Everyone who's played Skyrim knows that, with a pickaxe in-hand and a can-do attitude, the Dovahkiin can go prospecting in the fantasy game's mines and dungeons to chisel themselves out some handy ore. What it seems a whole bunch of players didn't know is that you can speed up the somewhat tiresome task of doing it by skipping the mining animation entirely - and people are very excited about the discovery.
Yesterday, Skyrim subredditor JRnalistic24 posted a screenshot of a conversation they'd seen in which this little titbit was illuminated - that is, that you can simply hack away at an ore deposit with your pickaxe, as you would a bandit with your war axe, to get the goods instead of having to sit through the slightly lengthy mining animation time and time again. "TIL I just wasted hundreds of game hours," the user joked in the post. Turns out, that was a bit of a 'TIL' moment for plenty others, too.
As of writing, the post is sitting at just under a whopping 14,000 upvotes - far more than the vast majority on the subreddit's front page - and the comments are jam-packed with Skyrim fans exclaiming variations of "ARE YOU KIDDING ME". Others say they discovered this little hack a while back, though still a long time into playing the game.
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