1) First, make sure your inventory is as clear as possible

2) If you have a hard time facing forsworn, stock up on health potions

3) Head to Kolskeggr mine, located east of Markarth City

4) After reaching the mine, kill any forsworn at the entrance of the mine. Continue into the entrance, and grab a pickaxe from the cart if you are lacking one. There should be several forsworn in the cave, clear them out, and DO NOT jump down the hole in the final room

5) Once the mine is clear, mine all the gold off the walls and floor. If done properly, your mining should yield around 50 gold ore, enough for 25 ingots. There is a smelter located just outside the mine.

6) Next, hire a follower. Jenassa is helpful if you'd like to take advantage of this exploit in other ways because she will pick up stolen items

7) Travel to Honningbrew Meadery. Tell your follower to wait just outside the door. Drop your ingots one by one until they're all on the ground

8) Next, ask your follower to picked up all the dropped ingots. Cancel out of the follower command once they are all picked up. Quickly enter the Honningbrew Meadery. Once inside, turn right around and go back outside

9) When you walk out, all your ingots should be on the ground. DO NOT pick them up. Talk to your follower, and take all the gold ingots that she picked up from her inventory. Drop these ingots one by one into the other ingots. Repeat step 8.

10) Keep repeating steps 8 and 9 until there are over 100 ingots on the ground at the end of step 8.

11) from now on, there is no need to drop what is in your follower's on the ground. Simply have your follower pick up the ingots over and over again, repeating step 8. There is NO need to waste your time dropping more ingots.

12) Once you have around 1000 ingots, you will be all set. If you have less than 1000, you may be safe, but 1000 is recommended.

13) Next, give your 1000 ingots to your follower to eliminate any carry weight problems.

14) fast travel to whiterun and walk to Adrianne's forge

15) take your ingots back from your follower, and make 1000 gold necklaces with your 1000 gold ingots. Your smithing will increase steadily.

16) If you don't think you have enough ingots to get to 100, make sure to leave 100 ingots in your inventory to make duplicating easier

17) You can clone grand soul gems the same way as you cloned your ingots. If you have 1000 grand souls gems for your 1000 necklaces, you can increase your enchanting almost simultaneously. Enchanting your necklaces will also increase the worth of each necklace. If all are enchanted, you won't need to worry about money for a long time

18) All done


I have never seen this particular method used on the internet before. Because I don't know of this is my discovery, I take no credit for this method. If you are uncomfortable with the use of exploits, don't do it. This method still takes plenty if work and time regardless of the fact that it uses an exploit.

Yours Truly,

Confucius

Any idea why this works at the Honningbrew Meadery and not elsewhere? Just interested.

Cool, is it necessary to drop them one at a time?

How to get your smithing to 100 in a few seconds: type "player.advskill smithing 1000000" into the console.

I do the duplicaion glitch in Whiterun by the main gate.
It works in loads of places.

Ah, figured that might be the case.

If you drop 2+ in 1 drop then when the follower picks it up it will have just 1 in their inventory.

It's also the quickest way to make money.

Do the resto-loop glitch to create potions in the 1k+ septims area.

Honningbrew Meadery was just a easily discoverable and well known area. There are many places where the exploit works.

it works everywhere where you leave a cell for a new one, be it a door to a house or a cave entrance.

That's untrue. There are many places where your items will not be cloned. Some cloned items will appear after a couple days, and some won't appear at all.

I have an Xbox. Many of the people in this forum have Xbox's. Xbox's don't have console commands.

The clone glitch doesn't work every time. It has however worked in any area I've tired, where a cell is left for another.

Breezehome has delayed appearance for cloned items. The drunken huntsman may be the same way, or may not work at all.

If you're cheating anyway, just use the restoration loop to create a Fortify 9317468% Smithing potion, drink it, and improve a weapon. 15 to 100 with one ingot.

What this gentleman states.

If you're gonna cheat, take the easy way.

Are you positive this still works? I tried it myself and it didn't work. After I tried it, I looked to see if it was working for other people, and the vast majority said no.

When I last tried the resto-loop, it worked. The latest 1.9 patch. I used abacean longfin and salt piles.

Oh well. My current character has no perks invested in anything besides sneak, light armor, smithing and archery. My guide is meant to be an alternative to alchemy power leveling.

Fair enough, but doing the resto-loop isn't really powerleveling as such. With just a few potions, you can get insane XP from making one more potion. You'd need around six or seven perks in alchemy, though, and preferably have enchants that boosts alchemy to make things easier.

If you're on PC, enter this CC:

player.setav smithing 100

No, it's better to use advskill if you want to gain levels and perks "the real way". Setting smithing to 100 with setav yields no level-ups and no perk points and it requires further use of the console to add the relevant perks.

The OP only asked how he can get his smithing skill to 100 under 3 hours. He never specified if he wanted perks and whatnot.

@OP Like CrazyGuy158 wrote, you also need to give yourself the perks as well, which is not too difficult.

The OP was proposing a way to get smithing to 100, not asking

That's not an option for the OP :

As for alternatives...

On PC, I prefer to add perk points to the 'pool', rather than muck around with specific perk ID numbers, so I'd probably try :

stand next to a forge and use the console commands :

player.additem 5ad9e 1000

player.additem 6851f 1000

then crank out gold diamond necklaces. Boosts Smithing, grants the usual level advancements and perk points, plus creates a load of jewelry that can later be enchanted, sold, given away, dropped or stored.