Addition to "Skyrim" Hearthfire: walkthrough, secrets, tips

The addition to "Skyrim" Hearthfire gives the player the opportunity to lay down their arms and arrange the personal life of their character: to acquire a piece of land, build and equip an estate, have children and hire a maid. And this is not all the possibilities of additions.

How to Install Hearthfire Skyrim Add-on

To install the Hearthfire DLC, you need to download and unzip it. The Data folder should be moved to the root folder of the game and confirm the replacement of files.

There is a known bug in which the game does not see the add-on. To solve it, you can try installing unofficial patches.

Opportunities

With the installation of the Hearthfire add-on in "Skyrim 5" the following features are available to the player:

• purchase of land and construction of a house;
• arrangement of their own estates;
• adoption of children;
• new activities - farming, fishing, and others;
• protection of your estate from the attack of robbers, rats, vampires and giants;
• new types of food, ingredients and items.

Homes in addition

Before starting to build his own estate in Skyrim, the player needs to get the title of tan by completing the quest chain and buying a plot of land. Each of them will cost the character 5,000 coins. In total there are three plots on which you can build an estate. Available for building a house in addition to the Skyrim Hearthfire:

1. The Ozernoye estate is located in the northeast of Folkrit, near a large lake.
2. Windstad Manor is located north of Morphal, near the High Gate Ruins.
3. Hellarchen Hall - south of Dunstar, next to the Buran House.

If the character has enough money, he can buy all three houses.

For the design, construction and construction of the estate you will need drawing tables, workbenches and resources. The player can find the main set of resources for building the Small House in the chest near the drawing table when he arrives at the purchased site. For further home improvement you will need:

• sawn logs - they can be bought at a sawmill or through a steward;
• clay and stone - extracted directly on the site;
• iron and corundum ingots - needed for the manufacture of nails and locks;
• glass, straw, horns, hides - bought from traders or mined from monsters. Used to create furniture.

The small house can later be turned into a lobby and the main hall can be attached to it. In addition, the player can add three more extensions to choose from. To the east wing, you can attach a library, kitchen or weapons. To the north is a pantry, laboratory or trophy room. To the west is an enchantment tower, a conservatory or a bedroom. You can also build a basement on the estate.

When choosing an extension, it is important to know that the alchemical table, the pentagram of souls, several drawers and shelves are already in the main hall, and for the sake of them there is no need to build an additional room. In addition, in the basement there is an anvil, a smelter, a workbench, a tanning machine, a grindstone and a sanctuary.

Possible residents of the estate

In addition to the player in the built house can live:

1. Ruler - a character who helps in the construction of the mansion. This position can be offered to some Companions, Guardians of the Dawn, magicians from the College of Winterhold, Huscarls and a number of independent companions. To offer the character the position of manager, you need to bring him with you to the main hall of the built estate. Each estate can have one ruler, and already with it you can hire a driver and a bard.
2. Carter - takes the hero to a large city or small settlement for free and safely.
3. Bard - performs songs in the main hall of the estate.
4. Huskarl is the bodyguard of the tan. It will protect the player’s estate from attack by bandits and monsters.
5. The husband or wife of the hero.
6. Adopted Children
7. Pets - children bring them with them. Each child can have one pet. The player himself can bring the children a pet from among the dogs.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantage of the Hearthfire Skyrim expansion is the construction of its own mansion. However, the game provides minimal settings for it.

Another indisputable plus is the ability to hire a manager who will help in the purchase of building materials and home improvement. But not all characters can become stewards.

Another important advantage of the Hearthfire Skyrim add-on is that all the items a player needs are in one place: alchemical tables, a pentagram of souls, chests, drawers, anvils, mannequins, bookshelves, and much more. The only drawback here is that it will take a lot of money to build everything, and a beginner can’t afford it.

The minus can also be called the absence of any fences around the estate. Any robber can attack and kill all the hero’s pets.

Known bugs

All sorts of errors are often encountered in the game, and the addition to the Skyrim Hearthfire is no exception. For example, Jarl Falkrit’s instructions may “freeze” to kill the leader of the bandits. You can also meet such bugs:

1. After receiving the title of Tan, it is likely that there will not be a branch of the dialogue on the purchase of land.
2. After completing the quest "Eternal Peace", the player can get a tan title in the possession of Hjalmark, but not get a personal huscarl and the opportunity to buy a plot.
3. The player may not receive letters from the jarls, starting branches of quests to obtain the title of Tan.
4. Sometimes the opportunity to choose in the Buy Land dialog appears only once. In all subsequent dialogs, this answer is missing.
5. Do not wear non-standard things on the mannequin - they can simply be a gulf.
6. Children can also disappear without a trace.
7. Weapons placed on a display case or stand may disappear.
8. When entering the Ozernoye estate, a player can “fly out” of the game in a few seconds. To get rid of this bug, you need to remove the door leading from the hallway to the main hall using the markfordelete command.
9. Often a hired bard cannot be fired.
10. The function of decorating rooms through the manager may not work correctly.
11. Some pieces of furniture do not appear in the room after they are made on a workbench.
12. It is possible to clone the unique Skyrim armor. To do this, you need:

• hang armor on a mannequin;
• wait for the gaming month;
• pick up armor from a mannequin;
• wait another month;
• remove a copy of the reservation from the mannequin.

After that, a new copy of the reservation will appear every time the location is updated. It is important to remember that when you start cloning some kind of armor, you will not be able to change it, and the choice should be made carefully.