Skyrim Unique Shops And Stores
This page contains a list of user submitted bugs and glitches - as well as possible workarounds.
Newbie Character Leveling In Helgen[edit]
Works in 1.09, PS3, Xbox and PC[edit]
Unique Shops and Stores has been released, now it seems to cover whiterun stores and White Phial, but maybe more in the future. Worth it instead of Radioactive? The glorified edition seems very stable and well working, but the screens from USS look really good as well. With this official add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, journey off the coast of Morrowind, to the island of Solstheim. Encounter new towns, dungeons, and quests, as you traverse the ash wastes.
It doesn't matter who you escape with, as they will NEVER die as long as you DO NOT ESCAPE Helgen. You can train your One-Handed, Two-Handed, Archery, Destruction, and most importantly, Sneak abilities here for as long as you like! Neither NPC will die when their health drops to 0, but I do advise you to be very careful about how high you level up. Remember, some instances of the game are 'leveled' and grow in power along with you. I do not think you would want to be level 50 with 80 in the mentioned skills (doesn't include destruction) while wearing Imperial or Stormcloak gears and wielding Iron or Steelweapons..that would just be insane. Proceed to switch your Game Difficulty to Legendary and start 'shanking' away!
It would be best to train your choice of combat to 40, and sneak to 60 for that stealthy approach. You shouldn't be any higher than level 25 with 30/40 (combatskill) and 50/60 sneak. The game progression shouldn't be that difficult, least not in my experience. Remember, leveling multiple combatskills + sneak can progress your levels quickly. As I mentioned above, that would be pretty challenging on your part if you are to attempt to progress through the game, so choose WISELY on what combatskill you wish to level up along with your sneak.
UPDATE 12/2/13: The NPC will grow to hate you quickly if you do not wait til you have to sneak past the bear in the underground portion of Helgen. While they are in the sneak position, they are clearly focused on the bear and pay no mind to you. This is the best time to attack!
UPDATE 03/02/14: When in the sneaking position, TRY to stay out of the bears hearing/sight range or your sneak attacks WILL NOT COUNT! This has become a bother for me when messing around with various races, and found that being too close to the bear or the NPC you escaped with being too close ruins your sneak attack and damage dealt will be labeled as normal damage ruining that chance for that extra modifier.
UPDATE 03/21/2015: Wearing NO CLOTHING at all while attacking the NPC of your choice will yield a quieter strike, and thus, resulting in a massive level gain. If you focus on Stealth alone using a dagger, you will reach level 24 with Sneak being Legendary only one time, and your One-Handed roughly 26 - 30. This make's gameplay less harsh, and you can move forward from here with the greatest of ease as long as you don't progress, say directly into the Dragonborn and Dawngaurd content, as I have guaged these add-on's to be hold strength greater than that of your character by roughly 150%. Pretty sad at level 24, a Bull Netch can drop me from 340 HP, down to less than 100 in Steel Armor with 40% extra defense perks added, in one hit. So be careful on what you decide to do if you utilize this glitchy mechanic.
Update #2: Utilizing this glitch and the Legendary feature for skills will provide you beneficial perk points for those skills you want to pump up right away like Smithing, Enchanting, and Pickpocket. Remember, as you level and select perks, the enemies gain 50% - 150% of the strength you gain as well. Have Fun!
Infinite Dragon Soul Glitch[edit]
I noticed that when completing the main quest on the Dragonborn DLC. When you defeat Miraak, Hermaeous Mora offers you to reset your perk tree in return for a dragon soul. After agreeing to this, i found out i was able to upgrade all of my dragonshouts without killing another dragon.
Infinite DragonShout Glitch[edit]
A short tutorial detailing how to get rid of the recharge timer on all dragonshouts.
Stacking Dragon Mask Effects
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A small turoial on how to wear all the Dragon Priest Masks, at the same time, while sacrficing your characters 'personality'.
Bald Vampire Lord Glitch
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When and if you become a Vampire Lord you have to be aware that if your focoused on the looks of your character when you equip hoods such as the Theives Guild Hood it will show a huge bald spot on the top of your head and the back of your neck will still have hair.
Under-Water Swimming Horse
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Go to solitude docks with your horse, near by there is bridge going across the water, ride onto it. Once on the bridge, ride your horse off the side of it an in to the water. The hose should go right underwater and not come back up to surface. You can swim around like normal once in the water.
Fast Speech Leveling[edit]
Go to Riften, and go to the black-briar meadery. Once inside there should be a dark elf at the counter. Talk to him and choose the second topic about his boss. After he speaks, you get the option to persuade. Do this over and over until you reach 100.
Infinite XP Glitch[edit]
How to Get a House and Upgrade for Free[edit]
If you are trying to get breezehome for free then you will have to wait untill Preventus is either asleep or heading upstairs staring at the map. Though if you have any stolen gold on you then be careful since even though it has been with you this long it will still be considered stealing and it's likely you will be arrested.
Duplication Glitch (version 1.0 / Launch)[edit]
This will also work the the mannequins in house in Windhelm, or any other houses that may have mannequins. Also, this glitch will not duplicate any enchantments on the item. Therefore, if you try to duplicate an armmour piece that you have enchanted, you will duplicate the original item, but it will be disenchanted and down to its lowest level.
Skeleton Glitch[edit]
In Helgen, there is a pile of bones that will glitch and hurt you by 1 health point.
Update 03/21/2015 - Any skeleton or any animal bones loaded initially with the map will cause damage if they fly out from under you. The animation of watching a rib-cage or animal skull flying into the face of your follower or random enemy is quite hillarious as there will be times that it triggers them to draw their weapon as if you provoked them into combat.
How to get Multiple Followers[edit]
How to get Infinite Magicka
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This is very easy to do, the only real requirement is an Enchantingskill of 100 or some enchantingpotions.
Escape from Jail without Lockpicks[edit]
Anyone who is far enough in the storyline will know that when you shout in a hold guards will tell you to 'Stop that shouting'. When you shout in jail guards will think they need to open the door to talk to you. When he does this, sneak by him and get your items from the chest.
Monks in High Hrothgar[edit]
You may sneak behind the monks in High Hrothgar and attack them to build your sneak and weapon skills.
Update 03/21/2015: This has been fixed in 1.09 patch. Attacking them even when hidden will result in angering them to the point of where the only way to shed the hate, would be to reload your save. I have tested this Before and After starting the Way of the Voice questline.
The Dead Hate Marriages[edit]
If you ever get married in Skyrim, keep in mind that you shouldn't try to kill your to-be spouse's close friends, unless you want the dead to crash your wedding.
Ragdoll DragonSkeletons[edit]
After killing a dragon retreat to where you cannot see its skeleton anymore, come back and you will see it ragdoll all over the place. You can also just hit it with a fireboltspell.
Dragon Soul Glitch[edit]
I have experienced instances where I kill the dragon, its killed my horse etc, and I loot it, however despite a cut scene showing me I have absorbed the soul it does not register in the shouts menu. This was not a dragon I had ever killed before. Then your left with loot, no horse, and no dragon soul. I know this usually happens only when your killing the re-spawn of the dragon, however this was not the case. Rough luck.
Free ArcheryTraining[edit]
In Riverwood there is an elf named Faendal who will train you in Archery. He will also follow you into battle. First pay him 200 Gold to train you in Archery then ask him to follow you. Now trade with him and you can take back your gold and ask him to train you again. Rinse and repeat for 5 easy Archery levels per character level. This can be done up to Archery level 50.
Beyond 50, complete The Campanions Quests and you'll be able to have Aela the Huntress follow you into battle. Do the same trick as above for free archerytraining.
This will also work with any person you can have follow you with the ability to train.
Power Level Stealth[edit]
Not sure if this works on other characters, but after I decided Ancano needed to die, I snuck in his room and tried to assassinate him. Using a sword, I put myself in the sneak position and stood facing his back, just within striking reach. I used a power attack which staggered him, but didn't do any damage. It did however, improve my stealth. Covered in blood, he made a typical nasty comment and went back to sleep.. You can find him sleeping on the ground floor of the Hall of Attainment at the mage college. He'll be there after 10pm.
Reason for this is, Ancano is an important quest NPC. He can't die until a certain part of the Mages College questline is resolved.
Another way to level stealth (if you have completed the main story line up to here) is to sneak behind Paarthurnax and to hit with with a one-handed weapon, (Paarthurnax must be sitting on the wall) and he will never be killed due to the fact he is a main storyline character. His health may drop all the way to 0 but he will never be staggered or killed, after awhile his health will return to full. (This has not been attempted with a bow or two-handed yet.)
This also works with Mirabelle Ervine. Located on the second floor of the Hall of Attainment. (Don't Forget to set the difficulty to Legendary. Levels up MUCH faster.)
Behind the Loading Doors[edit]
If you have very good timing, you might be able to get behind a 'load-door.' Doors seem to become semi-solid when they're in their open/close animation. This is probably to prevent items from suffering physics glitches when a door traps it. However, this also counts for the doors that trigger a loading screen, even though their open and close animations are very short. So if you run towards one, and open the door with the right timing just before you reach it, you might just run straight through the door into whatever was created behind it. The strangest fact of this strange glitch is that the loading screen doesn't actually trigger until you walk back through the door, so you're free to 'explore' behind the loading doors. There doesn't actually seem to be much of interest behind there though.
Infinite Arrows[edit]
If you enter the Thieves' Guild in Riften and explore further inside, you might see someone shooting at a dummy. If you stand near the dummy (not in the archer's path, or he will not shoot) he will continuously shoot at the target without retrieving his arrows, leaving you free to take them.
Typically you can get lower level arrows from this method, such as steel and iron arrows. However, if you pickpocket the person shooting the dummy, you can steal their arrows, and replace them with one arrow of your choice (ebony, daedric, etc.). When the person begins shooting again, they will shoot the new kind of arrow, giving you an endless supply. If you do not have the Misdirection Perk, you will need to wait until the person no longer has their arrows equipped. In the Thieves' Guild, both Thrynn and Cynric Endell use the target dummy in the Ragged Flagon Cistern.
Becoming Headless[edit]
After equipping both the Archmage's robe and a Dragon Priest mask, you'll notice that something is missing: your head. Sometimes, not always, when wearing both the Archmage's robe (obtained in the course of The College of Winterhold Guild) and a Dragon Priest mask, your head becomes completely invisible. This also occurs with the Morkai mask, and will occur to the manequin in one of your homes as well.
Breathing Underwater[edit]
When exploring underwater, instead of using the potion to breath, switch from 1st person to 3rd person view, then back to first person. After going back to 1st person you should hear your player take a breath while still under the water. This can be done as many times as you want. Also if you are unwilling to do that then rarely you can find a enchantment that lets you breathe underwater for an unlimited time as well.
Speed Sneaking[edit]
While in 3rd person mode and sneaking, unsheathe your weapons (does not work with bows) you should be now sneaking at a faster pace than normal. (Note: It seems to only work with one handedweapons. Have not tested 2h or staffs yet.)
Phoenix Flight[edit]
In Riverwood there's a forge (which is most likely where you first discovered) and forges are the only fires that you walk on that actually do any damage. For a funny little glitch go into 3rd person view and jump up and down in the forge (it will not kill you unless you do it all day) until you are on fire. then simply walk off and glide back and forth across the deck. it will look like you are a pheonix in flight
Frozen Stance of Death[edit]
More like a curse then a Glitch. On xbox definetly:Going about your normal bussiness stealing questing whatever your character may freeze. For example i was fast traveling then i notice my character would not move and was stuck in 3rd person could only jump and swing weapons use magic but could now walk or even turn.The only thing that seems to spin is the camera. Reloading the cache or fast traveling did not help or restarting the game or console,being killed or being sent to prison has not helped resolve the issue. Worse is it seems to affect all saves there is a rumour of faulty discs. So watch out it may happen to you aswell!!!
There is a chance that re-starting the console will help.
Barely Hanging On (Riverwood Floor Glitch)[edit]
Whenever you happen to kill a chicken in Riverwood, you'll have the entire town after you, when you enter a building the same is true. With the dead chicken, or other random victim that you happen to have killed in mind; enter the Riverwood Trader, and let them kill you in the doorway of the Trader. It's rare that it will happen, but your character has a chance of 'falling' through the floor, and hanging on barely by your foot, and as you stare off into the distance all you see is a blue surrounding you, with a treasure chest in the far end of the room below.
NPC Companion Death[edit]
Sometimes, in extreme cases, companions might die, yet reanimate. walking backwards. I think this happens if the NPC dies outside your LOD range. Oh well, its the Lydia Death Bug youtube video. Enjoy!
Living Pincushion[edit]
Back from Oblivion with a vengeance, the irremovable arrow glitch has returned! Normally when struck by an arrow your character is quite content to remove it, then promptly fire it back, but sometimes you get nailed with an arrow that just won't vanish from your character model. Even reloading saves may not save you from being a walking pincushion. Thankfully, there is hope.
Completely de-equip everything, fast-traveling, and sleeping usually remove these arrows. If worst comes to worst, Lycanthropes can use their Beast Form to remove these unwanted blights upon your character's..err..beauty.
Multiple Armor Bonuses[edit]
In the current version, many itemizations are glitched. Some items can be worn with other items of the same genre, such as wearing two necklaces or two helmets at the same time. Known are The Gauldur Amulet (30 bonus to Health, Magicka and Stamina) and Amulet of Talos (Shouts cooldown is 20% less), as well as the Ancient Shrouded Cowl and original form of the Shrouded Cowl. The Ancient Shrouded Cowl also causes a graphical glitch (The character in question being an Argonian) in which the headpiece is not worn, but it removes the spikes from the top of the character's head as if he were wearing one. Another more complicated way of gaining multiple sets of armor is to follow these instructions. 1. Get a follower. 2. Proceed to put on said follower the armor you wish to have on with your current set. 3. Go to the jail in the city that you are in. 4. Put your follower in the cell you will end up in. 5. Get arrested for commiting a crime(preferrably not murder just hit a guard with your fists it make s your job much easier). 6. take the armor off of the follower you had placed in your cell and put it on. 7. escape the jail (once again no murder). 7. assault another guard outside the jail and go in jail once more. 8. serve your time in jail do NOT escape again. 9. enjoy your two equipped armor sets this glitch can be repeated as long as you wish. A warning though never use werewolf form and never equip another piece of armor without the glitch unless you want to be normal and quite a bit overweight more than likely. Vampire Lord works fine with the glitch though.
NPCs fall through floors and walls[edit]
In many instances, NPCs will lean against walls or be near corners when attacked. If a bow and arrow are used for a one-shot kill (Sneak enabled most likely) by facing the NPC with the wall behind them, they may fall through whatever their model was against. In one case, I killed a necromancer from above and she fell through the floor, only to have her feet sticking straight up in the air and the rest of her body underground. With a little work, I was able to drag her body through a set of stairs and back into the environment.
Giant Attacks cause character flight[edit]
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A lot of the time, one swing from a giant will render your character utterly dead. However, if the swing doesn't kill you and his mace lands in just the right position, you may be in for a ride. Your character can fly several hundred feet into the air only to die from fall damage seconds, to minutes, later.
Dragon's Skeletons fall from the sky after load times[edit]
Sometimes when you fast-travel to a location in which you have killed a dragon, or when you fast-travel away from the location that you killed the dragon and haven't yet absorbed his soul, the skeleton will 'follow' you after the load time and land on or near you.
White Phial Duplicates[edit]
If you drink the White Phial Potion and then switch to the Miscellaneous tab you will see the White Phial (empty). If you click on it it will keep duplicating itself.
Flight Pattern Glitch[edit]
In some rare instances, dragons will become stuck. Not like being stuck in the enviornment, just thier flight pattern. In one instance, I was traveling on a riverbed, only to be encountered by a dragon. From there, I initiated battle, causing one arrow hit. The dragon swooped up, went to attack a far off wolf, and then became stuck in his flight path in the air. I sat there for seven or so minutes, watching him go in a big circle, til' I finally decided to call storm shout.
Store Restocking Glitch[edit]
This glitch allows you to constantly buy or sell items without having to wait the usual 24 hours for the store to restock items or money. The first part consist on buying/selling the item(s) you want. After that, SAVE the game, then kill the store owner. After you kill the owner, LOAD the game to the save file you just created and you will notice that the owner now has money again and has restocked on items. Some important things to notice are:
- The items restocked might not necesarily be the same as before you saved, or the amount might be diferent.
- There is no specific moment after you kill the owner to load the game, you can take your time before loading and it will still restock.
- The most important part is mostly for console owners, since this glitch was used on the PC version. It's important that you verify if the size of the save file increases after each time you do this, if you will be doing it multiple times, because its believed that performance issues on consoles are related to how big is the save file.
Power Level Enchanting/Smithing/Speech & Easy Money[edit]
(This is also a nice use of Petty and Lesser Soul Gems which are normally useless) With the use of the Store Restocking Glitch you can easily level up these 3 skills by following these steps:
- Buy as many Iron Ingots and FilledSoul Gems (Petty or Lesser) as you desire (do the store restock glitch to buy more without waiting 24h).
- Create Iron Daggers using the bought Iron Ingots.
- Enchant the created daggers to increase their value. A good enchantment for this is 'Banish'. When doing the enchantment, make sure to set the enchantment as powerful as possible, even if it leaves it with a charge of just 1-hit, since this will make the item more valuable. Another thing to note for the enchantment is that you should use only Petty or Lesser Soul Gems, since these will be more than enough to increase the value of an Iron Dagger from 40 to more than 1500 gold (the actual selling price will depend on your skills but it should be around 600-800 gold)
- Finally proceed to sell the daggers.
The whole process basically works in a cycle where you buy many ingots and sould gems, thus increasing your speechskill. Create Iron daggers, which will increase Smithing. Enchant the daggers to increase you Enchantingskill. And finally selling the Enchanted Daggers to increase Speech again and generate a lot of money.
As a final note, depending on your Speech perks, the amount of gold a store has, might not be more than 700-800, but as mentioned before you can use the Store Restocking Glitch to keep selling the iron daggers for at least the amount of money the owner has before doing the glitch againn
Infinite Stamina Glitch[edit]
(You will Require a Torch for this glitch.) Using the Torch, You can give yourself infinite Stamina as long as you keep moving. Equip the Torch in your left hand and keep tapping the sprint button. When your Stamina is Zero hold down the sprint button. You are now running endlessly. The glitch stops when you stop. The glitch is know to work for the Xbox. Other Platforms are yet to be Confirmed.
Fight or Flight Quest Glitch
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While explore through Broken Helm Hollow you will find the dead body of a nord (Leifnarr) and have the quest Fight or Flight start. If the quest starts this way without you going to Heartwood Mill and getting the quest from Grosta you may not get the ability to turn in the quest; however, if you start the quest from Grosta this glitch does not show up.
Shadowmere Glitch [edit]
You know that dear death horse we all know and love, how we could kill him and store our over bearing junk on to him, you can do that in Skyrim but when you kill him and store your goods on him he won't back up. Shadowmere does die so until the patch comes in to fix this keep him alive.
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No One Escapes Cidhna Mine (Follower Takes Guard Postion)
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No One Escapes Cidhna Mine is a quest you get in Markarth, where you are imprisioned for false accounts. Apparently your follower may disappear randomly to the Shrine of Talos where you are confronted by the guards. Even after the quest he will still take that postion, posing how the other guard does and will not follow you anywhere. Even if he is set to follow, and you move him around, he will not leave the building and continue to walk back and sit there.
Dragon Iron Claw Quest
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Currently in the dungeon Valthume, A ghost will stop you and ask you to help him stop a growing evil deeper in the dungeon. After accepting you will be tasked with collecting three pieces of the evil soul. After collecting the two piece you will come upon a Dragon puzzle door. The sliders will not move first coming upon it, you have to leave the area and rest the door. After coming back in the sliders will move but even with the right combo it still will not open.
(EDIT) TheDemonicSavior here, I read this but it did not happen to me, my platform is PS3
Vilkas (Constant Conversation)[edit]
After sparing with Vilkas to assess the player's abilities (Joining the Companions) he will continually follow the player and initiate conversation. Reload previous save/ autosave/ quicksave to alleviate the issue..unless you enjoy being stalked by a Werewolf..
This can also happen with Farkas and Aela from the compansion, best way to get rid of them is by paying off your bounties, just go to your general stats and scroll down to 'crime' to check your bounties.
Infinite Daedric arrows[edit]
In solitude there is a soldier who constantly fires arrows into a target which you can pick up, the downside is, these are only steel arrows. so if you get one daedric arrow and place it in his inventory (via pickpocket) he will still unfortunatly shoot steel arrows. so wait till he goes to sleep and go the the gaurds quaters (castle dour then take a right) and find the guard with the daedric arrow, remove the steel arrow from his inventory and he will now constantly fire daedric arrows (around 50 per in-game hr)