Skyrim:Silver

Silver Ingot

Silver Ore

Silver Ore Vein

Silver is a valuable metal that can be used to forge silver jewelry, and an armor set with the addition of the Alternative Armors - Silver Creation. It is also notable as the primary source of Markarth's wealth, due to the infamous Cidhna Mine, owned by the influential Silver-Blood clan. As a result, a popular saying is:

Blood and silver are what flows through Markarth....

Large amounts of silver can be found in Markarth, both in the mine and in various homes and businesses in the city itself.

Five silver weapons are available in the game: Silver Swords, Silver Greatswords, Silver Bolt^CC, Silver Crossbow^CC, and Enhanced Silver Crossbow^CC. They do 20 points of extra damage to undead, including werewolves and vampires. You cannot forge these silver weapons; the only way to obtain them is by looting from Silver Hand members and lairs.

Overview

	Name	ID
	Silver Ore	0005acdf	1	25
	Silver Ingot	0005ace3	1	50

• 3 Silver Ores are obtained by mining Silver Ore Veins. Can be purchased at level >=3.
• 1 Silver Ingot is obtained by smelting 2 Silver Ores.

Mineral Sources

In addition to the following guaranteed sources, the best random locations are:

• Silver Ore may be sold by blacksmiths and general goods merchants starting at level 3.
• Silver Ingots may be sold by Moth gro-Bagol at all levels.

Silver Ore can also be created by transmuting Iron Ore (and can in turn be transmuted into Gold Ore).

There are a total of 95 veins, 30 ores, and 119 ingots available in the game. Only notable locations are included in the following list, including places where large amount of the mineral may be found and places that are particularly easy to access. The Silver Veins category contains a more complete list of places containing single veins. All exterior ore veins are shown on (map). Note, however, that only 50 veins are shown on the map at one time; to see the rest of the veins, click on "Next" at the bottom of the list of results.

This page or section is incomplete. You can help by adding to it. There are silver ingots in the quest Compelling Tribute (Imperial); they should be added to the table below For more information, see the help files, the style guide, and this article's talk page.

Region	Location	Veins	Ores	Ingots	Details (see place pages for full information)
The Reach	Sanuarach Mine	7	4	2	Nearby Fenn's Gulch Mine also has one vein; multiple ores and ingots are also found in adjacent Karthwasten.
Markarth	Cidhna Mine	6		4	To access the silver veins you must be on the quest No One Escapes Cidhna Mine; just being a regular prisoner in the jail gives no access to ore.
Whiterun Hold	Lund's Hut			12	As part of the Stormcloak quest Compelling Tribute, you ambush a wagon along the road 740 ft north of Lund's Hut (map). This wagon is carrying a chest containing 12 Silver Ingots.
The Pale	Forsaken Cave			10
Whiterun	Dragonsreach			9
Solitude	Solitude Blacksmith			8	6 ingots inside and 2 outside.
Markarth	The Treasury House		1	6
Markarth	Endon's House		6	4
The Reach	Enmon's House		3	5
Winterhold	Alftand		5	4
Whiterun	Jorrvaskr			6
Falkreath Hold	Sunderstone Gorge	4
Markarth	Smelter Overseer's House		3	4
Markarth	Nepos's House			5
The Reach	Karthwasten Hall			5
The Rift	Fallowstone Cave	3
Whiterun	House of Clan Battle-Born			4
Whiterun Hold	Honningbrew Meadery			3
Whiterun Hold	Silent Moons Camp	2			(map)
The Pale	Wreck Of The Brinehammer		2	2
Markarth	Markarth Ruins			2
Markarth	Ghorza's Blacksmith			2
Riften	Blacksmith			2
Solitude	Solitude Stables			2

Silver Smithing

Silver jewelry can be forged from the start of the game, without the need to unlock any Smithing perks, while Silver Armor requires the Advanced Armors perk.

Silver Armor^CC

Silver Armor is a set of heavy armor added by the Alternative Armors - Silver creation. A full set can be recovered through the quest When the Cat's Away^CC, while also appearing in random loot starting at level 10. Forging Silver Armor requires the Advanced Armors perk.

Its armor rating surpasses Orcish armor but weighs more, also no shield exists. But more importantly, the set lacks a material keyword, and therefore does not benefit from the Matching Set perk.

A male Nord wearing silver armor

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials			Delta		Ratio
					Silver	Iron	Strips
	Silver Armor (FExxx801)	40	400	42	4	1	3	34.7	184	7.55	1.85
	Silver Boots (FExxx800)	8	85	15	3	1	2	3.8	-78	1.90	0.52
	Silver Gauntlets (FExxx802)	7	85	15	2	1	2	3.8	-28	2.19	0.75
	Silver Helmet (FExxx803)	7	200	20	2	1	2	3.8	87	2.19	1.77
Totals:		62	770	92	11	4	9

• 

  A female Imperial wearing silver armor

Weapons

Silver Bolts are only available with the Rare Curios creation installed. Silver Crossbows are only available with the Expanded Crossbow Pack creation installed.

	Name (ID)				Crit.	Speed	Reach	Raw Materials		Delta		Ratio
								Silver	Other
	Silver BoltCC (FExxx83F)	0	2	10	N/A			1	1 Firewood Makes 10 bolts	(?)	(?)	(?)	(?)
	Silver CrossbowCC (FExxx80E)	14	600	21	9	1	1	3	3 Firewood	(?)	(?)	(?)	(?)
	Enhanced Silver CrossbowCC (FExxx81A)	14	700	21	9	1	1	1	1 Silver Crossbow	(?)	(?)	(?)	(?)

¥The Enhanced Crossbow has an additional property: Attacks with this crossbow ignore 50% of armor.

†This item can only be crafted by siding with the Dawnguard.

Jewelry

The gemstones not listed here can instead be used to create Gold jewelry. Note that although your in-game inventory shows the weight of a ring as 0.3, the true weight is 0.25. Therefore the two Silver Rings crafted out of one Silver Ingot have the exact same weight and value as the Silver Necklace that could instead be crafted.

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials		Delta		Ratio
					Silver	Gem
	Silver Ring (×2) (0003b97c)	0.25	30	0	1		-0.5	10	0.50	1.20
	Silver Garnet Ring (000877ab)	0.25	160	0	1	Garnet	-0.85	10	0.23	1.07
	Silver Amethyst Ring (000877a7)	0.25	180	0	1	Amethyst	-0.85	10	0.23	1.06
	Silver Ruby Ring (000877b1)	0.25	260	0	1	Ruby	-0.85	10	0.23	1.04
	Silver Necklace (0009171b)	0.5	60	0	1		-0.5	10	0.50	1.20
	Silver Jeweled Necklace (00087834)	0.5	380	0	1	Flawless Garnet ×2	-0.7	30	0.42	1.09
	Silver Sapphire Necklace (00087832)	0.5	580	0	1	Flawless Sapphire	-0.6	30	0.45	1.05
	Silver Emerald Necklace (00087833)	0.5	830	0	1	Flawless Emerald	-0.6	30	0.45	1.04

Notes

• 1 Silver Ingot is needed for the quest The Only Cure.
• Ore veins of all types sometimes do not respawn normally. See Mining bugs.
• Although two flawless garnets are needed to craft a Silver Jeweled Necklace, three gems are seen on the pendant. Additionally, the one in the center appears like a ruby while the two the border it have the correct garnet coloring.

Bugs

• Silver weapons cannot be improved at grindstones.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 1.0, fixes this bug.