Fortify Restoration Cheat Step-by-Step Instructions

The fortify restoration fortify alchemy fortify enchanting loop is a potentially game busting exploit in Skyrim based on a fortify restoration potion glitch that improves the active effects of the apparel or armor that the main character is wearing, something especially useful for clothing and armor with the fortify alchemy bonus.  This fortify restoration fortify alchemy loop can then be repeated for cumulative effect.  With very high fortify alchemy one can create very powerful potions and sell them for large sums of gold or use them for super-enhanced effects notably to increase fortify enchanting and create game killing enchanted weapons and armor.

Procedure
How it works (creating a save before experimenting with the cheat highly recommended):

1. Find and collect ingredients with a fortify restoration effect.

Fortify restoration potion recipe ingredients

• Abecean Longfin
• Cyrodilic Spadetail
• Salt Pile
• Small Antlers
• Small Pearl
• Yellow Mountain Flower 

The easiest fortify restoration ingredients to procure are likely the Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail and Salt Pile since they are often sold in alchemical shops. They can along be found along rivers or the docks outside Riften. Having enough ingredients to create 5 or more fortify restoration potions is recommended with more preferable.

2. Create or obtain clothes or armor with the fortify alchemy enchantment.

Fortify alchemy apparel could be gloves/bracers, ring, necklace, circlet, and falmer helmet all enchanted with fortify alchemy preferably using grand or black soul gems.

3.  Wear the clothes or armor with the effects you want to improve, in this case fortify alchemy.

4.  Create a fortify restoration potion.

5.  Drink/use the newly created fortify restoration potion.

6.  Quickly unequip all the fortify alchemy equipment then re-equip them.

7.  Repeat steps 4–6 quickly until fortify restoration ingredients run out or as desired.  Each repetition should cumulatively improve the alchemical bonus provided by the equipment worn and create progressively stronger fortify restoration potions.

Outcome
After the last fortify restoration potion's effect would normally run out, the bonus effect on the clothes will appear to revert back to normal if checking through the equip menu, but a look at the active effects menu will show that the cumulative bonus actually still remains.  The cumulative bonus will continue to be active until the apparel or armor is unequipped, so do not remove these items unless one wants to remove the bonus and start back at square one.

With vastly improved potion creation ability one can create powerful potions that can then be used to greatly enhance other skills and promote their learning such as enchanting and smithing which in turn can lead to the creation of vastly more powerful items.

Fortify enchanting potion recipe ingredients

• Blue Butterfly Wing
• Hagraven Claw
• Snowberries
• Spriggan Sap 

Fortify smithing potion recipe ingredients 

• Blisterwort
• Glowing Mushroom
• Sabre Cat Tooth
• Spriggan Sap

Money should no longer be a problem either since selling overpowered potions brings in lots of gold.  One can also create and use fortify enchantment potions to make invincible weapons and armor. Be careful though it is possible to go too high and reset the improvements, but you should be able to make unbelievably overpowered items long before reaching that threshold.

Since the improvement is geometric in progression, starting from a high alchemy skill level and high bonus apparel can lead to dramatically larger improvement than starting from lower skill or bonus levels. It should also improve alchemy skill more noticeably than before.  Starting from too low a level can be relatively costly and produce meager results so it may be best to level up first and focus on this trick after gaining regular access to better soul gems with which to create more powerful enchanted items for step 2.  An Alchemy skill level of 30 with Alchemist perk at level 2 and Physician and Benefactor perks is recommended as well before trying this exploit.

Oghma Infinium Cheat - Step-by-Step Instructions

The Skyrim Oghma Infinium glitch is an exploit that can be used to easily increase skills in Skyrim.  As such it is a potentially game busting/ruining bug.  To take advantage of the Oghma Infinium book glitch, one needs to have completed the quest Discerning the Transmundane and obtained the Oghma Infinium book, the daedric artifact related to Hermaeus Mora.  One also needs to use a container for the trick which may differ depending on the version of Skyrim one is playing.  In earlier and later versions a bookshelf may be required while version 1.2 of the game may use any containers like chests, cupboards, and dead bodies but not a bookshelf.   I can confirm that in an earlier version that the bookshelf that comes as a decoration improvement for Breezehome in Whiterun can be used for this leveling trick. The version 1.9 patch supposedly removes this Oghma Infinium bug.  It is highly recommended to save before experimenting with this exploit.

Using the Breezehome bookshelf this is how the bug works:

1. With the Oghma Infinium in your inventory activate the bookshelf
2. Using the bookshelf menu go into your inventory to look at the unread Oghma Infinium.  Options should appear.
3. Select an improvement path (Path of Might, Path of Shadows, or Path of Magic)
4. Go back to the bookshelf menu by pressing the back button once (usually Tab key on a PC)
5. Place the Oghma Infinium on the bookshelf by selecting Store (usually R key on a PC)
6. Exit the menu.  The Oghma Infinium should appear on the bookshelf.
7. Select the Oghma Infinium (not the bookshelf). The Oghma Infinium should automatically open up and present an option screen.
8. Select Do not read.
9. Select Take (usually E key on a PC). 
10.  Go back to step 1 and repeat as often as desired.  One can max out all skills at 100.

Make sure to perform the above sequence strictly and slowly if the option menu is not popping up after the first time or the Oghma Infinium is simply disappearing.  Difficulty obtaining the desired effect was noticed when going too fast.  Difficulty was also encountered when confusing/conflating activating the bookshelf with activating the Oghma Infinium, one may lead to a different result from the other. Also notice there is no intermediate step between step 8 and step 9 such as closing the book; the book is taken directly after choosing Do not read.

If reproducing this exploit is proving difficult despite following these directions on how to perform the Oghma Infinium glitch, try loading another save or exiting Whiterun and returning. One might also try placing the Oghma Infinium on the bookshelf first then start the cycle from step 7.

Esbern Bug - How to Fix

Problem: Esbern Door Glitch

During the quest A Cornered Rat to find Esbern in the Riften Warren, an annoying glitch can come up.  The problem is that Esbern is behind a door and it's possible upon encountering him for the dialogue to go by very quickly making it unreadable and following his instructions impossible. Worse the door separating you remains locked shut.   This can leave one frustrated and unsure of what to do.  This is a bug and a fix is required.

Solution: Unpack BSA Sound Files

The usual problem is that certain files have not been installed correctly. There are some fixes and workarounds that involve console commands that can get one around the immediate problem, but these can be quirky and may not address problems that can crop up later on.  More reliable are fixes that make files that were not installed correctly available. One can use a search engine to find a fix by typing in something like "Skyrim Esbern voice fix" and then following the instructions that come with it.  However, the early fixes that came out for this bug seem to use proprietary files from the game and seem to be disappearing, being taken down by those who created them. An alternative is to download the BSA unpacker at http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3117 and then use it to unpack the file "Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa" in the game's Data directory.  There should then be a new Sound directory afterward (\Data\sound\voice\skyrim.esm\maleuniqueesbern).  Upon playing, the quest should now proceed without problems.

Pantea's Flute Bug - How to Fix on a PC

If you've found Pantea's Flute before the quest is assigned, it's possible for the quest to get stuck with the game asking for you to find Pantea's Flute even though it's already stuck in your inventory.  To work around the Skyrim Pantea's Flute bug on a personal computer, one will need to use some game console commands from the game console screen.  Call up the game console screen by pressing the tilde key ( ~ ) and then type the following without the quotation marks:  "player.drop 000DABA7 1".  Make sure there is a space after the p and the 7 and that last character is a one (1) not a small L.  This should cause the Pantea's Flute in your inventory to be dropped.  Just pick it up again and the quest should proceed smoothly from there.