This is just a hastily-assembled list of tricks for the gaming-system versions of Skyrim (not PC) that I’ve gathered from the general Skyrim community at large. I don’t take any credit for them — just wanted to compile a list of them for other adventurers out there =)
~ Infinite Gold Trick While You Sleep IRL ~
1. The easiest way to make gold without tricks is to chop wood. At most mills, there is a chopping block on the grass somewhere and a woodcutter’s axe lying around nearby. Take the axe, and walk up to the chopping block and activate it. You’ll go into a little animation to chop wood, and if you let it go (for about 30 seconds) when it’s done you’ll end up with 6 pieces of firewood. Take the firewood to the mill owner, and he/she’ll pay you for chopping them and take the wood. On average, the payment comes out to about 1 gold per second waiting for the animation to complete, or 60 gold per minute. The problem is that when the animation is over, you’ve got to look back down to restart the process — but not if you’ve got a companion with you. If you go into the command mode, you can order a companion like Lydia to chop wood for you, and your view never changes — you’ll just need something to press the button repeatedly. If you can figure out some kind of device that will press the button to order the character to chop wood repeatedly, and turn off the TV/monitor while you go to bed for the night, you could conceivably wake up in the morning and have one metric s#!t-ton of firewood to give to the mill owner. At 1-gold/1-second, if you were to sleep for 6 hours and no dragons were to attack or whatever system you set up to press the button didn’t get interrupted, you could have 21,600 gold worth of firewood when you wake up the next day.
~ Infinite Magicka ~
1. “After doing the College of Winterhold quest where you get the “Mystical Tuning Gloves” and purge the magicka reserves, keep the gloves and use the healing spell and equilibrium, while wearing the Archmage outfit and Savos Arens circlet, then switch to another spell, for some reason my magicka bar disappeared and i actually had infinite magicka, I then used telekenisis and rubberbanded my R1 and in 10 mins got Lvl 100 Alteration,” says one YouTube commenter. I haven’t tried this myself, as I’m not that far into the Winterhold quests, but looks promising. [via (from a comment)]
2. There’s at least one way you can essentially get infinite Magicka but requiring you to pause time for a few seconds, without needing to do some advanced quest first. You must have an item that increases your Magicka, such as a helmet that when equipped raises the number amount of total Magicka available to use. Once you cast all of it complete down to nothing, simply go to your menu, unequip it and then reequip it, and your magicka increases automatically (without having to wait for it to restore slowly). It’s easier to simply put the magicka-boosting item on Favorite, and from the favorite menu un/reequip while you’re in battle. The larger the Magicka boost you get from the item, the longer you’ll be able to cast without having to pause to un/reequip. [via]
~ Infinite Speech Leveling ~
1. In Riften, go to the Black-Briar Meadery and speak with Ungrien at the counter. Choose the option “Tell me about Maven Black-Briar” and after his response, you’ll get the option to Persuade. Select it, and you’ll get experience — but the option doesn’t disappear. You can go back and ask about Maven Black-Briar again, and persuade again, as often as you like. Continually pressing A will repeat the same conversation over and over, so you don’t need to switch conversation options to do it. Set up the controller on the floor with a book on the button under your foot while you’re at the computer surfing the web, and you can just tap your foot in the meantime, and change your perk options at each level up. I’m tapping my foot as I’m typing this very entry… [via]
~ Infinite Sprint ~
1. To sprint normally, you tap the left bumper (LB, above the left trigger), but doing so drains your Stamina. Instead, hold a torch in your left hand, and a sword in your right. Have the sword out and ready to fight, but sheath it and immediately begin sprinting by repeatedly tapping LB so that you run out of Stamina and it starts to flash. When it begins to flash, just hold down LB and you can sprint until you let off LB, regardless of whether you’re out of Stamina. [via]
~ Buy The Whiterun House Without Spending Gold ~
1. Although you’ll still need 5000 gold on hand for the trick to work, you’ll end up getting to keep it all. I must add, however, that when I tried this myself (which I saved first in case there was anything weird about it), I could not buy the decorations for the house afterward for some reason. The trick is to visit the man you buy the house from in the early hours of the night, say 3am or so, when he’s asleep. When he wakes up, he’ll be standing right next to a nightstand or wardrobe. When you agree to buy the house, back out of the conversation before the gold is deducted from you, and immediately put the gold in the nightstand or wardrobe nearby. He’ll still give you the key, but you can just get your gold back out of the place you put it, and keep it.
~ Infinite Destruction / Infinite One-Handed / Infinite Two-Handed Training ~
1. Near the very beginning as you’re being led out during the first dragon attack that saves you, try to trap the person leading you, such as by standing in front of him so he can’t move forward. We will never attack you, and you can used fire/weapons on him as much as you please.
~ Infinite Conjuration Training ~
1. Find a slaughterfish (a fish that attacks you) and step out onto the shore so that it is still in attack mode but can’t reach you. Cast a conjure weapon spell, and sheathe it back making it disappear, and repeat. As long as you’re in battle with something (also such as an archer that is far away but shooting arrows at you, or a chasing enemy that gets stuck in water similarly) then you can keep conjuring new weapons as much as you please and still get experience credit for it.
~ Infinite Restoration Training ~
1. Locate a dungeon trap that will be triggered indefinitely, such as the kind that shoots fire by stepping on a pressure plate or fires darts continuously. One example is a fire pressure plate in the cave where there Greybeards send you to locate the Horn, that shoots fire up continuously by standing on it. Simply stand on the plate or whatever device that causes damage, and continuously heal. If your magicka gets too low, just move off it and wait for it to restore, then repeat.
~ Infinite Illusion Training ~
1. Dual-cast Courage on any NPC. [via]
I am gradually updating this list, so if you find something concrete, please add it in comments and I’ll see about adding it =)
I am a level 100 Illusionist thanks to Muffle. Used with infinate magika you can do it fast. around level 95 it takes around 18 or 14 muffles per level.
a quick way to master alteration is telekinesis. took me about an hour using a dwarven armor and having about 400 mana.
With the Illusion,I did this in the beginning,but you can do it whenever, once i got to whiterun i spoke to the court wizard and bought “muffle” which is an illusion spell. put it on both hands and (not at the same time so that u dont do a single charge) have each hand charge up the spell. and then cast it. the spell can be used anywhere at anytime with or without enemies. so u can literally sit in your town house or in a dungeon casting it upon yourself and it gives a big boost in the beggining. also have the Mage stone activated for a 20% boost. you’ll get to level 45 and by then you’ll be casting it alot more to gain level. since your using both hands seperatley its double the exp. i am currently at level 94 illusion.
ok i got level 81 with all my ranks to 100 how do i rank up now or is that highest rank ( i used the ohgma infinium trick by buying a house and bookshelf then read it store it on book shelf open it again do not read take do it all over again)
I just got the book, but I’m avoiding using it yet.. I believe completing missions and quests also progresses the level-up bar, not strictly skills =)
Thanks! I’m using the woodcutting trick as I type. I’ve made a couple hundred so far. At first, I was chopping the wood but I was getting irritated with that the camera angle kept changing. Now I have Lydia chopping wood and all I have to do is press the ‘A’ button every 35 seconds. Simple as pie.
I actually made a video of my technique, believe it or not =)
You can’t buy the house decorations because he has to be where he usually is to buy the decorations(near the Jarl’s throne). You can still do this with the cabinet to the south-east of you when you are talking to the guy who sells house stuff but you have to be quick.
**south-west not south-east
Easy way for Lydia to pick up items
-Most people (if not everyone) know that Lydia can carry an infinite amount of items without being over encumbered. There might be times, however, where you’ll drop an item for her to hold, but forgot that you’re on a slope. Or drop an item and it ends up glitching through the floor; never to be seen again until you reload your last autosave. I’ve also heard from a friend that if you drop items in bulk (i.e. 50 ingots) and tell her to pick them up, they’ll disappear in her inventory. To avoid any of these problems, simply go to any empty container, drop all the items you want her to carry inside, step back and tell her to loot it. To check if she took it all, you can keep your crosshair on the container, wait a second after she walks up to it, move your crosshair away from the container, then move it back to the the container. It’ll tell you that the container’s empty again and you can double check her inventory to see that there’s nothing missing. I’ve done this countless amount of times and it’s 100% fullproof. You might encounter some stupid glitches where Lydia will refuse to loot the chest, but it’s probably because she can’t get to it or something. If that happens, just go to another container and repeat the process. Hope this helps anyone. It sure helped my friend and I. ^_^
It’s foolproof not fullproof. Grammar nazi FTW!
“Fullproof” is merely not the most common way of saying “Foolproof” I think is what you meant to say. Grammar has no application in this situation –Dictionary-nazi FTW!
The best way i have found for Infinite Destruction mid-game is killing Paarthurnax (but not really). Attacking after being given the option to kill him does not cause him to attack you back immediately, rather you have to get him down to about 2/3 of his heath OR about 5 seconds of constant attack – ie Destruction: Flame. The beast way I have found to take advantage of this is to dual cast (one in each hand, not the combination overcharge) my Fireball, hit him, let my Magika recharge and then hit again. His health regenerates quickly enough that doing it this way will not cause him to fall below 2/3, its slow enough, and it keeps your Magika up. Its not the fastest loophole ever, but it beats regular grinding. Goodluck! and save often if you want to push the speed on this method (unless of course you WANT to kill him)!
Another easy way for destruction leveling:
Also, you can level one handed, two handed, etc. by attacking shadowmare as well.
Once you have shadowmare, equip flames in one hand and frostbite in the other, fire both at shadowmare simultaneously. His health and Regen are so high that you’ll never kill him and he never attacks back. If you have high enough enchanting and can craft 4 pieces of equipment that reduce cost of destruction spells by 25% then you can just continuously cast on shadowmare until destruction is at 100. Using some scotch tape to hold in the triggers on the controller makes this less tedious.
i have no thing that can continue pressing down the button -.- f**k
It takes a kitties bit for alteration but if you get stonflesh or oakfles go to the river by the first giant location go to the strewn and get a baby midcrab to attack you while you repeatedly cast stone flesh it will level you quick when you management runs out run far enough away to wait 1 hour after that your management will be full and the mudcrab will be at your feet then just repeat the process.
I just completed college quests and didnt remov anything from inv and i never got any “mystical tuning gloves”
The tuning gloves are from a side quest within the college, not a quest in the main college story line. There’s a guy walking around the college that you normally wouldn’t encounter through the college set of quests unless you happened to talk to him and found out, that asks you to help him, which involves going up to each of the tall light-pools. I don’t remember whether you get to keep the gloves afterward, though.
Have not seen this posted yet
when resting , select rest, select the amount of time you want to rest, hit the button to start resting …as soon as you do that hit the silver xbox button, the screen will pop up but dont hit any thing and your resting time will be cut by more then half when you no longer here the resting clock counting down back out of the menu screen carry on
Go to high hrothgar and while its not In a quest mode stab the greybeards in the backa and Ur sneak will go up .best if used beforr15x damage perk . Screw the grey beards anyway
i did that with lydia put my stuff in a chest, barrel ,sack,etc. but could not get a lot of it back so i killed her and got a new companion and gave some of the stuff to him and he started keeping it too so this is not a good thing to do unless you want to loss almost all your stuff or kill that person cause that is the only way i have found to get it back.