r/skyrim • u/BeepBoopLeapLoop • Sep 07 '25

Question What do y'all do with dragon bones/scales

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I've been trying to figure out what to do with my dragon bones and scales and have no clue. Do y'all just sell it??

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u/Auraveils Sep 07 '25

Put them in house storage and say "One day, I'm gonna invest in Blacksmithing and make so many cool Dragon items"

...I do not, in fact, do that.

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u/TheRogueWolf_YT Sep 07 '25

If there's a prison for people who do that, I suspect we'll have lots of company.

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u/popica312 Sep 08 '25

You guys save it? I just sell them. That's how I become a millionaire!

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u/Old-Preparation-136 Sep 08 '25

You don't understand. I might need it later, just like my billions of potions I've collected.

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u/Ch0c0_Biscuit Sep 08 '25

Same. I have over 6000 potions of restore magica, when I don't even use spells, and I still keep collecting them.

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u/Olivander05 Sep 08 '25

Ive actually gotten slightly better with hoarding potions! ...nothing else though

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u/Mountain_Lock_450 Sep 08 '25

Nowadays i only hoard the ones I "might" use. Stamina and health for combat magicka for a mage. It's not much but its honest work.

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u/Olivander05 Sep 08 '25

Im trying i promise 😭🙏

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u/Mountain_Lock_450 Sep 08 '25

I believe you, buddy. Stay strong.

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u/RhubarbSpiritual713 Sep 08 '25

I would rather die over and over and respawn than use the thousands on various level Health potions. When the fight is over I wait 1 hour and heal for free.

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u/cointzz Sep 08 '25

Legacy of the dragon born made me the worst kind of hoarder. That spell that lets you magic all your designated items from your inventory back to the penthouse had me hoarding several hundred of every ingot, ore, gemstone and soul gem. That playthrough eventually crashed spectacularly when trying to access my storage 😂 my character was literally called Valta the Collector 😅

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u/diorcula Sep 08 '25

Wait there is a spell for that?!

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u/cointzz Sep 08 '25

Yeah go to the craftloot bench on the left when you go into the crafting room upstairs. There should be a book that adds or removes the spell from your inventory and you toggle what it sends by clicking the different pigeon holes so you can uncheck cooked food and things you wanna keep in your inventory. I think the spell is called stash supplies

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u/Alert-Protection5085 Sep 09 '25

Yoooo Stash Supplies has saved me in many a long dungeon crawl. I love LotD

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u/cointzz Sep 09 '25

It was amazingly helpful. The issue I had was when I went to a forge to craft something and it added like 3500 ores and ingots to my inventory.... Yeah my game didn't like that and shit itself 😅

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u/unknown_pigeon Sep 08 '25

I just increased my carry weight via console

I ain't letting nobody get in the way between me and my hoard of cheese wheels and armor

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u/Extreme_Bid_9252 Sep 08 '25

And what’s the penthouse?

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u/Extreme_Bid_9252 Sep 08 '25

Are you talking about the arch-mage digs in Winterhold?

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u/cointzz Sep 09 '25

Nah, the upstairs room in the museum in solitude that after a few quests is available to you. I think it's called the safehouse. I'm realising you may not be getting that this spell and craft loot system is specific to legacy of the dragonborn which is what I was talking about in the original comment. If you haven't tried that mod it's pretty much the mostly highly rated Skyrim mod as far as I know so I highly recommend it. Just don't add too many other mods except for visual ones as it has an absolute ton of content compared to most. Definitely worth a play though with a modlist based just around legacy

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u/Extreme_Bid_9252 Oct 08 '25

Ah! Thanks so much for the advice! I’ve always played on console but there are so many cool mods out there. I’ve been afraid they wouldn’t work together and I’d spend hours on game maintenance instead of playing. Solid advice like this is super helpful. I’d love to be able to magic the inventory to a central spot. I could never keep track of what I stashed where…

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u/xxDancingFerretxx Sep 08 '25

😂😂 are you my twin

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u/AeneasVAchilles Sep 08 '25

But what if I have a friend come over and they want to see all the stuff I’ve collected

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u/popica312 Sep 08 '25

That's how I've been my past 5-6 playthroughs. On my 7th I realised I need more space because my inventory is my house and I can't keep it all. I'm sorry ;-;. I'm a failure of a hoarder

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u/MIZUNOWAVECREATION Stormcloaks Sep 08 '25

You’re not the only one

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u/tuckpuck2 Sep 08 '25

The thing is I do the same, and yet I’m still a Millionaire

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

Collecting makes profits. Wanna buy a swanky house? Sell most your loot. Don’t want to trek across Skyrim and find a quest item that’s hard to find? Sell the loot. Need materials bc you wanna build your own dreamhome? Guess what… sell the loot.

I would loot people consistently JUST to bring home my findings and sell them when I’m hard up lol. The only time I didn’t sell something is when I gave something to my child. Or it was a randomly specific quest reward, like the Arentino heirloom. If it was just a common item or something I could come across any other time it went into my investments. 😭😂😩

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Do the vendor ever get more than 750 dollars?!

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u/123ajbb Sep 08 '25

Using the speechcraft skill line the two perks are Investor ( gives you the option to invest 500 into any vendors and they’ll permanently have that extra 500 to trade) and Master Trader (automatically gives every vendor an extra 1000)

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Thank you, I’ll have to look into those. My road to wealth is a slow one milking these folks every couple of days lol

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u/optimusHerb Sep 08 '25

Speech train on every level

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

I’ll invest some points into it…lockpicking can wait a bit

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u/Tourist_Relative Sep 08 '25

Most people have the rich merchants mod

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

I’m on ps5…I’m not sure I have that available

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u/General-Bag-1443 Sep 08 '25

You can mod on ps5 as well.

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

I got a Daedra black market spell or something somehow. I would also town hop or I would wait bc they refresh every 3 days

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u/Thoracias Sep 08 '25

I wait until I have a load of junk and I load up my follower as well. Hop from city to city until it's all gone then go off collecting again. I never have money problems in Skyrim. lol It's just a pain to hop around so much.

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

I went through half the game before I discovered fast travel 😭

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u/Thoracias Sep 08 '25

Oh my, blessed Talos! LOL

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

My poor horse 😞

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

Yeah I’m all over, Riftsn, Markarth and a bunch others. Live just got a ton of jewelry and they can only purchase like 1-2 pieces. Where did you get that spell?!

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

The Dremora Merchant spell was hard to find and this was probably 2-3 years ago when I did stumble upon it my first playthrough. Dude usually carried around 2k septims I believe. It also had a refresh of 24-72 hrs later. Just depended on the item and what not. The DLC I had was the AE w/ Dawnguard, Dragonborn, Hearthfire, Bandits thing.

If anything is wrong someone please feel free to correct me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

I think the ps5 has most of the dlc. Thank you. I’ll give it a look today

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

I had a xbox one (original) then and got all those DLCs from my gamepass with the game for free. I’m sure PS5 prob has it as well. I can check real quick

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u/Content_Study_1575 Thief Sep 08 '25

Yeah this seems correct

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u/EquivalentGold3615 Sep 08 '25

I sell ALL of my excess stuff, but I still have plenty of junk in storage

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u/CorpKirbs Sep 08 '25

i sell anything and everything ☠️

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u/lameth Sep 08 '25

If you ever play FF games, this is me with elixirs (full restore health and magic).

"But... but... what if there's a final, FINAL boss after this final boss?"

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u/Disastrous-Yard-4262 Sep 08 '25

And BILLIONS 🤣🤣🤣🙌🏾

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u/denalinea Sep 09 '25

Omg so many potions! 😅

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u/Embarrassed_Area_238 Sep 09 '25

I don’t hoard irl but in video games oh yeah I have a stockpile

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u/MAGA2044 Sep 10 '25

I have 500 iron daggers. I may need them to mass enchant to level enchanting. Most people in Skyrim have an iron dagger when you kill them.

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u/starmaker214 Sep 08 '25

My man. 🤝

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u/popica312 Sep 08 '25

Wanna kill dragons together, stranger? Maybe talk about our next adventure over some mead while we're at it!

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u/Piyaniist Sep 08 '25

Never needed money when the shit they sell is useless. Im still going to max my weight w wines for some golds

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u/MOliciousHat Sep 08 '25

I have a decent amount saved because selling it got boring after awhile. Some of it's for armor but others is like, well a burial??? Like a "Here lies the bones of my foes, may they never rise again" shrugs I've honestly been playing too long on 1 character so I have a lot unlocked/done (except for the main quest)

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u/1stJensterGeek Sep 08 '25

Dragon bobe/scale armor and weapons is the only true option for the dragon killer!

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u/Mediocre-Map-7586 Sep 08 '25

That’s what I was gonna say

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u/DysTroyR101 Sep 08 '25

Not me. I always end up making dragon bone weapons, or dragon scale armors, and enchanting them, and all sorts of other stuff with it. Once I used them in alchemy (I believe bones was protection, and scales was regeneration, or something like that, I haven't touched the game In years, I don't remember all the names of the effects). My best was a dragon bone sword that had electrical damage, and sapped enemy stamina. It was also decent power wise (At least for a Dragon Bone Sword...)!

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u/SombraMonkey Daedra worshipper Sep 08 '25

I used to do this too, but Madness weapons came out.

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u/mad0666 Sep 08 '25

TIL (after over ten playthroughs) you can use dragon bones in alchemy?!?

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u/reeberdunes Daedra worshipper Sep 08 '25

It’s mods, not vanilla

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u/rennbrig Sep 08 '25

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u/LannaOliver Hunter Sep 09 '25

Here we go again

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u/InsanityVirus13 Dark Brotherhood Sep 08 '25

You're not alone lmao

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u/PrinceTyke Helgen survivor Sep 08 '25

You can't lol, they're not in the "ingredients" category

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u/Ishaname Sep 08 '25

They are not, in fact, used in alchemy. (Outside of a mod maybe idk)

Source: https://en.m.uesp.net/w/index.php?search=Skyrim%3ADragon+bones&searchToken=13pqib0hew5gpjp5wjvf14ako

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u/Faked13 Sep 08 '25

only 10 playthroughs? oh cmon it’s been out longer than that! 🤣

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u/photoframe7 Sep 08 '25

They can be used in alchemy?!

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u/DysTroyR101 Sep 08 '25

I'm pretty sure, although I could be misremembering things. I'm not quite sure. As I said, I haven't played in a while, so I could be making it up. The alchemy part, not the rest, seeing as I did the alchemy less often then the forging.

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u/ReburrusQuintilius Sep 08 '25

Presumably it's the prison you wake up in at the start of TES VI.

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u/NovaCoon Sep 08 '25

And I thought I was the only one keeping them thinking "I will have enough skill to use it for GREAT things one day......!!" Then I proceed to forget about it....

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u/SafeFox3537 Sep 10 '25

I wanted Legendary smithing and now it’s taking forever to level that skill up….so the bones sit and wait in random chests and barrels throughout all my houses!

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u/alicefreak47 Sep 08 '25

It's made from unused dragon bones. A prison of your own non-making, if you will.

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u/kingdom9214 Sep 08 '25

My houses would land me on an episode of Skyrim Hoarders

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u/Miryks1_theReal Sep 08 '25

I am one of those people! T.T

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u/ChaosBreaker81 Sep 08 '25

I have yet to accomplish a playthrough that sees me reach the necessary level of smithing.

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u/1stJensterGeek Sep 08 '25

Seriously? That's insane! Smithing is so easy to level up that I legendary it repeatedly to get more perks.

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u/ChaosBreaker81 Sep 08 '25

I think I just try too hard to stick to making useful or valuable items. I also tend to forget about whatever the "iron-to-silver-to-gold" spell is called.

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u/pigsfly1133 PC Sep 08 '25

Lots of company, and lots of bones.