What is the maximum number of people and animals allowed to live/stay in your Hearthfire house?

Currently I have my Housecarl, Wife, Steward, two kids, Bard, Carriage Driver and two dogs. Thats nine ppl not including myself. Can I get more ppl/animals to stay? (no summoning/conjuring)

Also is it possible for the kids to bring home a sabrecat or is that not one of the animals programmed to come home with children?

hmm i think if you happen on a skeever infestation in your cellar youll get to keep one? ..i havent had a single skeever attack myself so i dont know, but ive heared from a couple of places.


and no, you cant get a pet sabre cat unfourtionately

Couldn't tell you. Ridiculous load times, kidnapping, robbery, constant attacks, skevers infestations & lack of merchant proximity make the Heathfire houses unlivable, IMHO. I just use them to display non-unique items I want to keep.

if you get married, your spouse will become a merchant, and this also makes it even easier to store the stuff you want to keep before selling anything imo

Dude, I can deplete a merchant's default 750 gold w/ about 5 potions. Add my expertise in the art of looting (weight justifying worth) and I need a lot more than 1 merchant. Regardless, the houses could be perfect (which they're not, far from it) & I still wouldn't live there because of their load times & the more stuff you have in those houses, the longer the load times are. Plus, I consider Severin Manor the best house in the game, so it's moot.

yeah i do agree with you there. vanilla houses are enough for me too and adopting kids...meh, not my thing thats why i only have hearthfire on my pc copy, and not buying it on my ps3

You can also have a purchased horse for the house, plus Frost and Shadowmere, and all 3 will defend the house. Although Shadowmere has now been changed to reset to the Falkreath Sanctuary if you are away from your house for more than 10 days (not happy!). You can have your follower wait at your house as well, and I have one home that has had the Skeever infestation twice, so I have 2 sammys in the basemant. There's also the cow and 2 chickens, but I am guessing these don't matter.

If you marry Mjoll the Lioness, Aerin will come live at the house too so thats +1.

6 people can live in the house.
You
Husband/Wife
2 kids
steward
housecarl

aye... that damn stalking s.o.b. is the only reason i hate Mjoll too

I would love to have a menagerie of Chaurus, spiders, horses, Elk, slaughterfish, sabrecats, bears, dogs, rabbits, wolves, foxes, cows, goats, chickens, Deer, Horkers, Mammoths, Mudcrabs, Skeevers, trolls, a dragon who would agree to help guard it, a pack of werewolves, a coven of Hagraven, and a clan of vampires, along with a damn group of giants to help the dragon guard things.

and i wish for 10 million dollars irl but that aynt gonna happen either

unless youre on a pc and are familiar with quite a few console commands

Unless I'm mistaken, your housecarl w/ remain at the Jarl's Longhouse unless you make them the steward. And you forgot bard...