Large Dwemer Strut

A heavy Dwemer support beam found in Dwarven ruins, smelted into Dwarven Metal Ingots for Dwarven weapons and armor.

Large Dwemer Strut is a long piece of Dwarven support beam that weighs 20 and is worth just 15 gold, which makes it one of the worst things to sell in its raw form. Throw it into a smelter, though, and you get a Dwarven Metal Ingot, the material for Dwarven Armor and weapons with the Dwarven Smithing perk. The Dwemer built things to last, and so will your back if you carry too many.

How to get it

Struts lie around in Dwemer ruins. In Markarth, Calcelmo‘s Laboratory has 11 and the Dwemer Museum 10 across its rooms. The Nchuand-Zel ruins below the city have 9 in the Quarters plus 7 more in Control and the Armory.

Mzulft is just as generous: 9 in the main ruin, 8 in the Aedrome and 7 in the Boilery. The Deep Market in Raldbthar adds 4. Falmer sometimes carry struts too. Because of the weight, plan your route so you can smelt right away, for example at Markarth’s smelter right after clearing Nchuand-Zel, before you head anywhere else.

Smelting and tanning

1 Large Dwemer Strut → 3 Dwarven Metal Ingot at the smelter

Used to craft

Large Dwemer Strut appears in 1 recipe in the game files.

Weapons and other items

smelter: Dwarven Metal Ingot (1)

The number in brackets is how many Large Dwemer Strut each recipe needs. Bold labels are the Smithing perk the recipe requires.

Good to know

At 20 weight for 15 gold, never sell it raw. A Dwarven Metal Ingot is worth 30 and weighs 1.

Data from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm and the official add-ons): value, weight, ore veins, recipes and merchant lists. ID 000C8872 is the item’s form ID for the console.

Where to find it

Calcelmo’s Laboratory in Markarth: 11 pieces
Mzulft: 9 pieces, Mzulft Aedrome: 8, Mzulft Boilery: 7
Nchuand-Zel Quarters: 9 pieces
Raldbthar Deep Market: 4 pieces
Carried by Falmer

Crafting materials

Lore notes

Dropped by

Quest reward from

Where it appears

Markarth

Markarth is the stone city of the Reach, carved into the cliffs by the Dwemer – home of the Silver-Blood family, Cidhna Mine and the Forsworn conspiracy.

Mzulft

Mzulft in Skyrim: Dwemer ruin north of Riften with the Oculory for Revealing the Unseen, Falmer, chaurus, moonstone veins and tons of Dwemer scrap metal.

Raldbthar

Raldbthar in Skyrim: the Dwemer ruin east of Irkngthand – Alain Dufont, Mourning Never Comes, the gear-bridge puzzle, traps and the way into Blackreach.

Characters connected to it

Calcelmo

Calcelmo is the elderly Altmer Dwemer scholar of Markarth’s Understone Keep – keeper of the Dwemer Museum, the Falmer stone and the key to Hard Answers.