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A Guide to Hearthfire


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★A Guide to Hearthfire★

A Builder's Tale: by DarkRider

Disclaimer: This guide was written from my own in game playing experiences and those of others around the communities at large posting about their encounters and experiences, collected here for reference. Nothing contained in this guide is 100% guaranteed to be reflected in your game play experience and it's very much a work in progress, so while I hope you find something contained here useful, I can't promise you it will be.

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New Properties

All three properties added by Hearthfire are potentially the same, but the craft-able options allow for a variety of designs, This is the skinny on where they are and how to acquire them. Please note the info in this section may vary from save game to save game based on level and achievements acquired before starting Hearthfire.

Lakeview Manor: Falkreath Land Holding

  • Located: Just north of Pinewatch
  • How to Buy: Perform a quest for the Jarl of Falkreath, this one is designed for Hearthfire and is sometimes easiest to start.
  • Special Features: Apiary

Windstad Manor: Morthal Land Holding

  • Located: East of the Abandoned Shack, across the delta from Solitude
  • How to Buy: Become known in Morthal by helping the villagers, or become Thane of Morthal
  • Special Features: Fish Hatchery

Haljarchen Hall: Dawnstar Land Holding

  • Located: At the edge of the Pale, just northeast of Larrius Farm
  • How to Buy: Become Thane of Dawnstar by completing the quest Waking Nightmare, then speak to the Jarl.
  • Special Features: Grain Mill

What can be added?

All three craft-able houses begin as an entry hall and a main hall. The player can mix and match the three wings to customize each layout

Constructable Wings:

North Wing

Storage Room

Trophy Room

Alchemy Tower

East Wing

Kitchen

Library Tower

Armory

West Wing

Bedrooms

Greenhouse

Enchanters Tower

Building Materials

Adopting Children

  • Children can be adopted once you have a bedroom for them in one of your owned homes including a bed, chest, and dresser per child.
  • Previously purchased homes will now have a child bedroom upgrade option with each hold's steward.
  • You can adopt a total of two children.
  • You will only receive the messenger notice about adoption if you have killed or kill Grelod the Kind in the Riften Orphanage. Killing her is the only way to adopt children from there.
  • You can adopt Aleson (male Nord child) from Dawnstar, he works in the mine
  • You can adopt Sophie (female Nord child) from Windhelm, she sells flowers around the city
  • You can adopt Blaise (male Imperial child) from Katla's Farm near Solitude, he works in the stables.
  • You can adopt Lucia (female Nord child) from around Whiterun
  • You can adopt Francois Beaufort (male Imperial child) from Honorhall orphanage in Riften
  • You can adopt Hroar (male Nord child) from Honorhall orphanage in Riften
  • You can adopt Runa Fair-Shield (female Nord child) from Honorhall orphanage in Riften
  • You can adopt Samuel (male Breton child) from Honorhall orphanage in Riften

Making Money

Let's face it, building your dream home is pricey! Here are a couple exploits you can make use of to generate a hasty income to resupply and get back to building. smile.png

  • Dawnstar Khajiit Merchant Chest: Just to the left of the Iron-Breaker Mine (good source of Iron Ore in itself) you'll find a small grove of trees with some rocks. Crouch down in there to search for the merchant chest below the ground that can be looted through the terrain without crime. Pricey loot you can sell for profit, very little effort involved.
  • Sightless Cave Burial Mound Glitch: Facing the cave entrance, follow a path to the right that leads up a small slope then forks (watch out for predators!). Go left at the fork to come up on a rise above Sightless Cave. You'll find a burial altar there with a skeleton at rest on it and several skeletons around the base. The skeletons will rise and engage in battle (you may need to disturb them a bit, looting is sufficient to annoy them) Kill them, but don't obliterate them, you need to be able to loot the skeleton from the altar after he's dead. When looting the skeleton, you'll find he's carrying the book On Oblivion, loot, close the menu, and loot again (it says EMPTY but loot again!) and you'll find the book has respawned. Re-loot as many copies as you like, and sell them for a clean profit. If you know you're going, thin your inventory as much as possible beforehand. I would also advise you to bring a companion to help pack mule these volumes to a merchant as they way 1/2 a pound each; also keep your horse handy so you can fast travel when over encumbered. You can find Sightless Cave just down the slope from Azura's shrine.

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