Gem Dust Forging and Alchemy
Use your horde of gemstones in alchemy. Craft different types of Gem Dust at the Forge, and use in alchemy in potions. Encompasses all vanilla gems and soul gem fragments. Also use dust with human hearts and flesh to create black soul gems.
Gem Dust Forging and Alchemy
New in version 3.1!
– Custom textures by MystykStar OR optional new meshes and textures by MindBoggles
– Each type of gem creates its own unique ingredient
– Regular soul gems can be crushed to create soul gem dust
Description:
Use your horde of gemstones in alchemy. Craft different types of Gem Dust at the Forge to use in alchemy potions. Encompasses all vanilla gems and soul gem fragments. Give yourself another reason to collect gems and fragments.
Each type of gemstone can be crushed into its unique dust.
Soul gem fragments and unfilled soul gems can be crushed to create Soul Gem Dust.
Each Gem or Fragment will yield one unit of dust. Flawless gems will yield 2 units.
Dust Properties:
I tried to give each gem a theme, so that gem dust crafting would be relevant for as many different character builds and play styles as possible. Don’t like the effects of a specific gem? No need to crush it!
Garnet Dust – value 10g
1. Fortify Marksman
2. Fortify Pickpocket
3. Fortify Sneak
4. Fortify Alchemy
Amethyst Dust – value 10g
1. Weakness to Poison
2. Damage Health
3. Ravage Health
4. Paralysis
Ruby Dust – value 20g
1. Restore Health
2. Regenerate Health
3. Fortify Restoration
4. Cure Disease
Sapphire Dust – value 40g
1. Regenerate Magicka
2. Resist Magic
3. Fortify Destruction
4. Fortify Enchanting
Emerald Dust – value 60g
1. Restore Stamina
2. Regenerate Stamina
3. Fortify Carry Weight
4. Fortify Block
Diamond Dust – value 100g
1. Invisibility
2. Fortify Heavy Armour
3. Fortify Light Armour
4. Fortify Alchemy
The value of the dust is priced at 1/10th of the non-flawless version of the gem, based on vanilla prices.
Soul Gem Dust – value 5g
1. Fortify enchanting
2. Damage Health
3. Damage Magicka Regen
4. Fear
As well as fragments, regular (unfilled) soul gems can also be crushed to dust. Petty, lesser and common gems create 1 unit of dust, while greater and grand gems yield 2 units.
All types of gem dust are made by using the forge, this means they will also contribute to raising your smithing skill. Great for mages or other characters who would otherwise struggle to raise this skill. Dust can then be found in your ingredient tab to be used in potion making.
Recipes are included for bulk gem dust crafting. If you have 10 or more of a gem (or 5 of a flawless gem), you can craft 10 units of dust at a time.
Black Soul Gems:
Empty Black Soul Gems can now be crafted at the forge, using the following recipe:
– 5 x Soul gem dust
– 1 x Diamond (“black” carbon) gem dust
– 1 x Common soul gem
– 1 human heart OR 1 human flesh OR 2 briar hearts
You MUST have 2 ranks in Enchanting (skill of 20) to craft black soul gems.
How to use:
Go to the forge, all function are under Misc. The recipe will only be visible if you have the required ingredients to save on menu clutter. The recipe for black soul gems will only be displayed if you have at least 1 human heart (or flesh), or 2 briar hearts in your inventory.
Compatibility:
This mod edits vanilla gemstones and vanilla soul gems but nothing else. Mods that add new textures should still be compatible. Crafting jewellery with gemstones still works as normal.
Meshes and Textures
This mod includes custom textures by MystykStar by default. If you just download the main file, these are the one that will display in game. MindBoggles also created some custom meshes and textures. These are slightly larger than the game default are are offered as an optional download.
Installation
Copy all files into your data folder or install with NMM. Activate the .esp
If you wish to use the optional meshes and textures by MindBoggles, please download the optional file and allow to overwrite. You can easy switch back to MystykStar’s textures by either creating a backup of the .nif files in (data/meshes/clutter/GemDust) or by re-downloading the main file and allowing it to overwrite.
Change Log
Version 3.1 Custom meshes and textures by MindBoggles available as a separate download.
Version 3: Custom textures by MystykStar and each gem now has its unique dust. Regular soul gems can be crushed into soul gem dust
Version 2: Bulk editing and crafting black soul gems added
Version 1.1: Recipes only displayed if you have the required ingredients
Version 1.0: All recipes displayed in menu
