How to earn money as a beginner ?

[u/Duke_of_Moon]

I'm playing Skyrim for the 1st time. Watched some YT vids about how to earn gold.

I tried Alchemy but my potions were only worth 50 at Max. I don't want to search for specific ingredients at various places cuz that would be boring(ingredients I've gathered until now were used up in making potions)

I got the transmute spell from the bandits and made 10+ gold necklaces. But they sold for only 400(40 each) even tho It said 120 value 😭

And that also took a lot of time as I had to mine iron from camp, embershard mine and then turn it into.... Well u guys know.

I really want a house and a horse.(My own not stolen) Whiterun stable doesn't have a option for horse map( is that not available in Special Edition?)

Is there any interesting/fun way to earn money ? (Jarl only gave me 100 for a quest, so ig quests don't pay much)

Should I sell the dragon bones and scales for money?

Edit - Damn this sub is fast, 4 comments in 4 minutes

[u/bis_levu]

Look up the restoration loop with enchanted gear. One potion can clean out a vendor's pockets easy. Plus you get dumb amounts of speech skill. Ive gone legendary on my speech, alchemy and enchanting skill tree like 17 times in my most recent playthrough 😅

[u/lobo1217 → u/bis_levu]

You don't need the restoration loop for that

[u/bis_levu → u/lobo1217]

Its certainly easier with resto loop though, make 30 potions, do a lap of the vendors and youre rich

[u/lobo1217 → u/bis_levu]

It's really not

[u/bis_levu → u/lobo1217]

If you say so

[u/lobo1217 → u/bis_levu]

I'm not saying so, I know so. Most shops don't carry more than 1000 gold. So for the purpose of making gold the restoration loop will add significant more time for no extra gold. The most gold a shop can hold is 5k gold which is the riverwood trader if invested. This creating potions that cost any more than that is for the purpose of making gold, completely pointless.