Museum displays in Legacy of the Dragonborn - Omni-guides/Tuxborn GitHub Wiki

This page covers questions on the topic of how to display items in the Dragonborn Gallery, in Legacy of the Dragonborn. See the main Frequently Asked Questions: Legacy of the Dragonborn page for other topics pertinent to LOTD.

"How can I tell if an item is displayable in the museum?"

These three mods should make the symbols visible in these scenarios:

  • The item is in your inventory
  • You're viewing items in a chest, a dead body you're looting, or any other type of container
  • You're viewing the inventory of a shopkeeper or any other type of merchant, such as a Khajiit trader
  • The item is in the area around you, and you look at it without picking it up

As described on the Curator's Companion page linked here, there are three main types of symbols to look for. Click over to the mod page to see what the symbols look like. All of them have a dragon head symbol that represents the museum, and the variants of the symbol are:

  • Blue plus sign: this means the item is new to you and you have not displayed it yet (if it's a unique item), or any other items of that type (if it's not a unique item)
  • Yellow dot: this means the item is one you've seen before, but is still not displayed yet
  • Green checkmark: this means the item is displayed in the museum, or an item of the same type already is

One caveat for this is that the Curator's Companion mod is known to be a little flaky when tracking items that have known variants, such as the backpacks from the Anniversary Edition. See below for more info on this.

"How can I get displayable versions of all the guard armor sets for the Armory?"

We are using Sons of Skyrim in our load order, which changes up all the various hold guard armors. Gear you might get off a dead guard is not going to be displayable by default, usually. So here are the known methods you can use to get displayable versions of those armor pieces for your museum:

  • For Whiterun, Mirmulnir will drop the vanilla-style Whiterun pieces as loot when you take him out at the watchtower.
  • For Solitude, Beirand the blacksmith sells displayable versions of the Solitude armor pieces. There are also loose Solitude armor pieces lying around his forge as well as around the corner in Castle Dour, but those are marked "Steal". So if you want to nab them, take appropriate precautions before you try to pick them up.

Other possible things to check:

  • Armor pieces may show up as loot in chests
  • Visit blacksmiths or general vendors in all of the rest of the holds to see whether or not they include displayable armor pieces in their inventories

Worst case scenario, you may need to spawn copies of the missing armors in your console. We'll add more info on how to do that as we confirm it.

"I already displayed an item, but another item of that same type tells me it's still displayable, is this a bug?"

LOTD is known to be a little flaky when trying to process items for display where there are known possible variations of the item. This most commonly happens with items added to Skyrim by the Anniversary Edition, but is not limited to those.

Example AE items where this is known to reproduce include but are not limited to:

Tuxborn has no way to fix this, since it's an LOTD-side issue. Suggested way to handle this is to limit your display of such items to a known specific type of that item. For example, display only the AE backpacks that have no bedrolls. Or, limit the dual-school mage robes to only one skill level, such as Novice.

Refer to the given links for the specific AE Creations for which this is known to be a problem. A full list of all AE Creations is available on the UESP, and you can use that for reference, in case you run into any AE items not mentioned specifically here.

Base game items where this is known to also be a problem include:

  • Mythic Dawn Robes (there are two versions, with and without a hood)

Please report to Annathepiper any other items that show this behavior, whether or not they are part of the wiki, and she'll update this page to add them.

"Are Fate Cards useful for something? They aren't displayable?"

Individual Fate Cards aren't useful for anything, but full decks of them are. Each full deck of Fate Cards gives a buff to the player, as documented on the LOTD wiki. Players who like to do crafting may want the Deck of Builders in particular, as this is one of the few ways in Tuxborn's load order to buff your Smithing, Alchemy, and Enchanting. Thieves may well want the Deck of Shadows. And loot goblins, the Deck of Travelers.

The various decks of Fate Cards are also all displayable. So even if you don't care about the buff available off any given deck, you can still display it in your museum.

Individual cards drop all over the game as loot. There are also some loose ones lying around in the Safehouse.

And if you are missing any specific cards, you can go visit Varicio the Collector, who hangs out in the New Gnisis Cornerclub in Windhelm. He'll trade cards with you. So you can use him as a means to try to get any specific cards you want.

"How can I get the Imperial Dragon and Storm-Bear armor sets for display without running Battle of the Champions?"

Our load order blocks players from running Battle of the Champions without committing to a side in the civil war. However, if you don't want to run the civil war, the armor pieces in question have also been distributed out to officers on both sides, both named and generic. So it should still be possible for you to acquire the pieces.

Captain Aldis in Castle Dour wears the Imperial Dragon armor, and he is not set Essential. Since dragons are very likely to strafe Solitude during an LOTD run, any dragon that attacks within range of Castle Dour should cause Aldis and other Imperials to join the fight. And a suitably high-level dragon may in fact kill Aldis. Aldis is therefore your likely best bet as a source for the Imperial pieces.

One other likely bet is to run the plot When The Cat's Away, in the AE content. This is the plot to get the Silver Armor at Lund's Hut, and it will end by you being attacked by an Imperial captain and two East Empire Company guards as soon as you come out of the hut. The captain will probably have Imperial Dragon armor on, although he may not have all of the required pieces.

The Stormcloak pieces would take a bit more luck and work. You may find officers spawning, alive or dead, as part of the following world encounters:

  • Imperials vs. Stormcloaks
  • Imperial patrol (with or without prisoner)
  • Stormcloak patrol
  • Thalmor vs. Stormcloaks
  • Scavenger looting dead Imperial and Stormcloak soldiers
  • Bandits wearing stolen Imperial armor who hit you up for gold, and then attack you

It's also possible that Valmir may spawn with one set or the other of the pieces, if you run Forelhost in the Rift.

Last but not least, players inclined to thievery may be able to outright steal the pieces from named officers, with Security maxed out to 100 and the Perfect Touch perk unlocked. There should be at least one named officer in all cities in Skyrim, as well as the various military camps. With the exception of Aldis, almost all of these officers will be set Essential. So you won't be able to get their armor unless you steal it off of them.

"Is there a list of craftable items that are displayable?"

Not really, because a full list would be too large to compile properly. But here are some guidelines:

  • Any vanilla armor and weapons that you can make at a forge should be displayable in the Armory, which has displays arranged by gear type, such as Steel, Glass, Ebony, etc.
  • Armor sets available via the Alternative Armors Creations in the Anniversary Edition should be craftable to get non-enchanted versions, and in several cases, crafting them will be the only way you can get displayable versions since a bunch of the quests for those armors will give you enchanted versions and you can't display those (example: Spell Knight Armor)

A fast way to figure out what craftable gear is displayable is to scroll through the menu at a forge. Check all the categories you're able to make things in, and you should see which items are displayable via the symbols provided by the LOTD Curator's Companion mod. (See above for further details on that.)