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Create a living home</span><br />With this official add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can purchase land and build your own home from the ground up - from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter's workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.</blockquote> |
Create a living home</span><br />With this official add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can purchase land and build your own home from the ground up - from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter's workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.</blockquote> |
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[[File:Hearthfireconstruction3.PNG|thumb|250px|The early stages of construction in the marshes of [[Hjaalmarch]].]] {{main|Homestead}} |
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Revision as of 13:34, 12 September 2012
The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire is the second official add-on for the fifth installment in the Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim.[1]
Released for the Xbox 360 on September 4th, 2012. Hearthfire focuses around purchasing land and designing, building and maintaining a home. The option to hire stewards, and a personal bard is also available.
In addition, an adoption mechanic has been introduced that allows the Dragonborn to adopt children and raise them in the newly built home.
Alternatively, any homes that are already owned by the Dragonborn, e.g. Breezehome, can be offered to have bed chambers added onto them with expansions that can be purchased from the Steward of the Jarl of the respective city they are in. A note will be delivered by a courier explaining the offer of the new bedrooms.
The letter given to you by a random courier entitled "Consider Adoption" initiates the miscellaneous quest "Speak with Costance Michel about Adoption" upon reading it from your inventory.
Official summary
Create a living home
With this official add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can purchase land and build your own home from the ground up - from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter's workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.
Building a homestead
The early stages of construction in the marshes of Hjaalmarch.
- Main article: Homestead
The first step to building a homestead is to purchase one of three plots of land available and obtain a title deed from the local Jarl. Multiple plots can be purchased, and a house can be built on each.
Locations for building a homestead include:
- Windstad Manor, located near the salt marshes of Hjaalmarch.
- Lakeview Manor, located in the dense forests of Falkreath.
- Heljarchen Hall, located in the snowy tundras of The Pale.
After a plot has been purchased, the Drafting Table is used to plan any structures to be added, and the Carpenter's Workbench is the used for the actual building of the house.
The building itself is typically comprised of several housebuilding materials, including Quarried Stone, Clay and Sawn Logs, that when combined make up the structure of the house.
With the five pre-built purchasable houses already present in Skyrim, it's now possible to own property in every hold, except Winterhold. Faction housing is available in Winterhold to members of the College.
Furnishings
A trophy room with several taxidermied creatures.
The Interior Workbench can be used to furnish each room with a large variety of craftable objects. These include:
- Mannequins
- Divine Shrines
- Alchemy Lab
- Arcane Enchanter
- Weapon Racks
- Display Cases
- All smithing stations
- Taxidermied or mounted creatures
- Most regular furnishings found in homes
Servants
Several types of servant can be hired to perform different tasks around the house:[1]
- A Steward can be hired to buy raw materials for building the home and equip it with furnishings. Followers can be turned into a steward. Any housecarl from the various holds can be hired as the Steward. Stewards can be used to purchase Bards, carriage drivers, cows, chickens, and horses.
- A carriage driver to provide transportation.
- A personal bard.
Family life
Once the house is complete, the option to move in with a spouse or adopt a child is available. Additional options will be present for any adopted children, such as giving gifts, playing games or instructing them to do their chores. The option to allow them to keep pets is also included.[1]Children will ask to keep a dog if you show him or her the dog, setting the dog's home to yours.
Occasionally the home may become subject to skeever infestations, giant attacks, marauding kidnappers,Wolves, Draugr or armed bandits that must be dealt with.
Characters
Children
- Lucia - Child found begging near the Gildergreen in Whiterun.
- Blaise - Child found working as a stable boy at Katla's Farm.
- Sofie - Child found selling flowers in Windhelm.
- Alesan - Child found working for the miners in Dawnstar.
Housecarls
- Rayya - Housecarl upon becoming Thane of Falkreath.
- Gregor - Housecarl upon becoming Thane of The Pale.
- Valdimar - Housecarl upon becoming Thane of Hjaalmarch.
Bards
- Llewellyn the Nightingale - The Bard who can be hired for Lakeview Manor.
- Oriella - The Bard who can be hired for Heljarchen Hall.
- Sonir - The Bard who can be hired at Windstad Manor
Coachmen
- Markus - Carriage driver hired for Heljarchen Hall.
- Engar - Carriage driver hired for Windstad Manor.
- Gunjar - Carriage driver hired for Lakeview Manor.
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Items
- Main article: Items (Hearthfire)
10 new crafting materials have been added, which are used in the construction of a homestead. Several new food items and consumables are also added, including updated models for all soups and stews, giving each a distinctive look.
Achievements
- Main article: Achievements (Hearthfire)
There are 5 possible achievements, totaling 50 gamerpoints.
Bugs
- Template:360 Upon downloading Hearthfire, there is a chance that none of the children in game will be wearing clothes. This includes children eligible for adoption. There is currently no known fix.
- Template:360 If you buy the child bedroom in Hjerim, there will be two changes to the furniture. The items in the wardobe next to the entrance to the alchemy/enchanting lab will be replaced by a cupboard in the child's room. The cupboard next to the chest in the player's room will disappear with all the items in it. it is advisable to clear these containers or saving before buying the decoration.
- Template:360 Sometimes when using the Carpenter's workbench in your home it may revert to a menu of items you've already built in the room, essentially wasting your supplies. To correct this exit the menu and re-enter it, it should correct the problem.
- Template:360 Main Hall wing extensions with balconies will give you the option to build exterior objects i.e, Chairs, Tables and Benches. When building "Exterior" ornate style benches please note that the in-game image is incorrect. What the game will actually build is a standard flat bench. There is currently no fix to this bug.
- Template:360 Caution when creating an enchanting table and you have the Black Star in your inventory, because the grand soul it requires could use the soul in the item and also removing the item from your inventory.
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