I think there's a bug attactched to the Smithing skill by patch 1.5: all smithing experientce is multiplied by a massive factor.

My character had a Smithing skill of 70. I made a silver necklace at a forge and my skill jumped to 74. After making a few more things my Smithing skill is maxed-out at 101 and I've gained several levels. I had no problem with Smithing yesterday (before the patch).

This may seem like a free lunch bug, but it feels too much like cheating to be acceptable.

Can anyone suggest a fix? Is there a way to use the console to slow the rate at which I gain experience while smithing?

All of the previous reports of this issue were due to using mods which change smithing, as Skyrim 1.5 changed the experience for smithing based on value of created item and the mods are not ready for that (yet). I suppose that is also your case?

Jepp, you have to change the ActorValue for smithing to 1,0,1,20
In the mod you use that changes smithing.

Thanks, but I still need a little help here. I'm guessing I need a console input of 'player.forceav' but that's as far as my knowledge stretches. I tried 'player.forceav smithing 0.01' and it didn't change a thing.

Individually switching off all my mods that have anything to do with crafting/smithing hasn't worked either.

For me it was the mod more craftables that caused this. Once turned off the issue stopped.

Me too, more craftables causing my problem. When i deleted it , no problem so far.

No, what you need to do is contact the authors of your mods or wait for them to provide a version that is compatible with 1.5.24.

OK, I've found the mod that was causing it - AeonVita's More Craftables ( http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=799 )

Edit: Oops - I should remember to update forum pages to see new posts before I add a new comment.

Thanks for the help everyone.