Lazy_Voyager wrote: »Some notes on this topic:
Books looted from Treasure Map Chests, Endless Archive, Bastion Nymic and Scrivener's Hall Vault Chests will only populate in their respective loot tables if you have read the book either as a standalone object (ala lore books), from bookshelves (random chance, zone-influenced) or from a player's house.
On the UESP list of literature furnishings, you can find most of the readable furnishings in the game along with their sources. Click (page) next to the item's name; if it has the 'readable' behavior, it's a readable book.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Library_Furnishings/Literature
On the item page, delete '_(furnishing)' from the end of the url in your address bar and usually you'll be taken to the lore page which will show you where to find the eidetic memory book to pick up. That being said...
UESP has been oddly, er, hesitant to update some of their tables on what books are lootable from which sources. In particular, they only show one book lootable from Scriv Hall when there's at least a dozen. You can find a ton more books attributed to scrivner's hall at ESO Fashion https://eso.mmo-fashion.com/category/database/miscellaneous/furnishings/update/scribes-of-fate/
If someone else has collected a book furnishing and has it on display in their house, you can skip the hunting-it-down eidetic memory step by just interacting with the furnishing. Note that reading shalidor's library books placed in houses will not give you Mage's Guild skill line progression.
Eidetic memory recording is character-specific; it may be worth having a dedicated treasure-mapper, scriv-haller, bastion-nymicer etc who has read all the books on a respective drop-table.
Certain books will spawn on podiums in the endless archive lobby after certain conditions are met; these books are on the muniment chest drop tables so it's worth checking on them from time to time.
There are a few books that only appear in eidetic form in endless archive; I've found a few on the floor with no effects glow whatsoever, often cluttered with similar objects. So keep your eyes peeled.
WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »IIRC I got an Apocryphal Inkwell in a Plunder Skull.
moonsister wrote: »I wasn´t aware there were so many items that can be found or farmed. Thanks for your work!
Thee_Cheshire_Cat wrote: »Great job!! Appreciate the large amount of time it took to put this together and to post!
ElderOfTamriel wrote: »Thee_Cheshire_Cat wrote: »Great job!! Appreciate the large amount of time it took to put this together and to post!
thanks unfortunally i cant add any more items since i cannot save the post anymore then... Why do the mods here dont react if you tag them? o.Ô I mean i can see that they get probably tagged a lot but still. A statement would be cool @ZOS_Hadeostry
ElderOfTamriel wrote: »Thee_Cheshire_Cat wrote: »Great job!! Appreciate the large amount of time it took to put this together and to post!
thanks unfortunally i cant add any more items since i cannot save the post anymore then... Why do the mods here dont react if you tag them? o.Ô I mean i can see that they get probably tagged a lot but still. A statement would be cool @ZOS_Hadeostry
I've been tagging mods for over a year in regards to broken achievements. Nothing but radio silence, even after they responded initially and said that they would provide updates. I bet if I posted a bug report about the Crown Store, that I would see an immediate response.
It's a shame that the books from Scrivener's Hall Vault Chests are bind-on-pickup. They're ridiculously rare and people who actually manage to get them that aren't interested in the furnishings just vendor them. Why should the books be bound but other drops from the same source are not???
ElderOfTamriel wrote: »It's a shame that the books from Scrivener's Hall Vault Chests are bind-on-pickup. They're ridiculously rare and people who actually manage to get them that aren't interested in the furnishings just vendor them. Why should the books be bound but other drops from the same source are not???
Yeah, ik... Me as a collector, i really cant understand why its like that. Doesnt makes sense at all. Also the books which got added to the different zones are bound on pickup iirc. Gotta add them still when i got time. Atleast they (can/will?) not been sold at the merchant yet. Not sure about bastion nymic book drops too.
ElderOfTamriel wrote: »It's a shame that the books from Scrivener's Hall Vault Chests are bind-on-pickup. They're ridiculously rare and people who actually manage to get them that aren't interested in the furnishings just vendor them. Why should the books be bound but other drops from the same source are not???
Yeah, ik... Me as a collector, i really cant understand why its like that. Doesnt makes sense at all. Also the books which got added to the different zones are bound on pickup iirc. Gotta add them still when i got time. Atleast they (can/will?) not been sold at the merchant yet. Not sure about bastion nymic book drops too.
I want all of the books, but my patience has run out with the absolutely horrendous implementation of all of the recent book furnishings. This game has so much to offer and I don't want to spend hundreds of hours grinding just for book furnishings. I've completed Bastian Nymic over 100 times and have only pulled a handful of book furnishings which includes duplicates, so I still haven't even completed that set yet.
Are those book furnishings from treasure chests confirmed?I just opened 53 chests in Gold Coast without finding a single book.
I’ve also just opened 50 chests in Hew’s Bane and not a single book.
Hi @ZOS_Kevin - is it confirmed that these new book furnishings are dropping as planned?
ElderOfTamriel wrote: »So i collected every single items in the list on top beside the EA/scriveners book and some plants. If anyone on PC-EU happen to have any of these and considers to sell, i would love to buy them
- Plant, Golden Lichen
- Plant, Hefty Elkhorn
- Mushrooms, Buttercake
- Mushrooms, Buttercake Stack
- Mushroom, Polyp Stinkhorn
Thanks in advance
What’s extra annoying about the Scrivener’s Hall books is that some of them look distinctly different from most book furnishings. For example, the Journal of Emperor Leovic is actually an open book.
I ran that dungeon 50+ times. I got the vault door, one rock and not a single book. It’s ridiculous.
Elder - I went through your list and found a few edits you can make based on what I have on my own tracker. It was a little difficult to compare the two since mine is organized alphabetically as they appear in my guild bank storage.
Translation edits:
Unterzeichneter Vertrag -> Signed Contract
Jel-Pergament -> Jel Parchment
Item Quality edits:
Murkmire Brazier, Ceremonial -> Murkmire Brazier, Ceremonial
Pearl, Enormous -> Pearl, Enormous
Pearl, Large -> Pearl, Large
Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid -> Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid
Sourcing Edits:
Fields of Plenty Painting, Wood - Drops treasure chests in Northern Elsweyr
Eternal Moment Painting, Wood - Drops treasure chests in Northern Elsweyr
Life in Repose Painting, Wood - Drops treasure chests in Northern Elsweyr
Poisoned Blood - from the option 1 ("Have any poisons or potions today?") from the Dark Brotherhood supplies vendor
Candles of Silence- from the option 2 ("Have anything that can help make me less noticeable?") from the Dark Brotherhood supplies vendor
Light and Shadow- from the option 2 ("Have anything that can help make me less noticeable?") from the Dark Brotherhood supplies vendor
Sacrificial Heart - from the option 3 ("Have any equipment today?") from the Dark Brotherhood supplies vendor
Lootable items on my list that I didn't see on yours:
Alinor Table Runner, Cloth of Silver - can be rarely pickpocketed from Clothiers in Summerset
Alinor Table Runner, Coiled - can be rarely pickpocketed from Clothiers in Summerset
Alinor Table Runner, Verdant - can be rarely pickpocketed from Clothiers in Summerset
Flowers, Hummingbird Mint - from harvesting clothing and alchemy resource nodes on Summerset
Gravestone, Ornamented - from Plunder Skulls during Witches' Festival
Ivory, Polished - from animals with tusks in all zones (Mammoths, Sabre Cats, Horkers, etc)
Plants, Springwheeze - from harvesting clothing and alchemy resource nodes on Summerset
Serpentguard Rider Tribute Tapestry - from Tales of Tribute reward coffers
Serpentguard Rider Tribute Tapestry, Large - from Tales of Tribute reward coffers
Statue, Saint Kaladas - from reward boxes during the Bounties of Blackwood event
I know your list excludes a number of items that can also be crafted, but do have lootable sources. Not sure if you would want to include those in a separate sections just for informational sake.
Also, a very important thing to keep in mind for any other rare furnishing collectors out there is that a number of the rare plant drops can also be obtained in an unbound state from purchasing some unfurnished homes with gold. I am always cross-referencing my lootable list while shopping guild traders with my list of items from unfurnished homes, just to make sure there aren't multiple sources. Example: there is a big difference between the rarity of Plants, Lava Pitcher Shoots and Plants, Lava Pitcher Cluster, since the Cluster variant can be also obtained by purchasing with gold the Amaya Lake Lodge unfurnished besides being farmed from VVardenfell harvest nodes.
Hope this helps.