Increasing Carry weight

If you're getting overencumbered too quickly, here are some tips on getting more carry weight:

• The Steed standing stone adds 100 carry weight (and increased movement speed).
• After traveling a few days, you can get another 100 carry weight by building a campfire and getting the new survival perks.
• Craft a backpack, or other items with carry weight enchantments.
• Set the alteration spells "feather" or "pack mule" spell on autocast.
• Get followers that are sworn to carry your burdens.
• Mounting a horse (on the back) or transforming into werewolf/vampire lord temporarily increases your carry weight by a lot.

How do I get more spells? // Spellforge Guide

We utilize a suite of mods to tone down the power of mage playstyles. One of these is limiting the power of spells sold by vendors; in order to obtain spells above Novice you need to interact with Spellforge.

To start off, you'll need to either locate a Spellforge Manual- which can be purchased from certain spell vendors, or go to the College of Winterhold and utilize the Spellforge on the bridge. There are three lights; you can interact with the bottom light to access the main Spellforge menu. Here you have a few options, most importantly of which is Arcane Resin creation and it will automatically pull Arcane Resin from your inventory when forging the spell.

You can set parameters in the top and middle lights to narrow down your spell selection, then confirm your choices in the Spellforge menu. You'll then be force-equipped a channel spell that you cast in order to power the machine. You will need enough Arcane Resin, skill in the school of magic you're crafting the spell from, and magicka to channel into the forge in order to complete the crafting.

Arcane Resin Recipes

• Bonemeal (5)
• Nightshade (5)
• Dwarven Oil (3)
• Ectoplasm (3)
• Glowing Mushroom (3)
• Spawn Ash (3)
• Ice Wraith Teeth (3)
• Vampire Dust (5)
• Glow Dust (3)
• Fire Salts
• Frost Salts
• Void Salts
• Taproot (3)
• Briar Heart
• Daedra Heart
• Human Heart
• Nirnroot
• Crimson Nirnroot
• Burnt Spriggan Wood

Addictions

If you're not careful, you can become addicted to several substances.
Here's some tips to come clean:

• Avoid civilization. Hunting animals can be a productive way to pass the time.
  • Don't get defeated
  • Don't whore yourself out
  • Stay away from any temptations to get more (from merchants etc)
• Craft remedies at a cooking pot, they work slowly over time:
  1. Remedy for Lactacid & milk addiction
     • Lactacid Remedy (Weak): Skeever Tail, Bee, Abecean Longfish
     • Lactacid Remedy (Moderate): Giant's Toe, Hargraven Feathers, Troll Fat
     • Lactacid Remedy (Strong): Daedra Heart, Void Salt, Vampire Dust, Wisp Wrapping
  2. Remedy for Skooma & other illegal drug addictions (marked as 'stolen')
     • Herbal Tea: Thistle Branch, Snowberries, Blue Mountain Flower

Sets of Skills

Here's an overview in spreadsheet format of all the classes:
Google Spreedsheet: Sets of Skills

If you forgot to properly utilize the classes by not selecting a new one after mastering your class here are some helpful console commands:

• Unlock a class via console:
  1. setpqv R959Class*AddClassnameHere* possible true
  2. setpqv R959Class*AddClassnameHere* locked false
• Add level to a class via console:
  set R959Classes*AddClassnameHere*lvl to *AddNumberHere*

A Snare to Loosen SPOILERS:

Recommended to keep this quest for when you have the time and patience. Otherwise you might get frustrated by wanting to rush.
But if you're really stuck on some of the puzzles. Here's a step by step guide. Don't look if you don't want spoilers:
https://pastebin.com/aZsYZ1PP

Video walkthroughs are available under the second set of spoiler tags here (again there are spoilers, don't look if you don't want them):
https://www.loverslab.com/blogs/entry/18548-a-snare-to-loosen/

Leveling Lockpicking/Pickpockting (Security)

Option 1 - “fast ish” get the calm spell or one of its higher level counterparts to pacify bandits then pickpocket everything they have you should be able to pickpocket them however, many times you need to get all their stuff as they don’t give you the “this person is already caught you pickpocketing them” message

Option 2 - “the safe way” get a devious device you can struggle out of, then got to the Devious Lore MCM and goto the escape mini-game section and assign a key bind to it, or just left click on a lockpick in your inventory. Press the key bind, select the device, select struggle, then select pickpocket. Read the prompts to learn about the mini game, you should get about 50 skill XP per escape (Configurable in the MCM). You will be left with a stamina debuff for awhile the base rate is to get back 5 stamina per in game hour.
Note ‘Sleeping may restore all of the debuff but more testing is needed’

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