Best And Fastest Ways To Make Gold In Oblivion Remastered

A large part of your journey in Oblivion Remastered is dictated by how much gold you have. Whether you need to buy a key weapon from a vendor or some upgrades to your free castle, you'll need gold and lots of it. You'll quickly find that gold is in fairly short supply relative to how much a certain item costs when visiting a merchant. So, you need to come up with ways to make gold quickly and efficiently to fund whatever expense you have your eyes set on in Oblivion Remastered.

Below, we'll go over five of the best ways you can make gold and make it quickly in Cyrodiil. The methods are in no particular order, so feel free to use whichever one you feel is easiest for your character. If you want more general tips for Oblivion Remastered, make sure to check out our full walkthrough of the entire game.

1. Play and gamble at the Arena

The first and most well-known way to make gold in Oblivion Remastered is by paying a visit to the Arena. You can immediately fast travel to the Arena by going to your map, viewing Imperial City, and then selecting the eastern green icon that reads "Imperial City Arena." You can do this by default after the tutorial is complete. Once you're at the Arena, either speak to Hundolin, who is the first NPC you see, or Owyn, the Blademaster, who's located down one floor from where you fast travel to.

Speaking to Hundolin allows you to place bets on the Arena combatants. You can either wage on the Blue or Yellow Team, and each has a 50% chance to win. However, if you have a high Luck stat (above 50), then the team you bet on has better odds in the Arena. You can choose to bet 25, 50, or 100 gold on your team, and the bet pays out at 2:1. This means you if you bet 100 gold, you win 200 gold (100 gold profit).

On the other hand, if you talk to Owyn, you can become a combatant in the Arena and fight opponents to ascend the Arena ranks and make additional gold. This is, naturally, the more foolproof method to make money at the Arena, as you're not relying on odds to cash in. Instead, you can win as much gold as you want if you keep fighting and winning as a combatant in the Arena. While this method does take longer, there are other rewards in store for you by winning fights, so it's a worthwhile time investment.

Make and sell potions through Alchemy

The next gold-making method we have is to utilize the Alchemy skill in Oblivion Remastered. By using a Mortar and Pestle along with ingredients, you can create hundreds of potions that offer dozens of different effects. For gold-making purposes, though, you don't really care what kinds of potions you're brewing, as you eventually want to sell those potions to a merchant to turn a profit.

The best way to use this method is by looting as many fruits and plants as you can. For plants, the most ideal location to loot them is just outside of Skingrad. There's a vineyard there that has dozens of grape vines, which you can pick to add a massive amount of grapes to your inventory. As for plants, head into caves and explore the grassy areas of Cyrodiil and loot any and all ingredients you come across. While the ingredients don't weigh a ton, a large amount does start to stack up. If you're on PC, you can download a mod in Oblivion Remastered that helps with your carrying capacity.

Once you have a solid number of ingredients in large quantities, click on your Mortar and Pestle in the inventory. This brings you to the Alchemy menu, where you can combine two or more ingredients to create potions. Look for two ingredients that have the same properties (e.g., "Restore Fatigue" or "Damage Intelligence) and select them. This allows you to make a potion using those ingredients, and you can keep pressing "Create" to make as many potions as you can.

After you've made a great deal of potions, you can turn around and sell them to any merchant that takes them. General traders and Alchemy merchants, such as Sinderion the Nirnroot Plant guru, will buy the potions from you for a decent amount of gold. When you run out of potions, wait a few in-game days, go back to where you got all of your ingredients, and they will have respawned, allowing you to repeat the process over again.

Steal loot for the Thieves Guild

A time-honored method of making gold in Cyrodiil is by stealing loot and then turning around to sell it to the Thieves Guild. The Thieves Guild has a fence merchant that buys any stolen goods you bring them, and the fence generally has plenty of gold to take whatever you've stolen off your hands.

To join the Thieves Guild, you can do a few different things, but the easiest is to get thrown in jail, serve your time, and then rest at a bed. After you've rested, you'll get approached by a mysterious Dark Elf who hands you a note and tells you to go to the Garden of Dareloth in the Imperial City at midnight. From there, you can complete the steps to become a member of the Thieves Guild.

While the Thieves Guild offers you contracts to steal items for them, you also want to take every advantage you can. This means pickpocketing from unaware NPCs, stealing from chests when no one is looking, and robbing a shopowner when they have their back turned. With all of these stolen items, bring them to the fence in the Thieves Guild and sell them for a huge profit.

Sell legitimate loot to merchants

While selling stolen loot to the Thieves Guild is a nice way to turn a profit, selling loot you find out in the world of Cyrodiil is often a more efficient use of your time. After all, most of Oblivion Remastered is about exploration and picking up loot you find through exploration, so why not make some gold while playing the game as Bethesda intended?

Of course, you do want to try and target certain loot that has more value to merchants. One of the best items you can always sell is Welkynd Stones, which are only found in Ayleid Ruins in Oblivion Remastered. The easiest Ayleid Ruin to visit is Vilverin, which is right across the lake from the starting Sewer Entrances location. This is one of the locations we suggested you visit first in Oblivion Remastered since it offers a great way to make some early gold.

Any Ayleid Ruins, which are marked by yellow icons on your map, have the potential to contain upwards of two dozen Welkynd Stones inside them. These stones sell for around 20 gold with a standard Mercantile skill and only weigh one pound, meaning you can carry a ton and sell them for an enormous profit.

Another item of value to merchants that's easy to come by is Daedra Hearts. These are mainly looted by killing enemies in the Gates of Oblivion, and they sell for around 15 gold each. However, they're also an alchemy ingredient that makes Restore Health potions, so they have double uses when it comes to making gold in Oblivion Remastered.

Just about any weapon, gear, or other item you don't need can be sold to merchants, though, so make sure you're picking up everything you can carry throughout your travels. Although, we don't recommend selling Soul Gems, as those are one of the most useful items you can own.

Use console commands to cheat

Unfortunately, the final method is only available to PC players and it might not be something you want to take advantage of. However, if we're going over the best ways to add gold to your inventory, using console commands needs to be mentioned.

Any player on PC can use console commands by pressing the tilde (~) key on their keyboard. This brings up the console text box and allows you to enter a specific command. We listed all the console commands and how to use them in Oblivion Remastered in a previous guide.

If you want to solely use the console to make gold, though, use this command:

• player.additem [0000000F] [X]

Replace [X] with the amount of gold you want to add, press "Enter," and bam, that exact amount of gold is now in your inventory. Keep in mind that using console commands disables achievements, but you can use a mod in Oblivion Remastered to get around that.