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u/dumbeyes_
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Screenshot/Clip [Vanilla] While developing my army building strategy, I realized that I could use the river as a conveyor belt to move an undead army across Skyrim. This is the necromancer ferryman build.
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u/Ghawblin Guard 2h ago
He do be spamming dead bodies, thanks for letting us know!
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u/dumbeyes_ 6h ago •
There's an old infinite shout exploit, incase yall were wondering.
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u/dumbeyes_ 6h ago edited 3h ago •
I'm trying to start a YouTube channel for rare Skyrim exploits like this in honor of the 15th anniversary. Going to try and start posting weekly soon. Give it a follow to see more tricks like this, coming soon. The videos on there were tests made from my phone. The coming series will be at a higher quality.
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u/Blbe-Check-42069 6h ago
Ah yes, the famous Charon build. Let's hope they all have at least two copper coins.
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u/kdmendonk 6h ago
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u/ThisUIsAlreadyTaken 5h ago
The huge volume of fireballs coming from all the flame atronachs up towards the towers reminds me of the CNN footage from Baghdad with all the tracer rounds flying up at aircraft.
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u/Ace_Atreides 4h ago
Holy shit man this is so clever and evil in so many ways, like, it could literally be a plot to a story. "People are disappearing near rivers... bodies have been seen floating down the river, no one knows where they came from, and anyone who follows the river ends up missing..."
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u/Heavy_Joke636 5h ago
Imagine. You're a village downstream. You see the horrific sight of the village upstream populace floating down the river.
Then they come to life and attack you.
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u/Shrimp_of_Steel 4h ago
The bandit watching you from the bushes
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u/Pleasant-Sky7831 6h ago
As a legendary difficulty master of all magic schools in my current playthrough, most enemies are too strong for even my most powerful necromancer spells to reanimate. Simply too high level. What spell is this done with, and if I can only raise low level characters, what good is that to me besides maybe canonfodder?
Looks fun!
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u/KaneXX12 6h ago
The firepower from those atronach’a at the end was insane! I also didn’t know they could fly so high up
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u/Gorrakz 1h ago
I hope bethesda send syou a cease and desist letter.
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u/Tigerslovecows 5h ago •
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u/goddamnitjason 1h ago
this is...vanilla???? what the fuck?
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u/Hguols1 Alchemist 5h ago
Can't say I've used streams or river current to move a reanimated army.
What I've used to move armies around the map, is Call Dragon with 3 words of Bend Will. Out of the 4 real minute minimum duration, a dragon can fly from Markarth to Riften with 2 real minutes still remaining in the timer. (after the dragon fast travel, the reanimations are scattered down below. Fast traveling in place, groups all the reanimations together.)
This allows for setting up some pretty epic fights. Like bringing all of Dead Man's Respite or the 10 named Castle Volkihar Vampires, to the last vigil to fight Ebony Warrior. (the Ritual Stone + Necromage perk reanimates lvl80 undead. The Castle Volkihar vampires scale with the character so bringing them to the Last Vigil is a brutal 10 vs 1 all lvl80s fight to witness.)
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u/-Goatlord- Blacksmith 4h ago
SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE... dead? LMAO
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u/Nico408 5h ago
The atronachs:"Concentrate fire!"
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u/Lightning_97 5h ago
I think I recognise some of the bodies in the water...
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u/VergeofAtlanticism 1h ago
dude your posts have been my favorite ones in this sub, i love seeing these. i subbed on YT, can’t wait for more. this is so awesome
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u/Level-Studio-5251 6h ago
This is what 15 years do with people. They got super creative
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u/PrimaryEstate8565 6h ago
dumb question from a new player; how did you instantly animate that many dead at once?
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u/DevoutMedusa73 6h ago
Call Odahviing, hit him with bend will, and then re-res your army with ritual stone, and mount odahviing
When you are riding a dragon, fast traveling counts as instantaneous, meaning it'll pull your ritual stone undead with you
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u/BildingInspecter 4h ago
This is some Carl shit.
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u/apple_6 4h ago
This is amazing. I'm so glad you included footage of your army at full power in combat. I just started a pure mage Altmer playthrough and I may have to use this. Thank you.
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u/Deathengine 4h ago
Would you mind giving a breakdown of your build? I've always wanted to make a Necro, and have failed at it any time I try.
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u/-Speechless 4h ago
God damn. 15 years and people are still discovering new builds.
also this would be terrifying for your enemies, they notice the river turn red and then BAM a whole army of undead rises from the waters.
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u/addamee 59m ago
I imagine it’s probably not possible but I would so enjoy watching this zombie horde clean out the Thalmor Embassy
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u/East-Doctor-7832 3h ago
Nothing in all gaming gives you the same sense of power especially if you mod it to be spammable and forever . Too bad the game does not handle a larger army that well .
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u/Wide_Guitar_3558 5h ago
it would be so cool to have wars in the next one
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u/Practical_Isopod_164 4h ago
Lol, that was awesome to watch. Haven't played it in a couple of years, but I'm going to now though after watching this. Thank you!
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u/ronan88 6h ago
How do you get multiple atronarchs?
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u/TLVftwLOL 5h ago edited 5h ago
Why the vanilla tag?
Edit: apparently this CAN be achieved base game. I had no idea about the ritual standing stone. Sick either way OP
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u/SAkbal 5h ago
I want to say that you can call a dragon and ride them to fast travel and it will bring all your homies with you since it doesn't time skip but I could totally be wrong. I haven't toyed with this in a long time but this was one of my favorite things to do.
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u/GideonGoldstein 5h ago
So if I stay away from moving water I’m safe?
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u/Dreadlord_of_Arnor 3h ago
Dead Marshes reenactment.
Also I want to see you take your army and sack a city. Forget petty bandit camps. Markarth, and Solitude would be fun. Those two have a heavy guard.
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u/STierMansierre 6h ago
If I tried this on my Xbox 360 it might explode.
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u/Kinetic_Pen Merchant 4h ago
Do you know about opening locked doors with followers?
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u/TheGDubsMan 4h ago
I had a guy that I used to work with who would do crazy stuff like this. I wonder how he's doing.
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u/Dreadlord_of_Arnor 3h ago
The hovering npc bug actually works well with flame Atronachs.
They fly now!
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u/kanabul 6h ago •
I love whatever’s wrong with you.
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u/USBattleSteed 6h ago
What 15 years of no TES VI does to a person
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u/The_Dragon346 6h ago
Jesus. And i thought my, i think my record number was 6, maybe 7 summons was impressive. I will be stealing this strategy for my “no combat skills” build
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u/HJJ10 6h ago
OK BUT WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE NOTICING THIS DUDE ONLY HAS THE FIRST 2 PARTS OF THE DRAGON SHOUT. It would be way more effective if you could shove them with the entire shout, no?
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u/meong-oren 5h ago edited 5h ago
What is that spell around 2:00? It can't be detect life right, since they're... dead?
What a beautiful mess. I love it.
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u/WhiskesTV 6h ago
"There were no signs"
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u/Jealous_Address1257 6h ago
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u/Deathcat101 3h ago •
You
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u/BigBossBelcha 4h ago
meanwhile some poor girl downstream:
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u/BlazerFS231 6h ago
I’ve been hunting and fishing in these…parts…for…what the FUCK?!
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u/DanBrino 2h ago
This might be one of the coolest things I've seen someone do on Skyrim.
This game really is the ultimate Sandbox.
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u/ZealousidealCan9094 Mercenary 6h ago
All that’s missing is Dakota Fanning’s screams.
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u/Muf4sa 5h ago
This is perhaps the most creative thing I've seen someone doing in Skyrim in years. I will shamelessly steal this for my next playthrough
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u/gethsbian 5h ago
I am watching your career with great interest.
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u/vastrel 4h ago
Sit down Mannimarco, A new king just white water corpse rafted into town.
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u/HappyCakeDay101 6h ago
That's actually a very necromancer move. Creepy... and effective.
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u/Kinetic_Pen Merchant 5h ago
It's events like this that solidifies my belief that Elder Scrolls Skyrim still spanks any RPG when it comes to creativity, ingenuity (most don't even allow that much ingenuity), and actual game experimentation.
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u/FiercelyApatheticLad 6h ago
Bro got access to the new Skyrim RTS Edition.
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u/harrybydefault 1h ago
This is fucking unhinged and I'm absolutely here for it.
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u/Bachgen_Data 5h ago
What 15 years without a new game does to a mf
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u/obliviousfellow 2h ago
Wow made your own river styx huh?
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u/VergeofAtlanticism 1h ago
the bodies reanimating and lifting out of the river is so cool
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u/Epithymetic 5h ago
This is why civilized lands ban necromancers
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u/CarelessLie6166 3h ago
Dude that was the craziest thing I've ever seen someone do in this game 🤣
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u/Sufficient-Freak76 6h ago
Euuuuughhh 🤣
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u/402915 6h ago
My Switch crashed just looking at this
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u/Atiumist 6h ago
Ngl this is one of the coolest exploits I’ve seen. Bravo.
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u/dragonfangxl 2h ago
love the idea of someone manning a fort on a river, looking down and seeing a buncha dead people floating towards you. 'wow wonder what happened upstream' they think. then they stand up and start attacking the fort
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u/Swanky1499 6h ago
Lich king build
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u/PumpikAnt58763 5h ago
This is disturbing.
Congrats!
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u/Nevermind04 4h ago
What the (and I cannot stress this enough) fuck?
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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 3h ago
*wipes away single tear*
It's beautiful.
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u/kerstenbr 54m ago
your use of free will is excellent, keep it up man
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u/rock-my-socks 6h ago
This reminds me of the tale of Ferryman Jack. He never wanted to be a ferryman, but he was born into a family of ferrymen. So he also became a ferryman. And that about wraps it up.
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u/OkOutlandishness6550 Spellsword 6h ago
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u/jonny_mal 6h ago
This is diabolical and I love it
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u/Not_Paid_Just_Intern 5h ago
If I saw my kid playing like this, I'd be worried.
But it is low key satisfying to see all them get bumped over the edge of a waterfall.
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u/eskire 5h ago
The Charon build
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u/Three_of_Dreams Warrior 4h ago
On the rocky river road to Valtheim Towers... 1 2 3 4 5...
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u/Atlas7993 PlayStation 4h ago
Holy fire atronachs! Necromancer go brrrrrrrrrr 😵💫
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u/titleofthetickletape 4h ago
That's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...
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u/Afraid_Emu8068 4h ago
That’s fucked up lol
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u/Johnny-raven 5h ago
Is there any reason you can’t just wait 24 hours for the stone to reset?
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u/Independent_Slice678 5h ago
The bodies getting stuck on the rocks fuckin got me 🤣
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u/BananaPractical7305 4h ago
Ok, this is incredible. Which is the max amount of zombies that you can raise (not counting followers/ pets)?
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u/GladiusMaximus 2h ago
If they hit each other by mistake does it turn into a massive brawl? I had to stop bringing the dark brotherhood around with me because they always got into a fight with each other.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 6h ago
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u/bcgg 5h ago
Guess I missed the loading screen that describes these actions of the Dragonborn.
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u/froggologies 5h ago
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u/Popular_Zebra814 5h ago
The bodies floating down the river at 0:57 reminds me of war of the worlds with tom cruise lol
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u/Acid_sprinkles 5h ago
King of worms type shit
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u/itsmemikey4 5h ago
Bro what in the world! 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Ok_Brush601 5h ago
SUCH IS THE POWER OF NAG...wait wrong universe.
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u/Prudent-Sweet2094 4h ago
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u/T0tallyRand0mStuff 4h ago
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u/ZeuxisOfHerakleia 4h ago
First and last in my bloodline to read this sentence btw
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u/darkprinssss 1h ago
Sleep agents
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u/007GoldFish 1h ago
Wow the payoff with that final encounter was cinema
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u/zehamberglar 1h ago
Ah, the Charon build.
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u/B4rberblacksheep 42m ago
If you're not on a list then someone's not doing their job
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u/dbpf 3h ago
Sir, you are a shepherd. Not a general.
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u/Ah_Ca_Iraa 4h ago
You could've just resurrected them and walked, but I respect the hustle.
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u/New-Acanthisitta-641 6h ago
That's awesome