So I found this way where you can start Hearthfire over again, and adopt new kids again etc. I don't know if this was discovered yet or not but I stumbled upon it because I was trying to fix a bug with my wife.

This is great for people who don't like the way they built their houses, who they adopted, who they hired as their stewards or are encountering any bugs regarding those. (Not going to fix freezing problems or anything like that)

My wife was bugged when I asked her to move to Windstad when I adopted children and she glitched back to Whiterun and wouldn't move anywhere as if we were never married. So I uninstalled Hearthfire, loaded my save and talked to my wife. Finally she would move again, so I moved her back to Proudshire Manor and made a NEW save. Then redownload Hearthfire and loaded that new save and I was able to speak with the Jarl's and buy the land again and also adopt new children.

Hope this helped anyone who wanted to restart. Lemme know if it worked for you.

Note that the downside to this is you don't get all the gold back that you spent on building your houses and furnishing them.

Also any gear you have you will want to take out of the house or it will disappear.

This is probably the only method, although I wouldn't recommend it, if anything I'd just say exercise caution.

It worked for me, and you will still have your old save anyways.

I would use this method with caution too. Skyrim is already littered with bugs and this could possibly break something else.

Best thing to do is just make a save before any big event, IE, starting hearthfire.

I would rather just go back to my old save and start Hearthfire all over again, then I get the fun of doing it all again.

Pretty useful info. Thank you. This would have been useful when my bard disappeared.

They should just patch in the ability to delete rooms.

I didn't make a new save when Hearthfire came out and saved over my old one after hours of gameplay since I didn't know my wife was glitched till after

But I've been playing it now for a few days after using this method and haven't run into any new bugs so far, was even smoother than the first time.

Uh, yeah, this is called making a clean save, nothing revolutionary really.

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Hope that helps

Exactly what I was thinking. However, it should prove to be useful to those that are not familiar with the way DLCs (mods) work and need to fix something.

How can overwriting a save file make your saves bloated?

Because it will not delete the old file information completely, before it rewrites the new. The end result is an ever increased save file.

I nearly always overwrite, never had save game bloat, since it is overwriting the file, not adding to it, and you can never tell when you are going to need that save game from 20hrs ago, especially with Skyrim.

Sorry, but I don't believe this. I always overwrite my saves, must be 1000s of times now, and the saves aren't bloated.

When you overwrite a file, it overwrites it, not adds to it.

Ok...

I started having multiple saves now, but this is not a what you should have done. Not everyone still has an old save before they started Hearthfire. Should they have one? Probably...but this is simply for people who don't and have no way back of restarting since there are so many threads about how or if you can rebuild your houses and restart.

Unfortunately, with the way the game is designed, something that works for you may glitch out for someone else. :/

It worked as in I could restart the dlc, not fix all of bethesda's bugs. People's choice to use it or not, I'm just posting something that worked for me. I had a bug that it seems nobody else had and seemed to ruin the point of having hearthfire is why I restarted. You're basically just uninstalling the dlc so you can make a save without it and reinstalling the dlc and it lets you do everything again.

I would say use with caution but unless it randomly deletes your old save which won't happen but you never know...you can always just reload it if you run into a game breaking bug again.