Is Honest Work in Skyrim Worth It?

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  • Is honest work in Skyrim really worth it? Let's find out together!
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    00:00 Intro
    00:32 The Farmer
    02:48 The Cook
    04:02 The Lumberjack
    05:58 The Miner
    08:49 The Alchemist
    09:56 The Hunter
    10:59 The Merchant
    11:20 Conclusion
    11:35 Epic Outro
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  • @blakewineinger9176
    @blakewineinger9176 ปีที่แล้ว +1616

    If honest work isn't worth it, then that's probably why there are so many bandits in Skyrim.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +157

      They figured it out!

    • @Candy-8448
      @Candy-8448 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      The economy these days...

    • @quiet5811
      @quiet5811 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      then wtf are they stealing

    • @aligenderuwo6471
      @aligenderuwo6471 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@quiet5811 skoomas or sweetrolls. No I take that back, it's "owned" bucket

    • @EJN64
      @EJN64 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      if honest work isn’t worth it they should go to a different place so the environment isn’t drastically altered by the population over time, since scarcity is the prime determinate of the most necessary goods.

  • @Asylar343
    @Asylar343 ปีที่แล้ว +3809

    You forgot that Anniversary Edition added fishing to Skyrim. It's definitely one of the fishing minigames of all time.

    • @MonstertruckBadass
      @MonstertruckBadass ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Oldrim always superior

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +259

      I know, in another vid perhaps?...

    • @fransthefox9682
      @fransthefox9682 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      ​@@MonstertruckBadass Skyrim AE is literally like Oldrim but with more content.

    • @MonstertruckBadass
      @MonstertruckBadass ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@fransthefox9682 nope

    • @fransthefox9682
      @fransthefox9682 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @@MonstertruckBadass Elaborate.

  • @raineblackstar3522
    @raineblackstar3522 ปีที่แล้ว +1067

    "Never did an honest day of work, didya lad?"
    Him: "Fuck you. Yes i did!"

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +140

      These Skyrim NPCs need to learn how to show some damn respect...

    • @kevinmencer3782
      @kevinmencer3782 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Always bothered me that I can't challenge Brynyolf to a duel for trash talking me.

    • @ironwraith852
      @ironwraith852 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@kevinmencer3782 that’d be cool. If there was a feature that allowed you to just challenge people to Duels, I’d love that.

    • @kevinmencer3782
      @kevinmencer3782 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@ironwraith852 especially with the pretty hardcore honor code the Nords seem to live their lifes by. Someone like Brynyolf getting all up in your cheese and calling you a crook should result in you Fus Ro Dah-ing him straight out of Riften, and no one would say a damn thing (other than the guard who's pissed at you for Shouting) because that's just not something that you do.

    • @rachdarastrix5251
      @rachdarastrix5251 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ThatsCoolDude That's like expecting a dog to learn to stop barking at you. Why be bothered by the opinion of lesser creatures?

  • @arwahsapi
    @arwahsapi ปีที่แล้ว +2455

    One of the mods I installed the first time I played Skyrim was "infinite wood chopping" because I was too lazy to go on adventures. I left the PC on and let my character chopping wood infinitely, the next day I returned I was able to afford the Breezehome fully furnished. Such an honest work it was.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +301

      Wow! There's a mod for everything huh?

    • @timeflowEqualquin
      @timeflowEqualquin ปีที่แล้ว +17

      😂😂😂🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @ariannanightingale4054
      @ariannanightingale4054 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      You know I thought I was mad after using jewelry mod (which switches making jewelry from jewelry bars instead of ingots (1 ingot = 10 bars)) and gathering dwarven metal remaking it into bars and I have over 8000 of these stacked in my house ready to be remade into amulets (1:1 = 230 gold) AND enchanted after that cause I need to level up enchantment, but I don't think that anymore. Leaving a pc for a day without using it is kind of strange, though passive income also isn't so bad

    • @XZ1.
      @XZ1. ปีที่แล้ว +153

      At this point just use the console to give yourself gold

    • @pckrn
      @pckrn ปีที่แล้ว +20

      and then clear a dwemer ruin, go back in and haul every single scrap metal, forge thousands of dwarven arrows and now your smithing is at 100

  • @lemmesleep8566
    @lemmesleep8566 ปีที่แล้ว +1809

    I once tried to do honest work in Riverwood, but accidentally hit a chicken while dicking around... Needless to say, I wasn't welcome there anymore. :'(

    • @AvengerAtIlipa
      @AvengerAtIlipa ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Now that's an old joke.

    • @sweebos
      @sweebos ปีที่แล้ว

      Lolssssss
      Reading this made me happy. 😆

    • @timeflowEqualquin
      @timeflowEqualquin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂

    • @therealjoeyp
      @therealjoeyp ปีที่แล้ว +12

      my dad did that in fable and they called him a chicken chaser or some shit

    • @UncleJunkyard
      @UncleJunkyard ปีที่แล้ว +10

      murder most fowl

  • @lsargent0751
    @lsargent0751 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    It wasn't about the journey, it was about the merchant we became along the way

  • @aundria7773
    @aundria7773 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    ‘The Enchanter” is a play style of honest work I’ve done before, and it’s actually pretty fun, and relatively profitable too. You just enchant weapons and armor (either from loot or bought from blacksmith) and then sell them

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Good to combine with that Blacksmith job!

    • @KaptifLaDistillerie
      @KaptifLaDistillerie ปีที่แล้ว +29

      How do you get the souls though ? Only buying them ?

    • @FreshBarn
      @FreshBarn ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I do a similar play style but it's a jewelery only.

    • @walter9240
      @walter9240 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@KaptifLaDistillerietrue, filled soul gems are mad expensive

    • @user-pr1dh2bw6k
      @user-pr1dh2bw6k ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@KaptifLaDistillerie You could always use the Black Star to save some black soul gems

  • @alduintheanti-dragonborn
    @alduintheanti-dragonborn ปีที่แล้ว +568

    That mudcrab who was just dodging all the arrows was in ultra instinct the entire time. That final sidestep was just to add the nail to the coffin.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Insane moves indeed

    • @Chronostra
      @Chronostra ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Beerus and whis be trainin' some mudcrabs

    • @Taschip
      @Taschip ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I would just let it live at that point, bro earned it.

    • @daviddent5662
      @daviddent5662 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is why you install mods and patches that remove that from enemies and laugh when they try to juke, ^_^
      ...Then cry when it's all about timed blocks and penalties for stamina being too low. TuT

  • @vanyadolly
    @vanyadolly ปีที่แล้ว +307

    I always keep a hunter character in reserve for when I want to relax. It's not very lucrative, but satisfying to play. One of the most fun playthroughs I've had was with a non-fighting wandering alchemist. I only leveled speech and alchemy, hired some bodyguards, and eventually bought a home and started a family.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Good way to roleplay as well! Some followers are absolute beasts, especially on those first levels, where you as a player get absolutely destroyed by monsters...

    • @Wyzarka
      @Wyzarka ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's a great idea for a playthrough! Gonna try that some time.

    • @danilima6970
      @danilima6970 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It is fun, also works well with blacksmith so you equip the bodyguards with what you crafted.

    • @MichaelJ44
      @MichaelJ44 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Love doing that on survival. Leave my combat gear at home, go out with some leather armour and hunt some dear. If you see a dragon , tough luck, go run to the nearest town under protection from the guards or hide out in a cave. That’s immersion for me

    • @tulip5210
      @tulip5210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wait you can hire bodyguards?

  • @koldfire7253
    @koldfire7253 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    Black smithing is literally the best out of all (at higher levels). Purchase ingots, leather stripes and make an armor that values more than all of them combined

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +36

      That's why it needs a whole separate clip!

    • @byronrush9802
      @byronrush9802 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ThatsCoolDudeI use a followers house in the early game to store all my loot instead of selling it all also free house to sleep in, then I go to all the iron mines and then get the transmute spell turned iron into gold to raise my blacksmithing to level 100 well I'm creating all of these rings and necklaces I'm using for enchantment I sell my finished work to raise my persuasion I'll eventually make a set of persuasion jewelry which allowed me to level persuasion faster twice finally able to get the perk that increases every merchants cash by $1,000

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@byronrush9802 What follower house?

    • @byronrush9802
      @byronrush9802 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DIEGhostfish there's the one in Riverwood it's the elf follower that you can get free training from for archery and there's also the one in Whiterun

    • @novaiscool1
      @novaiscool1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or you combine it with the miner profession and then become a master smith and extremely wealthy by crafting tons of golden jewelery with all the gemstones you gather mining.

  • @Cynthia139
    @Cynthia139 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    I find selling npcs their own inventory a lot more profitable

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +36

      They never see it coming...

  • @atanasvalkov7383
    @atanasvalkov7383 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    There's actually a really cool mod called Hunterborn. It overhauls the entire hunting system and it can lead to a self contained playthrough.

    • @wangdangatomictango
      @wangdangatomictango ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I love that mod. I use it with the camp mod and ineeds, makes you really plan out your route. Can be fun to get fcked up by a snowbear but eat the meat and chill with the boys around the campfire.

  • @deptusmechanikus7362
    @deptusmechanikus7362 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Would be cool to actually make it into a challenge: *survive in Skyrim on an honest wage alone*
    You not only have to make money, but also spent it on food and shelter and see if so-called "honest work" is sustainable

    • @sotch2271
      @sotch2271 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      With max hours, buying beer sometimes and having to buy clothes to you and your family

    • @theinternetpolice2078
      @theinternetpolice2078 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Rules:
      -Only money you can make is through honest work, quest rewards, selling things you made yourself or finding it in the world.
      -The quests you do must not involve illegal activity unless morally justifiable. What is "morally justifiable" is up to player discretion.
      -Survival mode is on.
      -You cannot eat raw meat and raw fruits and veggies are only to be eaten in a pinch.
      -You cannot sell things you didn't make yourself.

  • @someonesilence3731
    @someonesilence3731 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Being an enchanter + jewelry smith makes you fabulously wealthy.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Enchanting is insane too!

    • @colin6543
      @colin6543 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I spend a lot of time doing this have over 100 grand in my current playthrough

    • @someonesilence3731
      @someonesilence3731 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@colin6543 I became a millionair doing this once, I'm not trying as hard to build wealth with my current character but I have 650.000 septims and made enchanting legendary three times, smithing once or twice.

    • @danilima6970
      @danilima6970 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And that even without the alchemy/ enchant exploit.

    • @someonesilence3731
      @someonesilence3731 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danilima6970 Yes

  • @Mamenber
    @Mamenber ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Hunting can be fun if you know magic. While the weak Nord hunter sneaks around, hides from bunnies like a scared little girl, and has to be wary of running out of arrows, the Chad spellcaster can cast fury on a deer and fistfight it to the death.

    • @ogfridgeman5546
      @ogfridgeman5546 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dude they literally do not eat bulls from bullfights because it spoils the meat what the heck you literally shouldn't cast fury on the deer literally like what the h

    • @thegreatgoobert5847
      @thegreatgoobert5847 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ogfridgeman5546 you simply do not have an advanced enough palate. The food you eat should fill you with as much Hate as the creature you slaughtered had during life.

    • @erichdegurechaff9515
      @erichdegurechaff9515 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ogfridgeman5546 Then cast calm

    • @jacksongibbs8998
      @jacksongibbs8998 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I once came across three deer standing right next to each other. I Fus Ro Dah’d them and my brother, who was watching me play, yelled ‘STRIKE’

    • @calvinsFuntimeBounceHouse
      @calvinsFuntimeBounceHouse ปีที่แล้ว +1

      omg hahahahah chad spellcaster fistfight XD XD

  • @GothamandGomorrah
    @GothamandGomorrah ปีที่แล้ว +79

    A rare instance where the direction is Art imitating life: Honest Work doesn't pay.
    This is why it was so easy for Brynjolf to say; "Never done an honest days work for all that coin you're carrying, ey lad/lass!"...Because you're carrying so much of it compared to an Honest Skyrim Worker.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Very true! They make literally nothing...

    • @Damianweibler
      @Damianweibler ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pretty sure dragon slaying is plenty honest

    • @GothamandGomorrah
      @GothamandGomorrah ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Damianweibler tell that to Paarthurnax.

    • @Damianweibler
      @Damianweibler ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@GothamandGomorrah as if anyone kills Paarthy

    • @GothamandGomorrah
      @GothamandGomorrah ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Damianweibler Every time

  • @Mr.Uninteresting
    @Mr.Uninteresting ปีที่แล้ว +59

    First time playing Skyrim I chopped wood for hours to get better armour than realized the first dungeon I went into and killed a bandit I could get equipment way faster and more effectively 😂

    • @akunformalitas
      @akunformalitas ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What a brave soul you are. Those dreaded dungeons are filled with undead mummies! Yes I am a baby and Skyrim is too scary so I'd stay chopping woods by the river until the day I die

    • @BoogChannel
      @BoogChannel ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akunformalitas the most wholesome comment I’ve ever read

  • @tpemp
    @tpemp ปีที่แล้ว +38

    apparently, being a housewife/house husband is extremely lucrative compared to everything else except alchemy

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ysolda being a sugar momma is the dream

  • @lillianetheelf8285
    @lillianetheelf8285 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Farming only worked for me once I got the Golden Hills farm from a CC content. Because once you plant blisterwort and wheat can earn you a very tidy sum once your workers harvest it. I think I was making over 2000 gold every few days. But for me without that content, selling firewood was the fastest way honestly to make gold.

    • @cozmothemagician7243
      @cozmothemagician7243 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Indeed, Golden Hills is basically infinite easy gold. Or if u wanna go waaaay cray cray you can grow herbs for alchy and create potions that are so expensive that you will clean out all the vendor gold in no time...
      Or get the player house w/the fishery... Even more expensive alchy ....

    • @LynxfireeGaming
      @LynxfireeGaming ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I actually do make a lot from Goldenhills Plantation, I always get it so I make bank every few days and it’s a nice home to have

    • @timtaylor9298
      @timtaylor9298 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you're playing with mods, there's also Heljarchen Farm which can make a damn good profit either passively or by manual harvesting.

  • @agentavaricia2719
    @agentavaricia2719 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    That's exactly how I expected a briar heart versus wabbajac battle would go

  • @founderoftheempire8589
    @founderoftheempire8589 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Honest working Rag to riches playthroughs are probably the best playthrough I have, add mods that improve said honest work and its bearable

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What mods are good for that

    • @TomoeMichieru
      @TomoeMichieru ปีที่แล้ว

      I have the mod Jobs of Skyrim

  • @Jeff-cn9up
    @Jeff-cn9up ปีที่แล้ว +23

    What's more honest than cracking a couple of hundred bandit, and forsworn, and necromancer, and vampire skulls for the bounty?
    It's almost a public service!

  • @FranNyan
    @FranNyan ปีที่แล้ว +53

    My main money maker was alchemy. Fast travel between each shop, buy everything, make potions on site , sell everything to get back all the money they just made off you, stash the healing potions for later, repeat. I think I looped that skill tree like 5 times by the end...

    • @highground3521
      @highground3521 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You can also grow ingredients in the hearthfire home which helps with alchemy

    • @samuellopezolivencia9879
      @samuellopezolivencia9879 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ravage potions are lucrative af

    • @AD-cc7bj
      @AD-cc7bj ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fast travelling is cheating the game

    • @FranNyan
      @FranNyan ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@AD-cc7bj Ain't cheating to use a system that's built into the game as intended.

    • @petervlcko4858
      @petervlcko4858 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@AD-cc7bji saw nice travel overhaul watching somebodies videos on tube. He had that thing that he was able to ask inside the inns at the bar if he can order to be picked up from inn. Then he has to wait a bit and carriage dude walked inside and took a sit. You do not needed to interact with him immediately just when you decided and he will take you to destination. Also there was far more points where carriages could take you. Nice mod should be present in the game from the get go. I also tried to find some mod to make rent of the bed in taverns for longer periods like for example month or so (even better as long you like) but was not successful. I wanted to play game without buying a house. Just waking up in taverns and have company of people there warm food and music. I do not know why Bethesda became so lazy to implement such simple details like this which will make game more immersive.

  • @theelderscrolls_area
    @theelderscrolls_area ปีที่แล้ว +86

    wow, cool...

  • @proppin
    @proppin ปีที่แล้ว +29

    What about The Fisher? You can go around skyrim and fish at all the little places by the rivers and lakes. Then you sell your catches at a market!

    • @calvinsFuntimeBounceHouse
      @calvinsFuntimeBounceHouse ปีที่แล้ว +1

      true but im an argonian who thinks he's a cat so i just dive underwater and grab with my handfeets ;p

  • @mollymcnair7505
    @mollymcnair7505 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I came up with this whole backstory of my Dragonborn being a chef so she's pretty much just running around making soup the whole game

  • @J0Unidude
    @J0Unidude ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I used to be an adventurer like you, then got sidetracked and forgot what the quest was.......want to become a dragon slayer?

    • @brodyrichter8113
      @brodyrichter8113 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The idea that a protagonist can just push the responsibility to somebody else is grand, thank you.

  • @MrLandShark55_55
    @MrLandShark55_55 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    Tip: Don't mine ore veins by attacking them. I mined a lot and I found that hitting the ore instead of entering the mining animation yields 10% less ore.
    Edit: Apparently everyone who ever played Skyrim has better RNG than me. Y'all aren't even bragging anymore, just mocking me for being less fortunate.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I know, but this makes it more like Minecraft!

    • @insertusername9755
      @insertusername9755 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Even faster, if you equip a dagger offhand and use the elemental fury shout and then attack the ore veins!

    • @MrLandShark55_55
      @MrLandShark55_55 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@insertusername9755 that's a fun way to do it, but it would be a better idea to put the pickaxe in the offhand. The weapon in the offhand hits one more time than the mainhand during the dual wield power attack. It'd make it ever slightly so faster.

    • @torvus249
      @torvus249 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@MrLandShark55_55 Dual pickaxes. They have the same attack speed as daggers so you're not wasting hits.

    • @MrLandShark55_55
      @MrLandShark55_55 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@torvus249 what sociopath has 2 pickaxes in their inventory?

  • @Obviouse
    @Obviouse ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The second I saw this I started thinking of my oblivion potion seller build...I sold potions...and that was pretty much it.

    • @fang4223
      @fang4223 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I need your strongest potions.

    • @Obviouse
      @Obviouse ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fang4223literally XD

    • @Furigou
      @Furigou ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Potion seller, I am going into battle, and I need your strongest potions

  • @nicololacson1709
    @nicololacson1709 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The lumberjack was always my go-to starting money farm method in almost every playthrough. It's very easy and generates infinite money from nothing. Also, it's the best way to farm arrows when combined with mining.

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's pretty darn relaxing too

  • @richardmh1987
    @richardmh1987 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I usually combine some of those. You mine iron ore, transmute it into gold, then smith it into jewelry, enchant it, sell it to mages and merchants to buy some more soul gems and start over. Couple of days doing that and you have enough to buy any house completely furnished, plus is a great way to level up.

  • @tatecrossette2855
    @tatecrossette2855 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You have the miner but forgot the minor where you abuse your youth, cuteness and innocence to beg for money

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also where you abuse your invicibibility...

  • @mark5222
    @mark5222 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    bandit clearing and enchanting is kind of an honest work if you have the black star.

  • @rexx5428
    @rexx5428 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video was actually really cool! Great job

  • @jamessnedeker4799
    @jamessnedeker4799 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They don't show mining in Skyrim VR so you could stand next to a resource and click it to mine everything immediately. Or in the case of stone and clay, you can wait as it rapidly increases your stock of those resources. It's been a while since I've played it so it may have been patched.

  • @Pinguini_42
    @Pinguini_42 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gosh, I love your humor. And I honestly spent my last run as a lumberjack. Only to buy the new added house outside of Whiterun. Yes, it costs 7500 gold and it took me a long while. In the end, I'm happy with.
    Also fishing is something I adore a lot more as anything else. To get enchanted gear or even strong gear without killing random bandits, is quite relaxing.

  • @wyatt8978
    @wyatt8978 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the random guard glitch walking during the lumberjack section

  • @springheeljak145
    @springheeljak145 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I made a decent living as a bartender in Fable

  • @Matt-md5yt
    @Matt-md5yt ปีที่แล้ว

    happy you did this my friend

  • @ElvenFruitcake
    @ElvenFruitcake ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's a mod that adds a bunch of regular jobs to Skyrim just called Jobs of Skyrim which ads these as employable jobs and I always become a smith to earn gold while leveling up my smithing skills

  • @Jantangan
    @Jantangan ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dragonborn has some serious dragon size horns growing there, considering the fact that his wife has so much income while he is mostly absent. The clients must leave his vicinity really satisfied.

  • @leam1978
    @leam1978 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Making cicero chop wood is a big power play

  • @Rumpl4Skyn
    @Rumpl4Skyn ปีที่แล้ว +99

    I think this would have been great to do on survival mode. That way you actually have to worry about eating, sleeping and finding shelter while trying to work like everyone else and make money. It would add a layer of complexity to it. Just a thought. Subscribed!

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Being honest AND in Survival sounds interesting!

    • @Rumpl4Skyn
      @Rumpl4Skyn ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ThatsCoolDude Id watch the heck out of that video my friend.

    • @catelyn719
      @catelyn719 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I love playing this way, it especially gives you time to come up with a backstory for your character.

    • @lukassanjaya9953
      @lukassanjaya9953 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Frostfall my friend...
      Frostfall

    • @Rumpl4Skyn
      @Rumpl4Skyn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lukassanjaya9953 Yep

  • @cindermagus
    @cindermagus ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I don't know what it is about your editing style and scripting but it's just so entertaining to watch, keep it up Dude :D

  • @SrChr778
    @SrChr778 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well, depends on which honest work pays the most.
    -Farmer: Anniversary Edition, Goldenhills Plantation, your own farmstead, that's a good way to generate plenty of money if you use the right plant.
    Believe it or not, simply plant nothing but Blisterwort in every soil and it'll generate at least 1100 gold PER DAY.
    (Not because of mushroom stereotypes, but Blisterwort is the basic ingredient for healing potions. So, with the war going on... yeah)
    -Cook: Nah, forget it. Only living to be made is simply keeping your hunger at bay if Survival Mode is on. Otherwise, no real profit to be made.
    -Lumberjack: I suppose find which NPC pays the most for firewood and just go from there. Waste of time, if you ask me. Gets repetitive.
    -Miner: I know that the mine by Narzulbur pays good money for Ebony Ore. Second is the Quicksilver mine in Dawnstar.
    Sure, you can do the cheesy Transmute idea, but where's the real gratification of honest prospecting in that?
    -Alchemist: Best that you fully master the perk tree until trying to make a market for selling self-made potions.
    Because, let's face it, this is another dead-end profession when it comes to trying to make quick gold.
    -Hunter: You'd be better off trying to hunt Bandits. Because Skyrim's wildlife is mostly just for the processing of leather.
    -Merchant: Well, ALL THE TIME you're a merchant. All that dungeon loot: enchanted equipment, gems, jewelry, always sell those off.
    But also make sure it's lightweight gear, such as mage robes, necklaces and rings. The more you can carry, the better the profit to be made.
    And of course, the one you missed,
    -Blacksmith: Perhaps craft high-end jewelry and sell that? No, don't get started with the Iron Dagger joke. Craft things that're worth more points.

  • @CrippledCrusader
    @CrippledCrusader ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alduin, the world eater, is terrorizing all of Skyrim and the Dragonborn is out picking flowers and catching blue fucking butterflies

  • @sarahhillary7698
    @sarahhillary7698 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing like honest pay for honest work. Screw that time to explore the nearest dark and dangerous cave/ruin

  • @wcxerces
    @wcxerces ปีที่แล้ว

    the goldenhills plantation add-on with the anniversary edition streamlines farming so much and makes it actually profitable

  • @xxedgy_outsiderxx9978
    @xxedgy_outsiderxx9978 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for the alchemy ideas

  • @misstinwhistle1
    @misstinwhistle1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never explored the pickpocket levelling before. Time to go back

  • @forgototherpassword
    @forgototherpassword 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's also bounty hunting, which is doing the radiant quests to kill bandit leaders/giants and turning their bounties in with the Jarls/stewards of different holds. It is a legally recognized job, and thus, honest work.

  • @cking4869
    @cking4869 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always wanted to be able to do smithing or enchanting services for the people of Skyrim. Once I was done with one of my characters, my headcanon ending for him was becoming a custom-order blacksmith in the forest near Riverwood

  • @Rainbowobold
    @Rainbowobold ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This dude has more jobs than Johnny Sins

  • @wt_prophecy7972
    @wt_prophecy7972 ปีที่แล้ว

    The *thunk* sound of hitting your target with a arrow will never not be satisfying

  • @drakegrimes4413
    @drakegrimes4413 ปีที่แล้ว

    Farming can be done passively with anniversary edition. Someone else also made a good point about fishing. You can also sorta pull off a mercenary with the companions. While limited, you can even go as far as errand boy.

  • @sharpskinhead6977
    @sharpskinhead6977 ปีที่แล้ว

    The honest man with a Necromancer Amulet hahahaha

  • @bozo3557
    @bozo3557 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay I know I'm late but I love your character he looks amazing

  • @inzomniacZz
    @inzomniacZz ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how you picked the unhinged Jester to be your Log chopping buddy

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว

      He's the best guy for doing honest stuff......................

  • @royalpaxtonplays4218
    @royalpaxtonplays4218 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Building a house and working for my family hunting etc is my fav way to play Skyrim I’ve literally never beaten the game

  • @hippiedude2232
    @hippiedude2232 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's also enchanting and fishing. Also the alchemy one is actually worth it, but only if you intend on doing the fortify restoration loop. You can actually make potions worth more than any npc can have on them.

  • @iiMUnFaZeD
    @iiMUnFaZeD ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember buying the house in whiterun chopping wood the first time i played skyrim

  • @martenkahr3365
    @martenkahr3365 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I must say, I do remember using Honest Work legitimately in some of the more hardcore mods. Namely in Requiem, where it was by far the safest way to get the gold to buy your first real weapon and set of armor, and pay for enough skill training to not instantly run out of stamina as soon as you swung your weapon once.

  • @re.liable
    @re.liable ปีที่แล้ว

    Reminds me of a time that I transmuted ores on my playthrough. Good times.

  • @ambrose9821
    @ambrose9821 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anniversary edition quite changes a good bit of this, for example you can own a farm and be a farmer that way (when finished it gives quite a bit of money based on what you have planted)

  • @christopherlabelle3775
    @christopherlabelle3775 ปีที่แล้ว

    With the cc farm house you can plant a ton of ingredients and sell the potions you make

  • @simoncoult9337
    @simoncoult9337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate how long this would of taken

  • @rhyanwesthassel7980
    @rhyanwesthassel7980 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nah man. Just go to the giant ebony mine the Orcs control, and get all of that delicious ore. Wait 30 days, and get right back to mining.

  • @1chaplain
    @1chaplain ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just be a weapon merchant. Kleptomania and business can go hand in hand

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's funny how much faster you mine without actually using the mining emote. Espescially dual wielding

  • @RexGrimm
    @RexGrimm ปีที่แล้ว

    The golden hills plantation is honest farming work that actually makes pretty good money, and you can actually interact with your animals

  • @josueayala4673
    @josueayala4673 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember playing Skyrim with my older brother, and the silver people kept cutting his head off and he was getting so pissed

  • @katietaylor8314
    @katietaylor8314 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You deciding honest work in Skyrim is boring reminds me of one of the Discworld novels where one of the very old barbarian heroes says to his comrade "Remember the time when you stole a farm and said you were going to quit being a barbarian and raise pigs? You gave it up after - what - three hours, wasn't it?"

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, not being honest is better!

    • @katietaylor8314
      @katietaylor8314 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ThatsCoolDude Doing a boring honest day's work is what I play video games to get *away* from!

  • @IAMELIPHAS
    @IAMELIPHAS ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot to mention something about mining...
    1. You can instead of using the pickaxe like you normally do, you can just whack the ore vein with it.
    2. Now here's where things get interesting: If you equip the pickaxe in the RIGHT hand instead of the LEFT hand, go into 3rd person, and strafe back and forth repeatedly as fast as you can while you hammer that left hand button, you can mine ore even faster. Because sometimes it glitches, causing the strike to hit twice or even thrice instead of just once. Sometimes.
    3. You can combo this with the shout that increases your weapon speed for even more shenanigans.

  • @wavescapemusic
    @wavescapemusic ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Its not as fun as working in the Fable series! Great video!

  • @cobaltlance18
    @cobaltlance18 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's a farming creation that let's you own a big farm and make a decent profit over time. As well as get a lot of the ingredients you have planted. Which can be a lot of assorted potion ingredients. So you can be a farmer AND an alchemist at the same time. For extra profits.

  • @pmuttenthaler
    @pmuttenthaler 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Golden Hills Plantation is great for farming and I use it when I rp agriculture and crafting.

  • @Nerd_1537
    @Nerd_1537 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    working in the iron mine in dawnstar is like 120 gold a day, haven't finished the video so wonder if you use this job

  • @iScAre1
    @iScAre1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Holy crap the editing here is impeccable

  • @obstinateprime8775
    @obstinateprime8775 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favorite Magic the Gathering card was Jinxed Idol. "Here."

  • @richardreinertson1335
    @richardreinertson1335 ปีที่แล้ว

    Combine hunting with mining, smithing, alchemy, and enchanting. Use the hides and ore for smithing, use alchemy to raise smithing and enchanting skills, use enchanting to raise alchemy skills. More variation in activities, and WAY more profit. I'll admit to spending my first few in-game days chopping wood in Riverwood. I can save enough that way to afford Breezehome pretty quickly.

  • @roach-ol9gu
    @roach-ol9gu ปีที่แล้ว

    Best way to farm is the farm you get a rorikstead pays so much

  • @chuckmcgill8862
    @chuckmcgill8862 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can. Cut wood till your inventory is past the carry limit and then sell them to a lumberjack, you'd get more gold than bounty hunting or doing thieves guild quests. The best way to do this is at the very beginning at Riverwood.
    Use autohot key for doing this while afk and you wouldn't need to worry about gold ever in the entire game.

  • @asp954
    @asp954 ปีที่แล้ว

    blacksmith + enchanting is just the best
    just put banishing or/and absorb health on an iron dagger and profit
    you'll level up your smithing and enchanting at the same time
    only problem is getting to the point where you can get those enchantments

  • @nemohimself2580
    @nemohimself2580 ปีที่แล้ว

    The best part of the alchemist is that as you make more potions and improve your skill level, the potions you make become more valuable. Which is incidentally how alchemy levels: eating weird plants you find on the ground or making potions (skill experience is based on the value of the potion created, poisons are generally more expensive).

  • @atinofspam3433
    @atinofspam3433 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wheat harvesting pays a good amount, so does ebony mining in gloombound mine

  • @Chronostra
    @Chronostra ปีที่แล้ว

    5:33 dat guards be practicing moonwalk for his concert dayum

  • @haraldschuster3067
    @haraldschuster3067 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can also substitute Lavender for the Blue Butterfly Wings - after raiding the Solitude Catacombs you should have a massive surplus of (stolen) Hanging Moss. If you have Hearthfire DLC you can throw in something that is off the bat worth 1.500 per potion - just catch a few salmon near Riverwood and Whiterun (you have to catch the jumping ones) to get roe. Get your usual garlic (Faendal, a bit of stealing here and there, Carlotta and her stall, etc.) and get the nordic barnacles from the pond just off the entrance to Dragonsreach. That's a solid boost to alchemy (at least 9x 1.500 gold per potion) and another fully growable money-maker: Mora Tarpinella (on your way to Riverwood and Whiterun), Creep Cluster (south of Windhelm) and Scaly Pholiota (like Mora Tapinelly growing on tree stumbs but this time in the Riften Region). As it's 100% growable, a nice addition to any player home with a planter. And the stuff just becomes more valuable with each potion as you rise in alchemy - even without perks. With perks ... nuts ... one harvest from Goldenhill Plantation is 25.000 plus (sold, not just the worth) every 48h. Yay - you'll be able to buy Whiterun after a month or so.

  • @valdish9620
    @valdish9620 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never realized that farming was less profitable than looting tombs of nobles who died millennia ago and selling their rare jewelry.

  • @warlordhype8043
    @warlordhype8043 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Farming is probably the best one though, there's a farm (which I forgot the name of) which you can take over for free, then you just need a housecarl and you'll get tons of money with only farming

    • @tulip5210
      @tulip5210 ปีที่แล้ว

      Were

    • @warlordhype8043
      @warlordhype8043 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tulip5210 it's a bit west of whiterun. there's a ghost outside of the house close to a village. then you'll get the quest

  • @commanderwilliam3693
    @commanderwilliam3693 ปีที่แล้ว

    im waiting on that blacksmith video-

  • @dindin9487
    @dindin9487 ปีที่แล้ว

    Canis root and imp stool makes a paralysis poison that is worth a decent amount of money.

  • @rosariocrimson
    @rosariocrimson ปีที่แล้ว

    One thing that makes farming, woodcutting, and mining (well actually not sure if mining does this, but) worth it, at least once per applicable NPC, it makes them like you, which counts towards becoming thane, and could get you a random, usually not worth much gift when passing near them later. Take me a good few hundred hours to figure that out.

  • @noahbennett6682
    @noahbennett6682 ปีที่แล้ว

    i’ve learned that if you quit mining a vein when you get ore, you’ll end up getting three ore before depleting the vein

  • @ModdingNewbie
    @ModdingNewbie ปีที่แล้ว

    Woodcutting and alchemy were my two favorite ways to make a quick septim (or several thousand!) in _Skyrim._ :)

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alchemy is superb!

    • @ModdingNewbie
      @ModdingNewbie ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ThatsCoolDude Particularly if you take lessons and tips from those who _really_ know how to work it... :)

  • @guerindacio4584
    @guerindacio4584 ปีที่แล้ว

    Missed oportunity to put a breaking bad joke at the "cooking" section.

  • @richardgonzalez6409
    @richardgonzalez6409 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can run a profitable farm in Skyrim if you only farm wheat. Wheat can be sold at the farms at White Run and Solitude for 5 gold each. If you have the green house and garden and only plant wheat you can make a healthy profit every 3 days. Every day if you replant the wheat each day.

  • @richardwolf7696
    @richardwolf7696 ปีที่แล้ว

    What I did to make that 100k gold achievement was buy and mine quicksilver ore and make armor. Then upgrade that armor and sell it back to blacksmiths.

  • @mbatistas
    @mbatistas ปีที่แล้ว

    7:20 that why I have the mod that transmutes every ore of one kind at once. All the iron into silver ones and when cast again to make all siver into gold. That's called quality of life.

    • @ThatsCoolDude
      @ThatsCoolDude  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's a mod for everything!

  • @darkbeetlebot
    @darkbeetlebot ปีที่แล้ว

    The hunting section is why I always play with Hunterborne.

  • @galmolab
    @galmolab ปีที่แล้ว

    something i think thats slept on is going to the goldehnhill plantation farm and buying animals and hiring a housesteed and like two workers i made drunk people my workers and the mage in riften inn for 500gold my farm keep and that boy makes like 8000gold also upgrade outside decor and plant like 13 mora tapinella 7 creep cluster and 7 scaly phollita combine all three of these to make super op potions .
    YOU HAVE TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT ABOVE CREEPCLUSTERS AND STAND BACK TO LOOT THEM