Hearthfire will not start for me

Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:25 pm

Howdy y'all,


I bought HF awhile ago and installed it immediately, I also already had Dawnguard installed. I have read all the requirements in the FAQ's and already meet them.

This weekend I decide to take some time and play through the Dawnguard DLC, I played about 15 hours of Dawnguard and in between (about 5 hours in) I went to Falkreath to see if I could do anything for the Jarl there, I had already done ALL the Falkreath quests before as I have about 230 hours in the game already. But the Steward gave me one quest to kill a Giant so I did...she gave me $100.

I have been back there several times and walked all around it during my Dawnguard quests but no currier has ever approached me. Also the Steward has no more things for me to do.

Is there any other way to kick start this mod/DLC? I really want to build a house in the Falkreath area.

I'm level 52

I do have 3 mods installed:
Chopping Block/woodfires fix

The secret room of Breezehome
Beautiful Riften


and that’s it


Thanks for any help
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carla
 
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:23 pm

Did you try talking to the Jarl, not his steward?
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Micah Judaeah
 
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:36 pm

Hi Andra thanks for the reply,

Yes I tried talking to him and I only get the original 2 options, about him being so young.

I do get more menial tasks from the Steward like kiill the bandit leader (which I keep getting for some reason) and kill the giant stuff like that but it's been so long now since I did the quests I don't remember ever getting a quest for "Rare Gifts" and I looked through my quest list and I don't see any reference to it. So maybe thats the problem? I even did all the quests I could find around Falkreath, the crazy ex-jarl uncle, the wearwolf yada yada.

I rearranged my MODS list and put HF just under the High Res Pack, reloaded and then went to Dawnstar and Hjaalmarch and both Jarls did offer me land, the land in Hjaalmarch is in a frozen swamp so I just built a shack there and I am building the House in the Pale so the MOD seems to be working now.

it must be that Falkreath is just somehow messed up.

I'll keep messing with it and see if trying to do every quest the Steward gives me opens it up. And I'm going to remove the Beautiful Riften MOD as I seem to be getting some strange stuff happening there as well, guards sitting down in the open drinking with no chair or table, flashing lights stuff like that.
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Lexy Dick
 
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Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:59 pm

Try turning off all the mods and updating the unofficial patch if you have it and still have the old version. Your Beezehome mod is likely to crash your game when you try and enter Breezehome, and the other two seem suspect. You need to get that courier to work most likely. You did not need a letter to buy the other two plots of land.

I believe Hearthfire should be third on your list if you have Dawnguard installed as well, then the High Res Pack, but I am not a PC player.
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