Improved and alternative merchants

⭐ — (43 endorsements) 📥 684 downloads 📌 v7.23 📅 12/10/2018
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By Oblivionaddicted · Mercantiles (shops, stores, inns, taverns, etc)

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 7/24/2026 📅 Created: 12/10/2018
⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
1🛠️ OBSE — Oblivion Script Extender Download ↗
2🔧 UOP — Unofficial Oblivion Patch Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 6.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #20 of 23 Mercantiles (shops, stores, inns, taverns, etc) mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Enjoy many improved and additional traders . Features a lot of bonus features like restored nearly-cut content and replicas of unique quest-items to decorate your home and many other features and bonuses.

Improved and alternative merchants

What's new in this version?

-Created an icon for the cognac bottle

-When you ask a blacksmith to turn your wolf pelts to cuirasses or an enchanter to apply magic on your arrows you always keep any surplus and you receive the quantity of objects you can afford

-Fixed some bugs and inconsistencies concerning the enchanted arrows

Don't you find it strange and frustrating some trading places might/will remain empty once you completed some quests?

Don't you have the feeling BethSoft added some merchants at the last minute without taking the time to set them correctly, like Candice Corgine who doesn't have any septim to barter with, has nothing to sell  and equips the objects you sell her?

If your answers are yes this mod is for you, I brought improvements to 14 vanilla traders (to make it short I gave them 65535 septims to barter with, removed the leveling so you can keep the same prices as you level up and gave them a chest to store the goods you sell them) and added 4 new traders

This mod is based on several ideas:

Upgraded and bonus merchants

You will no longer find any shop empty after a certain quest and don't have to worry about the glitched merchants, not offering any service or becoming less interesting to barter with as you level up for example

Lots of bonus content

You can enjoy a lot of replicated artifacts, unused objects and custom-made bonus content.

Including the Shivering isles specific content you can notably enjoy:

184 new armor pieces

More than 100 new clothes

203 new weapons

73 miscellaneous items

More accessible magic effects

Enjoy 52 new spells, 65 new potions and 104 scrolls notably to unlock the chests underwater, 3 marks and recalls like in Morrowind, summon a mobile container anywhere and enjoy vanilla effects with a limited availability in the vanilla Oblivion

More immersion-friendly means to make money with precise and instantaneous transactions

Right from the start you can turn your gold nuggets into jewels and buy magic skulls (enjoy 31 variations at higher levels) to enchant your equipment with magnitudeless effects.

At higher levels your can turn your pelts and silver nuggets into high quality armors and weapons, buy unenchanted staffs and enchant them at a special altar or enchant your arrows

The scripts that handle these transactions are as precise as a swiss clock and as fast as lightning.

Copy and paste Improved and alternative merchants.esp  and the meshes folder in your Oblivion\Data folder.

Tick the mod's box to activate it using Oblivion launcher or preferably a mod manager like Wrye Bash or Oblivion mod manager.

📊 Mod Details

Game
Oblivion Mods
Author
Oblivionaddicted
Version
7.23
Downloads
684
Endorsements
43
Category
Mercantiles (shops, stores, inns, taverns, etc)
Created
12/10/2018
Updated
7/24/2026

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