Items stuck in Breezhome chest

Post » Thu May 31, 2012 1:42 pm

Hello everybody.

I had 120 iron arrows in the bedroom chest of Breezhome in Whiterun.
If i press 'E' to take them in my inventory, i can hear the usuall sound that the game does when you take arrows from a chest, but the arrows remain there.
And theres no dialogue box to select the ammount of arrows. Just the sound.

I've also tried to click the item name, double click the arrow animation, and even press 'R' to take all the items of the chest, but nothing.
All the chest's items were transfered to my inventory but those 120 arrows remained in there.

There is the triangle icon beside the item name, the one that indicates that the specific item is favorite. I tried to unfavorite the arrows that i already had
in my invetory and then tried again to take the ones in the chest but no luck. The favorite icon still remains for the arrows in the chest but not for the arrows i have equiped.

I also tried to put more arrows in the chest and then try to take them back again, but the same thing happend. Now i have 193 iron arrows stuck in that chest.
So now i have to put iron arrows somewhere else, because if i store more arrows in that chest, they'll all be stuck there for good.

Here's a screenshot. not much to show though: http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4466/arrowsr.jpg
Any ideas ? this is very annoying :( . Pls help, and thanks in advance.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that i also tried to restart the game. no luck again.

EDIT2: An observation i just made. If i load the game, and i try to take the arrows from the chest, it takes the item right above them and plays the according item sound effect.
In that case an Imperial Sword (afterwards every attempt has the results i described above). But that sword does not show up in my inventory.
And if i save and load the new save, then the sword appears in the chest again... :swear:
Any console command to delete the contents of the chest or something ???
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 11:29 am

Ok so i had to "expiriment" with console commands, so i could somehow get rid of this annoying thing. I had to delete the whole chest.

So what i did is "help chest" and I found that the second container id is the one of the Breezehome's chest, using "player.placeatme id".
Then targeted the faulty chest from the console and did "placeatme id" to place a new chest at the exact location, and "markfordelete" to delete the old one.
Went out of the house and back in, and only the new empty chest remained.

Did a "setownership" on it, a "lock" and then lockpicked it, and to make sure its not respawnable, i made a new save point, filled it with rare weapons and stuff and did the following.
I made sure the house is unlocked by giving the key to my housecarl Lydia (lol), and exiting and entering the house without it. Then set Lydia to follow mode and went to another town.
By using 'T' i waited 15 game days (assuming that chests respawn at 10), and when i came back all the stuff was still inside.

Kudos to these guys for the console commands: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/477049-renovate-your-house-with-console/
So, forum people, what do u think? are all of the above correct? Am i good to go?

I really hate these kind of bugs when they happen, and i should blaim u Bethesda.
But i know that with these big sandbox games, its almost imposible to find all the bugs. So keep up the awesome work :biggrin: :biggrin: <3.
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