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• Method 1 of 18: Alchemy
• Method 2 of 18: Jarl
• Method 3 of 18: Thief
• Method 4 of 18: Communicate with others
• Method 5 of 18: Natural resources
• Method 6 of 18: Activities
• Method 7 of 18: Spots
• Method 8 of 18: The sale
• Method 9 of 18: Marry someone
• Method 10 of 18: Grab what you can grab
• Method 11 of 18: Sell the Oghma Infinium
• Method 12 of 18: Choose the right ore
• Method 13 of 18: Korvanjund
• Method 14 of 18: Daggers
• Method 15 of 18: After the "perk" "Permanently increase a shopkeeper's money by 500"
• Method 16 of 18: Become a wizard
• Method 17 of 18: Act with your follower
• Method 18 of 18: Cheats
• Tips
• Warnings

Are you trying to buy that special weapon or win over a woman / man with an Amulet from Mara, or maybe you're just trying to make ends meet and buy a house but just don't have the money? Then here's a quick guide to different ways you can make some money.

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Method 1 of 18: Alchemy

1. Use alchemy. This is by far the best way to make money in Skyrim. From level 1, start collecting Blue Mountain Flowers and Blue Butterfly Wings. By mixing these two ingredients you create a potion that you can sell for 80-250 gold pieces, depending on what level your alchemy and speech are at.
   • You can earn more than 5,000 gold before you even kill the first dragon.

Method 2 of 18: Jarl

1. Come in good graces with the Jarl. Really! If you are in good standing with the Jarl and fulfill all the quests he / she sends you on and become the Thane, then you can appropriate almost anything to sell. Some things, such as jewelry, cannot be taken other than by stealing them. [E.g. if you kill the dragon in Whiterun you can not only buy the house but also take pretty much everything in his castle except the stuff in the mage's room.

Method 3 of 18: Thief

1. Steel. Stealing is one of the most common ways people make money in these games. Wear things that improve your stealth skills for better pickpocking luck.
2. Sell ​​stolen goods to Tonilia in the Thieves' Guild.
3. Go to bandit camps. If you don't think you can handle them all on your own, you need to get a follower (to get followers for free, all you have to do is complete the quests they send you on. You can hire them for free, except for some exceptions for whom you will have to pay). You usually make a lot of money when you rob bodies and loot houses.
4. Join the Thieves Guild in Riften. The thieves want to buy everything, even your stolen goods.
5. Take the series of quests associated with the thieves' guild. If you search Riftweald Manor you have to look on the other side of the house. There he has a secret hiding place for valuables.
6. Kill and loot. Kill someone and loot their home. Run out of his / her house, out of that town and into another town. Sell ​​the loot you collected to a merchant and collect your money.
   • If you don't want your experience to diminish, don't do what follows, because you have to go back to the city where that person's house is located. Go back to the city where that person's house is, draw your weapon and then put it back in the scabbard. A guard will walk up to you and say "It's time to pay for your crimes. What say you in your defense?" Select "I submit, take me to jail". Sleep on the sleeping bag in the prison cell and you can keep your money.

Method 4 of 18: Communicate with others

1. Join the Dark Brotherhood. Every time you report to the Dark Brotherhood after a murder you will receive between 100-200 gold pieces.
   • Complete the Dark Brotherhood it will earn you 20,000 gold pieces.
2. Join factions, do a lot of quests. Joining a faction means doing quests, and quests usually bring in a lot of money (depending on the person and quest).
3. Go to an inn and watch for the drunk people. If you talk to them, they will usually want to start a brawl with you with about 100 gold pieces as a bet. If you have the gloves that give you 10 extra damage per hit, you can beat them with a few punches.

Method 5 of 18: Natural resources

1. Chop wood. You can chop wood and then sell it for about 5-6 gold pieces at most pubs and mills. Although it is not very profitable, each chopped log will give you 2 firewood. Every time you chop wood you chop 3 logs, so you get 6 firewood each time.
2. Hunt. Sometimes animals will carry some gold from their last victim. You can also sell their skins and meat for 10-30 gold pieces depending on what kind of skin it is (wolf skins, for example, are usually worth more than, say, fox skins, because wolf skins are larger).
   • Do not engage in "fast travel". Walk everywhere instead. You will encounter many animals whose skin you can take with you.
   • Make sure you work your hides. Use the tanning rack to make leather from the hides; turn the leather into leather helmets in the forge; improve the leather helmets at the crafting table. You will earn a lot of money and increase your level quickly.
3. Collect dragon scales and bones. If you have bought a house you must store it in your chest every time you kill a dragon (keep it between 190 and 390). There are quickly too many. You can also collect expensive armor and search for more. Sell ​​whatever you want to collect gold.

Method 6 of 18: Activities

1. Do assignments. Usually, the assignments you get from the local residents yield a lot.
2. Forge additional weapons / armor. It's easy, if you forge some, to forge some extra to sell.
   • When forging weapons and armor, be careful to improve their quality (make armor / weapons fine, superior, flawless, etc). This greatly increases the value of the aforementioned object, and it simply makes it a more effective weapon or armor as well.
3. Kill a dragon. If you have killed a dragon you must plunder it. Usually it carries quite a bit of gold. How much a dragon carries depends on what type of dragon it is. For example, an "Ancient Dragon" carries more gold than a "Blood Dragon".
4. Find the Stalhrim Deposition in Solstheim (DLC Dragonborn).

Method 7 of 18: Spots

1. Enter caves and dungeons. You probably think this is too difficult because of dragons and other nasty creatures, don't you? Well ... it actually mainly depends on what stuff you have with you.
2. Discover Winterhold's hidden chest. There is a hidden chest in Winterhold if you climb some rocks to the left of the Jarl's longhouse. Usually it contains more than 10,000 gold pieces, and in addition, the chest can be ransacked from time to time. Sometimes you will get a mission entitled "Secrets of the Empire" when you find the chest. Absolutely worth it! Usually Draugrs carry between 1-30 gold pieces, and if you win the battle with the boss monster, you can deconstruct or sell the weapon you acquire for about 100-3000 gold pieces.
3. Buy a house (Whiterun: 5000 gold pieces).

Method 8 of 18: The sale

1. Sell ​​a lot. You probably think this is obvious now, but listen anyway. Check the value of random objects, such as ingots, clothes, weapons, potions, books, etc. before picking them up. If it has a high value, it is worth selling.
   • Don't try to sell things you'd like to keep, such as spell books or tokens.
   • If you don't want dragon armor you can sell the dragon scales / bones. Usually they make a lot of money. (Scales are worth 250, bones are worth 500.)
   • If you have some weapons or pieces of armor that don't have a spell on them, that are worth a lot, and that you don't need, then you need to spell them and then sell them. This way you get more money for it.
   • If you pick up extra / other pieces of armor that you don't actually need, then you have to sell them to one of the many blacksmiths in Skyrim.
2. Sell ​​everything. Use the money to buy as many ebony ingots and daedra hearts as possible. Keep them safe.

Method 9 of 18: Marry someone

This will work with any follower you can marry.

1. Faithful. Go to sleep. Wait 24 hours.
2. Expect your partner to open a shop / booth. Go to your partner and collect your share of the daily turnover.
   • You can pick up 100 gold pieces every 24 hours; it's not much, but at least you don't have to work for it.

Method 10 of 18: Grab what you can grab

When you go on a voyage of discovery, don't be afraid to collect more than you can carry with you.

1. Pick up anything you can pick up that has value. Even if it's only worth a few "Septims."
2. Once you have accumulated more than you can carry you should drop the things of little value to make room for things of more value.
3. Stop and talk to people. Sell ​​to anyone who wants to buy something from you.
4. Start building a reserve stock. If you own a home or know a safe place to store your valuables, you should start a collection of items of considerable value that you would like to sell. This way, if at any point you need money quickly, you can pick out some of those items and sell them to make some quick cash.
5. Try not to carry too much money with you. If you have money in your pocket, you are more likely to spend it than if it is comfortably in a chest in your house.

Method 11 of 18: Sell the Oghma Infinium

1. Get the Oghma Infinium. Go to your house.
2. Go to a bookshelf and place the Oghma Infinium on it.
3. Exit the menu. Wait for the book to appear and then go back to the menu.
4. Get the book. Then quickly close the menu and read the book (to do this you must first look at the book).
5. Choose not to read the book and take it with you.
6. Go to someone who buys books. Sell ​​the book; it is usually worth about 1,001 gold pieces. (You can also do this to improve skills, at least if you haven't updated the game yet, but make sure to always put one in a chest or similar or it will also be destroyed).

Method 12 of 18: Choose the right ore

1. Find a good mine. Choose one that will never be destroyed, such as the small mine behind the guard house in Morthal. The more precious the ore, the better.
2. Put all your belongings in a safe suitcase or chest.
3. Use two pickaxes (on which you have already placed a spell) at the same time. This will make you fight faster and have more stamina, just like with two daggers (cast them with a spell that transfers the stamina of others to you).
4. Go mine ore like crazy. You will see that this will give you many different types of ore.
5. Before you exceed your carrying capacity, get out of the mine, join several traders and sell them your ores. They have a limited amount of money so you cannot sell all your ores to one dealer. Just wait 24-30 hours of play and then resell.

Method 13 of 18: Korvanjund

1. Join the legion.
2. Get the first quest and travel to Korvanjund as Stormcloak gear is inexpensive.
3. After entering the tomb find a good place to sneak and grab a bow. "Legate Rikke" has a flaw in his programming when he says: "You 2 stay here, right?" If you kill enough legionnaires before then they will be generated over and over again upon entry. The difference from other areas is that here the bodies will not disappear. So you will get a lot of corpses and a lot of stuff. You wish you had those teleportation rolls from Morrowind, wouldn't you?

Method 14 of 18: Daggers

1. Note that while doing quests, battles, etc. you find daggers all over Skyrim. Usually they are not worth much; but once you learn a spell you can enchant the daggers and sell them for 300+ gold pieces (the spells don't even have to be very strong). Just make sure to maximize the amount of damage dealt, not how many times the spell can be used.
2. Collect daggers, store them around the house (if you have one). Save them up.
3. Get "soul gems". You need these to be able to enchant the daggers (and actually any other object). If you happen to know a way to imprison souls, all you have to do is collect empty soul gems. Or maybe you prefer to just stumble upon it on your travels where some will be empty and some not. Keep these too, until you are ready to cast a spell on the daggers.
4. Enchant them. Enchant the daggers. After that, every store and person will be happy to buy them from you (as long as they have enough gold, of course).

Method 15 of 18: After the "perk" "Permanently increase a shopkeeper's money by 500"

1. Ask if you can donate 500 gold pieces.
2. The store owner should say: "Put it in the drawer over there."
3. Don't give him the money, roll his pockets instead. He should have 500 with him.
4. Repeat this a number of times.

Method 16 of 18: Become a wizard

1. Wear wizard clothes. Although wizard gear is expensive, collecting pieces of armor can sell you a lot (this is not necessary if you already have a robe for your wizard).
2. Carry a lot with you. Because wizard robes weigh almost nothing, you will be able to carry a lot with you and therefore pick up a lot of things along the way.
3. Now you can sell your collected loot.

Method 17 of 18: Act with your follower

1. Get an unpaid follower.
2. Ask the follower to share things with you. This is true for their money, keys, jewelry and anything else they have with them.
3. Don't take their weapons. If you do this they will be useless followers.

Method 18 of 18: Cheats

1. In game, press the tilde (~) key.
2. Type: player.additem 0000000f 999

Tips

• Histcarp + Salmon Roe + Silverside Perch. This drink has 4 effects and a default value of 1.149 (4.044 with "perks" and "fortification" effects).
• If you've adopted a child and she / he wants to play a game, just play along. Give him / her a present, such as a dagger or a tunic, to make him / her happy.
• If you have extra spell books with you that contain spells you already know so you can't use them anymore, or have multiple copies of the same staff or one you just don't want to keep, you can sell them to a court magician (eg Farengar Secret Fire from Whiterun, Calcelmo from Markarth, etc.) to take advantage of it. You can also sell them to a department store or other merchant if you have the necessary "perks".
• If you want to go on a quest, try to choose one that pays A. well or B.a quest that cannot be easily destroyed. You don't want to be level 2 and then fight the Stormcloaks, do you?
• Temper gear as often as possible, especially if you are skilled at forging and have other relevant perks. (Note: You cannot temper enchanted items without having the required "perk" from the "smithing perk tree".)
• Store all expensive things in a chest.
• Become a member of the "Dark Brotherhood". Quest providers for the "Dark Brotherhood" will give a hefty sum of money for the head of the intended target.
• If you chop wood 14 times at the lumberjack block you get about 1,000 gold pieces.

Warnings

• If you choose to steal, it is your fault if you are caught and killed.
• If you choose to go to a bandit camp, it will be your fault if you are killed.