Specifications

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SMELTING, TANNING AND COOKING
SMELTING
Raw ore can be found throughout the world, primarily
in mines. At a smelter, you can smelt this ore into metal
ingots, which are needed to forge weapons and armor.
TANNING
Tanning racks dry animal hides into raw leather. The larger
the animal, the more leather a hide will yield. Raw leather
is cut into leather strips, which are used as components
for creating armor and weapons.
COOKING
Cooking pots allow you to prepare food items that provide
various temporary effects. Each recipe requires specic
culinary ingredients that can be found throughout Skyrim.
HORSES, HOUSES, BOOKS AND CONTAINERS
HORSES
To ride a horse, approach it and press
S
. To gallop, hold
W
. Press
S
while riding to dismount. To purchase a horse, visit stables
outside any major city. When you fast-travel to a city, your horse is left for you at the local stable outside the city gates.
HOUSES FOR SALE
Houses are for sale in each major city. Once you purchase a house, you can furnish it. Talk with the Jarl’s steward in each major city for
more information.
BOOKS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
When you activate a book or document, you can read it. Afterward, you can put it back (
A
) or take it (
S
). Use Left and Right
Sticks
or
Q
/
E
to ip back and forth through a book’s pages.
Skill Books improve your skills the rst time you read them. Spell Tomes teach you spells, and are consumed when you read them.
CONTAINERS
Containers are chests, crates, barrels, dressers, boxes, dead bodies or creatures, and more. To open a container, press
S
. If the OPEN
text is red, the items inside are owned by someone else.
WARNING! Do not leave things in containers you do not own! They may not be there when you come back for
them. Buying a house is one way to own containers.