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Enhanced Soul Gems

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Last updated at 15:33, 9 February 2012 Uploaded at 15:28, 9 February 2012
This is the first in a series of updates aimed at making soul gems more fun and (possibly) more realistic.

The first part is based on my other two mods - Craftable Black Soul Gems and Craftable Soul Gems - allowing the player to use Soul Gem Fragments and even other soul gems to craft and "upgrade" soul gems. You need to have the Enchantment perk, level 1 (level 2 for Greater gems, level 3 for Grand gems, level 4 for Black gems).

3 Soul Gem Fragments = 1 Petty Soul Gem
2 Petty Soul Gems = 1 Lesser Soul Gem
10 Petty Soul Gems = 5 Lesser Soul Gems (batch operation)
2 Lesser Soul Gems = 1 Common Soul Gem
2 Common Soul Gems = 1 Greater Soul Gem
2 Greater Soul Gems = 1 Grand Soul Gem
1 Grand FILLED Soul Gem = 1 Black Soul Gem

In addition, I've replaced the five different types of Soul Gem Fragments with one universal type; this makes it much easier when crafting because before you needed three of each kind of fragment (they were indistinguishable in the menu). They still exist in the game files, however, just in case they need to be reverted.

There is also a new kind of crafting station: the Soul Gem Enchanter. This is the only place where soul gems can be crafted/upgraded. There are currently two of these, one in Farengar's chamber in Whiterun and the other in the College of Winterhold (more to come later). Right now they have the appearance of a regular Arcane Enchanter; I would like to make a new model, but since I have absolutely no modelling skills this could be awhile. (If anyone would like to provide a model, I'd be extremely appreciative!)

Known Bugs:
None. But when crafting black soul gems, it MAY be the case that grand soul gems filled with a lesser soul than the grand-level will work when it really shouldn't. Any feedback is welcome.

Future Plans:
-Probably the next step is expanding on the new Soul Gem Enchanter station, adding more to the world.

-I'd also like to incorporate soul gem mining - new mines (or old) which have a preponderance of soul gems which can be harvested from the rock.

-It doesn't seem possible yet (I've tried), but what would be even better than having a new station would be using the original Arcane Enchanter for soul gem crafting/upgrading. Since I'm no scripter, though, I can't do this yet. Help, anyone?

-I would like to make creating black soul gems more like in Oblivion. Perhaps a daedric artifact or some kind of evil altar could "corrupt" a grand soul gem, something like that.

v.1.0:
First release.
11 Comments
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Dagoth Ur the False Daddy Jun 12, 2014 @ 7:23pm 
can you make it so you can use mutiple soul gems for enchanting
Crossketch Aug 8, 2012 @ 4:19pm 
When i crafted a Black Soul Gem my enchanting level boosted straight up to level 100. Thats somthing you may want to look into.
Bredahl Feb 27, 2012 @ 11:42am 
It doesn't work for me. The alter is there, but when I click it only an empty menu shows, I can't select anything :o(
irocziv Feb 22, 2012 @ 6:52am 
Agree with Kokopure on the black soul gems, maybe requires Emty Grand Soul Gem and something else like human heart or some other goulish thing :P
dragon_man Feb 19, 2012 @ 3:46pm 
Quest line for finding a soul gem mine might work. At the end you could have a group of necromancers with an alter of corrupting for changing grand soul gems into black soul gems.
U2mad Feb 17, 2012 @ 8:28pm 
Agree with Kokopure as well. First issue I saw while looking at the list.
eagle0600 Feb 17, 2012 @ 12:47am 
Agreed Kokopure.
Kokopure Feb 12, 2012 @ 9:24pm 
The final recipe, a filled Grand Soul Gem being crafted into a Black Soul Gem... well, on the one hand, I can understand why that would make sense, since a black gem is much more useful (since human souls are much more plentiful, and it's hard hunting down every single mammoth in the game.) But... Black Souls are worth -exactly- as much as Grand Souls for enchanting. Meaning, if you've somehow done the footwork to fill a Grand Soul, there's... really no reason for you to do more footwork to get a Black Soul. You've already got the most powerful soul.

Just a thought.
Tasciovanus  [author] Feb 11, 2012 @ 10:12am 
@Vorla_Husian: Good idea, but... isn't that almost what soul gems already do? Lol - something to consider, though. Permanenent soul gems (versus recharging enchanted weapons, which reduces their magical value, so to speak, down to a cheap tool).
Vorla_Husian Feb 11, 2012 @ 1:25am 
Cool. I have an idea for you though. How about making them enchatable and placeing them in socketed items - staves, swords, circlets, armour, etc. You could then add spells to them and the spell would go off when you struck with your weapon, or would be constant on you when wearing the socketed item. The soul bound inside the gem would dictate the power of the spell released and the size of the gem would dictate how long or how many times the spell would last. once it is depleted, insert another gem.