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i used the balmora house mod. it's modest, well placed and works well. i used mannequins for different armour and weapon types. books on the bookshelf. installed a furniture mod and got a few small chests. put keys in one, misc notes in another. organised spells, potions, alchemy ingredients, filled soul gems, misc magic items, misc weapson all in seperate containers. basically my house had hundreds of items but i knew exactly where each one was and could fetch anything immediately. by using containers it didn't get cluttered or slow down the fps. set mark inside it and rarely marked another location. this had the advantage that my character could carry many times more than he was able to, recall back to the house, dump stuff on the floor and sell it in several easy trips to the retailers without having to buff strength too heavily

What if your character is mod-free or you're on console? I suggest going into a random house in Caldera, slaying the owner, and throwing your crap on the floor. Putting it on tables works too.

I'm always just vaguely amazed by the 'just kill somebody' problem solving. I play Morrowind cuz I want to be the hero that *SAVES* the world &@%!!!!

I suppose I should ask just on general principles, Are the stronghold chests safe? Since I'm using the house Telvanni stronghold now. Oh, and is there any easier way to get the overflow bags than dropping 1025 gp on the floor?

I am amazed as well. As I said earlier there is no way of knowing who you are going to need later in the game (unless you have played several times before or look it up) and killing a random person usually means that the poster comes back here crying because they cant finish a quest line. The game won't tell you that something has gone wrong (except for some NPCs in the main quest - but not all).




The chests in the strongholds are safe - certainly in the main part of the stronghold as they are faction owned and you are a member of that faction. Tel Uvirith doesn't have many chests. Just be careful with containers in the NPC houses around it as there are one or two that are owned by them.

You are obviously on pc so the bad news is that it doesn't seem that the loot bag spawns on it, only on XBox. Whichever you are playing on you need to drop individual items to get it, anything that stacks will count as one.

There are no resetting containers in Morrowind. If you put an item in a container it will be still there when you come take it out.

However, there are many containers that are owned by NPCs, and if you put items in them, when you remover those items they will change their ownership to that of the containers owner thus they will be considered stolen items. Get arrested and they will be confiscated.
Sometimes if the house owner is killed the containers become safe to use but it is by no means the norm. It is best to ask about a specific house/containers you wish to use and the answer can be given as to their safety.

Galbedir's desk is not owned so you can add/remove items from it without problems, BUT the soul gems on it are owned by her. This gives some problems. You can never go to her for enchanting with that type of soul gem in your inventory (no matter where you got it from) as she will know, attack you and the rest of the guild will join in. If you get arrested again you will loose all of that type of soul gems you have in your inventory.

You can own houses, you can get a stronghold from a House quest, and you can get three places on Solstheim whilst doing quests there.

Resurrecting this yet again to mention that both the Starting Out and Death of a Taxman pages on the UESP wiki mention that the containers in Foryn Gilnith's shack are safe to use after he is killed, but posts in this thread say otherwise. Which information is correct?

Thanks.

I am if I posted prior(didn't check). They are not safe, they will still change the ownership after he is dead.

Yes, I believe it was you that posted earlier in the thread saying that they are indeed not safe. I guess someone should fix those articles.

Are dungeon containers safe after they've been looted?

The abandoned shack near gnarr mok is safe, not sure if anyone mentioned this. I always use that house, put my books and helms on the desk and keep everything else in containers. I command vivic and bring him there then recall awaybto break the bond. When I come back he's always floating Indian style on the dock that's one of my favorite things to do in morrowind.

And also, the glitch people were talking about with stealing glabadier's (sp?) stuff then not being able to use him is true (In my game at least) after raiding his desk I can never get him to enchant or barter without attacking, even if nothing of his is in my inventory. It's ok though, there are better enchanters out there.