Hi all,

I'm a little stuck on properly adding 3 items that I made to a merchant.

I created a faction and established the faction to be a vendor, and then created a chest, and placed the chest within the same room as that vendor (the riverwood trader).

I then associated the riverwood trader to that faction, and set the chest ownership to that faction, but nothing is happening. waited 42 hours, etc.

Can anyone just walk me through the right way to add an item to the Riverwood trader?

I'm told just adding it to the existing chest is a bad idea because if the player has two mods that both affect that chest, only one will go through correctly.

Very desperate!

Thanks!

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1473453-issues-with-vendors-an-keywords/?p=23010056 an explanation of how to do it. If you've not used quest aliases before, and need help, you can ask for more details (though I'm sure the answer to this same question is probably described in some other forum threads here too)

Thanks so much - I can't believe how complicated this is. I'm literally about to give up and just dump the item somewhere in the world and make the players just take it for free. i'll get crucified by half the fans for this, i'm sure.

I'm intrigued by your suggestion:

A) Set up a referenceAlias for the vendor chest, and then add the item to the reference alias. This will add it to the chest without actually editing the chest itself, and thus will avoid conflicts with other mods.

So to do this, I need to create a new quest and in the quest alias tab just reference the chest? What else would I need to do regarding this?

Yes, it would basically be something like: create a new quest, name it and click okay (leave all the default options). now double click to open your new quest again. Click alias tab, create a new alias. Point the alias to "specific reference" and then find the chest you want to add the item too. Now there is an "inventory" or "items" list somewhere near the bottom of the alias window, just add your items to that list. They will then be added to the chest's inventory.

I'm not sure if they will respawn after the player buys them though, maybe someone else whose spent more time using this method can answer to that.

Egocarib, thank you so much for teaching me this. It worked perfectly, and allowed me to achieve what I wanted all along.
Will sleep very well this night, thanks so much

I'd like to thank you too, Ego. I should have figured this out on my own. It also illustrates that quests can be used for very simple changes in the game, not just for making complete quests.

I understand about the sleep issue, Tek_&. I'm tired of dreaming about mod issues every night!