Skyrim talk:Great Lift at Raldbthar

Activating route to Blackreach

It appears that you don't need to activate the Dwarven mechanism in Raldbthar to get the Lift to take you to Blackreach. I went through the dungeon, bypassed the mechanism, and took the lift up to Skyrim.I checked the lever, which still said "Open Raldbthar Deep Market." Without using the lever to open the gates at the surface, I fast-traveled to the map marker for "Great Lift at Raldbthar". I ended up outside the gates, which were now open (remember that I did NOT open them). I was then able to take the lift down to Blackreach. I did not use the Attunement Sphere to activate the mechanism, but it was in my possession. I tried it again after using "removeitem" to drop the sphere. Same result. This may be a backdoor into Blackreach. Can anybody test this before getting the sphere from Septimus? --Xyzzy 16:36, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

(Update)This may not be a back door. I retested it with a new character with no luck. I discovered that the map marker for the Great Lift only gets discovered when you take the lift back to the surface from Blackreach, which means that when I first added the question above, I had already been to Blackreach via a different route, and returned to the surface via Raldbthar's Great Lift. I was then able to enter Raldbthar itself during a subsequent quest, take the OTHER Raldbthar lift (above the entrance) to the surface, fast-travel to the Great Lift (below the entrance), and enter Blackreach. I think I confused the one lift with the other. --Xyzzy^Talk 04:44, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Lever-pulling Glitch

Every time I try using the elevator to enter blackreach, the lever seems to pull itself and I become stuck in an endless loop of going up and down. It overwrites any autosaves and forces me to go back to my last manual save. I'm not sure if it only happens here because I've experienced it before (whether or not it was in a different location I do not know). Save before you use an elevator... 50.36.106.203 03:56, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Yeah that'd be a glitch, what console? I'm on 360 and the only glitch relating to the great lifts I've had is the frozen load screen but that's really rare for me. Lord Eydvar^Talk 16:10, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

I've experienced this on multiple elevators out of Blackreach on the PS3 and PC. On the PC I was able to reload into the loop and use the tcl cheat to fly out of the elevator, but it goes without saying save your game before using an elevator because Bethesda Game Studios screw up up quite a bit.

Just for the record, you're not alone. I just now got a glitch where it forces me back to the lift every time i fast-travel :/ hoping reloading a save will fix it 184.57.104.54 15:22, 13 April 2013 (GMT)

I just got the exact same glitch as the OP, but trying to leave Blackreach via this exit instead. xbox 360 with update 1.9 Migellito (talk) 07:30, 18 April 2013 (GMT)