Making an item craftable/improvable in Skyrim

[Frozium]

As the title says, how can I change an item so I can improve it? I've heard the best way to make small changes to weapons is via TES5Edit.

What do I need to do then?

[SlapMeSilly]

Easiest way to figure it out is to look at a vanilla sample. Any "Temper" item under Constructible Object should help. Here's one for reference TemperArmorElvenLightBoots [COBJ:00000DD2].

 

The quick and dirty:

EDID - required editor id. should be unique for CK not to complain.

COCT - (auto generated from items list)

Items - (optional technically) list of ingredients required to do tempering

Conditions - (optional) list of conditions that must be met to see/use recipe

CNAM - object to temper. use the formid of your weapon/armor.

BNAM- bench that recipe is used on. always CraftingSmithingArmorTable [KYWD:000ADB78] for tempering armor and CraftingSmithingSharpeningWheel [KYWD:00088108] for weapons.

NAM1 - number of items to give upon completion of recipe. should be 1 unless you want to get more than 1 reward for tempering.