Can't pick up dragonbone arrows?

[viirinsoftworks]

I killed an archer with dragonbone arrows, and tried to pick them up, but the game won't let me. Glitch from mod interaction or intended?

[MaximumEffort]

Later

[cfs111]

Are they stuck in the body? If so this is normal. You rarely get back all the arrows that you used.

[viirinsoftworks]

No, they're sitting on the ground. I can pick them up and move them around, but I can't pick them up enough to put them in inventory.

[sweeker]

but... normally the archers arrows (that he didnt use) shouldnt be sitting on the ground, they stay on his back in their container and u access them through his inventory.

that definately sounds weird, so id guess it has to do with some mod.

in my new playthrough i did encounter unresponsive arrows swimming in water, which i didnt encounter last time around, but not like you describe.

[Storm]

Assuming those are arrows you fired, not his spares, then it's perfectly normal. Happened all the time to me in the base game- typically they disappear when you loot the body, though I can't recall if just opening the menu did it or fully looting the poor sod did.

Note: I say "happened" because the last archer run I did was in the base game. No clue if the unofficial patches fix it, only bow I use is the conjured one anymore.

[viirinsoftworks]

Nope, I didn't fire them, the Keeper with the dragonbone bow and dragonbone arrows did. I usually like jumping around to make people's arrows miss so I can pick them up, but this arrow type doesn't work.

[sweeker]

ya i figured i misunderstood :)
used arrows that hit other surfaces in the environment get lost/broken to some degree, just as those that hit a target.

[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by viirinsoftworks:

I killed an archer with dragonbone arrows, and tried to pick them up, but the game won't let me. Glitch from mod interaction or intended?

That sounds like a glitch, but I'm not sure if it's from a mod. I occasionally run across items that I can't pick up, but I don't recall any being from something I just killed. When this happens I do the following:

1 = Switch to first person view and stand either over top or next to the item and look right at it.

2 = Type "tcl" in the console and slowly walk into the item. This causes you to clip through the item and ground. Sometimes the marker to pick up an item is slightly underneath or off to the side of where it appears on the screen.

[MaximumEffort]

Its probably clipping in the wall texture

[viirinsoftworks]

Nope, wasn't clipping- I lifted it up and carried it around with me and placed it somewhere else. I made a small stack (3) of the arrows I saw but couldn't get into my inventory. After awhile I just gave up, but I still wonder about how it could have been caused.

[Mr. Monday]

It might be a problem with whatever mod gave the archer the arrows. I don't think those arrows get assigned to anyone other than the three Keepers in the Soul Cairn (unless they become more frequent on higher difficulty levels).

[viirinsoftworks]

It was the archer keeper that shot them, but I jumped around so his arrows would hit the wall and fall down where I could pick them up.