Items stored in hearthfire houses get deleted?

[MadMek]

I stored a bunch of items in a container in the hearthfire house I built. After some adventuring, I returned to find them all gone. I'm really quite annoyed, as there was some valuble stuff in there, though fortunately nothing irreplaceable. What's the deal with that? Was this a bug, or simply a very poor feature? Is there some specific container I need to put things in to have them not get deleted? It seems really stupid to have a house that you can't actually keep anything in.

[smr1957]

All containers in hearthfire homes (or other vanilla player homes) are non-respawning.
The only way this would be changed is through a mod.

[MadMek]

Hmmm... I have a number of mods, but none of them should be effecting containers in any way... I must be losing my mind....

[MadMek]

Nevermind, I found it, what I thought was a single container was actually two containers side by side, and I'm an absolute nob.

[smr1957]

Just because a mod description said that it does certain things, doesn't mean that there aren't wild edits that effect things they shouldn't. Post your LOOT sorted load order and there will be people who will look at it.

To post your load order, just click on the 3 verticle dots in the upper right corner of LOOT screen, click on copy load order from the drop-down menu, and then paste into the thread's reply box by right clicking mouse.

[smr1957]

Originally posted by MadMek:

Nevermind, I found it, what I thought was a single container was actually two containers side by side, and I'm an absolute nob.

As stated, no containers in locations marked as non-respawning should ever respawn - if one is (such as that second container), it is probably added by a mod.

[President Donald Trump]

Remember good ole morrowind when you could just drop items on the ground for safe storage :P

[DrNewcenstein]

IIRC, barrels are set to respawn because they are food barrels. If you put stuff in a food barrel, and that food barrel is set to respawn (because it's a food barrel, not a storage chest), then whatever you put in will probably vanish.

You can only put stuff in chests and wardrobes and nightstands and end tables you build in the house. Not barrels.

In order to get a bard, a cell has to be marked as public access. Hearthfire homes have an option for a bard, hence, they get the public flag. That means anyone in the game can enter your home. If you have modded NPCs who like to do a little B&E, then yes, your stuff got horked.

[smr1957]

From https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Containers :
"...some locations, in particular the player's houses, are identified as non-respawning locations. All containers in these safe locations (even common Barrels and Sacks) can safely be used for storage."

All containers in the house are safe.

Also, while the player homes are marked as public, they are also marked as follows:
LocTypeDwelling
LocTypeHouse
LocTypePlayerHouse

Hence, anyone CANNOT enter a player home - just the player and his/her retinue, active followers, or the courier.

Honeyside was wrongly tagged as an inn - this was corrected in the Update, then the correction was undone by mistake in the DLC. It was fixed - again - in the Unofficial Patch.

All the above is visible in xEdit

[voehringer_nitron]

Originally posted by Eggherder:

Originally posted by deucey d:

Remember good ole morrowind when you could just drop items on the ground for safe storage :P

There was a good corpse for this too, could hold a lot on that body.

Good old Ralen Hlaalo, your death shall not be in vain. Of course, I usually stick to the entrance on the upper balcony, so I don't need to worry about anybody seeing me picking the lock/casting Open on the front door.

[President Donald Trump]

Not like anyone in Balmora gave two ♥♥♥♥♥ lol. Especially after seeing me jump from sheogorad to balmora naked multiple times, throughout the day.