Interesting idea, what is the rate of lockpicks : steel ingot ?
Also, I guess it would make a bit more sense if it was turned into iron instead of steel.
It costs 10 lockpicks to make 1 steel ingot. it's not a particularly economic way of getting steel ingots but many people seem to end up finding more lockpicks than they use. Plus, steel ingots have a base cost of 20 gold each while lockpicks have a base cost of 2 gold each. This way there is no loss or gain of base value through the conversion.
With regard to the picks smelting down into steel instead of iron, all of the good real life lockpicks that i've come across are made out of steel. another reason is that in Skyrim, steel is (to my understanding) considerably rarer than iron ingots, plus it's the only ingot that requires more than one ingredient to craft (according to the wiki at least). That, and the in game inventory model of lockpick looks more like it's made of steel to me than iron.
As many lockpicks as my fumbling Dragonborn burns through, he could use a reverse mod that lets him melt down other metal things that he rarely uses like daggers and short swords and make picks out of them
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It costs 10 lockpicks to make 1 steel ingot. it's not a particularly economic way of getting steel ingots but many people seem to end up finding more lockpicks than they use. Plus, steel ingots have a base cost of 20 gold each while lockpicks have a base cost of 2 gold each. This way there is no loss or gain of base value through the conversion.
With regard to the picks smelting down into steel instead of iron, all of the good real life lockpicks that i've come across are made out of steel. another reason is that in Skyrim, steel is (to my understanding) considerably rarer than iron ingots, plus it's the only ingot that requires more than one ingredient to craft (according to the wiki at least). That, and the in game inventory model of lockpick looks more like it's made of steel to me than iron.
Also, I guess it would make a bit more sense if it was turned into iron instead of steel.