Better Thieves Guild Caches

Are you less than thrilled with the quality of loot available in thief caches? It's mostly the same stuff from cache to cache, taking all the fun out of the search. How many Daedric daggers of paralysis do you even need? If I loot one cache in a city, the other two are sure to be nearly the same.

This mod aims to change that by completely replacing the contents of thief caches with a better variety of loot. What you get will be more interesting and often more useful (and sometimes less, because thieves are indiscriminate).

How it works

The container records for thief caches in Skyrim and Solstheim are now filled (almost) entirely by new leveled lists that select from a wide variety of options. You'll get 3-6 picks from these lists, plus one Prowler's Profit bonus if the perk has been activated. All of the new leveled lists are built from vanilla lists, but SkyPatcher can be used to add even more to them.

The loot variety list can choose from any of the following:

• []Lockpicks

  []Misc. jewelry (chance of enchanted jewelry or a religious amulet)

  []Small amount of gold

  []Arrows

  []Some gems

  []Skooma and/or moon sugar

  []A weapon—not always enchantted, not always "best", and may include bows and crossbows

  []Armor

  []Potions (better variety and more than vanilla caches)

  []A few alchemical ingredients, with a better chance of uncommon/rare items than normal

  []Some leveled soul gems

  []Prepared food

  []Scrolls

  []Misc. thief loot (the kind found in vanilla town encounters)

  []Loot from people

  The "people loot" is slightly more likely to be found, and includes a few items from one of these classes:

  • []Mage: Enchanted robes/jewelry, magic-skill fortifying potions, alchemy ingredients, soul gems, scrolls, writing supplies (for spell research/discovery mods), and a smaller chance of a spell tome or staff.

    []Soldier: Imperial or Stormcloak gear (not CW-completion aware), pocket change, drink, food, lockpicks, and Stormcloaks might have had an amulet of Talos.

    []Farmer: Pocket change, drink, food, farm clothes.

    []Hunter: Bow, dagger, pocket change, arrows, drink, food, pelts. With SkyPatcher, fishing rods and maps have a chance to appear also.

    []Worker: Dagger, pocket change, drink, food, clothes from various professions, smithing supplies (ingots/leather/strips).

  • Other regional options including sailors, bards, merchants, and Forsworn.

    The leveled lists are designed to be very modular, allowing you ease of patching with your own additions. A sample SkyPatcher .ini file is included, mostly so that CC Fishing didn't have to be included as one of the master files. I encourage you to make your own additions