Alvor - The Blacksmith in Riverwood....

[chaosdemon122]

Does anyone know of a potential fix for a bug with Alvor, in Riverwood? Recently, I've encountered a bug where Alvor's shop only has a handful of items - usually a pair of iron boots, 2-3 iron helmets, a single lockpick, an iron weapon, a steel weapon, a steel shield, 4 steel ingots, and 12 gold, and if I buy or sell, the gold remains the same, and his inventory doesn't respawn.


***EDIT*** Thank you, all who tried to help. I greatly appreciate the assistance!

[CoolingGibbon]

Depends on whether you have any mod installed that alters merchants and leveled lists. Post your load order.

[smr1957]

Are you using The Amazing World of Bikini Armor - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/83383

There is a missing record in that mod that can cause this (though any other mod can also cause this if it is missing the same record)

To fix this, load your build into xEdit.
Once it has loaded, In FormID box in the upper left of the xEdit screen, enter 0005a666

That will highlight the following record under the Faction category:
Form ID: 0005A66
Editor ID: ServicesRiverwoodAlvor
Name: Alvor Services

In right hand pane, locate VENC - Merchant Container
If the issue is with this record, you will see that this record is missing in the last mod on the right (the last to load).

To fix this, drag and drop that record from Skyrim.esm, into the last mod that is showing it missing. The record's text reads as follows, and that is what you drag and drop:
MerchantRiverwoodAlvorBlacksmithChest "Chest" [CONT:00078C0D] in GRUP Cell Persistent Children of [CELL:00000D74] (in Tamriel "Skyrim" [WRLD:0000003C]) at 4,-12)

[smr1957]

Here's a screenshot that illustrates the above in xEdit:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2590936859
This shows the record after the correction was applied

[Turtleswatter]

This is an exploit that might help if all the "proper" solutions have been tried.

Come out of the vending screen
Make a quicksave
Punch Alvor
Quickly load the quicksave

Apparently this prompts the vendor to reset their inventory.

[chaosdemon122]

Originally posted by smr1957:

Are you using The Amazing World of Bikini Armor - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/83383

There is a missing record in that mod that can cause this (though any other mod can also cause this if it is missing the same record)

To fix this, load your build into xEdit.
Once it has loaded, In FormID box in the upper left of the xEdit screen, enter 0005a666

That will highlight the following record under the Faction category:
Form ID: 0005A66
Editor ID: ServicesRiverwoodAlvor
Name: Alvor Services

In right hand pane, locate VENC - Merchant Container
If the issue is with this record, you will see that this record is missing in the last mod on the right (the last to load).

To fix this, drag and drop that record from Skyrim.esm, into the last mod that is showing it missing. The record's text reads as follows, and that is what you drag and drop:
MerchantRiverwoodAlvorBlacksmithChest "Chest" [CONT:00078C0D] in GRUP Cell Persistent Children of [CELL:00000D74] (in Tamriel "Skyrim" [WRLD:0000003C]) at 4,-12)

I had a feeling that it was The Amazing World of Bikini Armor that was the culprit, but I couldn't be sure, because even after reinstalling it, completely removing it, and starting the game without that mod, the problem persisted, but that fixed the problem. Thank you so very much. It was driving me batty.

[smr1957]

Glad it is fixed and I was able to help, chaosdemon. Enjoy!