Lately, Skyrim players have been putting a new twist on playing the well-loved Bethesda RPG by trying to perform challenging accomplishments using the game’s physics engine to manually manipulate items. Since players can grab items and drag them around, launch them into the air, or pose them on surfaces, there are a variety of physics-related challenges that can be done in Skyrim. One player managed to pull off a perfect bottle flip trick in Skyrim, while another player expertly threw a cabbage directly into a pot. And now, a player has moved on to balancing iron ingots.
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In a video posted to the Skyrim subreddit, player Joubi666 showcased some impressive balancing skills by stacking nine iron ingots on top of each other. The video doesn’t start with the first ingot, but instead with Joubi666 carefully lowering the ninth iron ingot onto the top of the stack. The tension is thick all the same, though, with the ingot being ever so slowly lowered onto the others and then released. The ingots sway sideways slightly but stay upright, and Joubi666 zooms out into third-person view to show the precariously balanced tower. While it does look rather unstable and is definitely uneven, it does stand steady. It’s hard to say whether or not this is more impressive than the Skyrim player who landed a cabbage basketball shot.
Skyrim originally came out in 2011, although the updated anniversary edition was released in 2021. Despite the game’s age, players are still finding innovative ways to enjoy the world of Skyrim, whether that’s through fun stacking challenges or through the extensive collection of Skyrim mods that fans have created. It shows how imaginative and dedicated the Skyrim fanbase is that different challenges like this continue to show up and that there is such a huge variety of mods for the game.
A lot of fans have been vocally frustrated about how long Bethesda is taking to develop and release Elder Scrolls 6 since it has been over a decade with very little news about the game. Xbox head Phil Spencer did confirm that Elder Scrolls 6 won’t release until after Fable, so fans of the series will still have quite the wait to endure. As long as players keep coming up with interesting new things to do, however, that wait won’t be boring.
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Anniversary Edition is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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