Question on Soul Gems

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Hello all.
When capturing a soul does that soul fill an appropriate soul gem of that level or will a low creature such as a wolf fill a grand soul gem for example?

[GIJoe597]

Yes, lower souls can waste higher level gems. If you have a soul gem in that condition, you can drop it on the ground. This will remove the soul. Pick it up and it will be empty again.

[Sgt.Random♿]

A wolf can fill a higher gem if there is not a gem of his soul level available. Thus if a creature is for example petty and you have 5 grand soul gems, that grand soul gem will be filled with a petty soul. You can throw those soul gems on the ground and the soul will leave, thus becoming a standard soul gem again.

[Castyles]

Low level creature and grand gem = capture.

High level creature and petty gem = nothing.

[alexander_dougherty]

Messaggio originale di GIJoe597:

Yes, lower souls can waste higher level gems. If you have a soul gem in that condition, you can drop it on the ground. This will remove the soul. Pick it up and it will be empty again.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, dropping a soulgem does not empty it, and isn't supposed to.

If you are experiencing this, then you either have a mod that does it or you are suffering some sort of bug.

[alexander_dougherty]

Messaggio originale di Baron Von-Wulfen :

Hello all.
When capturing a soul does that soul fill an appropriate soul gem of that level or will a low creature such as a wolf fill a grand soul gem for example?

It depends on what soul gems you have, if you don't have a soulgem of that level it will fill a higher level soul gem.

So a common soul will fill a common soulgem if one is available, if one isn't available but a greater soulgem is available it will fill that soulgem instead (or a grand soulgem if no common or greater soulgems are available).

It will never fill a smaller soulgem.


Unless you use a mod that changes this.

[MysticMalevolence]

Messaggio originale di alexander_dougherty:

Messaggio originale di GIJoe597:

Yes, lower souls can waste higher level gems. If you have a soul gem in that condition, you can drop it on the ground. This will remove the soul. Pick it up and it will be empty again.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, dropping a soulgem does not empty it, and isn't supposed to.

If you are experiencing this, then you either have a mod that does it or you are suffering some sort of bug.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Soul_Gems#Bugs
Actually, you're using a mod.

Also, I use the mod GIST to alleviate all soul gem woes.

[alexander_dougherty]

Messaggio originale di MysticMalevolence:

Messaggio originale di alexander_dougherty:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, dropping a soulgem does not empty it, and isn't supposed to.

If you are experiencing this, then you either have a mod that does it or you are suffering some sort of bug.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Soul_Gems#Bugs

Also, I use the mod GIST to alleviate all soul gem woes.

Ok, fair enough, I use the unofficial patch so never encountered it.

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Many thanks all.