I was playing through OOO lately discovering that I have too leave a lot of chests with hard and very hard locks behind for a later pickup because my alteration skill was too low to open these locks (yes I play with the lockpick restrictions of OOO). I use Map Marker Overhaul to mark the dungeons I need to return, but searching chests and casks inside empty dungeons is going to be tedious.

So I came up with the idea of a "Detect Chest" spell that would work similar to the "Detect Life" spell just with locked chests and casks instead of living beings. You could buy the novice, apprentice, journeyman, expert and master spells from NPCs which sell spells from the mysticism school. These five different spells would differ in the range they allow to detect these containers similar to Detect Life (or additionally they could scale with the locks difficulty, so you can only see the very hard locks if you have the expert or master version of the spell). This spell could even be useful while entering a dungeon for the first time, to be sure you haven`t overlooked a chest in a dark corner.

However, this would add a very useful spell to the not so popular mysticism school. How do you find this idea and would such a mod be possible to make? It also could use the same shader that Detect Life uses.