Austin Chaos
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Regarding the conjurer...I killed her (was a she for me) from my porch, and thought "cool! respawning target practice!" but she never spawned again. Maybe I got lucky? Or unlucky?
My apiary isn't spawning bees or honeycombs. With my first character, I built it and then harvested everything out of it. But then I restocked it, because that's suppose to make it spawn again, but it never did, so i thought maybe I glitched it by harvested it before it began spawning. I did however have bees spawn inside my greenhouse, but only two at a time (and often one would be hovering in the main hall).
But I built one with a different character and left it. My garden is thriving, but the apiary has yet to spawn any bees or honeycombs.
Edit: I don't mind dealing with the giants, but they are killing all my chickens and now I only have one little guy left and no option to purchase more from my incredibly rude steward. :-/
Who is your steward so I know not to ask him/her to be mine?
I had an issue of a pack of wolves that had attacked a deer on my property and then attack me--their carcasses and the deer's won't disappear so I dragged all the wolves (four of them) out of house range. Then they and the deer were gone the next day.
Sadly that wouldn't work for the ash piles.
My steward is Uthgerd the Unbroken. She's... interesting to live with. I originally picked her because I was afraid that the giant that kept coming would kill one of my favorite followers if I appointed them and she is precisely NOT one of my faves and thus got the position. The thing is... she doesn't ever seem to be around when anything attacks. Like never. My housecarl Valdimar never showed up until a long time later when I visited Morthal and he suddenly ran up to me and announced that he was my housecarl. Ever since then he patrols the perimeter of my house and there is no option to make him steward since I have Uthgerd. So essentially, I have TWO guards, neither of whom are ever there when the giant attacks. He always shows up right next to my animal pen and immediately attacks my remaining cow and remaining chicken. I have already reloaded after he one-shotted my poor cow, and I still have my one chicken left.
Aha! I have actually started to run away from my housing site when Serana has summoned something so that it dies off-premises because then her ash piles disappear. I should definitely try dragging the draugrs farther off. I bet they will disappear at least, even if I am now stuck with 3 ash piles, lol. Thanks for sharing the wolf carcass thing because for some reason I didn't make the connection.
The display cases are working as intended? I guess they figured thats how cases worked back then, don't fix it if ain't broke i suppose. I like it, i can put my books and plants and what not in whatever order.
I'm enjoying it thoroughly though. The only problem are the giant attacks, which i KNOW will kill my horse one day.
I'm probably going to get some kind of bad glitch just based off experience, none so far though.
Absolutely love the concept, but wish it weren't as limiting as it is... would love to have more wings and rooms. Why do I have to choose? As long as you have the time and money, let me build to my content!
Same with the livestock... One cow? Allow me more cows! Maybe they can make baby cows to raise/sell?
How a bout an exterior wall to surround the property?
And then the option to plant foliage within your property?
Houses are expensive to keep... how about recurring costs that need to be paid monthly? Now you have to keep your coffers filled in order to maintain the house! Taxes anyone? The amount based on the improvements you've made, of course.
Can you rename your property?
Am still exploring this add-on, and enjoying it... but there are so many possibilities that would be great to see implemented in the future.
PS. In summary, how many people can you have at your property? A steward, a bard, a carriage, a wife, two kids... and a follower?
Absolutely love the concept, but wish it weren't as limiting as it is... would love to have more wings and rooms. Why do I have to choose? As long as you have the time and money, let me build to my content!
I really like Hearthfire but there are definitely problems and things I wish were different.
... I really, really like the garden and I LOVE the greenhouse so to grow most of the stuff (not all--seriously, why can't I grow garlic?) that I like to use. And I like all the storage space (yes the storage room is kind of pointless, since you have more than plenty of storage in the rest of the house.
Now for my completely self-indulgent whinefest about what I wish was different (beyond glitches):
-the book you get for building your house says if you make a mistake you can change it. So I thought that meant if I added a wing and then didn't like it, I could remodel like I did with the entranceway. Very annoyed that I can't. Also I think not being able to remodel takes some of the fun out of building your own house. It's my house--why can't I remodel it?
-the trophy room IMO sucks. Statues of draugr and hargravens are ugly. Waste of space and materials. Hate that I cannot remodel this wing.
... the dog goes into the west wing (my greenhouse) and barks, tries to walk through the wall and displays his health bar like he's in combat.
-I hate that in order to get bookshelves (at least for Lakeside Manor--not sure about other houses) I would have had to devote an entire wing for a library.
-I have a similar complaint as with the hold houses you can buy: I want shelves that are more interactive. I hate the whole dragging things into place because with the Xbox 360 controller, that just doesn't work so well. Also not happy with having to drop/drag things into the display cases.
-the cellar is so dark. Even with the screen lightness adjusted, I can't see the stuff down there unless as I cast a mage light spell. Needs more lighting!
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-I wish the NPCs that you bring to your house--kids, spouse, dog, steward, etc.--would interact with each other. I'd love to come home to my kids playing with the dog or fighting with each other. Too much to ask for?