First of all the official description..


Choose your land seems to heavily suggest you are given little leeway in where your house goes. There are three options which are located in the Falkreath woods, Morthal swamps near the shore or in (what I guess) is the southern part of the Pale. Again it is suggested you are able to buy all three of these at once if you desire.

From what is seen in the video the customization seems fairly limited. At around 30 seconds in you see the book which seems to fill the same role as the books given to furnish your house after buying one. When viewing a room there is an image to show where said room will go upon construction. It doesn't seem like you can place rooms where you want them or change how they are. The floor plan looks fixed and your options are far as customization goes is whether to have the room or not.

My own speculation on how the process will go is as follows. You talk to an NPC, most likely the Jarl or the Jarls steward, and are given the option to purchase land. Upon buying and going to this land you will see various work benches where you can craft materials such as Iron Ingots into other things which are required to then build X room. E.g. you activate the bench and to build the Bedroom it may require 10 Nails, 2 Locks, etc and then upon "buying/building" the room builds itself over a short period of time. Then inside there will be yet another table which will allow for furnishings.

The only theme for housing shown was Whiterun, there may be more but they may not be.

From the looks of the adoption scene there will be a girl sitting around the tree in Whiterun who you have a dialogue option to adopt. I can only assume there will probably also be a boy somewhere with the same thing. The max amount of children you can adopt looks to be two given the description of the bedroom upgrade ("The Bedroom has space for a master bedroom plus two children's beds"). I would be surprised if you have any choice in who you can adopt.

The new objectives and interactions known are bandit raids, kidnappings, skeever infestations and giant attacks. They probably work like any other random encounter does. Sometimes when going to your home these will be happening. I assume the kidnapping works the same way as the Companions radiant quest. You go home, your partner is missing and you get a popup to rescue them from some random cave.

The DLC looks underwhelming and they seem to be trying to play the customization card a little bit too much when realistically there will probably be very little.

If anything Hearthfire will give PC users the basic tools that would allow the modding community to expand on the idea. I'd love to see multipe building styles, such as Dwemer, Aldmeri, Cyrridilian, even Ackaviri. rather than some crumby Nord building that will look almost like any other nord building in the game. For interiors, I'd love to see the ability to change the color or texture of individual walls, floors, doors, ceilings. Having a unique home is what I want.

I think you kind of glossed over the part where they talk about interior decoration. It looked like that was almost entirely customized by the player.

And I don't think we have anywhere near enough information to conclude that only two children will be available for adoption. It seems like the orphanage in Riften would be the most obvious place to find them, though.

Op your obviously biased about this....watch the trailer, its appears to be very customisable...

Gstaff confirmed that you can build up to three houses. Whether that means you can only build one house per Hold, and only in one location isn't known yet, although I suspect there's one plot of land in the Pale, one plot in Falkreath, and one in the Hold Morthal is the capital of.

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