Crafting Changes
Living Skyrim 4 contains custom crafting recipes for a majority of the mod added armor and weapons added to the mod list.
This page will detail the changes made to the recipes as well as how to obtain the recipes.
How does it work?
Recipes for most mod-added equipment in Living Skyrim 4 have had the recipe requirements changed to require you to read a Crafting Book to activate the recipes in the relevant crafting station.
A majority of these can be aquired from blacksmiths around Skyrim, some are placed in the world, these will be detailed in a later section.
Once you aquire a book, reading it once will "learn" the recipes, reading it a second time will "unlearn" the recipes.
This means you no longer are required to carry around the crafting books all the time.
You may still require additional smithing perks, such as Ebony, Deadric etc. depending on the recipe.
Please note there are some crafting books that will not function in this manner, if you notice any that do not provide this functionality and you would like them to, please let us know on Discord.
The Crafting Books
Crafting books can be obtained for the majority of mod added equipment in the list. below is a list of all affected mods by this custom overhaul:
- Beyond Skyrim - Bruma
- Silt Strider Armor
- Warmaces of Skyrim
- Armors of the Velothi Pt 1 and Pt 2
- Dog Backpacks
- Angelic Halos and Demonic Horns
- HORNY
- Archery
- Kellan HDT-SMP Armor
- Wayfarer's Coat
- DX Faction Crossbows
- Sedethul
- Lazy Weapon Pack
- Nordic Ranger Outfit
- Practical Pirate Outfit
- Rugged Rogue Outfit
- Seasoned Traveller
- Silver Weapons
- Toughened Traveller Outfit
- Treasure Hunter Garb
- Garrus Axes
- Cloaks of Skyrim
- Historical Weapons
- Lore Weapon Expansion
- Real Bows
- Standalone Weapons
- Pierced Ears - Earrings
If you find yourself unable to craft any items from these mods it is likely they have been moved to custom crafting books. The locations of these will be noted in the next section.
How do I find the books?
The majority of the books can be found from Blacksmiths around Tamriel. The level requirement column shows the minimum required Player Level for the crafting books to begin showing at blacksmiths. The books also require a relative level of skill to actually learn the recipes, you will recieve a notification if your smithing level is too low to learn the recipes.
| Crafting Book | Player Level Required |
|---|---|
| Crafting Manual - Viking Shields | 1 |
| Crafting Manual - Nordic Light Armors | 1 |
| Maximus' Dominus Bowyer Extraordinaire | 1 |
| Crafting: Attire for Canine Companions | 1 |
| Crafting: HORNY | 1 |
| Crafting: Angelic Halos and Demonic Horns | 1 |
| Crafting: Seasoned Traveler | 1 |
| Crafting: Wayfarer's Coat | 1 |
| Crafting Manual - Viking Swords | 2 |
| Crafting Manual - Nordic Clothing | 2 |
| Crafting Manual - Viking Arrows | 2 |
| Crafting Manual - Nordic Scaled Armors | 4 |
| Crafting Manual - Viking Axes and Maces | 5 |
| Crafting Manual - Nordic Heavy Armors | 5 |
| Crafting Manual - Passion Never Dies | 5 |
| Crafting Manual - Wooden Long Bow | 5 |
| Garrus's Crafting Tome | 5 |
| Smithing Techniques of Cyrodiil and Vvardenfell | 5 |
| Crafting: Basic Earrings | 5 |
| Crafting: Treasure Hunter Garb | 5 |
| Crafting: Kellan | 5 |
| Crafting Manual - In Nomine Domini | 8 |
| Crafting: Exotic Earrings | 8 |
| Crafting: Silver Swords | 10 |
| Crafting: Colovian Accoutrements | 10 |
| Crafting: Armors of the Velothi | 15 |
| Crafting: Billy's Hidden Gems | 15 |
| Crafting: Sedethul | 15 |
| Crafting Manual - Orcist Sword and Greatsword | 25 |
| Crafting Manual - Runic Sword | 25 |
| Crafting Manual - Hirl Dagger, Sword and Greatsword | 28 |
| Crafting Manual - Ceremonial Blade | 30 |
| Crafting Manual - King's Sword | 30 |
| Crafting Manual - Sunfang | 30 |
| Crafting Manual - Peace Lily | 35 |
| Crafting Manual - Verminas Dagger | 35 |
| Crafting Manual - Amren's Sword | 40 |
| Crafting Manual - Dagger of Time | 40 |
| Crafting Manual - Lanfael Sword and Greatsword | 40 |
| Crafting Manual - Purifier Sword and Greatsword | 40 |
| Crafting Manual - Alduin's Fang | 50 |
| Crafting Manual - Claw | 50 |
| Crafting Manual - Light's Bane | 50 |
The remaining crafting books are placed in world in various locations related to either the mod's intial placement or placed in (hopefully) fitting locations. So as to not spoil the locations for people that would like to discover them on their own, only vague hints will be given here.
| Crafting Book | General Location |
|---|---|
| Various DX Faction Crossbows Books | Unchanged from the mod locations |
| Fryssa the Wide's Nordic Tailoring | Whiterun, various other locations around Skyrim |
| Practical Pirate Tailoring Patterns | Unchanged |
| Rugged Rogue Tailoring Patterns | Unchanged |
| Toughened Traveler Tailoring Patterns | Unchanged |