In the Cell view window select the cell where you are going to place the container.

The next step is to place the container in the world. To save your work seelct File -> Save and then type the name of your plugin (for example MyMerchant.esp). It is good to save your progress from time to time just in case the CK crashes. Merchants' buy/sell functionality breaks if they have more gold available.

Although the CK allows it, don't add more than 30,000 gold pieces.

This is generally not good practice however, as you can easily make massive amounts of gold available to players early in the game.

If you want the merchant to have a specific amount of gold, you can add the item Gold001 to the Container's Item list (it is under the Items -> MiscItem menu) and set the Count to whatever amount you want.

You should also add the PerkMasterTraderGold leveled item so that players with the master trader perk have access to their bonus bartering gold.

leveled item, for example VendorGoldMisc.

To give the merchant bartering gold add a VendorGold.

It's a good idea to use leveled lists rather than specific items, to give some variation to what the player is offered on each visit. In the Count box you can set the quantity of that item that the merchant is going to have.

Add any items you want your merchant to sell by selecting those items in the Object window and dragging and dropping them into the Container's Item list.

Delete the items you don't want that your merchant has by selecting one or several of the items and pressing the delete key.

The Item list section has all the items the container has (and the merchant can sell):.

Now look for the container you've just created, and double click on it to open the container details window again.

Press the OK button, the CK will ask you if you want to create a new form: answer Yes.

Change the container ID (the field at the top left of the window) and type a new ID for your container.Double click on the selected container and a window will pop-up like the one shown in picture Adding a new container.For this tutorial I've chosen the MerchantMarkarthArnleifandSonsChest. In the Object window expand the menu WorldObjects -> Container and look for one of the containers used by vanilla merchants (their names usually begin by Merchant).When the first one appears click on the Cancel button and you won't see more of these warnings.

Note: the CK has a bad habit of showing lots of warning messages. Press the OK button and wait until the CK has finished uploading everything.Check the flag at the left side of Skyrim.esm and Update.esm.The easiest way for adding new content for Skyrim with the Creation Kit is to copy an existing object and that is what we are going to do in this tutorial.įirst we are going to add a new container that will have all the objects our merchant is going to sell.

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