storing items

[⚡Electro Javaboy⚡]

i've heard that storing items there's a chance it will dissappear , i just bought a house in anvil
and store my items there is it safe?

[Johnny Casey]

Any containers in your personnel house will be safe to store items.

[⚡Electro Javaboy⚡]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Any containers in your personnel house will be safe to store items.

is it safe if i store it in the basement?

[Death Approaches]

I think it's backwards understanding here, you can drop stuff anywhere in your houses, It's the unsafe containers that's the problem; you put something in an Inn dresser, right? Leave the area (zone, cell, whatever) come back a week later, your stuff is gone, and some other crap is there, and it's nice an red, don't steal it.

That's the Anvil thing. It's VERY specific, and unless you're trying to lose stuff, you won't. You can enter the house before you own it as part of a quest, it's just another building at that point.

Once it's yours? Go nuts.

[J-Rts]

Isn't it also safe to store items in any guild house, you're a member off ??

[burdfishdemon]

What about the inn for Aleswell after the invisible quest? They say you always have a bed there, but I'm wondering if it's safe to store there in the chest.

[Death Approaches]

You said "Inn" so, do you own the Inn? no. So no, don't store crap here. - sometimes what quest is active matters but why keep track of that? If you want to test it, leave some crap you don't care about, but pretty sure it'll be gone.

Guild house... ok so... do you own the guild hall? no? :-)

Guys, really, you're over-thinking it. If you own it, safe. If you don't, not safe. End of.

There's specific containers that are known safe since the game is ancient, all of the details about every tiny aspect of it are on one of the wikis, if you truly care about stuff like that and want to know the exact specifics of every single known safe container in all of Cyrodiil, it's probably here: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Containers#Safe_Containers

[arottweiler]

When you complete Zero Visibility you get a free bed at Aleswell Inn which has safe storage. There are other places with safe storage but it's not always every container in the building. Usually when you unlock safe storage during a quest line you will get a pop up telling you a container has become safe to use. There's also a very small spell mod that you can cast on any container and you get a safe or not safe popup. It checks the game script so is 100% accurate.

Sometimes it's safer to leave items out in the open because they are then excluded from the 72 hour reset and the only risk is if someone takes them. If it's an inaccessible area for NPCs like on the roof of a house dropping items there would be safe early on when you don't have any safe storage. I wouldn't do that with very expensive items and small items like jewellery as they could easily be lost.

With the Imperial Furniture mod you can buy all kinds of storage and place them anywhere. It will always be safe and no-one else will ever use it.