Related: Skyrim's Secret To Joining The Thieves Guild Without Jailing Brand-Shei Without any lockpicks in the player’s inventory, the lockpicking minigame cannot be initiated.
Failed attempts will result in broken lockpicks. The process requires at least one lockpick, and higher-level locks may take several attempts to successfully pick. Locks adorn many of the game’s chests, doors, houses, strongboxes, and safes. Lock picking in Skyrim consists of a minigame that occurs any time the player wishes to crack open a lock. It can even be used to circumvent entire parts of some of the game’s quests.
More than just a way to open locked chests, the skill also presents a way to avoid dangerous obstacles, open hidden pathways, and access powerful items earlier in the game. Locks are the barrier between the Dragonborn and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s best loot, and the Lockpicking skill is the way to bypass that barrier.
