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Roadmap

 

Overview:

  • Estimated Trophy Difficulty: 2/10
  • Offline trophies: 5 (5 (B))
  • Online trophies: 0
  • Approximate amount of time to 100%: 3-5 hours (Gold dependent)
  • Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
  • Number of missable trophies: 2: Land Baron and Master Architect
  • Glitched trophies: 0
  • Does difficulty affect any trophies: No
  • Do cheat codes disable trophies: No cheat codes available

 

Introduction:

 

The second DLC released for Skyrim, Hearthfire, is a radical departure from the usual questing and adventuring found in the main game. This add-on allows you to build your own house and decorate it with a wide variety of different rooms and furnishings. Furthermore, you can adopt children and allow them to move into your house along with your wife to create a true family home.

 

The trophies for Hearthfire are really easy but require a certain amount of Gold to unlock. If you have around 50-60,000 Gold you can get the trophies within 3 hours as you can buy all the materials you need. If you don't have the Gold or don't wish to spend it, then you can mine/smith all the materials but this will add a couple of hours to your playthrough.

 

Note on missable trophies: Unfortunately there are two missable trophies in this DLC. If you have at any point completed "Contract: Kill Helvard" for the Dark Brotherhood, the option to buy Lakeview Manor in Falkreath will never be available. Luckily, this is a radiant quest once you have completed the Dark Brotherhood quest-line and so chances are you haven't received it. If you have then you will need to load a save from before you carried out the contract. Check your quest log to see if it has been completed or not. Note that you can still have the quest in your list of active quests but Helvard must be alive, otherwise you're out of luck.

 

Walkthrough:

 

Step 1 - Adopt a child:

 

You should do this first as it's the easiest and quickest trophy to earn in the DLC. If you have completed the first Dark Brotherhood quest "Innocence Lost", once you have installed the add-on, as soon as you enter one of the 7 main cities a courier will approach you and give you two letters. One will be to inform you that you can build a children's bedroom in any of your currently-owned homes. The other will be to announce that the Honorhall Orphanage in Riften is looking for parents to adopt children. If you have not completed "Innocence Lost", then the courier will only give you the first letter and will only bring you the second one once you complete that quest. You should then build a children's bedroom in one of your homes then go to the orphanage to adopt a child. For a more detailed explanation, see the trophy guide below. This step will earn you the following trophy:

(B)

 
Proud Parent
 

Step 2 - Buy all 3 plots of land

 

There are 3 plots of land to buy in Hearthfire, one each from the cities of Falkreath, Dawnstar and Morthal. To buy a plot of land from the Jarl or their Housecarl in these cities, you will have to have completed certain quests to get the conversation option to buy a plot of land. Once you do, ask about houses in the area, and you will have the option to purchase the plots of land for 5,000 Gold each. Purchasing all 3 plots will net you the following trophies:

(B)

 
Landowner
 

(B)

 
Land Baron
 

Step 3 - Fully build all 3 houses:

 

This is the most time-consuming step and the main focus of this DLC. Once you have bought all three plots, go to each one in turn by finding it on the map and travelling there. Once there, you will need to start off by going to the Drafting Table and selecting "Small House", then use the Carpenter’s Workbench to build the house. Repeat this again for the "Main Hall", then three more times for the three different Wings. You will have to do this for all three houses. For a more detailed explanation, see the trophy guide below. At the end of this step, you will have unlocked the following trophies and achieved 100% for this DLC:

(B)

 
Architect
 

(B)

 
Master Architect
 
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Adopt a child

 

In order to adopt a child you will need two things: A child's bedroom in one of your houses and a suitable child to adopt.

 

1. Installing a child's bedroom:

 

Once you start the DLC and enter one of the 7 main towns, a courier will approach you with a letter informing you that a child's bedroom can be installed in any of your houses (including the ones available pre-DLC). Building the bedroom is done in the same way as building any other room in your house, i.e. going to the Jarl's steward in the city in which you own a house (e.g. Proventus Avenicci (Imperials) or Brill (Stormcloaks) in Whiterun if you own Breezehome) and asking him to install a children's bedroom. This will only cost 250 Gold but will replace your Alchemical Lab, with the exception of Hjerim and Proudspire Manor in Windhelm and Solitude respectively, where it will cost 3,000 Gold but will not replace your alchemical lab. If you didn't follow the Roadmap and have already built one of the DLC houses, you can of course build a child's bedroom in one of them and it will still count.

 

Note that after you earn this trophy, you can revert the child's bedroom back to an Alchemical Lab for 500 Gold, but your child will be sent back to Honorhall Orphanage as there is no longer a room for them. If you don't want to pay the Gold to build the child's bedroom in the first place you can make a save (before you convert the Lab into a bedroom) earn the trophy then reload the old save.

 

2. Finding a child to adopt:

 

There are two different avenues you can pursue to adopt a child. The most fun method is to adopt one from Honorhall Orphanage in Riften. This will require you to have completed the first Dark Brotherhood quest, "Innocence Lost" and killed Grelod the Kind. After you have done this, Constance Michel will become the new headmistress of the orphanage. Once she has, she will send out leaflets advertising adoption from the orphanage, which will be delivered to you by a courier once you enter a major city (this will be given to you along with the notice that you can build a child's bedroom, if Constance became the headmistress before you installed Hearthfire).

 

Once you receive this leaflet, head over to the Orphanage in Riften and talk to Constance. When you tell her you are looking to adopt, she will ask you a few simple questions such as your name and who you are. For the latter question you should answer "I am Dragonborn", otherwise you will have to start the conversation again. After this she will ask you where your child will be living, your list of answers will depend on how many houses you have built a child's bedroom in. Choose the house you want your child to live in (e.g. "Breezehome") and she will accept you as a reliable parent.

 

The final thing left for you to do is meet the children in the orphanage and choose one to adopt. There are four choices:

 

  • Francois Beaufort
  • Hroar
  • Runa Fair-Shield
  • Samuel

Simply talk to any of these children and ask them if they want to be adopted.

 

Alternatively, you can go straight to one of the major cities and find a child who is willing to be adopted. There are again four of these:

 

  • Alesan - Dawnstar
  • Blaise - Solitude
  • Lucia - Whiterun
  • Sofie - Windhelm

Talk to these children and a conversation option to adopt them will appear. As long as you have a house with a child's bedroom, you can adopt one of these for the trophy. The maximum number of children you can adopt at any given time is two. Even if you have every single house you own fitted with a children's bedroom, you will not get the conversation option to adopt if you already have two children.

 

Once they accept your offer, this trophy will unlock.

 

Further notes (thanks to Terminator😞

 

Installing the Hearthfire DLC before starting the game for the first time will mean you won't get the note informing you of the Child's Bedroom Upgrade, because you don't have an existing house to upgrade.

 

Homesteads come with the Child's Bedroom options by default, unlike pre-built houses where you have to pay the Jarl's steward to install a Child's Bedroom. To make a Homestead ready to accept a Child, you need to build a single bed and a dresser in the Main Hall or a Child's bed and Chest in the Bedroom extension (you do not need to fully furnish any part of the home for it to count). Each Homestead comes with a book (found on the Carpentry table) that tells you what you need to build to make it Child friendly.

 

Homes are what you buy and Homesteads are what you build but Homesteads don't count as a Home in the Stats, though fortunately this doesn't negatively affect the trophies.

 

The Falkreath Homestead is very temperamental and doesn't always count as a suitable place for children to live, thus no adoptions can take place. To fix this you need to either load an earlier save, build additional Child facilities or wait it out and see if it fixes itself.

 

Being a Werewolf has no effect on being able to adopt a child, nor does not being the Dragonborn as it is possible as a Werewolf and by saying you are an Adventurer.

 

63.jpg  Landowner (B)

Buy a plot of land

 

Please see Land Baron for more details.

 

64.jpg  Architect (B)

Build three wings on a house

 

Please see Master Architect for more details.

 

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Buy three plots of land

 

[MISSABLE] There are three plots of land in Hearthfire which can be turned into new houses. These are:

 

  • Heljarchen Hall - Dawnstar
  • Lakeview Manor - Falkreath
  • Windstad Manor - Morthal

In order to buy the plot of land, you will need to be in good standing with the Jarls of these three cities. You will know when this is, as it will be the same time as when they tell you that you will be granted the title of "Thane" if you help three people in the city. In order to get to this point, the following quests will need to be completed:

 

Dawnstar - Complete the quest "Waking Nightmare" and then a radiant "Kill the Giant" quest for the Jarl of Dawnstar.

 

Falkreath - The quest from Jarl Siddgeir to bring him a bottle of Black-Briar Mead and then another radiant quest to kill a Bandit Leader. *See note on Falkreath below*

 

Morthal - Complete the quest "Laid to Rest" for the Jarl of Morthal (who is different depending on which faction you sided with in the Civil War quest-line).

 

After these quests are completed in each city, talk to the Jarl's steward and the option to purchase a plot of land will be available, each available at the cost of 5,000 Gold. If you were already the Thane of the cities before installing this DLC, you can skip straight to this step once you install it. Buying one plot will earn you Landowner, whilst buying all three will earn you this trophy.

 

*Note on Falkreath*: Getting the option to purchase the plot of land in Falkreath has proved particularly troublesome. The first problem which makes this trophy missable is that if you have completed the "Contract: Kill Helvard" radiant quest for the Dark Brotherhood, you will never get the option from the steward to buy the plot of land for Lakeview Manor. The only option you have is load an earlier save before you completed this quest or start again with a new character. Check the "Miscellaneous" tab of your quest log to see if you have done it or not. Note that you can still have the quest active, but you must not actually have killed Helvard.

 

If you haven't completed this quest you are lucky in the sense that the trophy can no longer be missed, but there are still some obstacles to overcome. It is likely that you are not getting the quest from Jarl Siddgeir to bring him a bottle of Black-Briar Mead. This is because this is part of a set of radiant quests called "Rare Gifts", which include the following:

 

  • Retrieve "The Mirror" book for Captain Aldis
  • Retrieve the "Song of the Alchemists" book for Lami
  • Retrieve the "Night Falls on Sentinel" book for Rustleif
  • Retrieve the Amulet of Arkay for Torbjorn Shatter-Shield
  • Retrieve a Mammoth Tusk for Ysolda

If any of these are still in your active quests under the "Miscellaneous" tab, you must complete it before the Jarl will ask you to bring him some Black-Briar Mead.

 

These problems were inherent in the Xbox 360 version too. There has been much more time for users of that console to solve the problems with this trophy. Therefore if you have followed the above advice but are still having problems, try seeing if any of the numerous tips contained within these two threads from our sister site can help you:

 

Possible fix for getting the Falkreath plot - Xbox360Achievements.org

Anyone having difficulty buying a house in Falkreath? - Xbox360Achievements.org

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66.jpg  Master Architect (B)

Build three houses

[MISSABLE] This trophy is the main body of the DLC and will be what you spend most of your time on. Note that this trophy is missable for the same reason as Land Baron; if you are unable to obtain the Falkreath plot of land, you will obviously be unable to build a house on it. See that trophy's description for more details.

 

There are two ways to go about it: The quicker/more expensive way, or the longer/cheaper way. The expensive way will set you back around 40,000 Gold (on top of the 15,000 spent on buying the three plots of land), whereas the cheaper way will cost you almost nothing but will add a minimum of two hours to your playtime. The expense refers to buying materials required to build your house, which you can buy yourself or get your Steward to order for you. Alternatively you can obtain all the materials yourself by mining/smelting/sawing but be warned that you will need a lot of materials, which will take a considerable amount of time to obtain. This guide will assume you are following the quicker/more expensive way but if you wish to obtain the materials yourself, you may do so.

 

1. Preparation - building a Small House:

 

Before you can mould your house into how you want it, you will need to build a "Small House". Once you reach your plot of land, you will see four usable objects next to each other. From left to right these are:

 

  • Drafting Table - Here is where you choose what type of building room you wish to build. At this stage, only "Small House" will be available. Select an option creates a roped outline on the ground in your plot.
  • Chest - Here is where your building materials are deposited when you order them from your Steward. There are also some materials in here when you first buy your house to start you off. It acts just like any other chest, which means if you are over-encumbered you can place materials in here to use later.
  • Carpenter's Workbench - This is where you build the various sections of your house once you have selected a blueprint at the Drafting Table. The amount of materials you need to build each section is listed at the bottom.
  • Anvil - This is exactly the same as the other anvils in Skyrim that you use for smithing. With the addition of the DLC a new tab called "Building Materials" will have been added, here you can smith iron fittings, locks, hinges and nails.

First of all go to the Drafting Table and select "Small House Layout". Then go to your chest and collect the materials in there. Luckily, the game gives you enough to completely build your Small House. However, you will still need to go to the anvil and smith 20 nails, 1 iron fitting, 1 lock and 2 hinges. When this is done, go to the Carpenter’s Workbench and build the different sections of the Small House.

 

2. Finding a Steward and accumulating materials:

 

If you want to finish building your houses quickly, assigning a Steward to your house is an absolute priority. To assign a Steward to your house, you must first have a Small House fully built on your plot of land. Then you need to find a follower and then take them to your plot of land. If they are suitable for the job, there will be a dialogue option to ask them to be a steward. For a list of all suitable followers please see this list.

 

Stewards provide a variety of services in your house, but the one strictly relevant to this trophy is that they can order building materials for you. These are as follows:

 

  • Clay - 20 bricks for 20 Gold
  • Quarried stone - 20 stones for 100 Gold
  • Sawn logs - 20 logs for 200 Gold

Once ordered, these materials will be automatically added your chest (with the exception of sawn logs, which will be added to the pile of logs near to the crafting area). Again, if you don’t want to hire a Steward, you can mine as much clay and quarried stone as you want from the deposits located on your plot of land, and you can saw logs from the various mills around Skyrim.

 

The only relevant materials that can’t be ordered from your Steward are Iron and Corundum Ingots. You will need around 150-200 Iron Ingots and 50 Corundum Ingots to fully build all three houses. You can either buy these from various blacksmiths around Skyrim or mine Iron and Corundum Ores and smelt them into ingots. Smelting is done by visiting any of the blacksmith shops around Skyrim (such as Warmaiden's in Whiterun) and using the smelter located next to the forge. Buying all the Ingots and materials from your Steward is what the 40,000 Gold was for, but you can take the time-consuming option if you want to save your money for other reasons. The best place to buy the ingots required is in the Ragged Flagon in Riften (provided you have earned the main game trophy titled One With The Shadows), as there are four merchants next to each other who will sell them. Thanks Bounty V for the tip.

 

Once a Steward is assigned to your house, they cannot be dismissed. The only way to transfer one to another house is to ask them to be your follower, and then go to another plot of land and ask them to become a Steward again. If you so wish, you can assign three different Stewards to your three different houses.

 

3. Building the Main Hall:

 

The next step towards building your house is to construct the Main Hall. Again, go to the Drafting Table and select the layout for it then go to the Carpenter’s Workbench to begin construction. This is much larger than the Small House so naturally will require a lot more building materials. Each individual section of the Main Hall will be listed on the Workbench, with the amount of materials needed for each. If you need more materials, ask your Steward to order more and craft the iron things at the anvil.

 

4. Building the three Wings:

 

Finally you have to craft three Wings: the North, East and West Wing. Each Wing has a choice of three different buildings:

 

  • East Wing - Library, Armoury or Kitchen
  • North Wing - Alchemy Laboratory, Storage Room or Trophy Room
  • West Wing - Enchanter’s Tower, Bedrooms or Greenhouse

The same process as always applies: Choose the outline of the Wing you wish to construct at the Drafting Table, accumulate the materials necessary, and then build the Wing at the Carpenter’s Workbench. If you do not care about which buildings go on your house or what it looks like, I would recommend building the Kitchen, Trophy Room and Greenhouse combination as these require the fewest materials to build.

 

Do this for all three Wings and you will earn the trophy for Architect. Do this for all three plots of land and you will earn Master Architect. Note that you don't have to furnish any of your rooms or build any exterior buildings for these trophies; it is solely the Small House, Main Hall and three Wings that are required.

 

*Important Note*: Once you have built a Wing on your house, there is no way to demolish it or swap it for another Wing. Therefore make sure you choose carefully. Again, if you want to quickly earn the trophies but want to come back later and mould the house exactly to your liking, make a save and build the three Wings mentioned above. Then reload your save and build whichever combination you desire.

 

Further notes (thanks to Terminator😞

 

You need to be at Lv20 or higher before you can get the mission to kill a Giant for the Jarl and thus are able buy land in Dawnstar.

 

Don't accept or complete any part of the Rare Gifts quest before entering Falkreath, this will prevent most of the issues with trying to buy land and/or becoming Thane.

 

With Falkreath being so buggy, it is suggested that you head straight there after getting the note at Lv9 or 10 saying the Jarl wants to see you, don't dawdle or get side tracked as this could prove costly later on.

 

It's possible for a Homestead to glitch and not count towards the trophy. If this happens then revisit all 3 Homesteads and check that they each have 3 wings built, if they haven't then go to the Drafting Board of the glitched Homestead(s) and choose the "Convert into Entry Way" option. Choosing this option will clear the glitch and let you finish building whatever it was that glitched and on completion of that Wing, the trophy will pop.

 

The Jarl of Falkreath also changes depending on what happens during the Civil War storyline.

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Guide is fully uploaded, so feel free to leave the usual comments/feedback/tips :)

 

I tried to go into as much detail as possible for Master Architect, but I may have missed something out so if there's anything I can add, let me know.

 

I will leave this for an hour or so to clear my head (been writing non-stop all day :p) and will then do an editorial sweep before submitting.

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*Note on Falkreath*: Getting the option to purchase the plot of land in Falkreath has proved particularly troublesome. The first problem which makes this trophy missable is that if you have completed the “Contract: Kill Helvard” radiant quest for the Dark Brotherhood, you will never get the option from the steward to buy the plot of land for Lakeview Manor. The only option you have is load an earlier save before you completed this quest, or start again with a new character. Check the “Miscellaneous” tab of your quest log to see if you have done it or not. Note that you can still have the quest active, but you must not actually have killed Helvard.

 

This isn't 100% true. Like I said in other topics I couldn't buy the Falkreath plot either so I had to go to an older save where I could buy it. Helvard, however was already dead in that save. So whatever causes you to not be able to buy that plot isn't solely because of this.

 

Otherwise nice guide :)

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This isn't 100% true. Like I said in other topics I couldn't buy the Falkreath plot either so I had to go to an older save where I could buy it. Helvard, however was already dead in that save. So whatever causes you to not be able to buy that plot isn't solely because of this.

 

Otherwise nice guide :)

 

*Sigh* Bloody Helvard! :rant:

 

Now that I've finished with Hearthfire, I'm going to keep playing Dark Brotherhood missions just so I get that and can murder him in the most gruesome way possible :p

 

Alright, I'll do some more digging round the forums and see if I can lock this down. Either way, I'll leave that part in there to avoid people thinking it could be OK to kill him.

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Right, I've searched across these forums, the ones over at X360A and both Elder Scrolls Wikis. No definitive answer for what causes this issue can be found. I'm going to stick with the most reliable source (the two Wikis), which both state that if he has been killed, buying the land is unavailable. If a concrete answer can be found or this issue addressed in a patch, I will update the guide accordingly.

 

With that in mind, I've done a sweep and changed a few grammatical/formatting errors. This will now be submitted.

*Guide updated and submitted*

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Yeah...no idea about the Helvard situation. He's alive in my game, but I bought the land from someone else. It might've been the Thane, though I don't remember.

 

That might be true. I had the 2nd Jarl that was pro-stormcloak who had a different steward. If however you choose the imperial side in the war and thus keep the 1st Jarl who had Helvard a steward and you kill him for the Dark Brotherhood, then it might be impossible to buy the land. Just a guess though, might be totally wrong.

 

I can't seem to build a child's bedroom onto my DLC house (Winstad). When I go to Highmoon Hall in Morthal and speak to the steward there (Aslfur), no option comes up. Am I supposed to go to the adoption place first?

 

You just need to make a bedroom and in there you get the option to build children's beds. So you need to make them at the table ''in'' the bedroom.

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Yeah...no idea about the Helvard situation. He's alive in my game, but I bought the land from someone else. It might've been the Thane, though I don't remember.

 

Nenya, the Jarl's other steward.

 

That totally confused me. There was no option for a bedroom from the drafting table. In the upstairs, I can build beds, but only large or small, no child bed is listed. Is the small bed enough?

 

Did you go to the Drafting Table in the bedroom? Or the one outside? You need to go to the one in the respective room.

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That totally confused me. There was no option for a bedroom from the drafting table. In the upstairs, I can build beds, but only large or small, no child bed is listed. Is the small bed enough?

 

I think those small beds work as well for child beds . See this thread question #3

http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/hearthfire/189820-couple-questions-about-my-house.html

 

If you made a round room instead of the bedroom via the outside drafting table and workbench, which is outside, then you do not have the choice to make the child beds and two storage chests. One of the kids will store all their stuff in the chest.

 

With two kids it seems that only one chest is used the other is always empty.

 

This bedroom is one of the wings to the house, it is on the left side when you enter the house from main entrance. It is to the left of the stair case, and opposite side to the kitchen and will have two doors, the workbench is between the two doors on the inside of the room.

 

You can build two beds upstairs in the main hall, and a big bed on the side where the kitchen is, if you made a kitchen.

 

See photos in this thread

http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/hearthfire/189871-bedroom-house-children-beds.html

 

Did you go to the Drafting Table in the bedroom? Or the one outside? You need to go to the one in the respective room.

 

I think inside they call them workbenches

The drafting table is only the one outside beside the anvil and work table.

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Pretty easy trophies. But making a house was actually fun.

 

At first I was not even going to buy it, but it turned out to be fun. I played it first on X-Box [50% sale Dec31] (before the PS3 announcement) and it was more fun then I figured, helps with Smithing leveling.

 

Now also got it on PS3 and having just as much fun with it.

 

This time taking the Kids to Windstad Manor as it:

[spoiler=lkj]

gives interesting dialog to the kids, they say something about the place being scary and haunted or something like that. Maybe even ghosts?

 

The Lakeview Manor the kids love it there

 

 

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for adopting a child trophy, if you sided with the stormcloaks the person you need to look for is Brill not Proventus Avenicci as mentioned in guide. i was looking for proventus for like an hour and after doing some research online found out Brill is the guy that will upgrade the childrens bedroom in Breezehome.

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for adopting a child trophy, if you sided with the stormcloaks the person you need to look for is Brill not Proventus Avenicci as mentioned in guide. i was looking for proventus for like an hour and after doing some research online found out Brill is the guy that will upgrade the childrens bedroom in Breezehome.

 

Yeahhhh, Imperialism all the way for me! :deadhorse:

 

Will fix this now, thanks :)

 

*Guide Updated*

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I am having a problem with Falkreath, now. There is no option to buy land, and no one has any work for me. Helvard is still alive, I brought the Jarl the Black Briar Mead, did a radiant quest to kill the leader of Pinemoon Cave (vampires), and have not completed the Civil War questline. But, after turning that quest in, there is no option from anyone to buy land or a house, I have not been named Thane that I remember, and there are no dialog options for any more jobs.

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I am having a problem with Falkreath, now. There is no option to buy land, and no one has any work for me. Helvard is still alive, I brought the Jarl the Black Briar Mead, did a radiant quest to kill the leader of Pinemoon Cave (vampires), and have not completed the Civil War questline. But, after turning that quest in, there is no option from anyone to buy land or a house, I have not been named Thane that I remember, and there are no dialog options for any more jobs.

 

did you try talking to the steward ? you buy the land from her not the jarl. her name is tekka i think, or something like that.

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I never said i tried getting the land fro the Jarl. You misunderstood. I said I did the quest for the Jarl (you have to do a quest for him as part of the requirement) and did the radiant quest to kill the leader, as also stated in the trophy guide as a requirement.

So, I have done both requirements, and the man whose death could make it miss able is still alive. This is why I am stuck. I have done both required quests and, according to the trophy guide, I should now be able to buy the land, but there is no option from anyone. I have actually talked to everyone in town, including the Thane / former Jarl.

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i know what you mean cause the same thing happened to me, helvard was alive, did all needed quests for jarl, but he had no option to buy house/land. talking to his steward which is a woman in the same hall as the jarl gave me the option to buy land. i know this might not resolve your problem but it resolved mine.

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I never said i tried getting the land fro the Jarl. You misunderstood. I said I did the quest for the Jarl (you have to do a quest for him as part of the requirement) and did the radiant quest to kill the leader, as also stated in the trophy guide as a requirement.

So, I have done both requirements, and the man whose death could make it miss able is still alive. This is why I am stuck. I have done both required quests and, according to the trophy guide, I should now be able to buy the land, but there is no option from anyone. I have actually talked to everyone in town, including the Thane / former Jarl.

 

Hmm, that's quite vexing :confused:

 

Are you sure you tried talking to the steward? She likes to sit in a dark corner upstairs in the Jarl's hall; I missed her a few times. I'm sure you've done it, but you need to turn the quest into the Jarl too.

 

I myself had to do the "Retrieve a mammoth tusk for Ysolda" quest, as the Jarl wouldn't give me aything else.

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