You don't choose where to put the soul, it finds its way automatically.
What Acquisitive Soul Gem does is prevents smaller souls get into larger gems in case you don't have matching soul gem. Why would you ever want to put a petty soul into a grand gem if you also have a petty gem ?If you have a petty gem, then soul will go into petty gem in vanilla. it is just a matter of fixing a feature that is obviously broken from the start. The concept is not a serious deviation from vanilla.
SKYRIM SOUL GEMS MOD MOD
This mod fixes that too.ĭropped in 2.2.8. (Although, allow me to plug here another mod of mine, Soulfire, which handles weapon recharging a bit differently and which you may like if, like me, you find tedious constantly trapping and using souls to power your Dwarven War Axe of Flames.)įinally, there is a bug in Skyrim that when you drop a soul gem on the ground, or place it in a container, it can lose its charge. I made this exception because a very common use of Azura's Star is for recharging weapons without caring what the size of the soul is, and it's hard really to waste a reusable gem anyway. It does not change the way Azura's Star works, and you can fill that with any size soul you want. This is how it's indicated to work in in-game texts, and how it worked in Skyrim's predecessor, Oblivion. human and elf) souls, not the souls of creatures.
It also changes black gems, including the Black Star, so that they only hold black (i.e. So for example, if you try to trap a common soul, but you only have an empty greater gem, then when that creature dies its soul will escape rather than partially fill the greater gem like it normally would in Skyrim. If you try to trap a soul, but you don't have any gems of the right size, you'll just fail to trap the soul. With this mod, petty souls only go into petty gems, lesser souls only go into lesser gems, and so on. Acquisitive Soul Gems changes the way soul-trapping works in Skyrim so that you'll never 'waste' a soul gem again, such as by trapping a petty soul into a grand gem, or a common soul into a greater gem, etc.