More Soul Friendly Soul Gems

This mod attempts to make Soul Gem more friendly and consistent with the old TES games.

This mod was originally made for Skyrim LE. Since its permissions are basically open, I decided to port it to give thanks for its production. The original article can be found here.

feature

• Geode Veins -> Aetherium Veins: These veins will now give Aetherium ore when mined.

• Aetherium Veins: These veins will now grant Aetherium ore when mined. They can only be mined with the Ancient Dwarf Pickaxe (which can be found in a chest in the Aetherial Forge). You can convert 100 Aetherium Ore into one Aetherium Crest at the Aetherial Forge. I set it to 100 ore because beryllium ore grade is very poor and to make a Crest you need a lot since it builds a crest made of perfect Aetherium.

-Aetherium, Ebony, and Heartstone Veins all have a small chance of granting Soul Stones, except Black. Those veins will no longer provide normal gems.

• By casting Soul Trap on the altar, the Great Soul Gem can be turned into the Black Soul Gem on the Soul Altar. This can only be done if the Shadow of the Undead (the purple glow above the altar) is active. (Occurs every eight days.)

• You can find Soul Altars in various Necromancer and Warlock lairs around Skyrim.

• You can grind the Soul Stone into dust in a grist mill. This dust can be used as an alchemical ingredient in making potions and poisons. I'll probably use it more in the future.

How to use Soul Gem Altars

• Activate the Soul Gem Altar, which will open the container menu. Store any number of large souls.

• Wait until Shadow of the Revenant is active. This happens every 8 days. When you see a purple glow above the altar, you know it's active.

• Cast the Soul Trap spell on the altar. If everything is done correctly, you will exchange a Large Soul Gem for a Black Soul Gem.

• Cast Soul Trap again until all soul gems you want to convert are successfully converted.

• As of version 1.1, you need to read the book "The Necromancer's Moon", which can be found on dead necromancers and near the boss NPC in South Flynn Temple.

• Starting from version 1.2, you can also gain the knowledge to craft the Black Soul Gem by reading the book called "The Creation of the Black Soul Gem", which can be found randomly in other rare books, shops, chests, etc.

Known issues

• Ancient Dwarf Pickaxe is not used for mining animation. Use a vanilla pickaxe instead. If anyone knows how to solve this problem please let me know.

• Collision on Soul Gem Altars can sometimes be a bit unstable, preventing your Soul Traps from registering. In this case, try recasting.

Incompatibility

• Any mod that edits and overrides the Soul Trap magic effects. If in doubt, load the entire load sequence in xEdit and check if "0004DBA3" is overwritten by another mod.

integral

• PlagueHush: Give me your ideas and suggestions for this mod

• JenModding: Give me some ideas and suggestions + add Badgremlin's ESO Prophet's Altar to the Windhelm Butcher's Altar Network to make a soul altar

• Kelretu: for dwarven pickaxe nets

• EpicCrab: Give me advice on a script for the Soul Altar to turn the big soul gem into a black gem.

• lautasantenni: Aetherium Ore and Ingot Mesh

• Badgremlin: ESO Prophet’s Altar Resource

• kryptopyr: for CCOR

• Bethesda Softworks：For Skyrim and Oblivion

• The entire modding community: awesome <3

Permissions

This mod is shared with the WML 1.0 Cathedral license.

You are free to:

-Reassign this work in unmodified form.

• Include this resource in another job
• Modify and reassign this work

As long as you:

• Give credit to the author.
• Link back to this page.
• Distribute your mod under the same license.

Translations are permitted under the same terms.

Uploading to SSE, to bethesda.net and console is allowed under the same terms, but in this case if the mod doesn't work on any of those platforms then I don't expect any technical support from me.

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