In Different Games, Different Items Cannot Exist. Why???

[Golgo13]

In a previous game, flawless rubies and flawless emeralds didn't exist-- at least, for purposes of crafting.  They would exist in my inventory, but, when I wanted to use one in a crafting recipe, they remained grayed-out.  That didn't interfere with my activities overly much, so, I just crafted things that didn't require them.  I guessed that it might be related to whatever bug allowed creation of "jade and emerald circlets" out of individual leather strips.

 

In a different game, it was "flawless sapphires."

 

I am pretty far into my present game-- far enough that it would be very aggravating to need to start over, again, at this point.  But, I just discovered that my crafting problem this time involves diamonds, which are used pretty often.  Worse, I like to use the "Angelic Halos and Demonic Horns" mod to put a "fallen halo" over my follower so that I can easily spot him/her in the middle of a fight.  But, none of the color variants can be created, because they all require diamonds.  (This isn't just a bug affecting that mod-- diamonds don't appear at the forge, period).

 

So, I'm finally irritated enough about the bugginess in my game to ask what I should do about it.  I posted a separate question in the Sexlab technical support area about that mod acting strangely.  Perhaps, the issues are unrelated; perhaps, they're not.

 

I'll post the load order; I'm not getting any crashes, so, there's nothing to report, there. 

 

 

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[prideslayer]

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Gems

 

Flawless diamonds don't start appearing until you're level 40 and even then the chance is low.

[Golgo13]

I didn't mean that they didn't appear in the game-- I meant that, when they were in my inventory, and were required by a smithing "recipe," that item in the recipe remained "grayed-out."

 

In different games, I've had different items work that way: in one game, it would be a flawless emerald; but, diamonds worked.  In another game, flawless emeralds worked, but ordinary diamonds didn't work.   In yet other games, no items had any problems-- although, usually, one of the gems is bugged.  I can't make any sense of it. 

[prideslayer]

Ah well.. bugged recipe.. bugged savegame.. bugged *. Skyrim is buggy as shit. That's all the insight I have into that clarification of the problem.

[Justoutthere]

As a work around you could console create the item and dump the required crafting items on the floor