I'm trying to make the Ebony Blade into a basic weapon so that I can smith and enchant it. I've been able to remove the enchantments and correct the skills and perks to the proper two handed format. I added the "material type ebony" thinking that would allow me to smith it but it won't show up in the grindstone. How would I go about changing this so I can smith it?

Look up the word Temper in the Object Window. There are objects with a bluish icon that I think are relevant. I think there is also some sort of checkbox on the weapon itself that allows it to be made at a forge. Maybe its a Keyword, I'm not sure.
That's all I know.

you need to create a forge and temper recipe under Constructible Object

Temper is only needed if you plan on allowing it to be upgradable.

Ah ok, I didn't know about the constructible object. The only problem I am having now is that I can't locate the Ebony Blade in there. Is under any special name or format?

probably under its quest name DA## something

Still can't seem to find it with that name. Every other Daedric item seems to come up.

i did a text search. go to Edit > Find Text. it will show results under the Objects etc tab

the weapon is DA08EbonyBlade and DA08RealEbonyBlade (i'm assuming one of these is the quest reward, probably the latter)

it does not have a COBJ record, so i guess it's not temperable in the vanilla game. you can add one yourself

create a new record in constructible object, give it a editor ID.

create your tempering recipe (for example 3 ebony ingots + 2 leather strips) and link it to a forge via the workbench keyword dropdown (CraftingSmithForge)

this will let it be craftable at the forge. if you have WeapMaterialEbony keyword on the weapon it will show up under ebony category. otherwise if you dont specify the material keyword it will show up under Misc



create another constructible object record and give it a editor ID preferabbly with "temper" in it, so that it is organized with the other temper records

add a recipe for tempering the blade (usually a single material like 1 ebony ingot), and use the dropdown to point it to the CraftingSmithngSharpeningWheel workbench

this will let you temper the blade at the grindstone.


you can add conditions to the temper record to allow it to benefit from ebony perks only when the player has ebony perk unlocked. if you dont know how to do this, you can look up the ebony weapons and copy their conditions and paste them into your temper record

I can't thank you enough, I got it to work. Thanks for going out of your way and helping me. I really appreciate it, keep doing what you're doing. We need more helpful people like you.