Skyrim:Bear

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A Bear

A Cave Bear

A Snow Bear

Bears are large, hostile enemies that will attack if you are found infringing on their territory. They live either in the wilderness or in their cave lairs. Bears carry the disease Bone Break Fever, which deducts 25 points from your stamina if you contract it while fighting one. Fortunately, bears will always roar or growl in an effort to intimidate potential threats before attacking, and thus are fairly easy to avoid if you wish so. Standard bears and the larger cave bears are encountered throughout Skyrim and Solstheim^DB, while the mighty snow bears are largely confined to high altitudes and snowy regions.

Bear carcasses can be harvested for their pelts (for tanning) and their claws (for alchemy).

• Variations: Snow Bear, Cave Bear

Creature (ID)	Lvl			Sta.	Drops	Abilities	Soul
Bear (00023A8A)	12	260	0	225	Bear Pelt (1 × 100%) Bear Claws (1 × 100%) Minor loot: gold, leveled ring, gem (1 × 10%)	None	Lesser
Cave Bear (00023A8B)	16	450		425	Cave Bear Pelt (1 × 100%) Bear Claws (1 × 100%) Minor loot: gold, leveled ring, gem (1 × 10%)		Common
Snow Bear (00023A8C)	20	550		400	Snow Bear Pelt (1 × 100%) Bear Claws (1 × 100%) Minor loot: gold, leveled ring, gem (1 × 10%)	Resist Frost, 50 pts
BearCC (FExxx873)	30	340		315	Bear Pelt (1 × 100%) Bear Claws (1 × 100%) Minor loot: gold, leveled ring, gem (1 × 10%)	None	Greater

^1This variant of bear is summoned by the spell Pride of Hirstaang^CC.

Hearthfire

The Hearthfire add-on lets you build bear statues in the trophy room addition of any homestead. Available options include a regular bear standing on its hind legs, and a snow bear growling, both on a large base. The materials needed for each option are:

Bear				Snow Bear
Straw 2 Bear Claws Bear Pelt or Cave Bear Pelt				Snow Bear Pelt 2 Bear Claws Straw

Notes

• A special Bear is encountered in the cave leading out of Helgen during Unbound: its attacks are much weaker than standard Bear attacks, and it also has much less health. It is also much easier to sneak around than regular bears.
• A Snow Bear always roams the mountains west of the Alchemist's Shack, regardless of character level, making it a dangerous opponent if encountered after leaving Helgen.
• Bear power attacks are quite slow, as they first rear up on their hind legs before slashing at you, giving ample time to evade them. Bears also frequently rear up on their hind legs to roar, which gives you a few seconds to attack without reprisal.

Bugs

• Although Cave Bears are supposed to be of the Cave Bear race (RefID: 000131e8), they are instead of the regular Bear race (RefID: 000131e7). Because of this, instead of doing 35 or 52.5 damage per attack, they only do 30 or 45 damage per attack.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 1.3.1, fixes this bug.
• Regular bears were likely intended to be brown-colored and cave bears black-colored.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.0.0, addresses this issue. The mismatch is corrected.