So lets say you want to create the Arch Mage Robes with the Elven amor rating? You will first need the vanilla 'Elven Armor', once you have it, bring it to the forge along with a couple of Linen Wraps - and you will see and be able to craft 'Archmage Robes (Elven)'. The nice thing about this, is you do not need to be able to forge the underlying armor. (inspiration for this idea came from More Triss Armor Recolours UNP and Vanilla (standalone) by Rusey- please go check that mod out!).

Rather than crafting these robes from scratch, you simply need the equivalent vanilla armor and some Linen Wraps for adding the 'cloth'. In order to avoid unnecessary clutter in the Forge crafting menu, the armored items will only appear as options at the forge once you have the pre-requisite item in your inventory. All items you craft can be enchanted (none are enchanted by default), and all armor pieces can be tempered.Īll the items can be crafted from scratch as clothing using the Tanning Rack. To keep this as 'lore friendly/balanced' as possible, the armored robes you create will have slightly less armor rating than the equivalent vanilla armor, it will however be lighter. Dragonscale, Elven, Elven Gilded, Glass and Leather options are all available. Armor or Robes? No longer will you have to make that choice. This mod allows you to craft all the standard robes of the vanilla game as clothing or as Light Armor.

Skyrim armored robes mod