Skyrim Crafting Guide

This Skyrim Crafting guide will give you some hints and tips on the extensive world of Crafting within The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Crafting comes in several forms in the game, including: Alchemy, Cooking, Enchanting and Smithing. You will find the elements that can be picked or harvested for use in Crafting all throughout your adventure. Generally you will need to taste an element (or ingredient rather) before you can figure out its effects. Although you can experiment and combine items as well to figure out how it may be used in Cooking or Alchemy.

Alchemy is the Craft you want to pursue if you want the ability to make potent potions, brewing and mixing drinks that can have any range of effects, from healing to state-boosting of all kinds.

Cooking requires you to mix several foodstuffs together to form powerful concoctions with a range of effects (many based on healing). In order to cook you will need to use a pot over a fire. Or find one of the many pots over a fire spread throughout the world.

Enchanting allows you to magically augment weapons in your possession to greatly enhance them with magical properties or state-boosting abilities.

Lastly, Smithing allows you to greatly improve existing weapons or create entirely new Weapons and Armor from scratch!

This video explains and goes further in-depth with Crafting in Skyrim.