Thanks for all the kind comments and endorsements! Also, big thanks to Bethesda for featuring my mod (twice now)!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my vampire hunter player home: Adalvald's Retreat https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18935 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- As of April 02, 2019: Considering the mod complete at this point.
I can't replicate this. Did any of you figure out which mod caused the conflict? If someone with this issue wants to PM me their modlist I can take a look at it and see what needs patched/updated.
This mod Is downright perfect! the only thing I wish it had was display for the unique stuff like black books and artifacts, plus a lil more display for weapons and armor BUT thats just because im used to big player homes. In all honestly this home/lair is the perfect size for a player home as a vampire. Though the cooking station room could be used for the storage i mentioned but even without it its incredible! I was scouring the nexus for a home and was inetween a couple (one being a huge vamp castle) but as soon as I found this i knew I found the home I was looking for! It even has not one, not 2, BUT 3 secret entrances which im a HUGE sucker for. the secret entrance to the lair is brilliant, its hiding right under the Dawnguards noses! The entrance to the cattle and armory is so well placed! And the shrine with the safe, OH the SHRINE with THE SAfe!! ITS PERFECT FOR that MOST ValuABle things your really trying to HIDE!!! ahhhhh, from the werewolf heads to the custom storage, to the option for a guest room to the kitchen, from the coffin on high as you walk in to the storage O' Plenty, This mod IS BRILLIENT!!!
Hi, i really like your mod, can you make a patch for this mod? https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/118745?tab=posts&BH=0 So the cattle is like this one?
Thank you for this awesome mod, ToggleAI. Endorsed. I have just visited your house yesterday, it it truly embodies the atmosphere of a vampire necromancer, just as I needed. Congratulations for a job well done (also, being in the marketing/advertising business myself, I applaud your attention to details when covering each aspect of your home throughout the slideshow).
Now I do have a question, if you don't mind: You said we get 6 human cattles TOTAL. But, how does that work? If I drain/kill all these 6, its game over for me? Or, do they just keep coming indefinately?
Thanks! As for the cattle... this was built to also be compatible with the PS4 version which meant not being able to use external assets due to Sony restrictions. The only way I could get the cattle thing to work was by using a script that already existed in vanilla. I wanted the cattle to appear indefinitely, but couldn't find a vanilla script to manage this. If I remember right, I used some trickery with the cattle. The other cattle are already in the cell where you can't see them. There is a script attached to each cattle that does something like "when I die, teleport this other NPC (the next thrall) to a location (inside the cattle cell to take their place). This is why it is limited to 6 cattle and no more. I figured it would mess with performance if there are just a ton of NPCs hidden in the cell. Looking back, there was a better way to do this that would have allowed me to add some more without that concern, though I'm not sure there is a better vanilla script that would have worked for indefinite cattle.
TLDR: Yes, it is limited to 6 and no more appear after that.
That is alright. Thank you for replying, friend. Your house is perfect for any vampire gameplays.
Mind if I add some food for thought here, regarding immortal NPCs to feed upon? Now this won't be me giving you solutions on how to do it, but instead pointing you the way towards someone else who managed to achieve such a feat: "Levelers Tower" by WilliamSea. It is a cheat player home where you can boost your char to become godlike, you know the drill... but... THERE IS a very useful room in there (specifically, in the Living Quarters floor) called "Torture Chamber" where you can find an immortal SLEEPING CATTLE whom you can really drain (!) as many times as you wish. The guy did it. O_O I'll usually return to the tower whenever I reach the "Beast" phase of my vampirism and NPCs will attack me on sight. Call it my last bastion of hope on saving myself so I won't break the game by having hostiles in cities breaking any quests...
My suggestion to you, ToggleAI, if you feel inclined to, is to reach out to Mr. WilliamSea and discussing the "Sleeping Cattle" he has there. How did he achieve such a feat? Maybe you could then import this to your Player Home and eliminate the extra NPCs hiding out in the void, outside the perimeter walls.
Like I said, something to consider. :) And if you ever implement such an update, please, be kind enough to return and warn me, so I can download your file again?
Hah, sounds like a simple little workaround. If I were to update this mod, I would just leave the current version as is for Playstation and move forward for PC and XBox so I had the ability to add features without having to worry about restrictions.
Between this mod and the vampire hunter home I did after, I learned quite a bit and would probably rebuild this from the ground up. I'll be sure to post updates here if that day comes.
Hello I had this mod on Xbox along time ago I play on pc as I build private mods for myself now this was the NUMBER ONE mod I used for my vampire is there is anyway to get this for skyrim LE would be amazing
Let me start by saying that I love this mod and that its probably the BEST vampire home I've found. Valdmire Castle for instance is way too out in the open for a vampire home and not off somewhere more sensible, most other crypt/mausoleum/steeple homes are really small and unimaginative (I personally don't like how the Tomb of Pelagius just has bodies mixed in everywhere, undeath does not remove a desire for cleanliness.), and some like The Shrouded Lair or Raven Castle are just too huge or seem like wasted space (I'm also not a big fan of lots of copy-paste NPCs being added to larger homes). And overall, none really capture what I would call a proper vampiric feel like yours does, especially with the amenities you've included. So having said all that, the question I now have is: Have you ever considered making another vampire home as a sort of upgrade? For those who want to eventually live the more stylish vampiric lifestyle outside of a cave. A small castle or mansion tucked away in Hjaalmarch, Eastmarch, or a mountain top somewhere, a bit bigger and a bit more lavish for a spooky lord to lurk in with a few friends.
Appreciate the kind words. Really cool to see people still enjoying this mod a few years later.
I had actually started a more expansive full rebuild of this a couple years ago that would add more features. One example was to have it start out super small and that the player would build it out over time. However, life got in the way and I basically only got the entrance redone and ended up scrapping it.
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Check out my vampire hunter player home:
Adalvald's Retreat
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18935
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As of April 02, 2019:
Considering the mod complete at this point.
I have just visited your house yesterday, it it truly embodies the atmosphere of a vampire necromancer, just as I needed. Congratulations for a job well done (also, being in the marketing/advertising business myself, I applaud your attention to details when covering each aspect of your home throughout the slideshow).
Now I do have a question, if you don't mind:
You said we get 6 human cattles TOTAL. But, how does that work? If I drain/kill all these 6, its game over for me? Or, do they just keep coming indefinately?
Keep up the good work, matey.
TLDR: Yes, it is limited to 6 and no more appear after that.
Mind if I add some food for thought here, regarding immortal NPCs to feed upon? Now this won't be me giving you solutions on how to do it, but instead pointing you the way towards someone else who managed to achieve such a feat: "Levelers Tower" by WilliamSea. It is a cheat player home where you can boost your char to become godlike, you know the drill... but... THERE IS a very useful room in there (specifically, in the Living Quarters floor) called "Torture Chamber" where you can find an immortal SLEEPING CATTLE whom you can really drain (!) as many times as you wish. The guy did it. O_O
I'll usually return to the tower whenever I reach the "Beast" phase of my vampirism and NPCs will attack me on sight. Call it my last bastion of hope on saving myself so I won't break the game by having hostiles in cities breaking any quests...
My suggestion to you, ToggleAI, if you feel inclined to, is to reach out to Mr. WilliamSea and discussing the "Sleeping Cattle" he has there. How did he achieve such a feat? Maybe you could then import this to your Player Home and eliminate the extra NPCs hiding out in the void, outside the perimeter walls.
Like I said, something to consider. :)
And if you ever implement such an update, please, be kind enough to return and warn me, so I can download your file again?
Thanks! :D
Between this mod and the vampire hunter home I did after, I learned quite a bit and would probably rebuild this from the ground up. I'll be sure to post updates here if that day comes.
Keep up the good work. Have a nice weekend. :)
I had actually started a more expansive full rebuild of this a couple years ago that would add more features. One example was to have it start out super small and that the player would build it out over time. However, life got in the way and I basically only got the entrance redone and ended up scrapping it.