Small Dwemer Plate Metal

A small sheet of ancient Dwemer metal found in Dwarven ruins, smelted into Dwarven Metal Ingots for Dwarven gear.

Small Dwemer Plate Metal is one of the lighter bits of Dwarven junk scattered around Skyrim’s ancient ruins. It weighs 2 and is worth 15 gold, which is nothing special, but at a smelter it turns into a Dwarven Metal Ingot. Those ingots are what you need for Dwarven Armor and weapons once you have the Dwarven Smithing perk, so this is one piece of scrap that is actually worth carrying out.

How to get it

Look for it lying around in Dwemer ruins rather than in ore veins. The Boilery in Mzulft has 9 pieces, the Aedrome 7, and the main ruin 2 more, making Mzulft the top spot overall. In Markarth, Calcelmo‘s Laboratory holds 8 pieces and the Dwemer Museum another 10 across its rooms, though you will need to be sneaky to clear it out.

The Nchuand-Zel ruins under Markarth add 6 in the Quarters and 2 at the Excavation Site, and the ruined tower of Alftand has 2. The Deep Market in Raldbthar has another 2. Falmer occasionally carry a piece or two as well, so check their bodies after every fight in the deep ruins.

Smelting and tanning

1 Small Dwemer Plate Metal → 3 Dwarven Metal Ingot at the smelter

Used to craft

Small Dwemer Plate Metal appears in 1 recipe in the game files.

Weapons and other items

smelter: Dwarven Metal Ingot (1)

The number in brackets is how many Small Dwemer Plate Metal each recipe needs. Bold labels are the Smithing perk the recipe requires.

Good to know

At 2 weight it is one of the easiest Dwemer scraps to haul, so grab it even when your bags are getting full.

Data from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm and the official add-ons): value, weight, ore veins, recipes and merchant lists. ID 000C8866 is the item’s form ID for the console.

Where to find it

Mzulft Boilery: 9 pieces, Mzulft Aedrome: 7
Calcelmo’s Laboratory in Markarth: 8 pieces
Dwemer Museum: 6 pieces
Nchuand-Zel Quarters: 6 pieces
Carried by Falmer

Crafting materials

Lore notes

Dropped by

Quest reward from

Where it appears

Alftand

Alftand in Skyrim: the frozen Dwemer ruin of Elder Knowledge – the doomed expedition, Falmer, a Dwarven Centurion, the Blackreach entrance and scrap metal tips.

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.