Powdered Mammoth Tusk

A rare powder of ground mammoth ivory – Fortify Sneak, Restore Stamina, Fear.

Powdered Mammoth Tusk is one of the rarest base-game ingredients. Merchants only start selling it once you have the Merchant perk in Speech, and even then it’s rare. Restore Stamina and Fortify Sneak are useful; Fear and Weakness to Fire suit poisons.

Alchemy effects

The effects are listed in the order you discover them by eating the ingredient or using it in a potion. Two ingredients make a potion when they share at least one effect.

  1. Restore Stamina – instantly restores spent Stamina. Also on: Bear Claws, Bee, Charred Skeever Hide, Eye of Sabre Cat, Hawk Beak, Histcarp, Honeycomb, Large Antlers, Mudcrab Chitin, Orange Dartwing, Pearl, Pine Thrush Egg, Purple Mountain Flower, Sabre Cat Tooth, Silverside Perch, Small Pearl, Torchbug Thorax, Wisp Wrappings.
  2. Fortify Sneak – makes you harder to detect for a while. Also on: Abecean Longfin, Beehive Husk, Frost Mirriam, Hawk Feathers, Human Flesh, Purple Mountain Flower.
  3. Weakness to Fire – a poison effect that makes the target take more fire damage. Also on: Bleeding Crown, Frost Salts, Ice Wraith Teeth, Juniper Berries, Moon Sugar.
  4. Fear – a poison effect that makes low-level creatures and people flee from combat. Also on: Blue Dartwing, Cyrodilic Spadetail, Daedra Heart, Namira’s Rot.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 2 gold, weight 0.1.

Where to find it

  • Very rarely sold by alchemists – and only after you've taken the Speech perk Merchant.
  • Peddlers in some random encounters, especially in the Reach, and rarely on Forsworn.
  • The Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary near Falkreath.
  • Dawnguard: beside a dead miner beneath the bridge to the Chantry of Auri-El in the Forgotten Vale.
  • Hearthfire: a homestead alchemy lab comes stocked with some. Dragonborn: Tel Mithryn and cultists.

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