- Kind
- Mine
- Level
- 10 to 30: it follows yours within that
- Resets?
- Yes: after 10 days away, or 30 days once cleared
- Boss
- Bandit Chief
Enemies here
78 enemy types: 67 people, 9 animals, 1 dragon, 1 creature. Each links to its strength, resistances and what it carries.
Leveled ones: some enemies here are stand-ins the game fills when the area loads, each from a list, by your level. They can turn into these; the number is how many stand-ins here can give it, the most widespread first: Bandit Chief (57), Wolf (12), Sabre Cat (8), Skeever (6), Snowy Sabre Cat (6), Bear (4), Cave Bear (4), Bandit (3), Frost Troll (2), Ice Wolf (2), Ice Wraith (2), Snow Bear (2).
And 41 more
Bandit Battlemage (1), Bandit Champion (1), Bandit Healer (1), Bandit Mage (1), Bandit Sorcerer (1), Bandit Spellsword (1), Highwayman Battlemage (1), Highwayman Champion (1), Highwayman Healer (1), Highwayman Mage (1), Highwayman Sorcerer (1), Highwayman Spellsword (1), Marauder Battlemage (1), Marauder Champion (1), Marauder Healer (1), Marauder Mage (1), Marauder Sorcerer (1), Marauder Spellsword (1), Outlaw Battlemage (1), Outlaw Champion (1), Outlaw Healer (1), Outlaw Mage (1), Outlaw Sorcerer (1), Outlaw Spellsword (1), Pillager Battlemage (1), Pillager Healer (1), Pillager Mage (1), Pillager Sorcerer (1), Pillager Spellsword (1), Plunderer Battlemage (1), Plunderer Champion (1), Plunderer Healer (1), Plunderer Mage (1), Plunderer Sorcerer (1), Plunderer Spellsword (1), Thug Battlemage (1), Thug Champion (1), Thug Healer (1), Thug Mage (1), Thug Sorcerer (1), Thug Spellsword (1).
Can come later: these start switched off, until a quest or an event brings them: Bandit, Bandit Berserker, Bandit Champion, Bandit Monk, Bandit Scout, Dragon, Highwayman Berserker, Highwayman Champion, Highwayman Monk, Highwayman Scout, Marauder Berserker, Marauder Champion, Marauder Monk, Marauder Nightblade, Marauder Scout, Outlaw Berserker, Outlaw Champion, Outlaw Monk, Outlaw Scout, Pillager Berserker, Pillager Monk, Pillager Nightblade, Pillager Scout, Plunderer Berserker, Plunderer Champion, Plunderer Monk, Plunderer Nightblade, Plunderer Scout, Thug Berserker, Thug Champion, Thug Monk, Thug Scout.
Radiant quests
34 radiant quests can send you here: Bounty: Bandit Boss (Bounties), The Dragonsreach Contract (Capital Whiterun), The Falcon Flies at Dusk (Capital Whiterun), The Roadhouse Contract (Capital Whiterun), The Break of Dawn (Daedric quests), Amulets of Night Power (Dawnguard), Ancient Power (Dawnguard), Ancient Technology (Dawnguard), Hunting the Monster (Dawnguard), Lost Relic (Dawnguard), Preemptive Strike (Dawnguard), Protecting the Bloodline (Dawnguard), Rings of Blood Magic (Dawnguard), Azra's Staffs (Dragonborn), Dungeon Delving (Bandits) (Favours), Like a Bad Septim (Less Generic Housecarls), Kill Some Bandits (Missives), Recover From a Hideout (Missives), Bandits of Whiterun Hold (More to Say), Fetch Me That Book! (Obscure's College of Winterhold), Amulet of the Moon (Odd jobs), House Cleaning (Penitus Oculatus), Unfinished Business (Penitus Oculatus), Fetch me that Book! (The College of Winterhold), Shalidor's Insights (The College of Winterhold), Family Heirloom (The Companions), Retrieval (The Companions), Stealing Plans (The Companions), Striking the Heart (The Companions), Trouble in Skyrim (The Companions), Bounty: Daedric Relic (VIGILANT), Bounty: Piper (VIGILANT), Left for Dead (Why I Came to Skyrim), The Final Promise (Why I Came to Skyrim).
What's here
Corundum ore veins: 1 here
Iron ore veins: 1 here
Silver ore veins: 4 here
Quests that take you here
Bounty Hunter (Whiterun)Lying only here
Items placed in the world here and nowhere else (some can also be bought, made or looted: their pages say).
In Jay's changelog
What Jay's changelog for GTS says about it, newest revision first. A later revision can have changed it again; the rest of this page is what base GTS does now.
- V75 The Cursed Bandit: There was a bandit in Rat Hill Mine that could potentially make you crash. He's gone now, he can no longer hurt you thanks to Gira.
From base GTS 118's own records: the winning copy of HJ_RatHillMineLocation (GTS Patches - Quests.esp). Level: the place's encounter zone, as the records set it. The game sets a place's level from yours, kept between its lowest and highest; GTS's Encounter Zones Unlocked keeps it following you rather than fixed at your first visit. Boss: who the place's own record marks as its boss (one picked by level has no name of its own and isn't shown). People: where the game places them as a game starts; they walk about.