The primary purpose of the mod is to give players 1. A way to drop gold in piles wherever you like, and 2. A few things to spend gold on.
The mod adds a merchant who can sell you convenient items like witch heads or dragon claws. He also has items that are new. Two of his scrolls teleport you to small new areas with fun new things to see.
To see what he sells, simply talk to him as you would any other merchant and then read the items' descriptions.
There is some light scripting. There are no new 3D models, no new dialogue, no quests. Even so you might find it rather economical (pun unintended).
The cost of items depends largely on your speech skill. Costs go down dramatically at higher levels.
GoldPiles Trick:
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You need to be looking straight ahead (not up or down) when casting the GoldPile Trick, or else the pile will not rest level. It might give you more than 100 gold when you pick it back up. Multiple piles in the same location will stack like a pagoda but if you spread them out and then stack up it looks more natural.
Kershplooey:
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The Kershplooey spell is more than just a non-hostile staggerer. It also sets the target up as a potential follower if possible. Last I checked you can also use it for simple potshots at tankards and whatnot if you like to make a mess as much as I do. As mentioned elsewhere, if you use Bloody Facials this spell might cause them to bleed but it is still painless. Turn off Bloody Facials, then sleep or something, change locations or whatever the official instruction is, and it will work without making the target bleed. It is useful for moving followers who get stuck or who step into uneven ground and start bouncing up and down all buggy. It happens to the Daughters of Dibella sometimes.
Dibella's Tub:
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You do NOT have the grey head bug. If you do, you need Google, not me. The Daughters of Dibella should NOT have the grey head bug (a common bug in Skyrim). If they do you can look around for various suggested fixes, most of which work fine. Rather than just scale human NPCs, they are a new race (Nord Giant), not listed as human but as Daedra; this is so that their hit boxes/collision makes sense. Otherwise you could shoot right through their heads, for example, because their hit box would not even be knee high. But I made their hit boxes work so that if you get a notion to jump on a lady's head or arm or "what have you," it will work. You can stand on one of their heads when she leans down, no problem. I have no idea what implications this might have for those of you who use BBP. If it is interesting, please let us know!
They are potential followers and if hit with the Kershplooey spell you will get the appropriate dialogue. They all use the same spells and fighting style. I do not know but I suspect that anything you give them (armor, weapons) will scale to fit them. There are some fish, oysters, and one other surprise in their pond. The treasure ark is safe for you to keep things in.
She Who Hates All:
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She Who Hates All will last 24 hours. She cannot fly. Attack her and she will turn on you. Old GoldPiles has a book about her history, written by Olava the Feeble. She is NOT a new race or a duplicate race of anything. She CANNOT affect your race menu.
Teleport Scrolls:
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Skuldafn has not been edited at all. Sovngarde has only two edits; the key (a new item) in front of Shor's Throne and the inner doors have been edited to open via that same key. Once you leave the Hall of Valor you will not be able to reenter unless you buy another scroll from Old Goldpiles. I recommend not using the scrolls that take you to Skuldafn or Sovngarde until you complete the main quest.
Secret Imperial Vault:
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The Secret Imperial Vault resets daily (including the guards). Guards in the Secret Imperial Vault are NOT easy to sneak by but it can be done. Necromancers should be able to raise the bones of Tiber Septim, and he is not weak. Using any kind of explosion anywhere in the vault will cause the stacks of large gold bars to collapse, but they will restack the next time you enter. I made this mod before I had any 3D skills so their hit boxes are wonky but DAMN what a booger it was to package this mod, so I am not about to revise them. This and the other items in the vault are there mainly as stuff to fill out your treasure heap -- and you know you have one. Why else would you want this mod if you have no treasure heap?!??!? If you fail to prepare for hauling out what you find in the vault by buying potions of Aedric Strength, there is a potion of Half-Aedric Strength on the top level.
Shellbacked Diving Hares:
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If you cast a Shellbacked Diving Hare too close to another, it could become hostile. TO YOU. For more information, read Old GoldPiles' book about them (not the spellbook). To maximize their use, cast them at slaughterfish or other enemies in water. They will not flee or drown. If you want to witness a spectacle and you have Migal's BBLS, cast about twenty or thirty Diving Hares in there. Your ladies (or gents) will turn the place into a Bloobath Royale that will last a long time. I haven't tested with a level one character but I suspect you can level destruction toot sweet this way. The hares have insane amounts of hit points, but no attack. I mean no attack at all. They just bum rush you until you can't walk away without jumping over them. They are not essential but they are not "conjured;" in other words they will not go away unless they are killed. Ever.
Black Soul Boxes:
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The Black Soul Boxes are reusable black soul gems, essentially. They work with or without Azura's Star/The Black Star. There is no limit to how many you can buy. Get a dozen or so and you'll never need soul gems again. For this reason they are not cheap.
Old Goldpiles has more to sell than what I have shown in the pictures, most of it for convenience if you lost a vital item. I might add more.
To anyone who may want to use this in SE, I was able to get it ported by unpacking the BSA and then re-exporting the facegens (Ctrl+f4) of the mod's NPCs in the Creation Kit. I didn't check the teleportation scrolls, but Goldpiles shows up (without crashing the game), and all the summoning spells work.
Thank you. I won't be able to in the foreseeable future. It was tested and found to be the only one of my mods that does not already work with SSE. Remaking this one would be a project. But we'll see.
By the way, if anyone is interested in a rerelease of my (long-deleted) mod ZardHats, the ORIGINAL pointy-wizard-hat mod, please go here and leave a comment: https://yargcade.blogspot.com/2018/06/zardhats-rerelease.html
I love this because it's a reference for real life myths. meet a demon at a cross roads around midnight or devils hour (can't remember) and he'll make you an offer for your soul. lol I'm definitely adding this.
I love this because it's a reference for real life myths. meet a demon at a cross roads around midnight or devils hour (can't remember) and he'll make you an offer for your soul. lol I'm definitely adding this.
As ungrateful as I might be, and not because I was always intending to endorse your mod, yet forgot to do so, I endorsed your mod anyway, (but only because I happened to come by). So there.
Because that would be unfair to all the ungrateful bastards. POS's need mods too. Even if their parents didn't raise them properly and they leave pubes all over the toilet seat, and have bad politics, and wouldn't bother to tell you if there was a booger in your nose. They still need mods. Even if they scratch themselves in front of your mother, or track mud into the house, or greedily take the last slice of pizza. Even if they toss cigarette butts from the car window and let their dog pee on your trash cans or poop on your lawn. They need the ability to drop gold into piles and have some interesting things to buy. So it's a service to them, whether they are rednecks or Mass-holes or useless gutter trash, or if they are so blind of their own luxury and privilege that they genuinely ought to become alcoholics and addicts so as to shorten their lives, I wanted to make sure they could download Goldpiles without guilt or impunity. People like this, I mean come now, do you expect them to bother with soul gems? That's monotonous stuff for anybody. I ain't fond of it really. So here it remains for the time being, for anyone whose life exists only for themselves. It seemed like the right thing to do. Someone needs to love them and this seemed like a small gesture that wouldn't cost me anything. So since presumably you aren't one of them I must apologize for the inconvenience. I'm sorry, really. Meanwhile my other mods are free to anyone, even people with a habit of endorsing mods with a quick easy click on a button clearly labeled.
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The mod adds a merchant who can sell you convenient items like witch heads or dragon claws. He also has items that are new. Two of his scrolls teleport you to small new areas with fun new things to see.
To see what he sells, simply talk to him as you would any other merchant and then read the items' descriptions.
There is some light scripting. There are no new 3D models, no new dialogue, no quests. Even so you might find it rather economical (pun unintended).
The mod has been cleaned with TESVEdit.
GoldPiles Trick:
Kershplooey:
Dibella's Tub:
The Daughters of Dibella should NOT have the grey head bug (a common bug in Skyrim). If they do you can look around for various suggested fixes, most of which work fine. Rather than just scale human NPCs, they are a new race (Nord Giant), not listed as human but as Daedra; this is so that their hit boxes/collision makes sense. Otherwise you could shoot right through their heads, for example, because their hit box would not even be knee high. But I made their hit boxes work so that if you get a notion to jump on a lady's head or arm or "what have you," it will work. You can stand on one of their heads when she leans down, no problem. I have no idea what implications this might have for those of you who use BBP. If it is interesting, please let us know!
They are potential followers and if hit with the Kershplooey spell you will get the appropriate dialogue. They all use the same spells and fighting style. I do not know but I suspect that anything you give them (armor, weapons) will scale to fit them. There are some fish, oysters, and one other surprise in their pond. The treasure ark is safe for you to keep things in.
She Who Hates All:
Teleport Scrolls:
Secret Imperial Vault:
Shellbacked Diving Hares:
Black Soul Boxes:
Old Goldpiles has more to sell than what I have shown in the pictures, most of it for convenience if you lost a vital item. I might add more.
No requests. Do it yourself.
Thanks, glad you like it!
An uncharacteristic "thank you" from yours truly.