Mehrunes Razor and Black Star stopped capturing?

[🅶ila]

Hey guys,

I've been using Mehrunes Razor and Black Star to capture souls for maybe 30 hours of this playthrough. However, I recently noticed that both items have stopped working. Unfortunately, I don't know at what point, because it was one of those things that I just kinda noticed randomly. I went to use the Black Star to enchant something and it was empty. I figured that Mehrunes had stopped working, which I've confirmed is true. (Empty soul gems no longer being filled.)

Using a summoned bow (with soul capture skill in conjuration tree), I get the "Soul Captured" text on humanoid bandits, but the Black Star is staying empty as well - so I now have two malfunctioning artifacts.

Something has obviously broken here. I do get the odd "Not enough charge" text when killing with Mehrunes, but it was always doing that - even when both items were actively working...

My assumption is that it's probably a mod that's broken the function of the game.. However, I'm curious if anyone else has run into this problem or have any suggestions of something to do in-game? I've tried dropping and picking them back up, to no avail.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Do you have a mod that alters recharging weapons especially daedric artifacts? It sounds like a problem I had with the staff of Magnus.

[Shadow The Innkeep]

Have you tried re-charging Razor? It sounds like it ran out of charges...

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[Rez Elwin]

The Razor doesn't soul trap, that isn't its effect, it is also an unlimited charge item. You must have been using an mod that changed artifacts for them both to be working incorrectly.

[voehringer_nitron]

The Razor's effect (not really an enchantment, since it's infinite) is the ~2% chance to kill something outright. It has nothing to do with soul trapping. Off the top of my head, I believe that's the Mace of Molag Bal. So, yeah this must be mod borkage.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Yea the razor is more comparable with for instance Valdr's lucky dagger ... it has an effect however don't have to be charged.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

The Razor doesn't soul trap, that isn't its effect, it is also an unlimited charge item. You must have been using an mod that changed artifacts for them both to be working incorrectly.

Originally posted by voehringer_nitron:

The Razor's effect (not really an enchantment, since it's infinite) is the ~2% chance to kill something outright. It has nothing to do with soul trapping. Off the top of my head, I believe that's the Mace of Molag Bal. So, yeah this must be mod borkage.

The above post are correct, Mehrune's Razor should never have soul trapped, I enchant a Dagger specifically to do that (Fiery Soul Trap if I can), and usually just shelf the Razor, since it's effect is rendered useless by the sneak skill.

As for the Blackstar, it was known to occasionally bug out and stop working in Oldrim, but combined with what you had Mehrune's Razor doing, I'm going to agree it probably is a mod doing this.