MisterB's Crafting Matters AE
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #3 of 16 Crafting mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Welcome to Crafting Matters
A mod that adds much more to your Skyrim crafting experience, not by altering the smithing perk tree. But by fleshing out and enriching the experience of crafting. Crafting Matters is a smithing overhaul that allows you to break down weapons, armor, & mundane items into its components. Become a tailor and make all the clothes you couldn't. You can make tools and other miscellaneous items, that might be made useful with other mods. Become a jeweler with expanding jewelry which can be found throughout Skyrim, as well as enchanted items.
Smelting Ore
Smelting ore now requires 2 ore to create 1 ingot, regardless of its type. Also, you can now make steel from iron & charcoal.
Tanning Rack & Smelter Experience!
You now gain experience from using the Tanning Rack (you gain 30% of the normal xp you might get crafting at a forge), and from the smelter at one tenth the normal rate.
Become a tailor and make clothes! You can make Linen with cotton.
Breakdown Recipes
A mod that adds much more to your Skyrim crafting experience. It's a smithing overhaul that let's you break down weapons, armor, & mundane items.
New item Recipes.
Make new items such as Silver Bows & Arrows,
Create mundane, dining, and domestic items such as tools, baskets, pots, pans, brooms, shovels, and other items.
Turning glass into bottles (smelter).
Pick Axes are good against Gargoyles.
Wood Axes can be honed as you level.
Become a Jeweler!
Jewelers will now have expanded Jewelry to make in the higher tiered metals (thanks to Lautasantenni). As well as Circlets (thanks to amrasanarion).
Enchanted Jewelry is also now added to leveled jewelry lists to find throughout the world. Thanks to garyman182.
Compatibility
Built in WACCF Support, which in turn adjusts the economy of crafting matters.
Mods Highly Recommended to Pair with Crafting Matters
[]Upgrade your Potions.
[]Condense Potions with Mystic Condenser.
[]Upgrade Leveled Items.
[]Immersive upgrade Leveled Items.
[]Crafting Locations Improved by Reconn.
[]Simple Smithing Overhaul
MisterB's Crafting Matters AE is a crafting overhaul for Skyrim Anniversary Edition that adds a Smithing overhaul with Tailoring, more jewelry recipes, and breakdown recipes for many items. It has 118 endorsements and was last updated in February 2026, making it a moderately popular choice for players seeking expanded crafting options.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid endorsement count (118) shows it's got a following.
- Feature-rich: covers smithing, tailoring, jewelry, and breakdowns in one mod.
- Recently updated (Feb 2026), so it's likely compatible with current AE patches.
⚠️ Cons
- Only 118 endorsements means it's not a top-tier crafting mod—might have rough edges.
- No explicit compatibility notes for other popular crafting overhauls like Complete Crafting Overhaul—could conflict.
- Breakdown recipes might unbalance the economy if you're not careful with settings.
For Skyrim AE players who want a one-stop crafting expansion without juggling multiple mods. If you're into role-playing as a tailor or jeweler, this adds that depth. Skip if you're happy with vanilla crafting or prefer more specialized overhauls.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Since it's an AE mod, make sure you're on Skyrim Anniversary Edition and have the latest patch.
- If you use other crafting mods, load this one after them to ensure its changes take priority.
- Check the in-game MCM or config options to tweak breakdown recipes if you find them too generous.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- MisterB1969
- Version
- 2.1
- Downloads
- 6,032
- Endorsements
- 118
- Category
- Crafting
- Created
- 4/9/2020
- Updated
- 2/24/2026
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