Do mines regerate their minerals? : V

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:39 am

Found a killer stash of gold in one mine, and wanted to go back if I could. Has anyone tested it after two weeks ingame or something?

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:41 am

Try digging up some gold in real life, and go back a week later to see if it grew back.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:38 pm

I've heard, but not verified that it's 48 days.

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:19 am

Try digging up some gold in real life, and go back a week later to see if it grew back.

This is a game. It's a valid question. For a game.

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:48 am

It's a month for the majority of them I think. If you've waited long enough for them to actually respawn, and they look respawned but you cant use them (and you can pass right through them), leaving the cell then coming back usually fixes it.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:50 pm

Try digging up some gold in real life, and go back a week later to see if it grew back.

Oh, so if I find some items in a chest in a unexplored cave in real life and take them, if I go back a couple weeks later it will be restocked with items?

Never knew that.

This forum seems to riddled with smart asses these days.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:13 pm

You can mine ore and silver and use the Transmute spell on the ore and turn it into gold too. I just came out of the mine with the bandits and mammoth tusks near Whiterun and the minerals did spawn again in the mine.

:tes:

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:25 am

I think it's a month in game time.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:41 pm

Oh, so if I find some items in a chest in unexplored cave in real life and take them, if I go back a couple weeks later it will be restocked with items?

Never knew that.

This forum seems to riddled with smart asses these days.

+1 for this fine post which made me laugh out loud.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:20 pm

I go back to the ebony mine by the orc camp and every so often i notice nods grow back. i was under the influence that it was a month of in game time before nods grow back, be that true or not i know the ebony mine at the orc camp has refreshed it's nods.

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:17 am

Oh, so if I find some items in a chest in unexplored cave in real life and take them, if I go back a couple weeks later it will be restocked with items?

Never knew that.

This forum seems to riddled with smart asses these days.

+1 for this fine post which made me laugh out loud. But seriously I have once checked a mine which I had already visited at the beginning (the one near Riverwood) when I completed the mainquest line but I couldn't find any iron ore there...

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:27 am

10 days
unless it is "cleared"
Then it is 30 days

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:31 pm

This is a game. It's a valid question. For a game.

So why is everyone complaining about backwards-flying dragons?

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:48 pm

So why is everyone complaining about backwards-flying dragons?

because we like our fantasy to have substance and consistency. its like saying well they game has an elven race but no flying bottle cap race.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:04 pm

because we like our fantasy to have substance and consistency. its like saying well they game has an elven race but no flying bottle cap race.

ROFL that is awesome. I want to be a flying bottle cap in the next TES. What's they're twitter handle?

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:41 pm

I did go back to the mine with all that gold a few weeks later in-game, and yes, it did replenish

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:02 am

because we like our fantasy to have substance and consistency. its like saying well they game has an elven race but no flying bottle cap race.

how would one mate.. with a flying bottle cap race?
this is totally not the point, I know

but still..

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:01 am

how would one mate.. with a flying bottle cap race?
this is totally not the point, I know

but still..

one arrow in the knee for you, for the brilliant question...

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:03 am

one arrow in the knee for you, for the brilliant question...

I'll take a thousand arrows in the knee to see the flying bottle cap race become a reality

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:52 pm

I believe it's a month but they do eventually respawn which is good I could use more Ebony Ore.

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:37 am

So why is everyone complaining about backwards-flying dragons?

1st of all If we could mine and dig in actual mountain to get resources like Iron and ect that way then no one would be asking if mine veins re spawn.
But we cant mine and dig stuff up in this world can we? So its a legitimate question whether or not the veins re spawn.

2nd You and I both know backwards flying dragons are a bug. Quit trying to make that an excuse because you made yourself look like an ass.

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:43 am

Try digging up some gold in real life, and go back a week later to see if it grew back.

Try reading your reply with the correct context, and see if it makes any more sense

If it somehow does, could you explain to me how ebony, which is a wood, can be mined?

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:21 pm

I'll take a thousand arrows in the knee to see the flying bottle cap race become a reality

Not I. I'd hate to be a guard.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:49 pm

So why is everyone complaining about backwards-flying dragons?

You're argument fails based on the fact that backwards flying dragons was a glitch whereas respawning nodes was intentional. Duh.

» Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:46 am

Honestly, if not, then at some point in the game smithing ceases completely. I think it's fair to respawn ore in leu of scripting import/export of mining goods to and from other continents in-game or making the mines dig-able.
Makes sense to me in that context. After all, this game is designed to be playable indefinitely.