Skyrim is filled with an abundance of items for players to find, but one in particular, butter, is hard to come across. Since it hit store shelves in 2011, Skyrim has been played and updated on eight different platforms and seen three major DLC releases - Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn, with a recent re-release once again putting the game back on players' radars. This has also led to more discussion surrounding the game's quirks, including how butter is a weirdly rare item drop from the Hearthfire expansion.
Almost everything and anything can be found, stolen or bought in the world of Skyrim, no matter how useable or simple they are. From spoons to cups, to giant wheels of cheese, many an Elder Scrolls fan will remember dropping these items from their inventory as soon as an over-encumbered message appeared on their screen, with little recollection of how these items appeared on their belonging. Oddly enough, it is an item of this nature that is arguably one of the rarest items to find in the Skyrim world - butter.
Butter can be found across the lands of Skyrim, but it is scarce. Online guides and pages show little in terms of a certain location in which the item is found, frustrating those trying to complete the fishing quests introduced in Skyrim Anniversary Edition. In the quest 'The Ultimate Feast', the character Gisli tasks the Dragonborn with collecting/purchasing items for her feast - including potatoes, garlic, leek, and unfortunately butter. While it's a refreshing change of pace compared to Skyrim's combat-oriented quests, procuring butter can make it frustrating to complete. On some occasions, butter can be seen available to purchase at merchant vendors, and through an exploit (saving and killing the merchant so their inventory resets), it can be the best - although not guaranteed - way to find the item.
The Easiest Way To Find Butter In Skyrim
Using the mechanics introduced in the Skyrim's 2012 Hearthfire expansion pack, quick-thinking fans found an easier, albeit more expensive, route to finding butter. Hearthfire, as opposed to the story-based Dawnguard and Dragonborn, primarily revolved around allowing players to purchase land, create their own houses from the ground up, and introduced the option to adopt children. Should the player build a house with a kitchen, one of the options in kitchen furnishings is a butter churn. This easily allows for Dragonborn to take as much butter as they need from their own house, although barring 'The Ultimate Feast', the item is generally quite useless.
Butter is one of the weirdest items in Skyrim, as although rare, it doesn't bring much value in terms of gameplay. Budding chefs looking to craft more recipes may find investing in Hearthfire a worthy way to spend their time, but for those looking to complete 'The Ultimate Feast' and nothing else, hunting for butter in the wild of Skyrim's immersive open-world may be the wiser route. Just don't expect to find any at a giant's camp, as all the Dragonborn will be rewarded with there is either a bowl of mammoth cheese or a one-way ticket into the stratosphere.