Disclaimer: Yet another one of the tiny mods I did for myself and friends. Related with recycling of useless items like my other prior mod Melt that Junk

Suggested if one of these is true:
- You have a cleptomaniac character and sometimes wonder what to do with all that junk.
- Your setup is made to live the hobo life, since this will make the stuff you scavenge around actually useful.
- You are so petty that you want to clean up of every item from the house of every character that treated you poorly, forge an iron dagger out of their stuff and then drop it on their table at night (I know I do...)


WHAT THIS MOD DOES: SHORT VERSION

This mod adds the recipes at the smelter for melting miscellaneous items (like, plates or cups or jugs or dibella's statues) that you sometime "find" around (likely when you are rummaging into stuff that is not of your own property). After all, if you melt everything in ingots no one can tell it's stolen goods...

In order to not break too much the game's economy I tried to make the melting process in net weight loss (you'll need like 1.5 to 3 stones of a certain kind of item to make 1 ingot).
Also, you can burn certain wood items in order to make coal (and turn the two types of coal present in the game, one in the other, if you ever need a certain one for your recipes or a quest).
The recipes won't appear unless you have at least 1 of the processable items in your equipment, in order to not clutter your menu.
Materials that you can gain in this process are iron, steel, gold, silver, dwemer metal, coal, and more rarely corundum.

It works with new-worlds mods too, as long as the items use the same base ID.




WHAT THIS MOD DOES: DETAILED VERSION
Many misc items in the base game (+ DLCs) now have a recipe that will allow you to process them at the forge to obtain basic materials.
So, if somehow you end up stealing a bunch of silverware, you can now turn them into silver ingots, or you can melt normal plates into iron, or turn wooden items into coal (and switch the two types of coal into one another, because to be fair, that's a weirdness I never got my head around).

Since the mod is built in order to be in net weight loss, you'll often need a certain number of items in order to melt them and gain a single ingot.
Items that are processable are simple items, not weapons or armors, not any complex machine (dwemer gears or other machinery), not items made of too many materials (because recipes can have only one output item). So, mostly you'll be able to get rid of cups, plates, jugs, pots, dibella's statues (not haelga's one because is quest-locked) and most of the useless stuff you usually have in your backpack after walking out Erikur's or Nazeem's house.

At the forge you can also switch the "bloody" silver items of dawnguard into their normal version (you basically burn the blood in the flames and scratch away the encrusted material), that you can later melt down into silver ingots.

Note that, given the prices of misc items in Skyrim, you can sometime end up with ingots that have higher value of the items you melt down (this is true especially for silverware), There is a OPTIONAL file that raises the price of silverware in order to keep it relevant and (weight-wise) more precious than in vanilla (install that OR the main mod). Or you can use this other mod (More Rewarding Thievery) that raises even more the prices of nobles' stuff.

I made this because I often end up taking "owned" items for reasons (...), and then they stay in my inventory forever or I just drop them in some container and forget about them because there is no reason to search a fence for selling 10-septim worth of tablewares.
The recipes are normally hidden in order to not clutter your crafting menu and will appear (in the forge menu) only if you have in your inventory at least one of those processable items.

Also (I still haven't came across any of them), but in some mods may exist quests that may target a specific generic miscellaneous item to fetch and retrieve. In that case melting the items may break the quest, so if this kind of thing happens try to end the quest before going in a melting spree.
It's your savegame, after all.



MELT DOWN THAT BEACON
A separate file is included to actually melt down Meridia's Beacon. I did this for a friend that actually had one of those mods for dropping Meridia's quest and he wanted a way to dispose permanently of that self-important rock in a particular petty way (he used the resulting metal to actually craft a sword and dropped it at the feet of Meridia's statue).
The recipe work as it should (and nets you 10 silver ingots), but I HAVEN'T TESTED IT firsthand in a game.
If you have a mod that allows you to drop the quest and leaves the beacon in your equipment, not flagged as quest-item (so, for example, you can drop it in a chest or put it on a table), then it should work appropriately. But otherwise, beware of what this could do in your game.


List of the processable items (INGOTS)


List of the processable items (COAL)


List of the processable items (CHANGE)




On another note I've been sitting on my lazy ass for months before releasing this, so in the meantime someone released a similar mod. I'm listing it here so that you can check both and pick whichever fits you the most (there are probably others too).


COMPATIBILITY
Basically everything since it just adds recipes to the Smelter.

- ESP-FE?
Yes

- Lore-friendly?
Believe it or not recycle is lore-friendly in medieval-like societies.

- Safe to install mid-game?
Yes. The load order is relevant only if you download the Pricey Luxury version, in which case put it after other mods that affect those items or patch them together.

- What am I supposed to do with all this charcoal?
Give it to Braith on Saturalia, or sell it. Or use it in some other mod that has recipes for actual use of coal.

- There is another mod that does the same and better.
I encourage you to use that other mod if it fits better your game. This is just a lightweight patch I made for myself (save the Meridia's file, don't ask about that)]