you make from mining and smelting like gold and silver? I want that house in either Whiterun or Solitude.

» Fri May 18, 2012 2:41 pm

those orc caves where indeed good sources. this wont be as hard as i thought. ant there is a npc in riften wich gives you 5 smithing lvls if you pay him

» Fri May 18, 2012 5:18 pm

This will make the whole smithing thing kinda easy, but here goes:

In the far southeast of skyrim there's a dwemer ruin. If you go inside, it tells you that you need the key, but luckily you don't need to go there. Near the main building is a smaller building, which is a storage building. Inside are lots of ingots, and enough other resources so that you can end up with 30+ dwarven metal ingots after smelting.

They had a valid question, can you give us some more then just the far south east?

» Fri May 18, 2012 3:36 pm

one more thing. does ores respawn any1 know?

» Sat May 19, 2012 12:24 am

one more thing. does ores respawn any1 know?

Yeah, they are supposed to respawn 1 month game time.