In Shadowfoot Sanctum, there is a hidden room which you didn't show.. Right after you enter the living room, on the left is a cabinet. After you open the cabinet you will enter a room full of mannequins, alchemy table, enchantment table and lots of weaponsracks. Also if you are dedicated, there is a shelf for collecting all claws in the game.
I made a thief/assassin/treasure hunter khajiit who basically (in my head canon) rules the underground. She has connections in every city (through the thieves guild quests and investments). I made it my mission to get all the houses in regular Skyrim cause it made sense to have multiple homes to move to in case you’re on the run. So knowing there’s more just makes me happy 😍
Been there done that. That was my build for my first play through lmao. When I had bounties in one area I would switch to my other houses if i didn’t want to pay it at the time
I like how bloodchill manner has a secondary option for the whole Quest. If you are already a vampire when you get the dinner invitation what's written on that note is completely a different instead of being invited to an actual dinner you are instead invited there to eat the guests. The fight is more or less the same the only difference being your fighting Dawnguard and not vampires.
Mines was different. I was a vampire 🦇 already and invited. After I read the letter, I tilted one of the invited head back and sucked their blood out their neck 😂.
I wish they would add an ability to teleport between the homes you own, kind of like teleport between Propylon locations in Morrowind. Like, for every home you own, you're able to purchase/craft/get a small altar, that you then activate by placing, say, a great soul gem on it. You then are able to teleport between all the altars you've activated. This doesn't break anything, makes the remote locations homes more feasible, and makes getting new additional homes beneficial, as you're getting a new teleport location.
yes that is awesome. Btw is there a way to create Soulgems or do you have to find/buy them? Will they always replenish in Stores. and will you be able down the road to even buy the biggest soulgems when your lvl is high enough?
@@tomw4955 yeah there are 2 ways (I know of), the normal way is to use a weapon with the soul snare enchantment (the ones that say, if they die in x seconds, fills a soul gem), and carry empty soul gems with you, they fill up as you use that weapon. The second way I am pretty sure you can make black soul gems using the altar in Gallows Hall, after completing the dreams of the dead quest, but I've not actually revisited that place to try yet. If you use the former, then I recommend getting either Azura's Star/Black Star. It acts as a reusable grand/black soul gems you can continually refill and use over and over
@@tomw4955 For unfilled soulgems you have to buy them, but you can also fill them by activating a sould fissure in the Soul Cairn. You can use the alters located there to turn grand soul gems into black soul gems too
@Mark Aspen Yep, Soul Trap is one of my favourite enchantments! The enchantment Foritfy Sneak is the most expensive in the game, and it gives the most xp, so I'll often stockpile gloves and boots that don't weigh all that much to put it on for some fast leveling
I did a staff/sword build based off Gandalf. I was so happy when I found that tower home. (Yes I know Orthanc was Saruman's thing and not Gandalf but still)
@@moviemaniacdjp sort of the same as I'd seen they added the spellknight heavy armour sets.. naturally a battlemage build was needed. Myrwatch is both a utility and a presentation wet dream for magic users.
i have skyrim anniversary edition, but how do i get myrwatch? like the house isnt at the location for me, is there a certain quest or level i have to be?
Just as a note, the Dead Man’s Dread home is a direct reference to a little known (nowadays anyway) Elder Scrolls game, Redguard, which is a completely different game to any other TES game, more like Prince of Persia than an RPG. Cyrus is the playable character in that game, and his outfit that you loot is the exact same he wears throughout the game. TES Redguard ends with Cyrus setting off to explore Tamriel from the island of Stros M’kai, meaning he had a very unfortunate end in Skyrim lmao
Thank you for the summary! I've never played anything further back than Oblivion, everyone tells me to go back and experience the older titles. I like it when they link the games through little easter eggs like that
Before Elder Scrolls Online came out, Redguard was also unique in that it was a prequel to the other games. It took place while Tiber Septim was still attempting to unite (aka conquer) the various nations of Tamriel, whereas the others all take place during or after Septim's reign as Emperor.
My biggest complaint about any home is that not one of them has ALL the unique items slots. Some have dragon claws, but not paragons. Some have masks, but not daedric items. Etc. As someone who's favorite aspect of the game is collecting unique items, I just want a house that has space for EVERY. SINGLE. UNIQUE. ITEM. (I play on Xbox, I'm sure PC has a mod for a house like this. Alas, I am too poor to buy a PC right now)
Hendraheim has my heart. I love the house, its location, its interior...so beautiful especially with visual mods. It's big but still very cozy to me. My central storage is here (love filling the bookshelves) and moved my family to there too!
@@neolithiumproduction And your followers can't follow you inside (or at least that was my experience). Mine had to sleep in tents behind the stable and eat on the porch no matter how bad the weather.
One of my favorites is Goldenhills. You select a follower to run the farm and complete some easy build quests. After that you can return daily to collect the farms earnings and the harvested crops. Nice for early on when money is tight. For me it's not an ideal home though. Storage space is very limited in my opinion. Absolutely fantastic video. Keep doing what you're doing.
Yeah as a house its quite limited I agree, its definitely more or a little side earner (or perfect crafting location due to the amount of fertile soil spots!)
@@marks5451 ha really? I've never spotted that before! Just checked the UESP and it mentions all the yellow mountain flower locations but not that one 🤣 good spot!
This has been one of the two first homes that I go to. It’s a cash cow and milking it gives you the cash to move forward more in crafting and buying other homes.
I think all of the larger homes should come with the steward option. Especially the Dwarven one, so that you can add bards and such. Otherwise it's just a huge open space
I want a nanny for my "children", because them little shits are monsters when they don't get enough interaction from you. I just want to "set it and forget it", but then they start killing animals, so now I have to occasionally play games with them to keep the peace. Lmao.
@@goawayfastwait… wtf? Your kids will turn into little future serial killers if you don’t play with them enough?! (I mean.. that kinda makes sense, but damn.)
@@DanteYewToob Lol. I take it you've never come home to find your adopted child holding a knife while standing over the corpse of the wild fox that you let be the household pet to keep the kids company during your outings? I mean I haven't, but it's a thing. People have talked about them climbing the roof without clothes on. Two of mine play "self execution" by kneeling on the ground and pretending to cut off their heads with the wooden swords I gave them. They get pretty messed up if you don't spend enough time with them playing and disciplining them.
Goldenhill plantation has a bunch of upgrades you can do, including building a stable and field hands bunk. You can then hire field hands and a appoint a follower to run the place.
Golden hills is great when you complete a farmers life, you hire a steward to run the farm and then can go hire two of four "drunkards" to help, you check back in with the steward for the profits and he stores the excess in the cupboard downstairs. I go back every few quests and get ~5000 gold every time, it automatically farms your crops too so you don't have to wrestle with the plant/harvest hitbox overlap. Definitely worth it just to have as a side gig in the game for steady income outside marriage.
Yeah it makes things a lot easier, especially training I find. Those annoying skulls you don't level quick enough passively you can use the gold to buy expensive training which is really handy. You can hire Narfi as well if you've completed his favor for him which is nice
Exactly plus I thought Goldenhills a great place to leave the wife and 2 kids, you know fresh country air. Comes with 2 farmhands and a steward Lydia or maybe I asked her, can't remember. I married Ysolda who has a shop. After you plant all the crops and get animals, the farm and Ysolda bring in good coin without me doing anything except to ask for it. Good perk eh. Plus Ysolda has an agreeable tone of voice calls me 'my love' and likes whatever. I like the workplaces have easy access. It's pretty rustic however and a dragon visits every few days, sometimes Lydia kills it without me being there and it clutters up the front yard for awhile. However to show off all my loot Hendraheim is my favorite a real luxurious mountain retreat. None of my dear family will ever see it ;)
@@Asone82 I do exactly the same thing but accidentally moved my kids to Hendraheim and I'm scared of glitching them. It's the best set up, and once you get the "sap" quest, (from your wife...) you can just hit up the giants camp before going to golden hill for a bit more extra coin!
Oh cool, thanks for this! I’m starting my first survival mode playthrough and trying to plan a bit ahead of time and figure out what I want to do. This sounds like it will help a lot in the early/mid game.
@@DanteYewToob definitely! I'd recommend planting the ingredients for health potions and figure out what the best cooked food is to grow those too (I'm pretty sure it's one or multiple of the soups) also seems to respawn the house upgrade loot every couple days. But that might be because I don't use it as my permanent home.
Nice job presenting the new homes. I personally am torn between Tundra Homestead, Myrwatch and Hendraheim. The others are worth finding and looting, but that's about it for my tastes.
A lot of the CC homes were made by a modder Elianora and yes there gonna be a ton better than anything in vanilla. Even the ones she didn’t do other modders did.
Knowing Elianora's other house mods the ones shown in the video pale in comparison - but I guess sacrifices had to be made in order to make them available for Playstation (no custom assets allowed). Her other home mods are absolutely breathtaking.
I tell you what, man, it's straight up jarring to fall asleep with your VR headset on and wake up sitting in your Breezehome next to that crackling fire.
not sure if you knew this but didn't mention it.. but the goldenhills farm has more to it.. it has a bit more quest and building to add all the crafting stations that aren't already inside, plus animals, farmhands and a little house for them, a couple beehives. plus you can actually harvest all the plants AND go inside and collect what your helper already harvested, meaning you get double output of all your plants, i think they also grow faster, so you can harvest more often as well. if it had a hatchery for fish it'd certainly be my vote for best house for crafting... but even without that, it still would be for a alchemist or maybe cook.
Yeah I only scratched the surface with what this location has to offer, I knew some of before like hiring the steward. being able to collect earnings from them and things like the animals, beehives etc on the workbench, but I didn't know you could duplicate all the plants that's cool! I wish it had more storage as well, then it would be a great home, but I like it for crafting and cooking still like you say 😁
When I bought Shadowfoot Sanctum I was like "wtf, no enchanter, no alchemy table?". So I started looking more closely and, of course, there is a secret room that you apparently missed on your first visit. The local minimap reveals where the "missing" room is - one just has to find how to get there. The secret entrance is nice - when you fast-travel to the Riften Docks you can hop into the water and enter your home this way - quite fast. Only downside is that is has no garden to grow stuff.
Yeah its behind the cabinet isnt it, I missed it yes, although I did also do the same thing which is walk around and think, hmm no mannequins and other stuff, that's a shame 🤣
21:40 Gallows Hall, you didn't point out the best part-- that alter isn't a one time use for the quest, you can convert soul gems as often as you like. When I realized that, I completed the quest and today have run though my stock, creating over 100 black soul gems from grand and greater ones!
Shadowfoot Sanctum is my favorite home. I'm working on my first home mod. My goal is for it to be the size of the dwarven home, but more Nordic in style. You'd be able to hire a wagon to transport you to and from the cities. It would be run down at first, but quite lavish after fixing it up. My intent is for it to have once belonged to Talos himself. I don't have a name for it yet, but I'm basically trying to make my Skyrim dream home, complete with all crafting options, servants, an armory, secret rooms, etc....
Thanks for the comprehensive review. I do have one note. Shadowfoot Sanctum is available even if you do not join the thieves guild. You can enter the Ratway at any time and Vekel can sell you the home. Most do not realize this because they join the guild first. But, being an Eagle Scout, I never join the thieves Guild. I just ignore Brynjolf.
I’m playing Skyrim for the first time ever so this video helps so much. Only been playing a few months, almost 200k in gold, lvl 53, master difficulty no mods. It’s time to buy some property 😎
Honestly.. I love Breezehome. It just feels very comfortable to me, partially because it is in the happy market town of Whiterune. In real life, I live in a small home just perfect for myself, in the buisness area of the small town I live in. See a pattern? Lol
yeah Breezehome was always my go to in the original game 😁 helps that it has a very central location as well, always find myself going past whiterun at some point
I liked breezehome too. But I really liked the home in solitude. Big with lots of places to store things. But after I got the house by folkreth, I moved a lot of stuff over. Not everything though.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 Solitude is divine! It's one sexy house I guess I just feel most at home in Whiterune. But I do love the Solitude house
I'm a Bandit/Vampire/Witch/Necromancer hunter. Of all of them, I hate (and enjoy "removing") Necromancers the most. They are loathesom. Once I discovered Dovakhin Hideout I quit using my first home. Dragonfalls Manor. I don't even know how many I have now. Great video Sir and Thank You! Best Regards and Best Wishes for 2023!
Shadowfoot sanctum is by far the best home in the game. For blacksmith and enchanting, you can buy all the comps you need from the riften blacksmith and the mage vendor in the keep has a good supply of soul gems. There's also an alchemy vendor in riften.
This was wonderful to watch and I also really enjoyed your relaxed commentary. I think my favorite house location-wise is the Tundra Homestead. And Hendraheim has the most amazing interior. Thanks for posting this!
for years ive been modding in and collecting houses in basically every skyrim save and im so excited that theres new ones. it's kinda interesting seeing how the devs were clearly inspired by some popular house mods for these
@@mike-thegamingdad i think that the best people are those who aim to be themselves. i can tell you’re a caring man who doesn’t allow himself to be sucked into the idea of high energy fast paced media. it’s refreshing to see a genuinely gentle soul.
@@luvtort.r yeah very true, no point trying to be someone else, it's already been taken. Thanks for your kind words and thanks again for watching my video 😄👍
I always liked 2 mods that in my opinion improved upon the vanilla Skyrim homes, one was Elianora's Breezehome mod and Proudspire Manor Refurbished SE. None of the other vanilla player homes made my toes curl and the 2 mods I mentioned made the player homes better.
I'd also like to add another mod called Riverside Lodge, that was another favorite of mine I forgot about since I thought the mod was removed from the nexus site. Someone did an upgrade to the mod so you can give it the Hearthfire touch and build the lodge from scratch. They made some changes to give it a different look, I need to try it out and see if I like it over the original mod.
Hey Mike! AE gave us almost too many player homes but there are some real gems: Myrwatch is a perfect "wizard's tower" style home and one of my favorites; Goldenhills is great for alchemists and/or cooks. Even though I rarely play thieves, I usually buy Shadowfoot, justifying it as a bolt hole in case I need to go to ground. The Dwemer home is TOO big and seriously remote if you're playing without fast travel. Keep up the good work!
Always loved Lakeview myself and used the Lakeview Extended Mod that added an underground garden and of course other awesome additions. Elinora's Breezehome was way better than the vanilla so I was so excited she got to do official homes for AE. None are as awesome as her free stuff sadly. Of all these new homes I only like Tundra Home. Personally I now exclusively use Elysium Estate.
Yeah lakeview was the one I used to use the most, think it was the first one I built from Hearthfire, had the full shrine of the divines in the cellar, full trophy room, I'd even filled all the bookshelves 🤣🤣
Honestly, tears welled up in my eyes when I found Myrwatch. Lol. Hendraheim is awesome. Tundra Homestead is fantastic too and is the only place I feel comfortable leaving my "children", because it's centrally located and there are guards walking around. Nchuanthumz looks amazing and I will be heading there next to acquire it. That seems safe for kids too, with plenty of room to run around inside. I can do without living in a sewer in Riften, so I won't be bothering with that one. Lol.
Yeah I like Hendraheim but it's quite remote isn't it. Goldenhills once all the outbuildings are built looks really good and you can make the inside more 'homely'. It's also quite a money-spinner as well as you can hire a steward, farmhands and buy animals as well and it'll turn a profit. The one in riften I've sewn a few comments about and it seems quite popular but I'm the same I don't use that one that often 😂
I hate that the really good homes are all so out of the way. But fortunately I have the Ordinator mod and with it also "Home Mythal" magic with which I can mark a point to which I can teleport with another skill at any time. Just set it up in front of the front door or Cave and you already have a Lore Friendly way to travel there quickly.
I have been playing Daggerfall the second game in the series and that game has a recall spell where you can mark a location and use the spell again to teleport to that anchor point, so that mod is actually immersive lol
I think that the one with Redguard's Cyrus is both a blink towards the Oblivion DLC with a smugglers ship as player home (Dunharrow Cove or something) and Redguard. Hendraheim looks like the one with the best story even tho it's just a personal Thirsk Mead Hall
Tundra Homestead is better than Breezehome because I think you pay 7500 for Breezhome plus furnishings, but Tundra Homestead gives you so much for the same price!
@@mike-thegamingdad - Although, I just noticed that there is no wood chopping block. Guess I'll have to chop the wood for my crossbow bolts elsewhere, LOL! 😅
They key problem with most of these homes (the ones with the collection display racks), is that your file becomes corrupted from all of the placed objects in the zone. That is a base Skyrim issue that plagues everything. Edit: Trying to enter the cluttered zone will casue the game crash.
Really? I only encountered issues when dealing with Breezehome and Proudspire Manor, and it’s usually the 0kb glitch. Deleting that select save where the glitch started clears up any issue for me though.
Is this still a problem? I started playing Skyrim again and I’m seeing a lots of bugs online with the AE houses and I’m really bummed. Please tell me they fixed them..😭
Omfgggg I was devastated when I couldn’t get Castle Volkihar during the Dawnguard quest (as I sided with DG for the perks) so to stumble across this vid and find out there’s a VAMPIRE THEMED HOUSE - !!!!!!!!! This has made me incredibly happy and I’m beyond amazed with how much detail Bethesda puts into their games. Skyrim was always a fond fave of mine, so to have new life breathed into it makes me go crazy for it all over again! - even though I’ve barely finished the og quests :’) And after 11 years, someone only just maxed out all the skills which is nuts! Fabulous video, I very much enjoyed this and hadn’t come across any of the new homes, so thank-you!
No problem at all glad you enjoyed it 😁. If you are a long time player of Skyrim and have owned it more than a couple of years, have you purchased the anniversary edition upgrade? These homes are all new additions in that version. It's not a lot to upgrade it, think I paid about £15 for it last year. Once downloaded and installed you'll have the homes and a load of other new stuff. Just wanted to mention that in case you don't as I've had a lot of comments along the lines of "this isn't in my game", and it's all due to them owning an older version.
really surprised you never mentioned that Golden Hills plantation can be a huge money maker the next quest after getting the key is called the famers life you hire a steward (a follower) to run the plantation hire staff if you give him the 500 gold to hire them , then you build a animal pen again talk with your Steward to buy animals ( cow , chickens, goats ) you canthen build a bunk house for the workers an apiary ,repair the mill after time passes you come back from your adventures see the steward to collect your profits! go inside and collect the harvest from cabinet use for alchemy or sell you call build a stable and have your steward if you have 1000 buy you a horse build a blacksmithing station and pay for upgrades to every room in the house including enchanting table ect you make thousands of gold while you are out a total game chaner !!
The profits you get from goldenhills is high enough that you basically stop worrying about money at that point and just do whatever. Kid asks for some spending money? Here's 1000 septims ya little squirt! Have a ball! Want the tiniest shack? Wait a few days and it's affordable. Need more alchemy ingredients? Go around Tamriel and give every alchemist what is now your chump change. Need to pay off a bounty? It's just a drop in the bucket now. I still sell stuff, but now it's just to declutter my inventory and make some cheddar rather than get enough to scrounge for supplies.
Yeah Myrwatch is great for that, someone else commented asking whether it's a direct copy of the winterhold library layout and I think they might be right
They look nice and all. I just dislike how the armories have things for all name items, as though the builders have some sort of magical foresight that those things exist. They also look a tad too clean and perfect in some of them. It would also be nice to have a player home with a private temple, and a choice to which deity or daedra to worship.
I did Not know about the boat or the dwemer home. I did find Gallows Hall but didn't think I could live there. I went and got or looked at all houses right after watching the video !! Thank you
If it was possible to have a Nordic longhouse like Hendraheim, but in the centralized location of Tundra Homestead and the cool farming/money making mechanics and opening side quest of Goldhills Plantation that would be the ultimate player home imo.
Yeah that is correct 😁and if you do it as a vampire when you get the dinner invitation what's written on that note is different. Instead of being invited to a dinner you are instead invited to eat the guests. The fight is more or less the same but you fight all the Dawnguard vampire hunters instead
Hendraheim has, unfortunately, an issue with some terrain modicifation mods as half the forge area and the garden can be below the ground, making the garden unusable. The smelter and forge are still uable but some of the containers in that area are not accessible on account of being "underground" as well. A very cool and statley home otherwise and one not prone to sudden bursts of Skyrim physics that sends half the objects in the room flying across the latter and ending up on the floor (looking at you, Myrwatch).
I've seen a few comments now about issues with displaying items. I've only used the mannequins and chests in the home, not the plaques on the wall, so I've not encountered it. But it's a real shame they have bugs like that (although I'm not surprised)
As an all in vampire the Bloodchill Cavern is absolutely perfect for us. Also like the shipwreck house. All of the houses and incredibly amazingly though.
The golden hills plantation gives you money If you have a follower that can be a steward you can hire him to run the plantation And hire more people And then you'll get about 600 gold each day and everything you plant will be managed and harvested things being put in a cupboard in the house So you can also work on your alchemy VERY fast Right now that's my home, but I haven't found all of them yet either But this is awesome
Myrwatch is one of my favorites, but I wish it had a stable and some landscaping. My poor horse has to wait for me by the water in all sort of weather, LOL.
Best home to own/build is from the Jarl of Dawnstar, After clearing out the Nightmare for living from. Also, the Vampyre cave cleaning for Using the fishing pond to breed.
@@mike-thegamingdad It is one of the original land purchase (builds) in the Harthfire add-on. I don't use mods, the game has enough uncorrected problems.
@@Saasan Yes, Windstad Manor is a piece of property in Hjaalmarch, north of Ustengrav and east of the Abandoned Shack, for the fish breeding. The Nightmare House for living in.
For my first character, after moving around a bit with the early homes (breezehome, etc) Farkas and I (and Blaise and Lucia) moved to Hendraheim. I love how warm it feels and all the display areas. It feels like a true Nord warrior home. ❤ Now I want my OG character to find that pirate ship!!!
@alicia_elle47 yeah Hendraheim is definitely the most 'lore friendly' homes, it just feels like it belongs in Skyrim 😁. I have a few warrior saves based out of there
@@mike-thegamingdad it is to remote and also your point about the three loading screens is annoying! I made a brand new character. I was thinking of doing a storyline where she never finds out that she’s the dragonborn and just becomes a farmer. I want to see how far that goes but first to make money, I’m having her join the dark brotherhood. Then she’ll become tired of being an assassin and retire and go to Golden Hills lol.
@alicia_elle47 oh you can make so much money with goldenhills if you max alchemy and use it as a potion farm 🤣 it's insane how much gold you can get per harvest lol
I still use the scarlet over dead man's dread sense it actually moves. Ships still creepier when you notice the green bottles scattered about. Kinda wish the displays made the items static because they ALWAYS wind up scattered around my front door for the ones that aren't masks(at least the bug jars do, oh and they respawn NMW as soon after their placed. so even removing the items doesn't stop them from doing it). Otherwise I absolutely love some of these. Goldenhills is free gold even if your not actively using it.
Goldenhills is the best house in this game, since you can get a passive income from this location. I wish that more houses would have this kind of feature. For example id could be cool for Dead Man's Dread house if you could hire and then send out pirates to plunder other ships in the background like we could do in Oblivion.
@mike-thegamingdad bro ya video is the first time I've seen that house bro iam a new skyrim dood just start playing it when it went to switch so all the new content i didn't get to all of yet ,so good ish but yeah I don't even want to go in the house unless I make it a horror play through for real for real ,that house gives a whole story line by it self
This was really helpful. The only house I hadn't discovered, because I wanted to be surprised, was the dwemer home. I think they're all great, but my experience with the enemy spawn/despawning issue made me take a pass. The only exception is Shadowfoot Sanctum because it's inside Riften. I had a warrior character that moved into Hendraheim. I got attacked by a dragon. The bones lay on the property forever. As did a second dragon corpse. They then followed me to drop in the middle of Whiterun. I scrapped the playthrough. I had something similar happen at Myrwatch. The Dawnguard will spawn inside Bloodchill manor as well, which is different from the Hearthfire homes. So they are temporary homes until I start the main quest line.
Yeah I agree and I've had that issue before, dragonbones in whiterun, literally in the marketplace. I've also had 2 sets of bones on the farm as I got attacked twice in quick succession, one was located just outside the boundary edge but the second fell in the middle of the biggest patch of farmland, the one directly in front of the house. Very annoying
I know this comment is old. But I thought it might be helpful for you to know that in most cases you can fus-ro-da those bones and they will go flying out of your way.
@@mike-thegamingdad I agree. I wish I literally had a house like that - except mine would have an underground storm cellar and the whole place would have ramps to spots I couldn’t normally get to, due to me being in a wheelchair. 👍👍
Mate, your audio needs work, simple fix and you will do alot better on here, Your treble is too low and your bass is too high, for vocal you should min your bass and Max your treble, it's just sounds a bit muffled right now, Otherwise great video
Thanks for the feedback I will look into the levels! 👍 Might be my crappy snowball that I picked up from a 2nd hand shop 🤣 (cheaped out on a mic to start off with as I wanted to put the money into the PC)
I like homes with a library where you can put books on display, not hidden behind a door. So far the best I've seen is the Hearthfire library addition and a couple of housing mods people have created. It looks good when you have complete sets of books stored on your shelves lining a large main hall or something like that.
Yeah I did that on my first playthrough with hearthfire, I ended up with all of them filled with unique titles and I tried to get them all in alphabetical order 🤣. It was a pain when I found a new book beginning with A, B, C etc and I had to move the entire collection 🤣
I was a vampire when I got Bloodchill, and ended up feeding on one of the guests and killing the rest. After leaving and coming back, where the feast table was there is now a bunch of mannequins and displays.
I use Myrwatch, Goldenhills and Tundra home. I believe they are designed by Elianora but don’t quote me on that. I don’t have the anniversary edition because it costs E20 on Playstation and I already have most of the homes, armour, weapons, spells, factions etc that have been for sale on creation club as well as quite a few mods. Thanks for the thorough showcase, it helped me to decide not to spend an additional E20.
Yeah that is true on the creator. No problem glad you found it useful. You do get a lot more with AE (quests, new armor, weapons etc) that wasn't previously on Creation Club but if you already own a good chunk of it I get that. I wouldn't buy it twice 😅
Thanks for posting this as im a returning player after years away and now in my retirement with gaming time to spare. I imagine a time when, due to Ai , interesting dialog, in various voices can include what ever you fancy in humor, poetry, music to actually carry on a conversation with mates, children, hunting and quest partners. I say this because I get so tired of the loop sentences currently offered by shop keepers, guards, inn owners. Otherwise its a big facinatinng beautiful world Bethesda has created for us. Thanks again✌️💚
I personally like myrwatch the most because it has everything you need but I like that it's smaller so you don't have to take too much time to get around inside.
Hendraheim: This is my homestead - but ive read online there's TONS of bugs that can lead to you permanently losing your armor and weapons that you display on the racks! So I just use it for crafting and smithing etc :)
Yeah, unfortunately those comments are true. I've had weapons get locked into the racks before. It's not happened (yet) to me elsewhere, but Hendraheim is annoyingly buggy
For me, Tundra Homestead has every thing I need (exept a wood chopping block) and close proximity to a major city. There is a wood chopping block across the road at Battleborn farm, however.
It’s also around the dead center of the map with tons of safe storage containers scattered throughout the whole property. And the best part, you can use all the stuff outside (including the garden) before you even buy it. Makes it perfect to use at the start of your playthrough.
When you showed the staff enchanter in Myrwatch, my immediate reaction was "OMG - at last I don't have to go to Solstheim and tolerate that damned Dunmer mage." Then you showed at least one more home with a staff enchanter. If only they'd included one at Tundra Homestead, that place would have been perfection.
The dwarves home is absolutely huge and dark. I ended up leaving most of my pets in that house. All the enemies that you have to fight before getting some of the anniversary houses, reset if you don't go back for a long time. So, you have to keep fighting them when you return to the home.
I love Goldenhills, even if it is kind of broken with how much money it makes. But I absolutely hate the narrow stairs on the way to the alchemy/enchanting tables where the followers just love to stand preventing me from leaving.
The plantation is also a good place to make gold. By completing the second quest you can collect the gold your farm makes by the crops from your steward.
Myrwatch has everything you need, from crafting to blacksmithing inside a protected & safe dome, basically. It was my go to home from lvl3 to lvl 25. The only thing I never liked about Myrwatch is that I always felt like I was being watched by some wizard, 🤣.
@KermitOfWar haha I get what you mean 🤣 you wouldn't be wrong to think that though because it's a design copy of the Archmages Quarters in the College of Winterhold 😉
Shadowfoot S. is my favorite because it has the most mannequins & a secret entrance But more & better quests (thorough) would be much better than a static home every 100 ft. along the path. I am now the viking equivalent of the owner of Holiday Inn The only advantage this brings is to play keep away from the 2 cursed children I was foolish enough to adopt. Whom ever their personalities were fashioned after I truly pity & suggest counseling because you've created a couple of monsters that some day in the future will grow up, consume Braith & Molag Bol & turn Tamriel into a nightmare of hellish proportions
Ah, level 46. That explains why Bloodchill Cavern was so easy. The Waiter is fixed at level 65. Not a good idea to go there at level 12 or whenever it was you get the letter. :P
If you sleep in bloodchill manor especially if there is anyone alive you will wake up and slowly start to become a vampire. I slept in bloodchill manor and then went out to do my dovahkin shenanigans and “felt weak to the sun”
I found a perfect sheme for me and use only Tundra for my children and animals; Goldenhills for money and food; Hendraheim and Myrwatch for weapons and armors storage)
Shadowfoot Sanctum I was able to obtain without being a member of the thieves guild with my current play through. I am an assassin, not a thief. Still just go to the bartender, as you can speak to him for finding Esburn, and still able to purchase it in the process.
In Shadowfoot Sanctum, there is a hidden room which you didn't show.. Right after you enter the living room, on the left is a cabinet. After you open the cabinet you will enter a room full of mannequins, alchemy table, enchantment table and lots of weaponsracks. Also if you are dedicated, there is a shelf for collecting all claws in the game.
Ah good tip! Hadn't found that secret room, I had wondered why this house didn't have all the racks and mannequins but it did 👍
Now I regret selling my claws
@@alexshaputis3230 I wouldn't worry about it. "My claws" can be a tough phrase for some people.
@@madcat1865 what do you mean?
I came into the comments for this! Hahaha watching it at first I was like oh you effin missed it!!!
I made a thief/assassin/treasure hunter khajiit who basically (in my head canon) rules the underground. She has connections in every city (through the thieves guild quests and investments). I made it my mission to get all the houses in regular Skyrim cause it made sense to have multiple homes to move to in case you’re on the run. So knowing there’s more just makes me happy 😍
Love the roleplaying element thats great 😁
Sounds cool, I have a stealth Archer Robin Hood type khajiit
Been there done that. That was my build for my first play through lmao. When I had bounties in one area I would switch to my other houses if i didn’t want to pay it at the time
Ooo very cool build
I like how bloodchill manner has a secondary option for the whole Quest. If you are already a vampire when you get the dinner invitation what's written on that note is completely a different instead of being invited to an actual dinner you are instead invited there to eat the guests. The fight is more or less the same the only difference being your fighting Dawnguard and not vampires.
I'll need to go back on my vampire save and experience this !
@@mike-thegamingdad it's my favorite way to get that house
Most Perfect house for me.
All of the house are so much more inspiring than the all of the base house. With exception of the Hearthfire Manors
Mines was different. I was a vampire 🦇 already and invited. After I read the letter, I tilted one of the invited head back and sucked their blood out their neck 😂.
I wish they would add an ability to teleport between the homes you own, kind of like teleport between Propylon locations in Morrowind. Like, for every home you own, you're able to purchase/craft/get a small altar, that you then activate by placing, say, a great soul gem on it. You then are able to teleport between all the altars you've activated. This doesn't break anything, makes the remote locations homes more feasible, and makes getting new additional homes beneficial, as you're getting a new teleport location.
Now this is a mod I could get onboard with, great idea! A bit like those ewers in the forgotten vale (think that's what they were called?)
yes that is awesome. Btw is there a way to create Soulgems or do you have to find/buy them? Will they always replenish in Stores. and will you be able down the road to even buy the biggest soulgems when your lvl is high enough?
@@tomw4955 yeah there are 2 ways (I know of), the normal way is to use a weapon with the soul snare enchantment (the ones that say, if they die in x seconds, fills a soul gem), and carry empty soul gems with you, they fill up as you use that weapon. The second way I am pretty sure you can make black soul gems using the altar in Gallows Hall, after completing the dreams of the dead quest, but I've not actually revisited that place to try yet. If you use the former, then I recommend getting either Azura's Star/Black Star. It acts as a reusable grand/black soul gems you can continually refill and use over and over
@@tomw4955 For unfilled soulgems you have to buy them, but you can also fill them by activating a sould fissure in the Soul Cairn. You can use the alters located there to turn grand soul gems into black soul gems too
@Mark Aspen Yep, Soul Trap is one of my favourite enchantments! The enchantment Foritfy Sneak is the most expensive in the game, and it gives the most xp, so I'll often stockpile gloves and boots that don't weigh all that much to put it on for some fast leveling
Myrwatch is my absolute favourite.
All the crafting/enchanting/alchemy/ staff creator etc etc, all in one room! Plus the aesthetic is stunning!
Nice yeah its up there as one of my favourites too, really beautiful design 😁
I did a staff/sword build based off Gandalf. I was so happy when I found that tower home. (Yes I know Orthanc was Saruman's thing and not Gandalf but still)
@@moviemaniacdjp sort of the same as I'd seen they added the spellknight heavy armour sets.. naturally a battlemage build was needed.
Myrwatch is both a utility and a presentation wet dream for magic users.
i have skyrim anniversary edition, but how do i get myrwatch? like the house isnt at the location for me, is there a certain quest or level i have to be?
@@TheRealChaseEngel yeah I'm certain there's a quest for it, been a while 😅
Just as a note, the Dead Man’s Dread home is a direct reference to a little known (nowadays anyway) Elder Scrolls game, Redguard, which is a completely different game to any other TES game, more like Prince of Persia than an RPG. Cyrus is the playable character in that game, and his outfit that you loot is the exact same he wears throughout the game. TES Redguard ends with Cyrus setting off to explore Tamriel from the island of Stros M’kai, meaning he had a very unfortunate end in Skyrim lmao
Thank you for the summary! I've never played anything further back than Oblivion, everyone tells me to go back and experience the older titles. I like it when they link the games through little easter eggs like that
Morrowind is still a very good game if you have graphic mods
Yes! Never knew this. Thanks for sharing!!
Before Elder Scrolls Online came out, Redguard was also unique in that it was a prequel to the other games. It took place while Tiber Septim was still attempting to unite (aka conquer) the various nations of Tamriel, whereas the others all take place during or after Septim's reign as Emperor.
My biggest complaint about any home is that not one of them has ALL the unique items slots. Some have dragon claws, but not paragons. Some have masks, but not daedric items. Etc.
As someone who's favorite aspect of the game is collecting unique items, I just want a house that has space for EVERY. SINGLE. UNIQUE. ITEM. (I play on Xbox, I'm sure PC has a mod for a house like this. Alas, I am too poor to buy a PC right now)
Yeah I can get on board with this!
Same. I hate when modders or even the game devs do this. Just let me display everything.
Yeah, so annoying that Myrwatch doesn’t have claw slots 💔
Would be nice if someone modded those housemods to have all the displays. Modception.
Then you need the immersive college of winterhold mod. The arch mage quarters comes with all that and it’s really cool how you enter it I won’t spoil!
Hendraheim has my heart. I love the house, its location, its interior...so beautiful especially with visual mods. It's big but still very cozy to me. My central storage is here (love filling the bookshelves) and moved my family to there too!
Yeah the interior is amazing isn't it, such a great design . Also glad I'm not the only one that fills bookshelves 👍🤣
My only complaint with that home is the tiny bedroom shared between you, two kids, and a spouse. >.
@@neolithiumproduction And your followers can't follow you inside (or at least that was my experience). Mine had to sleep in tents behind the stable and eat on the porch no matter how bad the weather.
@@pedigreeannreally? I was able to have Lydia sitting and waiting inside
Me too! Hendraheim is my main home rn in my newest play through
One of my favorites is Goldenhills. You select a follower to run the farm and complete some easy build quests. After that you can return daily to collect the farms earnings and the harvested crops. Nice for early on when money is tight. For me it's not an ideal home though. Storage space is very limited in my opinion. Absolutely fantastic video. Keep doing what you're doing.
Yeah as a house its quite limited I agree, its definitely more or a little side earner (or perfect crafting location due to the amount of fertile soil spots!)
I've noticed that there is a single yellow mtn flower plant there which only regrows after several days.
@@marks5451 ha really? I've never spotted that before! Just checked the UESP and it mentions all the yellow mountain flower locations but not that one 🤣 good spot!
This has been one of the two first homes that I go to. It’s a cash cow and milking it gives you the cash to move forward more in crafting and buying other homes.
So is it your favorite, or not? Not ideal? Lol
I think all of the larger homes should come with the steward option. Especially the Dwarven one, so that you can add bards and such. Otherwise it's just a huge open space
Yeah agreed
I want a nanny for my "children", because them little shits are monsters when they don't get enough interaction from you. I just want to "set it and forget it", but then they start killing animals, so now I have to occasionally play games with them to keep the peace. Lmao.
@@goawayfastwait… wtf? Your kids will turn into little future serial killers if you don’t play with them enough?! (I mean.. that kinda makes sense, but damn.)
@@DanteYewToob Lol. I take it you've never come home to find your adopted child holding a knife while standing over the corpse of the wild fox that you let be the household pet to keep the kids company during your outings? I mean I haven't, but it's a thing. People have talked about them climbing the roof without clothes on. Two of mine play "self execution" by kneeling on the ground and pretending to cut off their heads with the wooden swords I gave them. They get pretty messed up if you don't spend enough time with them playing and disciplining them.
Goldenhill plantation has a bunch of upgrades you can do, including building a stable and field hands bunk. You can then hire field hands and a appoint a follower to run the place.
Hard to get to on survival, was my first house but a trek and not worth the walking
@@devilsolution9781 install a carriage mod and you can take a carriage to Roriksted, then it's a short walk.
Get a horse!
Golden hills is great when you complete a farmers life, you hire a steward to run the farm and then can go hire two of four "drunkards" to help, you check back in with the steward for the profits and he stores the excess in the cupboard downstairs. I go back every few quests and get ~5000 gold every time, it automatically farms your crops too so you don't have to wrestle with the plant/harvest hitbox overlap. Definitely worth it just to have as a side gig in the game for steady income outside marriage.
Yeah it makes things a lot easier, especially training I find. Those annoying skulls you don't level quick enough passively you can use the gold to buy expensive training which is really handy. You can hire Narfi as well if you've completed his favor for him which is nice
Exactly plus I thought Goldenhills a great place to leave the wife and 2 kids, you know fresh country air. Comes with 2 farmhands and a steward Lydia or maybe I asked her, can't remember. I married Ysolda who has a shop. After you plant all the crops and get animals, the farm and Ysolda bring in good coin without me doing anything except to ask for it. Good perk eh. Plus Ysolda has an agreeable tone of voice calls me 'my love' and likes whatever. I like the workplaces have easy access. It's pretty rustic however and a dragon visits every few days, sometimes Lydia kills it without me being there and it clutters up the front yard for awhile.
However to show off all my loot Hendraheim is my favorite a real luxurious mountain retreat. None of my dear family will ever see it ;)
@@Asone82 I do exactly the same thing but accidentally moved my kids to Hendraheim and I'm scared of glitching them. It's the best set up, and once you get the "sap" quest, (from your wife...) you can just hit up the giants camp before going to golden hill for a bit more extra coin!
Oh cool, thanks for this!
I’m starting my first survival mode playthrough and trying to plan a bit ahead of time and figure out what I want to do.
This sounds like it will help a lot in the early/mid game.
@@DanteYewToob definitely! I'd recommend planting the ingredients for health potions and figure out what the best cooked food is to grow those too (I'm pretty sure it's one or multiple of the soups) also seems to respawn the house upgrade loot every couple days. But that might be because I don't use it as my permanent home.
Nice job presenting the new homes. I personally am torn between Tundra Homestead, Myrwatch and Hendraheim. The others are worth finding and looting, but that's about it for my tastes.
A lot of the CC homes were made by a modder Elianora and yes there gonna be a ton better than anything in vanilla. Even the ones she didn’t do other modders did.
Knew it. There was no way these weren't done by modders.
Knowing Elianora's other house mods the ones shown in the video pale in comparison - but I guess sacrifices had to be made in order to make them available for Playstation (no custom assets allowed). Her other home mods are absolutely breathtaking.
@@Sakisasvictorianmask she was limited on rss’s that were allowed and file size.
@@stricklywicked1112 Yeah, I know, that's what I said?
Hendraheim has to be my favourite over all. Good size, decent display opportunities and is a cool way to get the home.
Yeah its up there for me definitely! The first time I saw that interior 😍
i just wish it didnt force a spot for the aetherial shield, which is the worst of the three aetherial items you can choose lol.
@@vallarolli yep agreed 😄
my only downside to it is that the crafting station layouts were less than ideal.. but style-wise, it is probably my favorite.
I tell you what, man, it's straight up jarring to fall asleep with your VR headset on and wake up sitting in your Breezehome next to that crackling fire.
I'm yet to experience the joys of Skyrim VR 😅
not sure if you knew this but didn't mention it.. but the goldenhills farm has more to it.. it has a bit more quest and building to add all the crafting stations that aren't already inside, plus animals, farmhands and a little house for them, a couple beehives. plus you can actually harvest all the plants AND go inside and collect what your helper already harvested, meaning you get double output of all your plants, i think they also grow faster, so you can harvest more often as well.
if it had a hatchery for fish it'd certainly be my vote for best house for crafting... but even without that, it still would be for a alchemist or maybe cook.
Yeah I only scratched the surface with what this location has to offer, I knew some of before like hiring the steward. being able to collect earnings from them and things like the animals, beehives etc on the workbench, but I didn't know you could duplicate all the plants that's cool! I wish it had more storage as well, then it would be a great home, but I like it for crafting and cooking still like you say 😁
When I bought Shadowfoot Sanctum I was like "wtf, no enchanter, no alchemy table?". So I started looking more closely and, of course, there is a secret room that you apparently missed on your first visit. The local minimap reveals where the "missing" room is - one just has to find how to get there. The secret entrance is nice - when you fast-travel to the Riften Docks you can hop into the water and enter your home this way - quite fast. Only downside is that is has no garden to grow stuff.
Yeah its behind the cabinet isnt it, I missed it yes, although I did also do the same thing which is walk around and think, hmm no mannequins and other stuff, that's a shame 🤣
21:40 Gallows Hall, you didn't point out the best part-- that alter isn't a one time use for the quest, you can convert soul gems as often as you like. When I realized that, I completed the quest and today have run though my stock, creating over 100 black soul gems from grand and greater ones!
Shadowfoot Sanctum is my favorite home. I'm working on my first home mod. My goal is for it to be the size of the dwarven home, but more Nordic in style. You'd be able to hire a wagon to transport you to and from the cities. It would be run down at first, but quite lavish after fixing it up. My intent is for it to have once belonged to Talos himself. I don't have a name for it yet, but I'm basically trying to make my Skyrim dream home, complete with all crafting options, servants, an armory, secret rooms, etc....
I've been thinking the same thing for some time now. I guess it must be true about great minds thinking alike. lol
Commenting for updates cause I'm interested
How is your mod coming along? It sounds interesting.
Thanks for the comprehensive review. I do have one note. Shadowfoot Sanctum is available even if you do not join the thieves guild. You can enter the Ratway at any time and Vekel can sell you the home. Most do not realize this because they join the guild first. But, being an Eagle Scout, I never join the thieves Guild. I just ignore Brynjolf.
That's good to know thank you!
Me too bro
Shadowfoot sanctum is my favorite, it is very roleplayable, and I also like how you don’t have to be in the thieves guild to acquire it.
I'm a father of one, and finally a video made by a dad like me who still loves gaming.. 😆😆😆
Haha gaming dads for life 😁🤣
I’m playing Skyrim for the first time ever so this video helps so much. Only been playing a few months, almost 200k in gold, lvl 53, master difficulty no mods. It’s time to buy some property 😎
Thats awesome, very jealous you can experience this game for the first time!
Honestly.. I love Breezehome. It just feels very comfortable to me, partially because it is in the happy market town of Whiterune.
In real life, I live in a small home just perfect for myself, in the buisness area of the small town I live in.
See a pattern? Lol
yeah Breezehome was always my go to in the original game 😁 helps that it has a very central location as well, always find myself going past whiterun at some point
I liked breezehome too. But I really liked the home in solitude. Big with lots of places to store things.
But after I got the house by folkreth, I moved a lot of stuff over. Not everything though.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 Solitude is divine! It's one sexy house
I guess I just feel most at home in Whiterune. But I do love the Solitude house
As someone who loved to collect the unique items and then display them in my house, these houses are amazing and what we wanted from the start.
I'm a Bandit/Vampire/Witch/Necromancer hunter. Of all of them, I hate (and enjoy "removing") Necromancers the most. They are loathesom. Once I discovered Dovakhin Hideout I quit using my first home. Dragonfalls Manor. I don't even know how many I have now. Great video Sir and Thank You! Best Regards and Best Wishes for 2023!
Shadowfoot sanctum is by far the best home in the game. For blacksmith and enchanting, you can buy all the comps you need from the riften blacksmith and the mage vendor in the keep has a good supply of soul gems.
There's also an alchemy vendor in riften.
This was wonderful to watch and I also really enjoyed your relaxed commentary.
I think my favorite house location-wise is the Tundra Homestead. And Hendraheim has the most amazing interior. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks very much I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁.Yeah I agree I love the Hendraheim interior!
for years ive been modding in and collecting houses in basically every skyrim save and im so excited that theres new ones. it's kinda interesting seeing how the devs were clearly inspired by some popular house mods for these
Best tip I can throw... ALWAYS use your Local Map to see hidden areas.
there’s something so wholesome about a gaming dad making a skyrim home review. his voice is so calm & reassuring. i love it fr.
Thank you I'm glad you approve 😄👍 my voice often gets called dull, monotone, boring etc so it's nice when someone enjoys it 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad i think that the best people are those who aim to be themselves. i can tell you’re a caring man who doesn’t allow himself to be sucked into the idea of high energy fast paced media. it’s refreshing to see a genuinely gentle soul.
@@luvtort.r yeah very true, no point trying to be someone else, it's already been taken. Thanks for your kind words and thanks again for watching my video 😄👍
I always liked 2 mods that in my opinion improved upon the vanilla Skyrim homes, one was Elianora's Breezehome mod and Proudspire Manor Refurbished SE. None of the other vanilla player homes made my toes curl and the 2 mods I mentioned made the player homes better.
I'd also like to add another mod called Riverside Lodge, that was another favorite of mine I forgot about since I thought the mod was removed from the nexus site. Someone did an upgrade to the mod so you can give it the Hearthfire touch and build the lodge from scratch. They made some changes to give it a different look, I need to try it out and see if I like it over the original mod.
The golden plantation earns lots of gold once it's up and running. You can eventually hire farm hands and assign a follower to be your steward.
Yeah I'm using that as a money maker in a build guide I am currently creating 😁
Didn't know they added so much. The ship reminds me of the home you can get in oblivion.
Reminds me of the movie "The Goonies"
Hey Mike! AE gave us almost too many player homes but there are some real gems: Myrwatch is a perfect "wizard's tower" style home and one of my favorites; Goldenhills is great for alchemists and/or cooks. Even though I rarely play thieves, I usually buy Shadowfoot, justifying it as a bolt hole in case I need to go to ground. The Dwemer home is TOO big and seriously remote if you're playing without fast travel. Keep up the good work!
Yeah I agree with all your rationale 😁
Fun fact: Captain Cyrus from the pirate ship is the player character from The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard.
First thing that happened to me after I put my children to live in Hendrahein was to be welcomed by a dragon.
Ouch 🤣
Dead man's Dread is obviously a call back to the movie "The Goonies"
Always loved Lakeview myself and used the Lakeview Extended Mod that added an underground garden and of course other awesome additions.
Elinora's Breezehome was way better than the vanilla so I was so excited she got to do official homes for AE. None are as awesome as her free stuff sadly.
Of all these new homes I only like Tundra Home.
Personally I now exclusively use Elysium Estate.
Yeah lakeview was the one I used to use the most, think it was the first one I built from Hearthfire, had the full shrine of the divines in the cellar, full trophy room, I'd even filled all the bookshelves 🤣🤣
Honestly, tears welled up in my eyes when I found Myrwatch. Lol. Hendraheim is awesome. Tundra Homestead is fantastic too and is the only place I feel comfortable leaving my "children", because it's centrally located and there are guards walking around. Nchuanthumz looks amazing and I will be heading there next to acquire it. That seems safe for kids too, with plenty of room to run around inside. I can do without living in a sewer in Riften, so I won't be bothering with that one. Lol.
Yeah I like Hendraheim but it's quite remote isn't it. Goldenhills once all the outbuildings are built looks really good and you can make the inside more 'homely'. It's also quite a money-spinner as well as you can hire a steward, farmhands and buy animals as well and it'll turn a profit. The one in riften I've sewn a few comments about and it seems quite popular but I'm the same I don't use that one that often 😂
@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah, I'm definitely going to set up Goldenhills too, right away.
I hate that the really good homes are all so out of the way. But fortunately I have the Ordinator mod and with it also "Home Mythal" magic with which I can mark a point to which I can teleport with another skill at any time. Just set it up in front of the front door or Cave and you already have a Lore Friendly way to travel there quickly.
Nice mods! 👍
I have been playing Daggerfall the second game in the series and that game has a recall spell where you can mark a location and use the spell again to teleport to that anchor point, so that mod is actually immersive lol
The two smaller single beds are children’s beds for your adopted children. 4:42
I think that the one with Redguard's Cyrus is both a blink towards the Oblivion DLC with a smugglers ship as player home (Dunharrow Cove or something) and Redguard. Hendraheim looks like the one with the best story even tho it's just a personal Thirsk Mead Hall
I love how you emphasize the last syllable of 'courier', and the first syllable of 'decor'. You've got a great career as a decker ahead of you.
For how big and empty the land is, they sure pack all your stuff into a tiny area. Especially the "farm" elements.
Yeah could have definitely spread out lol
Tundra Homestead is better than Breezehome because I think you pay 7500 for Breezhome plus furnishings, but Tundra Homestead gives you so much for the same price!
Very true 😁👍
@@mike-thegamingdad - Although, I just noticed that there is no wood chopping block. Guess I'll have to chop the wood for my crossbow bolts elsewhere, LOL! 😅
@@SoulOfJustice1994 yeah that one next to breezehome is very handy! 🤣
They key problem with most of these homes (the ones with the collection display racks), is that your file becomes corrupted from all of the placed objects in the zone. That is a base Skyrim issue that plagues everything.
Edit: Trying to enter the cluttered zone will casue the game crash.
Does this happen on PC? If so, I’m glad I read this before trying to be a completionist
i have no idea where azuras star is after not playing for a while it’s in none of my homes
Really? I only encountered issues when dealing with Breezehome and Proudspire Manor, and it’s usually the 0kb glitch. Deleting that select save where the glitch started clears up any issue for me though.
Is this still a problem? I started playing Skyrim again and I’m seeing a lots of bugs online with the AE houses and I’m really bummed. Please tell me they fixed them..😭
Omfgggg I was devastated when I couldn’t get Castle Volkihar during the Dawnguard quest (as I sided with DG for the perks) so to stumble across this vid and find out there’s a VAMPIRE THEMED HOUSE - !!!!!!!!!
This has made me incredibly happy and I’m beyond amazed with how much detail Bethesda puts into their games.
Skyrim was always a fond fave of mine, so to have new life breathed into it makes me go crazy for it all over again! - even though I’ve barely finished the og quests :’)
And after 11 years, someone only just maxed out all the skills which is nuts!
Fabulous video, I very much enjoyed this and hadn’t come across any of the new homes, so thank-you!
No problem at all glad you enjoyed it 😁. If you are a long time player of Skyrim and have owned it more than a couple of years, have you purchased the anniversary edition upgrade? These homes are all new additions in that version. It's not a lot to upgrade it, think I paid about £15 for it last year. Once downloaded and installed you'll have the homes and a load of other new stuff. Just wanted to mention that in case you don't as I've had a lot of comments along the lines of "this isn't in my game", and it's all due to them owning an older version.
really surprised you never mentioned that Golden Hills plantation can be a huge money maker the next quest after getting the key is called the famers life you hire a steward (a follower) to run the plantation hire staff if you give him the 500 gold to hire them , then you build a animal pen again talk with your Steward to buy animals ( cow , chickens, goats ) you canthen build a bunk house for the workers an apiary ,repair the mill after time passes you come back from your adventures see the steward to collect your profits! go inside and collect the harvest from cabinet use for alchemy or sell you call build a stable and have your steward if you have 1000 buy you a horse build a blacksmithing station and pay for upgrades to every room in the house including enchanting table ect you make thousands of gold while you are out a total game chaner !!
The profits you get from goldenhills is high enough that you basically stop worrying about money at that point and just do whatever. Kid asks for some spending money? Here's 1000 septims ya little squirt! Have a ball! Want the tiniest shack? Wait a few days and it's affordable. Need more alchemy ingredients? Go around Tamriel and give every alchemist what is now your chump change. Need to pay off a bounty? It's just a drop in the bucket now. I still sell stuff, but now it's just to declutter my inventory and make some cheddar rather than get enough to scrounge for supplies.
Ive always wanted a Winterhold college inspired house
Yeah Myrwatch is great for that, someone else commented asking whether it's a direct copy of the winterhold library layout and I think they might be right
@@mike-thegamingdad yeah it looked familiar
They look nice and all. I just dislike how the armories have things for all name items, as though the builders have some sort of magical foresight that those things exist. They also look a tad too clean and perfect in some of them. It would also be nice to have a player home with a private temple, and a choice to which deity or daedra to worship.
Yeah more customisation I could definitely get on board with
I did Not know about the boat or the dwemer home. I did find Gallows Hall but didn't think I could live there. I went and got or looked at all houses right after watching the video !! Thank you
You're welcome glad you found it useful!
If it was possible to have a Nordic longhouse like Hendraheim, but in the centralized location of Tundra Homestead and the cool farming/money making mechanics and opening side quest of Goldhills Plantation that would be the ultimate player home imo.
Haha yeah I agree 😁
You've got it exactly! I want a Whiterun location that's an actual farm, and make it * Nordic * please. Perfection.
When I did Bloodchill Cavern there was an orc survivor and he got renamed as, "Dawnguard" and gave me 1500 gold before leaving the home.
Yeah that is correct 😁and if you do it as a vampire when you get the dinner invitation what's written on that note is different. Instead of being invited to a dinner you are instead invited to eat the guests. The fight is more or less the same but you fight all the Dawnguard vampire hunters instead
Hendraheim has, unfortunately, an issue with some terrain modicifation mods as half the forge area and the garden can be below the ground, making the garden unusable. The smelter and forge are still uable but some of the containers in that area are not accessible on account of being "underground" as well. A very cool and statley home otherwise and one not prone to sudden bursts of Skyrim physics that sends half the objects in the room flying across the latter and ending up on the floor (looking at you, Myrwatch).
I've seen a few comments now about issues with displaying items. I've only used the mannequins and chests in the home, not the plaques on the wall, so I've not encountered it. But it's a real shame they have bugs like that (although I'm not surprised)
As an all in vampire the Bloodchill Cavern is absolutely perfect for us. Also like the shipwreck house.
All of the houses and incredibly amazingly though.
Yeah they are, the detailing on them is really nice 😁
Great overview of those houses. Thanks Mike!
Thank you! 😄
I love all these homes but my absolute favorite one is Tundra Homestead because I love the layout and it’s so cozy. Thanks for an amazing video!
Great choice, that's one of mine as well 😁. Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! Merry Christmas 🎄
And bc of being able to Store claws aswell. Makes it even better
@@High481 you can also store the bugs in jars too!
The golden hills plantation gives you money
If you have a follower that can be a steward you can hire him to run the plantation
And hire more people
And then you'll get about 600 gold each day and everything you plant will be managed and harvested things being put in a cupboard in the house
So you can also work on your alchemy VERY fast
Right now that's my home, but I haven't found all of them yet either
But this is awesome
Myrwatch is one of my favorites, but I wish it had a stable and some landscaping. My poor horse has to wait for me by the water in all sort of weather, LOL.
Not a nice place to wait either, the Hjaalmarch swamp is grim 🤣
Best home to own/build is from the Jarl of Dawnstar, After clearing out the Nightmare for living from. Also, the Vampyre cave cleaning for Using the fishing pond to breed.
Ah is that one a mod? Been a long time since I did that quest and don't recall a home, just the Skull of Corruption thing but I could have forgotten
@@mike-thegamingdad It is one of the original land purchase (builds) in the Harthfire add-on. I don't use mods, the game has enough uncorrected problems.
@@mikmik9034 oh yeah I know the one you mean now!
Do you mean the mean Morthal house?
@@Saasan Yes, Windstad Manor is a piece of property in Hjaalmarch, north of Ustengrav and east of the Abandoned Shack, for the fish breeding. The Nightmare House for living in.
Omg finally we get to display all of our collections in 1 place instead of spreading them over the limited mannequins available in the previous houses
Unfortunately you can't do/get blood chill manor if you have Inigo, you still get the quest but the manor is not there when you go to the location.
there is away you need the inigo patch as his quest covers the entrance way. it's also on xbox too
For my first character, after moving around a bit with the early homes (breezehome, etc) Farkas and I (and Blaise and Lucia) moved to Hendraheim. I love how warm it feels and all the display areas. It feels like a true Nord warrior home. ❤ Now I want my OG character to find that pirate ship!!!
@alicia_elle47 yeah Hendraheim is definitely the most 'lore friendly' homes, it just feels like it belongs in Skyrim 😁. I have a few warrior saves based out of there
@@mike-thegamingdad My first character found it! I want to continue living at Hendraheim. ♥️
@alicia_elle47 yeah it's a great location the ship, I don't use it often as a home though once I have it. It's too remote
@@mike-thegamingdad it is to remote and also your point about the three loading screens is annoying! I made a brand new character. I was thinking of doing a storyline where she never finds out that she’s the dragonborn and just becomes a farmer. I want to see how far that goes but first to make money, I’m having her join the dark brotherhood. Then she’ll become tired of being an assassin and retire and go to Golden Hills lol.
@alicia_elle47 oh you can make so much money with goldenhills if you max alchemy and use it as a potion farm 🤣 it's insane how much gold you can get per harvest lol
I still use the scarlet over dead man's dread sense it actually moves. Ships still creepier when you notice the green bottles scattered about.
Kinda wish the displays made the items static because they ALWAYS wind up scattered around my front door for the ones that aren't masks(at least the bug jars do, oh and they respawn NMW as soon after their placed. so even removing the items doesn't stop them from doing it).
Otherwise I absolutely love some of these. Goldenhills is free gold even if your not actively using it.
Goldenhills is the best house in this game, since you can get a passive income from this location. I wish that more houses would have this kind of feature. For example id could be cool for Dead Man's Dread house if you could hire and then send out pirates to plunder other ships in the background like we could do in Oblivion.
Nice yeah that would be a great addition 😁👍
sadly these homes do not cover followers or room for many. so I don't bother as I use inigo and lucien and ms followers .
It seems like to make use of all these homes is to duplicate all the unique weapons and gear just so you can place them for display. Awesome video!
That gallows hall in skyrim is why skyrim is the best ,super versatile, you can make it a horror game if you want ,great ish
Yeah I love that location, it always gives me the creeps even after I've cleared it out. Always feel like I'm being watched in there 😅
@mike-thegamingdad bro ya video is the first time I've seen that house bro iam a new skyrim dood just start playing it when it went to switch so all the new content i didn't get to all of yet ,so good ish but yeah I don't even want to go in the house unless I make it a horror play through for real for real ,that house gives a whole story line by it self
This was really helpful. The only house I hadn't discovered, because I wanted to be surprised, was the dwemer home. I think they're all great, but my experience with the enemy spawn/despawning issue made me take a pass. The only exception is Shadowfoot Sanctum because it's inside Riften. I had a warrior character that moved into Hendraheim. I got attacked by a dragon. The bones lay on the property forever. As did a second dragon corpse. They then followed me to drop in the middle of Whiterun. I scrapped the playthrough. I had something similar happen at Myrwatch. The Dawnguard will spawn inside Bloodchill manor as well, which is different from the Hearthfire homes. So they are temporary homes until I start the main quest line.
Yeah I agree and I've had that issue before, dragonbones in whiterun, literally in the marketplace. I've also had 2 sets of bones on the farm as I got attacked twice in quick succession, one was located just outside the boundary edge but the second fell in the middle of the biggest patch of farmland, the one directly in front of the house. Very annoying
I know this comment is old. But I thought it might be helpful for you to know that in most cases you can fus-ro-da those bones and they will go flying out of your way.
@@mappickle2379 I tried that. Then they followed me around the map. Creepy.
Tundra Home is my fave. I use a mod to improve it so it adds a guest house. Whiterun region in general is my favourite in the game.
Same here it's the one that feels closest to the nordic theme for me..plus it's central location means it's easily accessible
My favorite house is that one a short distance from Whiterun. Looks like a cozy, cute little house.
Great choice 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad I agree. I wish I literally had a house like that - except mine would have an underground storm cellar and the whole place would have ramps to spots I couldn’t normally get to, due to me being in a wheelchair. 👍👍
Mate, your audio needs work, simple fix and you will do alot better on here,
Your treble is too low and your bass is too high, for vocal you should min your bass and Max your treble, it's just sounds a bit muffled right now,
Otherwise great video
Thanks for the feedback I will look into the levels! 👍 Might be my crappy snowball that I picked up from a 2nd hand shop 🤣 (cheaped out on a mic to start off with as I wanted to put the money into the PC)
Small piece of information, if you are a vampire and go to bloodchill cavern you'll actually be quested with killing everyone.
I like homes with a library where you can put books on display, not hidden behind a door. So far the best I've seen is the Hearthfire library addition and a couple of housing mods people have created. It looks good when you have complete sets of books stored on your shelves lining a large main hall or something like that.
Yeah I did that on my first playthrough with hearthfire, I ended up with all of them filled with unique titles and I tried to get them all in alphabetical order 🤣. It was a pain when I found a new book beginning with A, B, C etc and I had to move the entire collection 🤣
I was a vampire when I got Bloodchill, and ended up feeding on one of the guests and killing the rest.
After leaving and coming back, where the feast table was there is now a bunch of mannequins and displays.
I use Myrwatch, Goldenhills and Tundra home. I believe they are designed by Elianora but don’t quote me on that. I don’t have the anniversary edition because it costs E20 on Playstation and I already have most of the homes, armour, weapons, spells, factions etc that have been for sale on creation club as well as quite a few mods. Thanks for the thorough showcase, it helped me to decide not to spend an additional E20.
Yeah that is true on the creator. No problem glad you found it useful. You do get a lot more with AE (quests, new armor, weapons etc) that wasn't previously on Creation Club but if you already own a good chunk of it I get that. I wouldn't buy it twice 😅
Thanks for posting this as im a returning player after years away and now in my retirement with gaming time to spare.
I imagine a time when, due to Ai , interesting dialog, in various voices can include what ever you fancy in humor, poetry, music to actually carry on a conversation with mates, children, hunting and quest partners.
I say this because I get so tired of the loop sentences currently offered by shop keepers, guards, inn owners. Otherwise its a big facinatinng beautiful world Bethesda has created for us.
Thanks again✌️💚
Yeah that would be awesome if dialogue in game was constantly evolving 😁
I personally like myrwatch the most because it has everything you need but I like that it's smaller so you don't have to take too much time to get around inside.
Yeah its quite compact isn't it. Literally the opposite of that dwarven monolith 🤣
Hendraheim: This is my homestead - but ive read online there's TONS of bugs that can lead to you permanently losing your armor and weapons that you display on the racks! So I just use it for crafting and smithing etc :)
Yeah, unfortunately those comments are true. I've had weapons get locked into the racks before. It's not happened (yet) to me elsewhere, but Hendraheim is annoyingly buggy
For me, Tundra Homestead has every thing I need (exept a wood chopping block) and close proximity to a major city. There is a wood chopping block across the road at Battleborn farm, however.
Yeah that one is in my top 3 in this list I think 😁
It’s also around the dead center of the map with tons of safe storage containers scattered throughout the whole property. And the best part, you can use all the stuff outside (including the garden) before you even buy it. Makes it perfect to use at the start of your playthrough.
When you showed the staff enchanter in Myrwatch, my immediate reaction was "OMG - at last I don't have to go to Solstheim and tolerate that damned Dunmer mage." Then you showed at least one more home with a staff enchanter. If only they'd included one at Tundra Homestead, that place would have been perfection.
Yeah Neloth is an, interesting character isn't he. To put it one way 😂.
The dwarves home is absolutely huge and dark. I ended up leaving most of my pets in that house.
All the enemies that you have to fight before getting some of the anniversary houses, reset if you don't go back for a long time. So, you have to keep fighting them when you return to the home.
It's times like this I'd like to see elements from Medieval Dynasty being used in these games.
this video misses a bunch of info like the plantation's mechanics to hire workers, build things, and generate income
Almost every creation club home was done by Eleanora... a talented modder .. same with fallout 4
Yeah I have heard this name a lot, will have to check them out!
The cave in dead man's dread is one eyed Willie's final resting place! What a cool way to include a shout out to the goonies!😋
Myrwatch. Literally, Winterhold Collage's Archmage quarters - just renovated...😮💨
I love Goldenhills, even if it is kind of broken with how much money it makes.
But I absolutely hate the narrow stairs on the way to the alchemy/enchanting tables where the followers just love to stand preventing me from leaving.
Haha my worst experience of that is always in that basement Delphine makes you go down as part of the main questline. I get boxed in there so often 🤣
A "Proudspire Manor" még mindig a legjobb ház.
The plantation is also a good place to make gold. By completing the second quest you can collect the gold your farm makes by the crops from your steward.
Yeah that is true 😁
Myrwatch has everything you need, from crafting to blacksmithing inside a protected & safe dome, basically. It was my go to home from lvl3 to lvl 25. The only thing I never liked about Myrwatch is that I always felt like I was being watched by some wizard, 🤣.
@KermitOfWar haha I get what you mean 🤣 you wouldn't be wrong to think that though because it's a design copy of the Archmages Quarters in the College of Winterhold 😉
Shadowfoot S. is my favorite because it has the most mannequins & a secret entrance
But more & better quests (thorough) would be much better than a static home every 100 ft. along the path. I am now the viking equivalent of the owner of Holiday Inn
The only advantage this brings is to play keep away from the 2 cursed children I was foolish enough to adopt. Whom ever their personalities were fashioned after I truly pity & suggest counseling because you've created a couple of monsters that some day in the future will grow up, consume Braith & Molag Bol & turn Tamriel into a nightmare of hellish proportions
Good choice 😁
Thank you very much for this video, I really appreciate it, specially for newbie player like me. You're the best ❤
@neilbryllemalunes3837 no problem at all you're welcome 😁👍🏻
Ah, level 46. That explains why Bloodchill Cavern was so easy. The Waiter is fixed at level 65. Not a good idea to go there at level 12 or whenever it was you get the letter. :P
Didn't know he was 65 thats mad 🤣 doesn't make sense to get the letter at such an early level now lol
If you sleep in bloodchill manor especially if there is anyone alive you will wake up and slowly start to become a vampire. I slept in bloodchill manor and then went out to do my dovahkin shenanigans and “felt weak to the sun”
Oh wow really, did you sleep there after you had fought the vampires off during the attack? Or before you sat at the dinner table?
Quick note: If you plant crops and hire help at Goldenhills Plantation, you’ll actually earn a daily income, which helps a lot during early gameplay
Yeah I use that often nowadays, such a handy perk. Helps a lot with buying training I find for those skills that are harder to level naturally
I found a perfect sheme for me and use only Tundra for my children and animals; Goldenhills for money and food; Hendraheim and Myrwatch for weapons and armors storage)
A home for every use I like it 😂
Shadowfoot Sanctum I was able to obtain without being a member of the thieves guild with my current play through. I am an assassin, not a thief. Still just go to the bartender, as you can speak to him for finding Esburn, and still able to purchase it in the process.