halfisglassfull

Huh. I'm embarrassed that I don't know the game well enough to ask such a noob question. It just seems like a weird thing to code into the game. Shopkeepers still have to make a living somehow, right? Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond.

I apologize if this has been asked and answered before; I couldn't find it through search or on the most recent pages of the support forum. I've noticed that somewhere in the range of 50-60% of items in various places that should be owned by the building's NPC owner (shops, Dragonsreach, etc.) are not considered owned by anyone. When hovering over these items, the action is "Take" instead of "Steal." There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it; items right next to each other have different ownership tags. I loaded a totally vanilla game and confirmed that the items are supposed to be owned by NPCs and their action should be "Steal." I'm running STEP 2.2.7 Core, all installed through Mod Organizer, sorted with BOSS, cleaned with TES5Edit (where appropriate). Does anyone have any idea which mod is causing this? I can provide more information if necessary.

For what it's worth, I've come across the same bug with an all-English installation of STEP. Doing some research, I found this thread on the Nexus Forums which suggests that the "Mining Makes Noise" optional file for the "Traps Make Noise" mod is causing the issue:Â https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1084328-can-no-longer-mine-ore-help/ I'll try it out and report back. EDIT: Clarified that Mining Makes Noise is an optional file, not an option during installation.