Skyrim:Animal Parts

Animal Parts are various items that can be harvested from dead animals but have limited use. They are listed separately from other animal-derived products because game merchants categorize them differently. For other related items see:

• Animal Hides
• Raw Food for meat that comes from animals
• Ingredients for various alchemy ingredients that come from animals

Animal parts are traded by apothecaries and by hunters encountered in the wilderness.

Unprocessed

Unless otherwise noted, merchants do not stock these items.

	Name (ID)			Notes
	Bone Hawk ClawDG (xx011cf7)	1	7	Sources: Bone Hawks found flying around Castle Volkihar drop 1 claw (in addition to 2 feathers and 1 skull). 3 Bone Hawk Claws are among the items needed at forges to craft a Bone Hawk Ring. Notes: All Bone Hawk parts are classified by vendors in the Ores and Ingots category. Therefore they can be sold to jewelry merchants and blacksmiths, but not apothecaries or hunters.
	Bone Hawk FeathersDG (xx002994)	1	7	Sources: Bone Hawks found flying around Castle Volkihar drop 2 feathers (in addition to 1 claw and 1 skull). Uses: 6 Bone Hawk Feathers are among the items needed at forges to craft a Bone Hawk Amulet. Notes: The Dawnguard add-on is required to access this item. All Bone Hawk parts are classified by vendors in the Ores and Ingots category. Therefore they can be sold to jewelry merchants and blacksmiths, but not apothecaries or hunters.
	Bone Hawk SkullDG (xx002993)	1	7	Sources: Bone Hawks found flying around Castle Volkihar drop 1 skull (in addition to 1 claw and 2 feathers). Uses: 1 Bone Hawk Skull is one of the items needed at forges to craft a Bone Hawk Amulet. Notes: The Dawnguard add-on is required to access this item. All Bone Hawk parts are classified by vendors in the Ores and Ingots category. Therefore they can be sold to jewelry merchants and blacksmiths, but not apothecaries or hunters.
	Chaurus Chitin (0003ad57)	4	50	Sources: Dropped by Chaurus and Chaurus Reapers. 19 guaranteed samples are found in 7 different locations. Locations with multiple samples include: Irkngthand Slave Pens (The Pale) with 4; Chillwind Depths (Hjaalmarch) with 3; Tolvald's Crossing (The Rift) with 3; Frostflow Abyss (Winterhold) with 3; Irkngthand Grand Cavern (The Pale) with 3 Uses: 1 Chaurus Chitin is needed at Workbenches to improve Falmer armor. 1 Chaurus Chitin is needed at Grindstones to improve Falmer weapons.
	Death Hound CollarDG (xx00f709)	2	50	Sources: Dropped by Death Hounds. Notes: The Dawnguard add-on is required to access this item.
	Dragon Bone (0003ada4)	15	500	Sources: 1-3 Dragon Bones are dropped by all varieties of Dragon; the Skeletal Dragon drops 5 Dragon Bones. There are no guaranteed locations where they can be found in the base game. 1 Dragon Bone can be found in Valerica's study.(DG) Uses: Dragon Bones are one of the items needed at Forges to create all varieties of Dragonplate armor (heavy armor). If the Dawnguard add-on has been installed, Dragon Bones are one of the items needed at Forges to create all varieties of Dragonbone weapons. 1 Dragon Bone is needed at Workbenches to improve Dragonplate Shields and Cuirasses. If the Dawnguard add-on has been installed, 1 Dragon Bone is needed at Grindstones to improve all Dragonbone weapons. 1 Dragon Bone is needed to build a Shrine of Talos in the cellar of a Hearthfire house.
	Dragon Heartscales (000d0756)	10	250	Quest item for the quest Alteration Ritual Spell
	Dragon Scales (0003ada3)	10	250	Sources: 1-3 Dragon Scales are dropped by all varieties of Dragon except the Skeletal Dragon who drops none. 1 sample found at a Shrine of Akatosh located ESE of Lund's Hut and north of Rorikstead (map) Uses: Dragon Scales are one of the items needed at Forges to create all varieties of Dragonplate armor (heavy armor) and Dragonscale armor (light armor) 1 Dragon Scales sample is needed at Workbenches to improve most Dragonplate and Dragonscale armor (with the exception of Dragonplate Shields and Cuirasses, which require 1 Dragon Bone instead). 1 Dragon Scale is needed to build a Shrine of Talos in the cellar of a Hearthfire house.
	Glenmoril Witch Head (0002996f)	4	0	Quest item for the quest Blood's Honor
	Goat Horns (xx00303f)	1	5	Sources: May be dropped by goats. Sold by general merchants. Uses: 1 or more needed to build most light fixtures for Hearthfire houses. 2 needed to build a goat trophy on a small base in a Hearthfire trophy room.
	Horker Tusk (0003ad68)	1	15	Horker Tusks are dropped by all varieties of Horker (in addition to Horker Meat and minor loot). Einarth also carries one. 27 guaranteed samples are found in 20 different locations. Locations with multiple tusks are: Hunter's camp 420 ft S of Bleakcoast Cave (Winterhold) with 4 tusks; Brinewater Grotto with 3 tusks; Hag's End with 3 tusks. They do not have any uses in the original version of the game. If Hearthfire is installed, it is used for various furnishing options for your player-built home.
	Mammoth Tusk (0003ad6c)	5	150	Sources: Mammoth Tusks are dropped by all varieties of Mammoth (in addition to a Mammoth Snout and minor loot). May be sold by hunters or general goods merchant starting at level 5. 30 guaranteed samples are found in 20 different locations. Locations with multiple tusks are: Halted Stream Camp (Whiterun Hold) with 8 tusks; The Arcanaeum (College of Winterhold) with 3 tusks; 340 ft SW of Cragwallow Slope (Eastmarch) (map) with 2 tusks. Uses: One is needed for the quest Ringmaker. One is needed for the quest Bring one Mammoth Tusk to Ysolda. A Mammoth Tusk is one of four ingredients needed to create a Spell Tome: Conjure Storm Atronach at the Atronach Forge They cannot be used to create Powdered Mammoth Tusks
	Opaque Vessel (0003e6bb) (0003e6bc) (0008d770)	0	0	Quest items for the quest Evil in Waiting.
	Potema's Skull (0009e01f)	0	0	Quest item for the quest The Wolf Queen Awakened
	Shellbug ChitinDG (xx0195aa)	4	25	Uses: 2 Shellbug Chitin are among the items needed at forges to craft a Shellbug Helmet. Notes: Shellbug Chitin is classified by vendors in the Ores and Ingots category. Therefore it can be sold to jewelry merchants and blacksmiths, but not apothecaries or hunters. Unlike other "chitin" in the game, Shellbug Chitin is not dropped when a creature dies, but mined from the creature's body with a pickaxe. The Dawnguard add-on is required to access this item.
	Skull (000af5fd)	2	5	Sources: Skulls may be randomly found in coffins 681 guaranteed skulls can be found in 175 different locations. Locations with the greatest numbers are: Dawnstar Sanctuary (The Pale) with 49; The Midden Dark (Winterhold) with 30; Rebel's Cairn (The Reach) with 27. Uses: A Skull is one of four ingredients needed to create an Unbound Dremora at the Atronach Forge With the Hearthfire add-on, 1 Skull is among the items needed for a trophy in a player-built house.
	Troll Skull (000319e4)	3.5	5	169 guaranteed Troll Skulls can be found in 118 different locations. With the Hearthfire add-on, 1 Troll Skull is among the items needed for a trophy in a player-built house.

Smithing

If the Dawnguard add-on has been installed, some animal parts can be used when smithing.

	Name (ID)	Type	Tempering				Raw Materials	Delta		Ratio
	Bone Hawk Amulet (xx01aa0b)	Amulet	N/A	1	100	0	1 Bone Hawk Skull + 6 Bone Hawk Feathers + 2 Leather Strips	-6.2	45	0.14	1.82
	Bone Hawk Ring (xx011cf5)*	Ring	N/A	0.3	75	0	3 Bone Hawk Claw + 1 Silver Ingot + 1 Leather Strips
	Shellbug Helmet (xx012e8a)	Heavy Helmet	Shellbug Chitin; perk: Advanced	6	600	22	2 Shellbug Chitin + 2 Iron Ingots	-4	536	0.60	9.38

• The Bone Hawk Ring cannot be crafted.
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 1.2.3, addresses this issue. A new crafting recipe has been created.