Smith Armory Inventory Overhaul (SAIO)

Smith Armory Inventory Overhaul (SAIO) is an add-on for PrivateEye’s excellent Heavy Armory - New weapons mod. Smith Armory Inventory reworks the inventories of nearly all the smiths and fletchers in Skyrim to align with their locations, conversations, and backgrounds instead of the nearly generic leveled inventories of vanilla. The goal is to make finding particular kinds of gear intuitive. Silver and Dwarven gear in Markarth. Orcish gear in orc strongholds. Redguard weapons from the smith trained in Hammerfell. Etc. Similarly, the minor smiths of villages and mines carry only basic gear.

• []Nearly all smiths and fletchers in Skyrim will offer lore accurate selections of weapons, suitable for their location and background. Orcish smiths next to oricalcium mines will offer Orcish equipment. The blacksmiths operating at the entrance to a famous silver mine will make silver weapons. Imperial Legion quarter masters offer a full line of imperial arms and armors. Characters with voice lines about elvish equipment will have at least a little of such gear. Etc.

  []Smith inventories are designed to provide a useful selection of armor slots and weapon types. Daggers are split out from other one handed weapons. Polearms are split from 2 Handed weapons. Light and Heavy armor pieces are selected by slot so a mixed quality set of light or heavy armor parts should always be available.

  []Immersive access to the extended line of Silver and Redgaurd weapons provided by Heavy Armory. Weapons normally only accessible in small numbers via limited quests can now be found at Lore friendly locations.

  []Gameplay wise, it's now worth traveling to particular locations to seek certain types of gear. Want a silver war axe? Try Markarth where they have a silver mine, or the Dawnguard which hunt undead. Want redgaurd style weapons? The smith in Dawnstar trained in Hammerfell and knows how to make curved swords. Want ebony gear? Best make friends with the orcs because they control the ebony mine.

Compatibility

[]Smith Armory Inventory dramatically alters the merchant containers for blacksmiths, fletchers, and military quarter masters. Mods that make direct changes to these chests will require patches or will need to be overwritten.

[]This mod primarily uses its own new leveled lists to for determining smith inventories. These lists are mostly focused on non-magical armor and weapons. Mods that alter blacksmith inventories by making changes to the vanilla leveled lists may also be incompatible without patches, regardless of load order.

[]Where this mod uses Vanilla leveled lists, it does so without altering them. This is primarily for enchanted items, ores, ingots, merchant gold, quest locked items like Skyforged steel, and a few other minor things. Mods that alter these leveled lists are compatible.

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