Can I Survive 100 Days in Hardcore Survival Mode? - Perfectly Balanced Skyrim Challenge

[@thespiffingbrit]

*This is by far the hardest skyrim experience I have ever constructed and the results were a magnificent existence of finding the simple balanced pleasures in life!* I hope you all liked todays video and perhaps would like more?

[@ax14pz107]

There's nothing more cringe than saying cringe.

[@lennaffect4018]

More Skyrim please

[@Skwigz]

Yes

[@kujubuo]

Damn no exploits i dont understand

[@Reth_Hard]

It is "Hardcore mode" but do you promise that you never made a single backup of your save files? Hum?? Just in case you do a small mistake along the way... HUM??? 🤨

[@resileaf9501]

"Spiff lives like a (relatively) normal person in videogames" is a series I didn,t know I wanted, but I want more of it now.

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@williamcooper598]

this isnt a normal person. this is just masochism. a normal Skyrim NPC does use weapons and armor at their disposal.

[@theonlylunarmage]

"Can you complete GTA5 whilst obeying British traffic laws?"

[@sdfkjgh]

@@theonlylunarmage: You utterly sadistic monster! 😱 I love it!

[@fabiangarcia6072]

Spiff: *RPs in an RPG* everyone: 😱😱

[@bigsmoke4385]

I love how even in a challenge where Spiff isn't allowed to use bugs, they always find a way to get to him themselves.

[@douglasboyle6544]

That's Skyrim!

[@mgunter]

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Especially after a decade.

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@poilboiler]

It's not like it's hard to find bugs in Skyrim.

[@KL-cj9ti]

It's just the power of Todd 💪🤡

[@natsudragneel7083]

"As long as we don't die, we can run away" wiser words have never been spoken

[@Nightmare88ish]

Seeing him die to his own hubris in forgetting this simple lesson is something I found very funny. If only he'd taken the time to realize he wasn't capable of fighting the enemies and that he just should have ran away. Even had he won, it's likely he'd of just died to something the same way a little later without remembering this simple rule: 'If we don't die we can run away.'

[@thefudgems]

I paused this video to eat dinner and when I came back, this was the very next thing said I am quaking in my boots

[@tturi2]

1st rule, cardio

[@dragonboyjgh]

The joestar secret family technique

[@Go.Shaman]

35:58 :)) put that in the main comment! :)

[@Zedd8787]

Spiff: "We do resist like 30% of all spells, so that frost mage isn't the biggest danger in the universe" That Frost Mage: "You wot mate?"

[@aelegriniv1649]

Legendary bandit thug: "30% of my spell is twice your health bar."

[@gurk_the_magnificent9008]

There were ice spikes whizzing past his head 😂

[@randosmallfoot2132]

A fatal miscalculation that turned out to be

[@JadeHeartOfFire]

Frost Mage: I’m about to do what’s called a “pro gamer move”

[@tgnm9615]

And frost spell is like 75% of the enemy lol

[@Jackie89000]

I love the idea of the dragonborn just sorta deciding to just pretend that helgen didn't happen and went on to live a simple life as a farmer with a wife and kids.

[@Iris_n_Parti]

that was me when I first started playing Skyrim, I was a really big pussy back then and most of my first characters ended up just being Riverwood's Hobo who works at the Lumber Mill

[@motorscorpion48]

Dragonborn: okay, I just survived a dragon attack, but if I told anyone I'd either be hung for lying or arrested, so imma just forget that whole thing happened and just... Start a new life, I guess

[@hoangkienvu7572]

I don't know if Arduin will give the dragonborn enough time to find a wife or husband, let alone giving birth to a child, before he ends the world.

[@raeB_D_ahC]

@@Iris_n_Parti I was the exact opposite, as soon as I got to Riverwood I started to attack everyone immediately

[@settratheimperishable4093]

@@hoangkienvu7572 clearly, there is infinite time as long as you don't do the missions

[@michaelriggs1865]

This is hands down the closest anyone has come to recreating the authentic mortal experience of living in Skyrim.

[@denispetrov844]

Yes. And how can we make him make it a series? :D :D

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@blunderingfool]

Mods have been handling all sorts of needs since Morrowind I think.

[@jakubguziur7522]

He's just a wandering NPC alchemist

[@Madiannereid]

Especially the “HOLY FCK it’s a walking Skeleton! I’m getting out of here immediately”

[@cormacolinde]

Spiff last year playing Skyrim: YES! 12 GAZILLION DAMAGE! Spiff playing Skyrim today: YES! ELEVEN WHEAT!

[@TimberOdom-yu1kc]

How tf do you have 712 likes and no comments

[@TheWhildOne]

Technically having a wood axe or pickaxe in your inventory without being equipped isn't using them as a weapon, and if you activate a wood pile or an ore vein, it will automatically use them as tools but you won't equip them as weapons or be using them as weapons ^_^

[@YSleepish]

Well you are still "using" them, and he said no using weapons, not just using them as weapons.

[@YSleepish]

@Moritz P. did he use it?

[@rustyshackleford2022]

You have to equip the axe 100 percent , like do you even play bro

[@purpleplutonium1132]

@@rustyshackleford2022 You just need it in your inventory.

[@Dead_Goat]

@@YSleepish He said no exploits. yet he exploited.

[@scrantondangler8068]

I really hope he sees our enjoyment of this series and makes a part 2. NPC: what in the world happened to you? Spiffing Britt: I wanted wheat.

[@kdawg3484]

This was engrossing. I agree with others that just watching you play the game normally trying to survive, getting attached to the character, being genuinely scared for his safety and sad at his loss...it really was amazingly wholesome and enjoyable. Would definitely like to see some more cracks at it.

[@masew2012]

Wow, reading all the comments and seeing that EVERYONE feels the same is heartwarming. Spiff PLEASE make MOAR skyrim videos !!! And this challenge made you actually play the game normally and was AMAZING to watch. Greetings from a *Camel Tea* lover in Denmark

[@thespiffingbrit]

Yeah reading the comments on this one is wonderful really has made my day. Your all lovely

[@comithziguess2020]

@@thespiffingbrit that house in rorikstead can make like 600 gold a day

[@BurritooMafia]

@@thespiffingbrit As Todd re-releases skyrim constantly. The spiff shall re-release constant skyrim gameplay!

[@KorporalNoobs]

@@thespiffingbrit No you are. And if you do Skyrim more, it could be interesting to use major in-depth overhaul mods (think requim) and try to do exploitation shenanigans in those.

[@Justaguyondeweb]

This man has created a way to become the “protect this npc” quest but for 100 days… Bravo to you sir!!!

[@Gormathius]

"Spiff, what kind of escort quest is this?!" Spiff, terrified: "I AM THE ESCORT QUEST!"

[@bradonhoover3002]

Spiff sleeping from 1:45 to 6 am was truly the most realistic part of survival mode

[@bigfudge2031]

literally watching this at 6am

[@memesfor1192]

I saw this comment at 6 on the dot

[@countluke2334]

Based on the nature of the challenge I don't quite understand why he doesn't sleep longer to make the most of the money spent for the night and pass some extra time.

[@robhenry4197]

I get a solid 8 hours of sleep in video games where the sleep mechanics matters, but I settle for 3 hours 5 nights a week irl lmao

[@ElDuderinoh]

@@countluke2334because you want the light of day for as long as possible when doing something like this, obviously. It’s not like he’ll get any bonuses for sitting there safe and cozy.

[@Nightmare88ish]

When you think about it, this is effectively what is like to be a regular townsfolk npc in this game. Really puts into perspective how heroic the dragonborn really is when you see what it would effectively be like to be a weak townsfolk npc. You're just a guy, you dont have or wear fancy armor. Maybe you have some magic abilities but it's not much. You eat sleep and get injured and can die. Then one day, someone shows up blasted out in legendary armor, a badass weapon and a badass sidekick, and they can literally just yell things into or out of existence with the power of the dragon's voice. At best you've got a little dagger and maybe some magic if you're lucky. If you ran out into the wilds you'd never survive alone against a bunch of bandits. And lets not forget, there is a civil war going on as well. You're a lowly peasant just trying to make some coin and survive 100 days. I love it.

[@Tinmann_77]

Remember, the DragonBorn starts as a prisoner who is tied up with no armor or weapons and has to find some while running from a dragon that is attacking... unlike the weak townsfolk noc in your scenario the Dragonborn isn't content to be a weak person who relies on others and does what he has to in order to improve his lot in life.

[@Nightmare88ish]

@@Tinmann_77 Dragonborn. Sigma-born grind mentality. Gigaborn? Lol. (Ya ok pretty bad jokes but lmao anyways) But yeah gotta respect the effort to grow the dragonborn does. Tho to be fair, as the player it's natural we'd be able to learn new skills and kick ass. You do gotta point tho.

[@dannylee1523]

To be fair, a normal NPC could likely use a wood chopping axe, a pick axe, or just general farming equipment to earn their living. Not much of a living mind you, but a few coin here and there to survive. Those without lodging of their own could or would sometimes have lodging provided by their employment (farmhand, miner quarters as examples). This could simulate an NPC with some physical disabilities (say due to illness or injury) without any family or kin to look out for them.

[@sonicmarsh232]

Can we take a second to appreciate how skyrim is still relevant 11 years later

[@cp2676]

I'd also like a toast to the fact that even 11 years post release, a bug so blatant such as casting spells with 0 magicka exists for months

[@quarreneverett4767]

Asside from people making mods and videos for it. Skyrim got more popular when it became easier to share things on the internet etc. Also engaging a new generation new in games. Oblivion set up the foundations for the modding as several carry over.

[@quarreneverett4767]

Btw companions started as mods for oblivion

[@GAOMaster]

no

[@GAOMaster]

no

[@chroniclesofguyver7888]

I would definitely watch another attempt at this challenge. This video had a lot of genuine, laugh out loud moments. I honestly didn't think this was going to end with a death. I was just expecting a "Continued in Part 2". 😅

[@Unprotected1232]

I've never seen Spiff actually play the game normally for this long. It's not long mind you. If Spiff doesn't exploit Skyrim then Todd will do it for you.

[@rtg5881]

You have seen him play the game normaly when he was stacking potion and enchantment effects. Thats how the game is meant to be played,boosting your intelligence by a few thousand to make better potions to boost it further to make even better potions and enchantments. They made it quite clear that they expect it to be played that way with the wizard falling from the sky after boosting jump by 1000.

[@Just_A_Dude]

Thing is, this _still_ isn't normal. He's intentionally making it harder than it needs to be for a challenge.

[@DantePurgatory]

I find it funny how he went from Falkreath to Rorikstead walking because he wanted wheat but still he says "thats not valuable for us" when the game tries to give him a farm.

[@SonicLink1622]

It would be harder to travel back there. Which is probably why it wasn't valuable

[@DustySiren]

A farm that produces a fuck ton of gold too

[@AndroidNoir-L06k]

​@@DustySirenbut with danger of dragon that spawn on the occasion.

[@ZackRToler]

@@AndroidNoir-L06k only if you decided to progress far enough in the main story that dragons start spawning. If you got a horse, it's a quick and relatively safe trip back to whiterun. I do it on my survival argonian playthrough. Great place to make money and grow all your alchemy ingredients

[@daniellittle3249]

@@DustySiren Yep I always just walked past it never knowing better till I decided I want the mass produce rare ingredients, holy moly the cash just flowed after that.

[@polarwind77777]

Honestly, I didn’t expect you to fail. This does seem like a great way to experience Skyrim.

[@bensoncheung2801]

69 👍

[@Sangheillioz]

You basically beat the challenge as soon as you got married and made it back to Whiterun. At that point you can spend the other 100 days having Ysolda cook for you once a day and giving you money and a free bed. For round 2, I think you need to incorporate another goal, like amassing 1 million gold or defeating the Ebony Warrior or completing a major questline or something. Could be interesting to see you do this challenge with the added goal of building and fully furnishing a hearthfire house. The travel to and from would be a challenge by itself, and you'd have to balance keeping yourself alive with buying materials for the build. It would also make improving your stamina something you would need to do so you could carry more materials each trip.

[@granatmof]

Agreed. Spif maintaining the basic goal of survival was achieved via marriage. Without a goal to explore the world and achieve something within those 100 days there's nothing that will pit those difficulty mods into play. Even doing something like amass 10,000 gold via trading between towns would achieve more things. I'm curious if there's a traders guild mod that encourages building trade routes.

[@mosherubenstein8248]

No. He cheated. Mara's amulet wasn't allowed in this challenge.

[@IrvineTheHunter]

@@mosherubenstein8248 It's equipment but not "armor" or a "weapon" so it should be fine?

[@hudsonthecheeyote7843]

The ebony warrior is incredibly late game. It was basically meant to be the last thing you could possibly do. It would take him idk 1000’s of days to get to it without console commands

[@gwenreed6288]

I agree with this take, since he's basically playing a peasant merchant I think they goal of home ownership is highly appropriate and would be a delight to watch.

[@kirkhawthorne2350]

Legendary difficulty actually makes you take 4x more damage and makes you do 25% of the normal damage you would do on the games "normal" difficulty. Therefore this feat is even greater than could be imagined

[@buckduck3624]

What about armor stats do they change?

[@kirkhawthorne2350]

@@buckduck3624 nothing you just take enemies just deal 4x more damage and you deal less, its a very Bethesda way to increase difficulty just make everything more spongey and hit harder

[@derpderpington824]

Pretty sure it's x3 against you. 25% against enemies. But summons and followers are unnaffected. Spiff made this way harder than he had to. No Faendal (free follower. Free house. Extra gear to sell). No vegetable soup (endless stamina). No fetch quests in Whiterun (extra money). No guard tower chests outside Riften (lots of extra money and stuff). No Illusion spells (calm, frenzy, etc). Did he even get camping supplies? That's what makes it more impressive that he survived.

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

@@derpderpington824 Illusion spells are pretty much broken insuch a challenge so Spiff will use them in another attemot at this for sure.

[@samuelele]

It‘s not quite correct: the damage output of the opponents is x3, your own output is x0.25

[@jonymanay]

I gave the challenge a go. I lasted 3 days and made it to lvl4. Some one hired 4 thugs to kill me. They chased me outside solitude. I ran to the guards hoping to be helped and got 1 shot as the guards did nothing.

[@poemsbypoetry]

Yeah, I have a mod that fixes guards not helping you when bounty hunters attack. Always seemed weird they wouldn't interfere. There's also another that makes it so hired thugs don't kill you, though they take the stolen items or whatever back.

[@m.macafe]

Get a frenzy spell (i think that’s the spell that makes a npc attack anyone nearby) and shoot it at the thugs near one of the guards. U will have 20 guards by ur side in no time

[@adityanadgauda]

Hearing Spiff squeal with the Skeleton jumpscare was probably the highlight of this video. I never thought I would see the day where Spiff would actually get spooked, that too in Skyrim. I want more now

[@ryanclemons1]

spooky scary skeletons

[@ZyliceLiddell]

@@ryanclemons1 *Skelingtons

[@wagglewiggle]

This unironically looks like a fun way to play. I've played skyrim for like 3k hours and this genuinely took my interest in the game from negative 100 to fairly high

[@berendkunstman4523]

3k hours? that's like 125 days, 125 days and nights of only skyrim. jesus, that's 1/3 of a year. considering a human gets to about 80 years old that means that you spend 1/240 of your life on nothing but skyrim. those are rookie numbers, pump m up.

[@wagglewiggle]

@@berendkunstman4523 it's hard I've put in something like 2.5 years of gameplay into world of warcraft

[@ironCondor623]

@@wagglewiggle my brother in christ that's >20000 hours

[@wagglewiggle]

@@ironCondor623 I mean I've been playing world of warcraft since alpha I was very lucky to know some people who got me into the testing so I've had like 20 years to do that ( I have taken breaks but never fully quit the game )

[@vergiloftheastralclocktowe9781]

@@berendkunstman4523 i have as of friday nov 18 2022 3:28 am 27,637 hours

[@joewerner7067]

We absolutely need to see another run of this challenge, absolutely glorious. There is no way any other KZbinr could make a 40+ min video off of 14 days of Skyrim.

[@jasonpcrawfordauthor]

The ending montage where Legless’s life flashed before his eyes was the best.

[@hannahowlette]

It reminds me of Sips' series when he thought Uthgerd had died and oh god I'm now going to have to go back and watch that entire series again, aren't I?

[@tammyboy2084]

I just saw the bit where you said that having the farm as your own house wasn’t valuable. It’s INSANELY valuable! You can grow huge amounts of potion ingredients and earn profits from the farm itself.

[@pandasan_6666]

I was thinking the Same, when he said that i was « HOW IS THAT NOT VALUABLE ?! » 😭

[@ArtisChronicles]

That portion made me want to start a new character and to seek out that farm to use as a base of operations

[@chrissixtytwix]

@@ArtisChronicles I'm not even playing a survival character and I still use it as a BoO all the time, especially because you can make TONS of gold if you put the right plants in the plots, I make roughly 16,890 gold every time I return from adventures and then like 5,000 from my wife too.

[@stampsu]

Fastest click in my life: Spiff plays Skyrim. Gotta be a blast

[@thespiffingbrit]

well it was a blast to make so I hope it is a blast to watch

[@benjaminloewen9458]

To true

[@ngotemna8875]

@@thespiffingbrit I'm 10 seconds in and so far it's blasting 👍

[@animalxing8697]

Brit playing Skyrim is always good. This game is just so Todd Howard.

[@SirFlooberis]

@@thespiffingbrit it’s more blasting, then team rocket blasting off away

[@scribesorcerer4967]

The fact Spiff is struggling so badly because he can’t just use exploits to fix all his problems is amazing.

[@TurtleMedicine]

he struggles to not exploit todd howards masterpiece

[@CompiledGabriel]

He is so good a exploiter that he did it on accident to level up alteration

[@aredub1847]

in Bethesda games he just uses the console. thats just a cheat, not an exploit. makes the titles a lie often.

[@duck13x76]

For anyone curious about casting "detect life" with 0 magika, if your current magika gets lowered below 0 via lack of sleep while you're casting any hold to cast spell then you can continue casting it until your magika lowers again or you stop holding the cast

[@Hwk1901]

Still an exploit

[@gareth14111984]

@@Hwk1901 *gameplay mechanic... there, I fixed it for you XD

[@michaelkornberg392]

can't blame todd for that one. thats on the modders

[@polarsbear668]

@@michaelkornberg392 I'm pretty sure the survival mechanics are in the base game for the super mega todd howard edition

[@delinquentpanda]

@@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau Since they're employed by Bethesda they're technically official DLC

[@tammyboy2084]

If you want a free place to sleep, do Faendal’s friend mission in Riverwood. You can take the key to his house out of his inventory and use his bed and cooking facilities as often as you like. All you have to do is deliver a letter to another Riverwood resident.

[@tammyboy2084]

Also, if you find a piece of firewood (I know you said you won’t make any under these restrictions, but you can find it now and then) you can sell it to the innkeeper in Whiterun, and she’ll let you sleep in her bed in one of the rooms above the kitchen.

[@m.macafe]

@@tammyboy2084?! i didn’t know this

[@LadyMorrigan]

So theres a weird glitch where you can cast all channel spells for Zero magicka if you have a very specific (to the decimal I think) magic regeneration rate. It was used in a few builds on the skyrim character building blogs ages ago. I think perhaps the fact that you were tired made you just happen to stumble across one of the specific magic regeneration rates that give you infinite channeled abilities. Once you got more tired from standing around or rested, you regen rate changed and thus it stopped working. Not sure if you care about any of this, but I thought I would mention it 😄

[@AlexBlackRaven]

That's really cool, thanks for sharing!

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Perfectly balanced

[@LadyMorrigan]

@@afeathereddinosaur it just works

[@ImRandomDude]

or simply the mod just messed up magicka

[@dakotahawkes2483]

Hearing Spiff hit like 2 octaves higher with that skeleton was so funny I had to listen again and again. Actively crying with laughter!

[@daddysnake5250]

the metal gear music made it even better lol🤣

[@greenapple9477]

I've never heard him sound like that before😂

[@adisander]

The hubris of making so many healing potions then not using one when a single ice bolt took off nearly half your health :D I'd love to see more!

[@llanowar90]

Classic Skyrim player experience "why use it now, might need it later"

[@Go.Shaman]

41:05

[@quarreneverett4767]

@@llanowar90 sou ds more like someone experienced with running quests and di geons to me :)

[@quarreneverett4767]

Hubris? Funny coincidence. Or irony

[@90shadowlink]

Getting your own farm would have been perfect. You could have had infinite wheat!

[@jasonlambert5552]

The "haunted" farmstead has five skeevers inside the main house, it's how the farmer died. They aggro as soon as the character is inside.

[@shawnmoore8460]

​@@jasonlambert5552 Didnt one poison the other who killed them with an axe because they both thought the other was responsible for their sons disappearance

[@ZackRToler]

@@jasonlambert5552 There are no skeevers on the farm, the farmer died cus he was poisoned by his wife, which lead him to kill her with an axe. Cus they both suspect each over the disappearance of their son who tragically died from wolves near the well just outside the farm. Whole part of the quest to get the farm is solving this mystery and bringing peace to the family.

[@davidlane1248]

​@@jasonlambert5552that's a different home. Goldenhills plantation is a ghost murder mystery mini quest

[@CommanderBly5052]

@@jasonlambert5552 wrong house. You’re thinking of Lund’s Hut, the other house near Rorikstead.

[@screenspelunkers1026]

Spif: I’m not leaving the path for any reason! Also Spif: Oh look a farm!

[@BiohazardPsycho]

I was shocked he didn't complete that quest tbh - it gives MORE money and has people make alchemy ingredients for you! Between that and Ysolda he would've been set

[@DemianCorvus]

Spiff: "No exploits" Also Spiff: "We'll call this a gameplay mechanic"

[@Hwk1901]

Yes, has no mana, knows it's a bug letting him continue, I'd call that an exploit

[@potatos_4_free]

@@Hwk1901 It's a feature, not a bug. If Bethesda left it in the game you can be rest assured it is a gameplay mechanic, given their track record of releasing perfectly balanced, exploit-free AAA games!

[@SotiCoto]

He ran into it by accident. I reckon that is fair.

[@aredub1847]

you can do that with console commands. i would need the entire video uncut to believe him.

[@kelli2783]

The squeak when the skeleton attacked after fleeing through the door was incredible

[@k-nick97]

Yeah this definitely needs another go. Would love to see it with the rules tweaked too so it changes up how you play through these first two weeks as well. Something like: you can use weapons, armor, and enchantments, but only what you personally craft. The living hell it'd be to try and brave dungeons to find loot you could use to break down and learn enchantments would be an interesting risk/reward decision.

[@blacksuitnotie]

You could change the rules to no magic or ranged fighting interactions. Like a Puritan warrior build. Honeslty, that would be much harder, while opening up the option of working your way up to better armor.

[@LeoStaley]

Even change to "pickaxes, axes, and fishing rods don't count as weapons for the purposes of this run" would have made all the difference.

[@nutslut]

I like the way you narrate your videos. I was tired and kept nodding off, closing my eyes, but I could still visualize what's going on on-screen because you narrate every action you take.

[@Yertle_Turtle]

that's a backhand way of saying he puts you to sleep. question is, does he tuck you in, too?

[@NotRudyy]

@@Yertle_Turtle i used to watch skyrim playthroughs in high school because they would help me fall asleep. I guess other people do too lol. I didnt think they were boring or anything, they were just calming ig

[@AlexAnimusAA]

@@Yertle_Turtle I’ve literally fallen asleep listening to heavy metal. I don’t think they were throwing shade, just saying they were tired. Everyone’s been there. I purposely put on city engineers videos cause his voice is calming lol so I get it

[@Redolentleek]

@@Yertle_Turtle people have watched shows or podcasts specifically to fall asleep. And when They wake up start from where They stopped. Sleep is good

[@BoolyK]

Such a good burn

[@MonkeyDGreed1854]

This was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eyes. Watching Legless's body ragdoll across the ground was heartbreaking! He got so far and struggled for so long. But he will live on in our hearts and minds. Perhaps Legless Jr. Will fair better? Journeying across skyrim to find his father he never knew.

[@sdfkjgh]

@Camdon Durfee: For a second there, I thought you were gonna break out the Linkin Park meme.

[@thomasmalin7306]

Beautiful analysis

[@mariobutoto534]

But Legless never did the nasty with Ysolda...

[@miksor23PL]

I think that taking this farm from ghost(29:46) would make this run way easier. You could plant planty of crops(like wheat) or other alchemy ingredients. By planting blue mountain flower and wheat you could make healing potions and sell them to upgrade your farming empire to grow more plants and make more money

[@AsuraBoss]

Spiff turns yet another game into a money-making tycoon game

[@Idrinkhoppes]

Planting 1 Creep Cluster, 2 Mora Tapinella, 1 Scaly Pholiota in that ratio will net you the highest value potion possible with strictly grown crops.

[@Tossphate]

@@Idrinkhoppes Plus it would be all organic too

[@charliemaddox5564]

I was thinking the exact same thing when he said he didn't need the plantation

[@julianpenstemon]

If you ever decide to attempt this again you can get Faendal in riverwood for free to do your bidding while you run away from a bandit screaming! That’s what’s I’d have done at least

[@felinelamp2551]

that’s what i was thinking

[@zemosion1129]

I absolutely love how they changed food in survival mode. I end up healing with just food a lot of the time because they buffed it sooooo much

[@countluke2334]

Is this an official game mode now or is it a mod?

[@shockingboring_]

I kinda hate that not all food reduces your hunger. doesn't make sense to me and makes survival more tedious than it needs to be. @Count Luke it is and official game mode

[@liquidsleepgames3661]

​@@shockingboring_ how so. taffy or an apple shouldnt fill you like a potato or a mammoth snout.

[@shockingboring_]

@@liquidsleepgames3661 still, the difference shouldn't be that enormous. also I recently discovered that some of the problems I encounter could be linked to the Unofficial Skyrim Patch which seems to remove the hunger restoring aspect of most foods entirely. sadly the patch is absolutely necessary to fix what bethesda considers ready for multiple releases over the years. so until they fix that, guess I can't really play survival mode... and it has already been years with apparently few people noticing this issue ...

[@KarmasAB123]

@@shockingboring_ You shouldn't use the official survival mod anyway. It's based off Chesko's Frostfall mod, he helped them with the official mod and then they stiffed him. Just use "Frostfall" with "Complete Alchemy and Crafting Overhaul" and "iNeed." Edit: Quotation marks for clarity

[@npcknuckles5887]

"marriage is so overpowered" literally the most wholesome thing the spiffing brit has ever said

[@MrAlopex112]

i would call it a nerf, but hey 😅

[@egorsdeimos3523]

@@MrAlopex112 ok satan

[@Olav_Hansen]

Ideas for the next attempt: -get yourself blessings that are not gear dependent -in the first town, there is this really easy "lovers quarrel" quest, if you finish it you get yourself a really talented archer follower. Besides that, I recommend power leveling stealth and illusion magic. You cast muffle on yourself, then invisibility, and then you can complete dungeons without even being attacked. The secondary benefit of powerleveling illusion, is that as soon as you fear being spotted, you can cast calm or fear, or make them fight eachother. Essentially it's perfect for infiltration missions where you don't want to attack people.

[@jezzbanger]

Then get Transmute Ore

[@randot6675]

All paths lead back to stealth archer. Truly a Todd Howard experience.

[@DexStarrTheManiac]

Never in my life did i think i would hear someone say “im not equipped to fight a skeleton” in reference to an elder scrolls game.

[@skippykishi7851]

Spiff, I would definitely like to see more of this challenge. You made me actually want to try legendary survival mode as well. Thanks!

[@LeJRGo]

Please continue with the challenge. Skyrim vids never gets old and with the way you role play the game, it’s so entertaining

[@johnbright6982]

I have not once, ever, heard spiff as terrified as when that skeleton attacked him. Never had I thought I would see the day that a drinker of yorkshire tea would have something to fear.

[@sethmathews1860]

His power was taken from him. There was no tea and no exploits

[@patrickormerod3472]

only the gay english drink tea

[@kiwigamer4671]

The problem I’ve found with survival mode is that food is ridiculously cheap, like something that restores ~300 hunger is 1-5 gold, it’s amazing.

[@AdaTheWatcher]

Atleast it's realistic, in most survival games you're like eating constantly. While you do get hungery while surviving you usually aren't eating 20 steaks per day.

[@neoqwerty]

This actually gave me a lot of perspective on what a normal mortal's life is like in Skyrim. Thank you, SpiffingBrit, for giving me writing perspective.

[@mizaru666]

I laughed so hard at that skeleton scene.

[@thespiffingbrit]

I almost died when recording. Why are they so dangerous!!!!

[@resileaf9501]

@@thespiffingbrit The sound you made when you saw the skeleton was definitely the sound of someone about to die of a heart attack.

[@dlichu]

@@thespiffingbrit I almost died when watching this :P

[@molhemalaa1252]

@@thespiffingbrit I never imagined I'd ever hear someone say Skyrim's skeletons are dangerous

[@jonathanbrightwell272]

@@molhemalaa1252 Skyrim skeletons are the reason I VASTLY underestimated the skeletons in dark souls when I first played it 😂

[@resileaf9501]

Today Spiff learns what it's like to be a peasant struggling to survive.

[@jenbervis4352]

The subtle realism of being an urchin: survival life hack, get married to someone that has a house and food

[@xaiano794]

"marriage is so overpowered, you do nothing and they do everything and you just take all their stuff" Spiff discovering how life works...

[@MrPsyren99]

You can tell it's a fantasy game because the guy is the one who does nothing and gets the money

[@hanks_2210]

I enjoyed how you decided to not just sleep the whole time in Alvor's house. You actually progressed during the challenge.

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

Wouldn't sleeping 100 days kill him because of survival mode?

[@adelefurness4021]

@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD I think they meant just returning to alvors house to sleep every night

[@derekking9670]

I don't understand you can just sleep the entire time. Hunger doesn't kill you in survival node. How is this a challenge?

[@jamesdixon6582]

@@derekking9670 It can be a challenge if you say, "Let's see how much I can level up and progress through different questlines in 100 days," so you aren't measuring success solely on whether or not you're alive by the end of the set timeframe 👍

[@cianwright3114]

Spiffing Brit: “I will not be tempted by anything off the side road until I get to the city” Also Spiffing Brit: “There’s a farm, it looks good, I’m gonna do it… THERE’S A GHOST”

[@TheTexas1994]

Spiff: He's probably friendly! It's going to be fine Also Spiff: HE IS NOT FRIENDLY!

[@Go.Shaman]

29:46 :)) feel free to edit your comment with the timestamp!

[@Whitelight_Recon]

I'd love to watch this as a series. Seems like a true challenge

[@FantomPhoenix]

I love how much this challenge makes challenging even so much as a single Skeleton a terrifying experience

[@jamesrichardson7619]

9:17

[@koalakaio]

Survival mode is definitely the best way to experience Skyrim. It forces you to utilize so many more aspects of the game that you would otherwise skip over and, without fast travel, you often need to make efficient use of things in the immediate area since you can't bounce around the map as easily. I personally like to add mods that make the economy more expensive and realistic as well.

[@berrysilver494]

I almost exclusively play Legendary Survival, and funnily enough I also usually don't wear armor (got bored once and tried mage armor + melee weapons build and actually really liked it), so I relate to this video maybe a little more than I should... 😅

[@McDiezel079]

its a real shame toddy boy didn't lean into the world living aspect like the earlier ES games, imgaine how deep it could be by now.

[@octogen1282]

For me, the best thing about survival mode is actually the fact that there is no passive health regen. Healing and avoiding damage becomes so much more meaningful when you can't just take a small break between combats and be in top shape all the time.

[@benlunaris]

Good thing no dragons can spawn until after the Whiterun tower fight, would've made things extra spooky since they can also attack settlements

[@ArtistthiccArttwerks]

This is genuinely a fun yet tedious take on the game. I hope you make part 2

[@BrennonIsMilak]

I love the idea of the feeble traveling merchant, but I feel like you could make it a little easier on yourself. Legendary is hard enough already without making it so you're essentially helpless in combat. Since it's a no exploits run, I'd go for at least being able to use any clothing as long as it doesn't actually give armor, and possibly limiting weapons to just daggers or maybe anything under 10 base damage or something like that. Either way I think it would be interesting to start with a lower difficulty challenge and do a series of you just making it harder and harder.

[@sirthomasfishnchips2477]

Please make it a series Spiff, this was so entertaning to watch. Great work, hope you have a good day.

[@regrettablemuffin9186]

I loved this challenge, having a single life that was so fragile made such a good story

[@Robosium]

5:04 vegetable soup is friggin op in skyrim, if you ever use a shield or lots of power attacks the vegetable stew lets you keep doing those indefinently

[@poilboiler]

It is the power of VEGETABLES!

[@ClassicMagicMan]

Absolutely! Vegetable Soup is actually worth going out of your way to make; it regenerates 1 stamina per second throughout its duration. The reason why this is OP is that blocking and power attacking only require you to have gas in the tank to get started, regardless of how much is actually used for the action. In other words, indefinite blocking and power attacking. 1 each of Cabbage, Potato, Tomato, and Leek. ID code F431E

[@Robosium]

@@ClassicMagicMan venison stew also gives the same effects but required salt and venison which are way more annoying to get

[@ClassicMagicMan]

@@Robosium True. Though finding Leeks is its own little misery, isn't it?

[@josetorresjr1644]

In the beginning of your journey you should of gotten Faendal from Riverwood as your companion. All you had to do to get him was his simple quest and you would have gotten a decent companion for free.

[@demikus]

Also he gives you a bit of gold from his job at the lumber mill if I remember right. 2 birds with one stone, a companion to help out and some spending cash for room and board.

[@WhiRav1]

+ those skeletons and wolves are just destruction magic xp bags, so he just wasted some good lvls

[@resileaf9501]

It just goes to show how fun Skyrim is despite its shortcomings that you can genuinely have fun trying to complete a survival challenge.

[@Hadvar]

what shortcomings?

[@GeorgeMonet]

Skyrim is an amazing game as a whole. The only people who don't consider it one of the best games ever made are the idiots who think Dark Souls games are great and think Skyrim is bad just because it doesn't have the same combat mechanics and combat focus Dark Souls has. And no, I am not strawmanning the Skyrim critics, that is their actual argument you can find time and time again just by looking at their arguments whenever they post them.

[@EgXP]

Loved the part where Skyrim said "it's Todding time" and Todded all over Spiff's game, truly one of the videos of all time.

[@J3553xAnotherFan]

I've never been more invested into your videos. Usually its a "We can do this to cheese the game!" and its usually a video thats cut down so much I'm just like, "Nice, cool." This long format challenge video was fantastic. I actually cared about Legless and the challenge. I would love a whole series of this.

[@LegoCowManZ]

"The only reward is that you can stay in the farm as your own house" False, you can also turn the farm into, well, a farm. Which means you can grow wheat and make potions. You can also build a stable, and receive passive income from workers you hire. No clue if they get paid after you hire them, or if it's a one-time payment for a lifetime of work, but it's also not really my problem. Just make sure you never trigger the dragons spawning or you'll be dealing with them off and on again. Hey, now that I think about it, even if you can't wear armor nothings stopping you from making and selling it, right?

[@Respectable_Username]

This looks a lot tougher than the typical Minecraft 100 days Hardcore challenge. Am fascinated to see you take it on!

[@ryancooper4770]

This was truly excellent, a gem. Was hoping it was a multi-parter, and still hope it will be

[@dragonrelm7068]

If I remember correctly one of the standing stones gives you health regeneration which actually works for this challenge, it's slow but it can help if you can hide for a while in battle

[@zarcher7643]

I know it's been a while since this project was started and last touched/abandoned, but you've introduced such a fun challenge mode for skyrim. Thank you for this short lived series!

[@mattias3253]

Hearing a Spiff in panic is food for the soul. Good stuff!

[@aleksandarmalovic8535]

This was such a treat of a video, the screams of despair, the music, the editing, the exploits wanting Spiff to succeed :D I'd love to see more videos like this.

[@ZyliceLiddell]

Playing Skyrim as a ‘survivalist’ or ‘minimalist’ makes it seem like an even *bigger* game! 😃

[@Mystb_cs]

5:00 vegetable soup with a dual Weil build is overpowered you get infinite critical attacks. If you pair this with the elemental the maxed out elemental fury shout, and the Orcs Berserker rage, you become an unkillable god especially with a heavy armour tank like the orc. I did this on a legendary mode run and it felt like a standard play through with tougher bosses

[@harkendrake6830]

I would love to see more of this type of episodes as it shows another side of spiff that is fun to watch and it was very fun to see him show some higher level of care for his character

[@NamelessHermit]

We need to see the adventures of Legless' relatives with each relative facing more difficult challenges than the last.

[@MrBallardbuddy]

This right here

[@deadlinedesign]

"I think we're actually ready to go and do our first quest" at 38:08 with 5 minutes left. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for 'em.

[@liambrunet6371]

i love the diverse feeling skyrim has depending on ur "power level" u go from killing kings for fun and dragons for money or their hide too basicaly being an npc with a dream

[@litchdoctor1779]

Please do this again. This was incredibly enjoyable to watch, and I need more incredible videos like this one to drink Yorkshire tea to.

[@Skurai_X]

only Spiff could play Skyrim in yet another new way that makes me want to go back again and still not ever beat the game lol

[@robthegamer5953]

This was a blast to watch…I so enjoyed watching Spiff succeed winning small victories vs anytime he’s absolutely demolished a game and it’s exploits…good show sir!

[@brittanyarnold3191]

30:38 Spiff: "If we complete this quest, we get a farm that generates an income and has 44 spaces to grow things. But that's not what i need at the moment, so i'll just grab some wheat from over here instead." Me: *goes to find a wall to bang my head against*

[@ladyfyreblood6550]

Loved this! I expect a complete day 100 challenge to be many hours long that I can get cozy and watch! Harvest tools should be allowed too! Could always go Altmer for that extra magic and regen. Non-spousal home ownership should be a nice goal, maybe no spouse either.

[@IrishAdonis]

Definitely a great spin on the 100 days idea, would love to see more endeavors in Todd’s beautiful creation

[@Gottaculat]

Innkeeper: "Ysolda, dear, why do you put up with Legless? He's just using you. What makes him so special?" Ysolda: "It's because he gave me his mammoth tusk." * winks * Innkeeper: "Oooo! You go, GURRRL!!!"

[@thanquolrattenherz9665]

that can be taken out of context

[@shiverbane9920]

That's it that's the joke

[@Darkreaper1982]

@38:02 "Time to have a big old sleep for 3 hours. Yep, that has fully rested me" Probably THE most unrealistic thing about Skyrim!

[@krelekari]

I'd LOVE to see this again tbh You wandering around as an alteration mage, just because you happened across that, was so fun to watch if you do it next I'd love to see some random aspects added to the starting location and or item spawn locations :D

[@berrysilver494]

Yes! Finally, someone recognizes the usefulness of wheat in a healing potion! I always have so many healing potions and my alchemy is through the roof bc I constantly harvest blue flowers & wheat lol I also love how similar this is to my main build, where I use no armor but rather just robes & armor spells (though I use melee weapons bc spells can be a bit boring sometimes)

[@clindseth]

Magnificent! I’m now thoroughly inspired to take up this challenge myself. It will be GLORIOU… Oh, I’m dead.

[@lsdap1969]

This leaves me craving for a full rpg series from you with different builds and approaches to the challenge 😍

[@gypsycrow3917]

We want more Spiff, we need more. This is the slice of life I needed to see.

[@lanjieke]

PLEEEEEEASE give it another go! I kept constantly watching the time of the video, and when we were nearing the end at only Day 12 I feared the worst but held a glimmer of hope that maybe there would be a sequel. LET THERE BE A SEQUEL, SPIFF!!!

[@ChulioRCHulio]

Skyrim:"So you gonna play the game the intendet way and plan ahead?" The Spiffing Brit:"That´s the neat part - you don´t"

[@emanuelstornello8009]

''so that frost mage is'nt the most dangerous thing in the world'' frost mage: *''alright, bet.''*