Hi guys,

I'm new to the Creation Kit and modding in general. I downloaded it a few days ago and made my first mod, a rework of smithing & related perks. Basically it removes the need for perks to create items, instead requiring a set of armour, which is smelted down and gives you a book which gives you the ability to craft the related armour set.

Now, I had a few problems when creating it. I wanted to use dynamic recipes for the weapon smithing books I added, to let you use any 2 items of the same material to give you the book (for example smelting 2 Steel Swords, a Steel Sword and Steel Dagger etc), without needing to add separate recipes for each possible combination. I made the mod in a day and I haven't had much time to play around to find out if this is possible. Currently you can create the book just by having 2 of the items in your inventory, and the items are not consumed in creating the book.

Is there any way to change this to do what I want, without needing multiple recipes?

a very neat idea, hope it works out

Anyone able to help? Or even just tell me whether its possible or not?

No, I am quite sure you cannot have dynamic recipes like you described.

Could it be done with scripting? I've never done anything like this before so I'm not really sure.

If you find a way to make this work I'd be delighted. I have the same issue in a cooking mod, that to make mushroom soup you should be able to use any of 5 varieties of mushrooms, but as far as I know there is no way to do that without creating 5 different recipes (all of which then clog up the crafting menu).

I think it is possible if you make your own custom cooking apparatus and script a menu.
But I cannot think of a way of doing it through what's in the game ATM.