Everyone who has played Skyrim knows the amount of time and money it takes to max out the smithing skill. Well, this Skyrim blacksmith glitch will not only max out your blacksmith skill in a matter of minutes. It will also net you thousands of gold in the process!
To do the Skyrim blacksmith glitch you’ll need to acquire a large amount of iron ore, use the transmute spell to turn it into gold ore. Smelt all of the gold ore into gold ingots, and then finally turn the gold ingots into gold rings at the forge. This will boost your smithing level to 100 in minutes and will make you a large sum of gold in the process.
Read on to find out how to do it.
Firstly, before doing anything, you’re going to want to activate the Warrior Stone for extra XP. Head to the Guardian Stones, south of Riverwood. You can see it in the picture below. The Warrior Stone will give you a bonus of 20% XP to smithing.
If you want to nab yourself even more bonus XP, there’s two more things you can do.
You’ll need to get yourself the Transmute spell. This spell is a part of the Alteration school, and is used to change iron ore to silver ore, and silver ore to gold ore.
So, obviously you’ll need to nab yourself some iron ore. Fortunately, there’s three incredibly quick ways to do this.
Bonus Tip: When mining, equip your pickaxe as a weapon and attack the ore veins. This process is actually 10 times quicker than interacting with the vein, and getting the mining animation.
Now that you’ve gathered up all of that lovely, lovely iron ore, it’s time to get transmuting. To do this, simply go into your Alteration spells, equip transmute, and start casting it!
It’s that simple. You’ll begin turning iron ore to silver, and silver to gold.
Bonus Tip: If you don’t have a very high Magicka level, be sure to stock up on Magicka regeneration potions. Or, you can wait for one in-game hour to full stock your Magicka.
This spell will boost your Alteration, so it will eventually cost less Magicka to use.
Next for this Skyrim blacksmith glitch, find a smelter, these are in most major cities. I tend to use the Whiterun smelter as it’s close to Breezehome.
Smelt all of your gold ore down to gold ingots, for every two pieces of gold ore you use, you’ll receive one gold ingot.
This is a very quick process and will also level up your smithing.
Now turn to the forge, and start crafting ‘gold rings’ from your gold ingots. You’ll get two gold rings worth 75 gold, each time you use a gold ingot. Prepare for your smithing level to SKYROCKET!
Keep doing this until you’re level 100.
The table below will give you an idea of the money you can make while levelling up your smithing, using this Skyrim blacksmith glitch.
How to acquire | Resource | Value |
Mine | Iron ore (100) | 200 gold |
Transmute iron ore | Silver ore (100) | 2,500 gold |
Transmute silver ore | Gold ore (100) | 5,000 gold |
Smelt gold ore | Gold ingots (50) | 5,000 gold |
Forge gold ingots | Gold rings (100) | 7,500 gold |
If you were to enchant all of the rings you forged, you could earn a few thousand per ring!
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