The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons. Mining isn't important to me in this playthrough, but my regular game it is critical since I am in house building mode, as well as armor and weapon build mode (more advanced equipment). Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. But I am thinking someone HAS to have complained about this within the first by now if it is a bug.
I did a search for mining, pickaxe and ore related posts, so.I am thinking this has to be because of the mods (even though it doesn't seem like either should affect that process)? Neither mod has affected anything else in the game so far. The god mod, equipment and armor (So I can get through stuff quickly so I can play my regular Skyrim game. The one where the dog never dies (I just can't deal with it) At first I thought it was because I didn't pick up a pickaxe, but I had, it was in my inventory.
My pickaxe showed up until it was about to do the down swing onto the rock, when it just disappeared from my hand, then, the animation stopped and no ore was collected. I went to mine ore I found on a rock face (I tried 2 other places for iron and 1 site of corundum (sp? I am tired), with a pickaxe I found.
