Provide for a small amount of skill advancement from mining the ore itself out of ore veins.

That's far more important in my mind than the skill advances from using the leather to make stuff.

Provide skill advancement for the use of the tanning rack to make leather.

After all, that's as important as knowing how to shape it once refined.

Provide skill advancement for the use of the smelter to melt down ore.

Allow thieves to make their own lockpicks out of iron or steel.

Indirectly making it somewhat useful to chop wood too.

Allow archers to forge their own arrows out of the various ore materials, wood, and feathers.

Lockpicks have been known to be somewhat scarce too, yet are relatively basic to construct.Īrs Metallica aims to fill in some of the basic issues I had with the crafting system by doing the following: Light armor is dead easy to come by in already finished forms, but arrows can sometimes be scarce in the types you may want. The crafting system is one of Skyrim's better features, but for thieves and archers, there's not much use for the system.

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