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Reposting a question... To the original poster - Let me test first.
Heya ! So I'm having this bug where talking to Aventus leads to the regular conversation where I tell him I could adopt him, then he's all hyped up and he asks me if I have a place where he could live, so I tell him "my new home" which is Dragonstead (modded home) and then he asks if i'm sure, so I say yes and then he says his dialogue line "I promise I won't be any trouble". But when I came home, he wasn't there. So I teleported him to Dragonstead using console and commands, and when I interacted with him, the conversation went the same as the first time. Basically, it was just me telling him I can adopt him and etc etc... I've tried the commands
- setav variable06 0 - setav variable07 0 - evp
Because I read that it would maybe be a fix, but nope. Didn't fix it at all. Its the same dialogue all over and over again.
To the person who asked this question: I've tested adopting Aventus to Dragonstead. It works fine for me. Honestly, sometimes you just need to be patient to let the adoption system work, maybe head to Solstheim, reload the game. Or try adopting another child so that the game might move the new child and Aventus together.
I think teleporting Aventus to the new home and then putting in those console commands might have broken your adoption system now, so you might need to reload an earlier save.
This mod won't work for me. I have it and the fully voiced patch but it doesn't work. I still can't adopt Aretino. He is at the orphanage and I spole to Constance. I can adopt any of the kids except Aretino. If I try to talk to Aretino, he says "You came to visit!" and talks about how great the place is without Grelod. But no dialogue options.
ABOUT MOVING TO A MOD HOME I have Hjerstesten Hall installed, the option does not appear to have him transfer there... actually to anywhere else there's no option to move to any other place please help thank you
Hi sorry for the delay in responding! I found the problem, it's a bug with my mod (version 2) when Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions is installed - which I assume you are using to adopt kids into a mod custom home like Hjertesten Hall. The old version of my mod did not have this issue though. I'm making a patch to fix this bug but will need a bit more time.
Hi, I finally managed to create a fix that hopefully solves the bug you're having. Please try it out, and let me know if it works for you. Thanks for waiting!
I installed the mod, and everything played out as it should. But when I get to my house, Aventus will not leave me alone for one second. He keeps initiating a conversation every chance he gets and sometimes I am unable to move, and he doesn't listen and just stands there waiting to start a conversation again when I tell him to go do chores, go play, and he doesn't even sleep! He watches me sleep until I wake up to start a conversation again. I've changed loot orders, I uninstalled and reinstalled, and it keeps happening Anyone else have a very clingy Aventus? Or am I just unlucky?
Adding this here for anyone else it might help since the original command wasn't working for me. I ended up using his ReFID instead of clicking on him and it worked!
I was getting complete silence from Aventus, no dialogue and no sound. So I tried messing around with enabling/disabling mods and i found that if i removed the RS patch, Aventus would work completely as stated apart from a mask on his face. So I can either have working dialogue or the desired look of RS. I think the patch may need fixing?
sorry for my ignorance, I tried a different patch and everything is working fine. Must have installed the wrong one. If anyone else is having trouble with Aventus being silent, please try a different patch. Thanks for this mod, always wanted to adopt Aventus!
What do you mean that you "tried a different patch"? I'm having this exact problem. No sound when he speaks. I have RS Children and USSEP with the correct patch installed. I'm going to confirm the order is correct. I'm assumping Adopt then Voice then RS patch?
Edit: Figured it out. The new version of this mod doesn't require the patch. This info only shows under the OLD version though, so I missed it. This mod...voice add on. No patch. Works fine :)
@ffjoeman93 This is too little information for me to help... Have you tried adopting other, non-modded kids? Maybe try a different player home? Or, if you have an earlier save, maybe try re-adopting Aventus again?
Okay, that worked. Now, just asking... How exactly did you make it so that he became adoptable? I've been meaning to have Aventus as a follower only because he has most personality than any other child, and he's the only child that won't respond to Proteus' command that makes him a follower. I won't ask you to do it yourself, so if I decide to make a mod, what did you change that made him adoptable?
Actually, there are mods that can make Aventus become a follower, if you install my mod alongside them. For example, Make Any Child Your Follower (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23030) was built for the original Skyrim but actually works for Special Edition too. You can manually install it into your Special Edition files. The problem I find is making Aventus willing to fight for you - users of that mod has found this to be a problem for any child. Some people suggested using Relationship Dialogue Overhaul, though I haven't been able to make that work. But at least you can make Aventus follow you around and trade stuff with him.
If you want to learn about modding, I'm happy to share my notes of exactly what is involved in my mod. You'll probably need to learn about how dialogues and scripts work in the game. The key is to get Aventus out of his 'blocking' dialogue - the two lines that he says continuously after completing his quest ("I'll go back to the Orphanage..." and "When I grow up I'm going to be an assassin..."). That said I think Simdrew1993 plans on eventually making a larger mod for Aventus so you can wait for that too.
I actually have experience with dialogues and scripts after making my mod "Serana Dialogue Expansion", though my knowledge is pretty basic so I could always learn more. And thanks for pointing me to that mod! I'll give it a try! :)
Hi! I'm having the issue where Aventus says 'Let me grab my things' and I can't get around it. For context, I blessed the Moonstone Castle mod to be the house he came to. Aventus showed up but I can't engage with him at all still. I tried being away from home for a while, like traveling between Markarth and Riften and doing some questing. I've waited days. I even tried adopting another kid to try and see if it would nudge him along. Nothing has worked.
But the strange thing is also that I have the Aymar and Friends mod, too, and they all started doing this same thing. Except they don't stay at the house, they leave I guess back to their original point and are just traveling between two points. I'm trying to follow the suggestions I've found on this mod, Aymar and the other related mods, but I figured I'd post here to ask since it began with Aventus long before anyone else.
The main thing I'm trying to do is adopt Aventus and some of the elven children, but send the rest of them to Dragons Keep. I already was confused why I couldn't tell Aymar and Friends to go to Dragons Keep, but that's an issue I'm trying to sort out. I thought I'd mention it in case the issue could be related in some way. I have RDO, AI Overhaul, Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, Realistic Conversations, if that changes anything? I also have Chases-Starlight, Ram-Ku, Maisha, Adoptable Snow Elf Siblings, and BeastHHBB Khajiit and Argonian Children - while I haven't gotten to the snow elves, all the others seem to be working fine last I checked. I won't give the whole mod list since that would be overkill, probably. At the bottom of my load order it looks like this. I do have the adjacent mods the patches are for, too. The ones I mentioned above are just sitting higher based on what LOOT suggested. I just manually pulled these ones to the bottom since that's what was suggested.
Aymarandfriends.esp DragonsKeep.esp DragonsKeep - ASLAL Patch.esp RSChildren.esp Armor and Clothing for RSChildren - Playable Override + All DLC Patches.esp SR - RS Children Patch.esp RSChildren Patch - BS Bruma.esp RSChildren - Dragons Keep.esp Aventus Aretino - Fully Voiced - RS Children Patch.esp The Brotherhood of Old - RS Children Patch.esp nwsFollowerFramework.esp
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. <3
That is pretty weird. What do you mean by "can't engage with him at all"? Do you mean he keeps saying "Let me grab my things" even after he's in your house? I know on the Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions page, there's this potential fix for what that author says is a common bug related to the adoption system, but not sure if it would work in your case.
Q: Help!?!? My child is stalking me! A: You've run into a Hearthfire bug involving custom and/or mod added dogs/pets. Easy to fix: - Open the console - Click the kid - Enter the following 3 commands: setav variable06 0 setav variable07 0 evp
Yeah, he only says the 'Let me grab my things' like even while in my house. He stands in one place, won't move and repeats that whenever I try to engage. Which also means I can't try and relocate him to Lakeview Manor to test if that would work. I overlooked that solution since Aventus (and the Aymar and Friends kids) aren't following me. Aventus is just still in one place and the three Aymar and Friends kids seem to be walking between their original points and the custom home I'm using. All four just repeating the, 'Let me grab my things' line and I can't engage with them.
Do you think trying the command could do something? Or removing the mods from my game and reinstalling they could help or be safe? I'm not sure what else to do at this point. I thought maybe the RS Patch Compendium maybe is needed but I removed it because for some reason it was messing with my game. Everything had been running smoothly until this randomly began happening to the kids. asdfghjkl
Yeah I would try it. This all seems like something glitched with the adoption scripts.
If you have an earlier save you can use that is before you started adopting Aventus or any kid, maybe try loading that save, and this time instead of choosing Moonstone Castle as your new home, use a vanilla home. Once all the kids are correctly in the home, then try moving the family to Moonstone Castle.
Unfortunately, I don't have an earlier save. It was one of the earliest things I did and I saved over a while back. :') I'm going to test it on a fresh character when I can tonight. I'll update on how that goes.
As for the console command, I did it and there was good news and bad news. Good news is that it returned his dialogue. Bad news is he still won't move from the spot. I told him to go to bed, waited a well, reload, exited and entered. Nothing. And the additional problem is I have no dialogue option to move him to another house. It's good to know the dialogue got fixed but man, I can't figure out why he won't move or why a lot of the dialogue is missing.
That's interesting... give me some time to look into this more.
If you're familiar with xEdit (SSEEdit) maybe you can check the Aventus NPC record and see if there are any conflicts there. Usually it would only be the children clothing or appearance mods that have conflicts.
I guess you could also try uninstalling and reinstalling my mod and Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions to see if that helps. Make an extra save first just in case though.
For now I've tested this with RDO, AI Overhaul, Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, Realistic Conversations, RS Children (with USSEP), Armor and Clothing for RSChildren, The Brotherhood of Old and was able to successfully adopt Aventus into Moonstone Castle, and he is behaving normally with the normal dialogue options, so those mods should be OK. I was also able to successfully adopt Aymar into Moonstone Castle. And from previous requests in the past I know my mod worked with Dragon's Keep too.
Hi have you had any further luck on this? Have you tried my suggestions? The only ones I haven't tested is SR - RS Children Patch because I don't know what that one is from, and nwsFollowerFramework because there's a ton of requirements and I haven't had time to install them yet.
That's usually a load order issue or a missing patch issue, to my knowledge. RS Children should be at the bottom of the load order. Do you have any patches for it, and if so, which ones? Under Files, make sure you have the patches needed. You can also use the Skyrim SE search function and type RS Children to find any adjacent patches - or, probably more easily, look under Requirements to make sure you have what you need and see if there are patches other mod authors have listed that you may be missing.
If that isn't working, my suggestion would be to provide more context so anyone reading can better try and help. :)
To add to what AnonymousDeviant said - also make sure you don't have overlapping mods that modify childrens' appearance, always do a clean uninstall before installing a different appearance mod, unless a mod is specifically meant to be an add-on to another.
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Heya ! So I'm having this bug where talking to Aventus leads to the regular conversation where I tell him I could adopt him, then he's all hyped up and he asks me if I have a place where he could live, so I tell him "my new home" which is Dragonstead (modded home) and then he asks if i'm sure, so I say yes and then he says his dialogue line "I promise I won't be any trouble". But when I came home, he wasn't there. So I teleported him to Dragonstead using console and commands, and when I interacted with him, the conversation went the same as the first time. Basically, it was just me telling him I can adopt him and etc etc... I've tried the commands
- setav variable06 0
- setav variable07 0
- evp
Because I read that it would maybe be a fix, but nope. Didn't fix it at all. Its the same dialogue all over and over again.
I think teleporting Aventus to the new home and then putting in those console commands might have broken your adoption system now, so you might need to reload an earlier save.
I have Hjerstesten Hall installed, the option does not appear to have him transfer there... actually to anywhere else
there's no option to move to any other place
please help
thank you
I've changed loot orders, I uninstalled and reinstalled, and it keeps happening
Anyone else have a very clingy Aventus? Or am I just unlucky?
I ended up using his ReFID instead of clicking on him and it worked!
Console Command as follows:
prid 1B121
setav variable06 0
setav variable07 0
evp
Edit: Figured it out. The new version of this mod doesn't require the patch. This info only shows under the OLD version though, so I missed it. This mod...voice add on. No patch. Works fine :)
If you want to learn about modding, I'm happy to share my notes of exactly what is involved in my mod. You'll probably need to learn about how dialogues and scripts work in the game. The key is to get Aventus out of his 'blocking' dialogue - the two lines that he says continuously after completing his quest ("I'll go back to the Orphanage..." and "When I grow up I'm going to be an assassin..."). That said I think Simdrew1993 plans on eventually making a larger mod for Aventus so you can wait for that too.
And thanks for pointing me to that mod! I'll give it a try! :)
Thanks again!
But the strange thing is also that I have the Aymar and Friends mod, too, and they all started doing this same thing. Except they don't stay at the house, they leave I guess back to their original point and are just traveling between two points. I'm trying to follow the suggestions I've found on this mod, Aymar and the other related mods, but I figured I'd post here to ask since it began with Aventus long before anyone else.
The main thing I'm trying to do is adopt Aventus and some of the elven children, but send the rest of them to Dragons Keep. I already was confused why I couldn't tell Aymar and Friends to go to Dragons Keep, but that's an issue I'm trying to sort out. I thought I'd mention it in case the issue could be related in some way. I have RDO, AI Overhaul, Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, Realistic Conversations, if that changes anything?
I also have Chases-Starlight, Ram-Ku, Maisha, Adoptable Snow Elf Siblings, and BeastHHBB Khajiit and Argonian Children - while I haven't gotten to the snow elves, all the others seem to be working fine last I checked.
I won't give the whole mod list since that would be overkill, probably. At the bottom of my load order it looks like this. I do have the adjacent mods the patches are for, too. The ones I mentioned above are just sitting higher based on what LOOT suggested. I just manually pulled these ones to the bottom since that's what was suggested.
Aymarandfriends.esp
DragonsKeep.esp
DragonsKeep - ASLAL Patch.esp
RSChildren.esp
Armor and Clothing for RSChildren - Playable Override + All DLC Patches.esp
SR - RS Children Patch.esp
RSChildren Patch - BS Bruma.esp
RSChildren - Dragons Keep.esp
Aventus Aretino - Fully Voiced - RS Children Patch.esp
The Brotherhood of Old - RS Children Patch.esp
nwsFollowerFramework.esp
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. <3
Q: Help!?!? My child is stalking me!
A: You've run into a Hearthfire bug involving custom and/or mod added dogs/pets. Easy to fix:
- Open the console
- Click the kid
- Enter the following 3 commands:
setav variable06 0
setav variable07 0
evp
I overlooked that solution since Aventus (and the Aymar and Friends kids) aren't following me. Aventus is just still in one place and the three Aymar and Friends kids seem to be walking between their original points and the custom home I'm using. All four just repeating the, 'Let me grab my things' line and I can't engage with them.
Do you think trying the command could do something? Or removing the mods from my game and reinstalling they could help or be safe?
I'm not sure what else to do at this point. I thought maybe the RS Patch Compendium maybe is needed but I removed it because for some reason it was messing with my game. Everything had been running smoothly until this randomly began happening to the kids. asdfghjkl
If you have an earlier save you can use that is before you started adopting Aventus or any kid, maybe try loading that save, and this time instead of choosing Moonstone Castle as your new home, use a vanilla home. Once all the kids are correctly in the home, then try moving the family to Moonstone Castle.
I'm going to test it on a fresh character when I can tonight. I'll update on how that goes.
As for the console command, I did it and there was good news and bad news. Good news is that it returned his dialogue. Bad news is he still won't move from the spot. I told him to go to bed, waited a well, reload, exited and entered. Nothing. And the additional problem is I have no dialogue option to move him to another house. It's good to know the dialogue got fixed but man, I can't figure out why he won't move or why a lot of the dialogue is missing.
If you're familiar with xEdit (SSEEdit) maybe you can check the Aventus NPC record and see if there are any conflicts there. Usually it would only be the children clothing or appearance mods that have conflicts.
I guess you could also try uninstalling and reinstalling my mod and Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions to see if that helps. Make an extra save first just in case though.
For now I've tested this with RDO, AI Overhaul, Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, Realistic Conversations, RS Children (with USSEP), Armor and Clothing for RSChildren, The Brotherhood of Old and was able to successfully adopt Aventus into Moonstone Castle, and he is behaving normally with the normal dialogue options, so those mods should be OK. I was also able to successfully adopt Aymar into Moonstone Castle. And from previous requests in the past I know my mod worked with Dragon's Keep too.
What's "SR - RS Children Patch.esp" from?
Do you have any patches for it, and if so, which ones? Under Files, make sure you have the patches needed. You can also use the Skyrim SE search function and type RS Children to find any adjacent patches - or, probably more easily, look under Requirements to make sure you have what you need and see if there are patches other mod authors have listed that you may be missing.
If that isn't working, my suggestion would be to provide more context so anyone reading can better try and help. :)