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Rise back this explorer in you and rediscover Skyrim. No quest objectves, just explore and get richer. From more gold in containers to hidden Daedra hearts, building materials, ores and ingots. New lootable crates and Mammoth skulls, more items in end desks and wardrobes. Look in every corner, in every chest and become Skyrim's richest explorer.
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Daedra hearts, gold, flawless gems, building materials and much more. Get this explorer in you awake. Stop packing up jewelery and other thngs to sell for merchants. Enter those caves without a quest, get hold of those bandit camps and retrieve every single piece of gold available in their loot. Delve into the catacombs and search every urn and spider web sack for gold or may you fall upon a Daedra heart after this Falmer attack! Who knows what you can find. Uninteresting places are now much more interesting. But wait.... New containers are available, crates and Mammoth skulls. What about those barrels? Just 3 or 4 apples? Skyrim is now full of commercial imports and goods. Get ingredients, building materials, ore and ingots. Dressers, end tables and wardrobe now hide some forgotten wealths like extra gold and flawless gems. So seek out every corner of Skyrim because NOW, hunting for riches is much more fun.
If you would like to support me, you can do so in 1 of 3 ways:
Or more than 1 if you feel generous
I take every comment and suggestion into consideration. Many of you made some good comments which I did use and will be using for further updates.
Thank you for all of you who are supporting my work!
In the working basket soon (Lakeview Castle Letter and more)
Ever wonder where that castle in that letter is? Well, it's a big project of mine that has been in the thinking machine for a long time. I will be ending my Skyrim modding with a major update for Lost Treasures. As of this march 2023, I am finishing my Modern Super Mario Texture pack for Minecraft and I will be going back into modding Skyrim, starting a new playthrough, have a final update to my CBM Guide X because I have been scrutinizing many other mods on NexusMods. I have added over 50 mods to the list. I will also be re-updating the game to it's final version and re-modding my game from ground up once I have listed my new findings in my mod guide. This will permit me to test my CBM Guide to make sure it still works with the latest Skyrim version.
You talked about Lakeview Castle, so what about it? Glad you asked! Lakeview Castle will be a quest locked castle. But more is to come, a new quest will be making it's entrance in Skyrim with a very powerful artifact at the end. This will be a dungeon made to test your skills to their outmost limits and you will become THE first of a kind since several eras past.
So why do you mention the CBM Guides then? Another excellent question! Each CBM Guide will have their files updated. 2 special artifacts in the colors of the guides will make their entrance in the Lost Treasures (CBM Guide AE will dissapear soon). As for Dove, my first follower mod, she is going to have a major facelift in her quest. Her past has a link with the Lakeview Castle and her grandmother has left trails which will open up some mysteries arround this lost bird's past, present and let you discover a futur related to you.
And what about your GameBanshee Map, any plans to integrate this inside Lost Treasures too? A good question too and the answer is NO. Why you ask? Well, That map belongs to GameBanshee as well as other mods I have uploaded which are not entirely my creation such as my skin changers for Sofia, Serana and her mother and the DX armor integration and armor alternatives. I'll be making links between Dove and the CBM Guides with Lost Treasures. The plan is to make all of these as addons to Lost Treasures and not have an entire Lost Treasures ESP with everything inside so that some of the most nostaligic ones of you out there can only install what you want. So if you do not want a full grown castle in the game, then you won't need to.
So these are my plans, I am sharing them to you so you know that Lost Treasures is not lost. It will just be my final chef-d'ouvre before I move on to create a game which is also entirely thought of. My goal is to try and deliver that before the end of 2023. I will also be updating other mods following some other user comments such as the DX Nightingale armor which I need to intgrate some elements of the Nightingale Vanilla Armor.
Please do not hesitate to contact me via PM or post comments, I read them all and I answer them all.
Idea of this mod
There are 2 ways to play Skyrim. Immerssion oriented or Player oriented. Pleayer oriented games focus on the player. The world changes as the player levels up. Immerssion oriented has the world not revolve arround the player as if things have always been before the player arrived. I chose immerssion. So yes, you may find during your initial escape in crates some higher leveled ingredients because this is a fortified Helgen fort. Meaning that those that were there before you could have some special shipments and items. I did seperate the ingredients and items and balanced out the amount available. But it still is not meant to be centered arround your level. And the point of this mod is for you to spend time searching through crates, barrels and sacks. It adds up to the thrill of searching everywhere all over again in Skyrim.
Installation
Mod Manager installation: Use your mod manager for any of the files listed
MANUAL installation: Unzip the contents of the optional REQUIRED main file in your game's DATA folder and do the same for the optional Hyperborean Snow patch if you need it.
If you encounter weird snowy crates or Mammoth Skulls issues, even if I mention Hyperborean Snow Patch, it can be used with other snow textures as the patch simply changes transparency on the vanilla snow texture that other mods may use and change. I named it Hyperborean Snow Patch because I use that snow mod and I only tested it with that mod enabled.
Lost Treasures does not use any scripts and does not require any kind of scripting changes with third party tools or mods so the installation and uninstallation is safe anytime during gameplay.
Compatibility
Not compatible with anything changing static crates and/or mammoth skulls like MisterB's Lootable Things. You can install Dynamic Things Alternative with Lost Treasures, but, you must load Lost Treasures AFTER Dynamic Things Alternative. If you use LOOT, please check to make sure LOOT does not change that load order. Thanks to LiLaTLuv for testing that out. Please report any issues.
Lost Treasures uses Vanilla only assets so any mods replacing textures or adding objects will be compatible. Lost Treasures will NOT change loot of any containers that are NOT vanilla. I did not implement any patches for extra big mods adding new worlds or locations.
Lost Treasures has its own loot items and tables and does NOT change any of the Vanilla loots which means that it can be added on top of any mods that change loots in vanilla containers. Also, adding or removing this mod mid-game should not matter. Just be sure to follow the load order as mentioned below.
Load order
Put Lost Treasures lowest in your load order. It should not need any overwrites but if ever it asks you, simply accept the overwrite or load Lost Treasures after which ever mod Vortex may tell you.
Known issues/bugs, suggestions or desired changes
Do not hesitate to comment any bugs, issues, suggestions or desired changes. Here is what I am aware of for now:
- Not all containers are owned. I started to make some of them owned but there's a lot of entries to change and they need to be modified 1 by 1 manually.
Some suggested mods
I strongly suggest these mods to give more power to the Lost Treasures mod and make looting much more rewarding and efficient.
• Sensible Bribes - Based on Speechcraft Not Level: This greatly increases the bribe prices to be much more reasonable. Entering Riften controlled by the Thieves Guild will require much more gold.
• Economy Overhaul and Speechcraft Improvements: With this mod, you no longer can empty your found treasures easily to any merchants (Riverwood Trader...ahem...cough, cough!!). This also means that you will not get easy money from them so looting will feel much more rewarding and entering a cave will be much more tempting.
These other mods just add up to the feeling of luxury when finding hidden treasures, they are mostly visual overhauls.
• High quality ore and ingot textures: NeV-P_Extreme Materials - Ingots - vanilla replacer
• High quality gem and ore textures: NeV-P_Extreme Materials - Crystals
Why did I create this?
I find it so boring to always be limited in my carrying capacity because I need to gather up items I do not use just to sell them to poor merchants who empty their pockets with my stuff sold to them. I also never really want to enter those caves or bandit camps unless a quest requires me to because the loot is uninteresting. I chose to boost up the loot in chests and many other unlooted and boring containers. Makes exploration way more interesting and it actually pays off to roam around for numerous hours. Exploration will get you richer and you will be able to buy these homes. I also found it pretty weirdly hard to find goat horns to put some light in my homes. And those hinges and other building item requirements that require so much iron and other special ingots, I thought it is a good idea to exploit some unused static objects to add more of these items available such as crates which should be filled with goods making the ships have real things instead of weird static boxes used for decoration.
A bit of me
Please take a moment to at least read my "Who am I" section on my profile page.
If you are reading this section, a HUGE and really sincere thank you for your interest. Continue reading in spoiler:
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Yes, that's me in my avatar with my wife at our wedding day in November 2019. I am from Quebec/Canada and my wife is from the Philippines where we got married. COVID-19 separated us in 2020. After 2 long years of waiting, my familly is now united with me in Canada. I have a handicap which is Autism. For many people, they won't find it a handicap (ask my wife, IT IS a handicap). Here on NexusMods and elsewhere on Internet, you won't feel or see the signs of my Autism too much. Since I have intellectual deficiency, my handicap does not show too much, my problems happen in long term relationships and several awkward discussions I may have with friendly people. I have been diagnosed in early 2019 so it's more difficult because my whole life revolved around rejection and me trying to fit everywhere I was and I just thought I was a loser and no good. Autistic people like me, without mental deficiency, have problems with relationships and expressing ourselves. We all have varying degrees on where our problems rely. In my case, it's maintaining a relation with people that gets tough. I can easily connect with people but these people will lose interest or find me weird pretty fast because of how I am socially.
Autism is a hidden handicap that people don't always see but it makes us suffer inside, enclosing ourselves at home and constantly trying to think about so much stuff that you, neuro-typical people won't even bother thinking about. But that's the bad side, Autistic people are also very intelligent but in ONE or more sections in life while as we can be terrible in other sections. So it's not rare to see Autistic people be good in music, arts or other centers of interests because that's where they excel and are good at. but work-wise, it can become complicated with the boss because our social problems WILL show and often become very hard to handle or even accept as a boss. So it's VERY common for Autistic people like me to end up alone with no job because socially, it's just a constant everyday challenge.
Why am I sharing this? I want people to be aware that Autism is a real problem and cannot be cured, it's a handicap as much as someone who lost their legs or a blind person. We cannot solve the issue, we can help it, but not solve it. Autism is not seen the same everywhere. Hopefully for me, Canada has some services and help for people like me so I have special help here while as in other countries they don't take care of Autism and even other handicaps. Most handicaped people will be staying home completely depending on their other family members who will need to work.
What about Skyrim? On new year's eve, January 1 2019, my 3000$ computer crashed, an i7, a proper modest good working gaming rig I had bought. I had gathered hardly the money to build that PC and I lost it 2 or 3 years after my warranty was out. Out of the generosity of one fellow supporter here on NexusMods, I was able to get myself a modest Ryzen 3600 Gaming machine. I don't need much, just enough to run Skyrim comfortably. I played Skyrim for a long time, it's actually the game that got me into the RPG world which I hated before. I love Skyrim and most of all, I love moding it. I am also a very basic game creator and I learned to program all by myself without any school degrees. So I am a self-taught web programmer and designer, game maker and Skyrim moder. After playing the game over and over, I got tired of spending so much time in going back and forth to merchants to sell useless stuff that I gathered in my precious inventory space. That's where the Lost Treasures idea was born. Looting chests that gave you 12 gold after you have spent hours trying to defeat a Daugr Lord and all it's minions or continuously raging against Dwemer Centurions and Spiders on top of Falmer attacks. Yep, something had to be done. That's a brief story of who I am. I am opened to any discussions. Don't be shy to ask some personal questions, if they are respectful, I will answer and I am opened to PMs and friend requests.
Autism is a hidden handicap that people don't always see but it makes us suffer inside, enclosing ourselves at home and constantly trying to think about so much stuff that you, neuro-typical people won't even bother thinking about. But that's the bad side, Autistic people are also very intelligent but in ONE or more sections in life while as we can be terrible in other sections. So it's not rare to see Autistic people be good in music, arts or other centers of interests because that's where they excel and are good at. but work-wise, it can become complicated with the boss because our social problems WILL show and often become very hard to handle or even accept as a boss. So it's VERY common for Autistic people like me to end up alone with no job because socially, it's just a constant everyday challenge.
Why am I sharing this? I want people to be aware that Autism is a real problem and cannot be cured, it's a handicap as much as someone who lost their legs or a blind person. We cannot solve the issue, we can help it, but not solve it. Autism is not seen the same everywhere. Hopefully for me, Canada has some services and help for people like me so I have special help here while as in other countries they don't take care of Autism and even other handicaps. Most handicaped people will be staying home completely depending on their other family members who will need to work.
What about Skyrim? On new year's eve, January 1 2019, my 3000$ computer crashed, an i7, a proper modest good working gaming rig I had bought. I had gathered hardly the money to build that PC and I lost it 2 or 3 years after my warranty was out. Out of the generosity of one fellow supporter here on NexusMods, I was able to get myself a modest Ryzen 3600 Gaming machine. I don't need much, just enough to run Skyrim comfortably. I played Skyrim for a long time, it's actually the game that got me into the RPG world which I hated before. I love Skyrim and most of all, I love moding it. I am also a very basic game creator and I learned to program all by myself without any school degrees. So I am a self-taught web programmer and designer, game maker and Skyrim moder. After playing the game over and over, I got tired of spending so much time in going back and forth to merchants to sell useless stuff that I gathered in my precious inventory space. That's where the Lost Treasures idea was born. Looting chests that gave you 12 gold after you have spent hours trying to defeat a Daugr Lord and all it's minions or continuously raging against Dwemer Centurions and Spiders on top of Falmer attacks. Yep, something had to be done. That's a brief story of who I am. I am opened to any discussions. Don't be shy to ask some personal questions, if they are respectful, I will answer and I am opened to PMs and friend requests.
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Credits
Thank's to majewskidominik for the polish translation and his good cooperation!