You can only have one of three schemes in each wing – so you can have an alchemy lab or a library, for example. Sure, it was my choice to add extra wings and bedrooms and to add in all the furnishings, but the way it’s designed means that unless you have at least almost everything in each room, it looks a little odd. (You could also mine them nearby if so inclined.) This is where Bethesda really got things wrong: you don’t just need wood, stone and glass – you have to break down the iron ingots into individual nails and hinges and fittings, so what should be a light, fun minigame becomes very boring very quickly. I figured that I should be able to build my house in an hour or two, but it took about six hours of MMO-style grind to go to the various blacksmiths and traders in each city hunting down ingots and ore and other materials to complete my project. The blurb states that you can hire a steward to help out, so I gratefully took up the nearest offer, but she only brought in wood and stone – I was still stuck hunting down iron ingots, and there were hundreds – perhaps even thousands – required for the job. Then the problems started: you need an absolutely ridiculous number of materials to build your house. There’s a workbench next to your empty plot, and in best game crafting fashion, you have to load up your inventory with certain items which the workbench then uses to build the house. This doesn’t work so well for a shack, so I figured I should build something suitably imposing. The plot of land was a pretty spot near a lake, and the property is accordingly called Lakeview Manor. I chose Falkreath because it looked like it had better weather. This time, the courier gave me both letters and I was able to buy the land. Luckily, it was an easy fix:Įxit game > delete DLC > load game > ignore error message > save > exit > re-download DLC > load game I tried visiting one of the three Jarls in question – Dawnstar, Morthal and Falkreath – but none of them had the topic. I was therefore actually surprised when I couldn’t get the mod to start on the xbox 360 – a courier would arrive, but he would only give me the orphanage letter and not the letter from the Jarl. I mean, there was the sunken stablehand outside Whiterun and a few floating trees, but no real gamestoppers. I’ve been pretty lucky with Bethesda games in that I’ve never really encountered any bugs.
Although Skyrim‘s new DLC Hearthfire isn’t up yet on the PC, I wondered how it would hold off against the popular fan-made game addition, Build Your Own Home, so I played the former on the Xbox and the latter on the PC to see how they’d compare.
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