Skyrim:Malachite

A Piece of Malachite Ore

A Refined Malachite Ingot

A Malachite Ore Vein

Malachite is a rare, semi-translucent green volcanic crystal. It is used to create high-quality glass weapons and light armor. As mentioned in the book Light Armor Forging, this glass bears no relation to the common, brittle type of glass used in windows and ornaments, or in the construction^(HF) of houses. See the lore article for general information. The only Malachite mine in Skyrim is located in Steamscorch Mine, outside of Kynesgrove in Eastmarch.

Overview

	Name	ID
	Malachite Ore	0005ace1	1	30
	Refined Malachite	0005ada1	1	100

• 3 Malachite Ores are obtained by mining Malachite Ore Veins. Cannot be purchased.
• 1 Refined Malachite ingot is obtained by smelting 2 Malachite Ores. Can be purchased at level >= 18.
• Glass Smithing requires 70 Smithing skill.
• Glass Armor is level 36 Light Armor, made from Refined Malachite, Refined Moonstone, Leather, and Leather Strips.
• Glass weapons are level 27 weapons, made from Refined Malachite, Refined Moonstone, and Leather Strips

Mineral Sources

In addition to the following guaranteed sources, the best random locations are:

• Malachite Ore may be randomly found in Falmer loot starting at level 7
• Refined Malachite may be sold by all blacksmith and general goods merchants starting at level 18

These ore vein locations are also listed in the Malachite Veins category, and the exterior ore veins are shown on the Skyrim map.

Region	Location	Veins	Ores	Ingots	Details
Eastmarch	Steamscorch Mine	7	2	3	The mine is immediately northeast of Kynesgrove; see Steamscorch Mine for details. The ores and ingots are owned.
Whiterun Hold	Throat of the World	2			Very top of the mountain (map)
Hjaalmarch	Labyrinthian		7		4 ores are in Labyrinthian Thoroughfare and 3 are in Labyrinthian, Tribune
Whiterun Hold	Swindler's Den			2
Winterhold	Saarthal			1	In Saarthal Excavation
Markarth	Understone Keep			1
The Pale	Wreck Of The Brinehammer		1		In The Brinehammer Below Deck
The Pale	Dimhollow Crypt (DG)	8
The Rift	Ruunvald Excavation (DG)	4

Glass Smithing

Glass Smithing is the third perk in the light armor branch of the Smithing skill's perk tree. Unlocking it requires a Smithing skill of 70, and the Advanced Armors perk must have already been unlocked. Glass Smithing allows both Glass Armor and Glass Weapons to be crafted.

The Glass Smithing perk also causes tempering of Glass weapons and armor to be twice as effective. This perk applies to both unenchanted Glass gear and enchanted gear (generic armor, generic weapons, or custom), as long as the Arcane Blacksmith perk has been unlocked. Tempering of a couple other items is also improved by Glass Smithing, namely: Chillrend and Grimsever.

Glass Armor

Glass Armor is the second-best light armor, behind Dragonscale armor. It appears in leveled lists starting at level 36 (enchanted varieties at level 37). All items can be tempered using Refined Malachite, and having the Glass Smithing perk doubles the quality improvement.

A female Imperial wearing Glass Armor

A male Nord wearing Glass Armor

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials				Delta		Ratio
					Malachite	Moonstone	Leather	Strips
	Glass Armor (00013939)	7	900	38	4	2	1	3	-1.3	331	0.84	1.58
	Glass Boots (00013938)	2	190	11	2	1	1	2	-3.2	-101	0.38	0.65
	Glass Gauntlets (0001393a)	2	190	11	1	1	1	2	-2.2	-1	0.48	0.99
	Glass Helmet (0001393b)	2	450	16	2	1	1	1	-3.1	162	0.39	1.56
	Glass Shield (0001393c)	6	450	27	4	1	0	2	0.8	-31	1.15	0.94
Totals (with shield):		19	2180	103	13	6	4	10
Totals (without shield):		13	1730	76	9	5	4	8

Glass Weapons

Glass Weapons are the third-best weapons, behind Daedric and Ebony weapons. They appear in leveled lists starting at level 27 (enchanted varieties at level 28). All items except ammunition can be tempered using 1 Refined Malachite, and having the Glass Smithing perk doubles the quality improvement. Arrows can only be smithed if the Dawnguard plug-in has been installed.

One notable weakness with glass weapons is that several of them (dagger, mace, and warhammer) do not do any critical damage.

	Name (ID)				Crit.	Speed	Reach	Raw Materials			Delta		Ratio
								Malachite	Moonstone	Strips
	Glass Dagger (000139a6)	4.5	165	9	0	1.3	0.7	1	1	1	2.4	-13	2.14	0.93
	Glass Sword (000139a9)	14	410†	12	6	1	1	1	1	1	11.9	232	6.67	2.30
	Glass War Axe (000139a3)	16	490	13	8	0.9	1	1	1	2	13.8	309	7.27	2.71
	Glass Mace (000139a8)	18	575	14	0	0.8	1	2	1	1	14.9	297	5.81	2.07
	Glass Greatsword (000139a7)	22	820	21	10	0.7	1.3	2	2	3	17.7	461	5.12	2.28
	Glass Battleaxe (000139a4)	25	900	22	11	0.7	1.3	2	2	2	20.8	544	5.95	2.53
	Glass Warhammer (000139aa)	29	985	24	0	0.6	1.3	3	2	3	23.7	526	5.47	2.15
	Glass Bow (000139a5)	14	820†	15	7	0.62	1	2	1	0	11	545	4.67	2.98
	Glass Arrow (000139be)	0	6	18	N/A			1 Malachite + 1 Firewood = 24 Glass ArrowsDG			-6	39	0.00	1.37

^† The base gold value used for all generic enchanted versions of the Glass Bow is 287 instead of 820. Similarly, enchanted Glass Swords have a base value of 205 instead of 410. This means that the enchanted weapons are 533 (bow) or 205 (sword) gold cheaper than they should be, and in several cases are cheaper than the unenchanted version. This bug is shared by several types of bow in the game.

Notes

• Malachite Ore can be sold to Kjeld for the quest Mine Ore.
• 1 Refined Malachite is needed to temper the dragon mask Otar.
• 1 Refined Malachite is needed to temper the weapons Chillrend and Grimsever.
• Ore veins (all types) sometimes do not respawn normally. See Mining (Bugs) and elsewhere on that article and its talk page.