Goldenhills Plantation Questline bug.

[Vishankashot]

Recently finished the main storyline & Chose the stormcloaks, and decided to come back and do the Farm quest so i can have my own farm. First Ghost kill went well. BUT the Wife and kid don't show up at the end. just has a arrow where they should all be standing for me to hand in after i find their clues...

I've done older saves as well. Still same result...

Any solutions?

[Psychopatton]

If you did all the clues and returned/placed the item, I don't know. I never have done Goldenhills after the Civil War.

Did you try console commands to either set stage or force finish?

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by Psychopatton:

If you did all the clues and returned/placed the item, I don't know. I never have done Goldenhills after the Civil War.

Did you try console commands to either set stage or force finish?

This is my first playthrough,

I don't want to disable the achievements via console commands, it says if i put a command in it'll disable achivements earned throughout the gameplay.

[Vishankashot]

I've done it before on an old old old save. but that was b4 i did the Civil war. looked online, people having issues atm with it. doubt it'll be fixed but really odd it's stopped working O.o

[smr1957]

Using console commands does not disable achievements - though they can bork your game if used inappropriately. Mods disable achievements - but, there is a mod that fixes that - Engine Fixes, which re-enables them: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17230

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Vishankashot:

Recently finished the main storyline & Chose the stormcloaks, and decided to come back and do the Farm quest ...............

I'm not saying this with certainty but I've seen people report that if you saved your game after visiting Goldenhills then came back later to finish the quest there were problems with Ren appearing.

However, because we are not sure about the above what I would suggest is what we always should try first when encountering quest bugs which is to reload an earlier save and trying the quest again. I'm not saying that if you previously visited the plantation you should reload all the way back to before that point (although it would be ideal for testing purposes) because if you did previously visit Goldenhills that might be too far back. But reloading an earlier save is something we should always try first.

[Altbert]

The main quest is very straight forward and requires you to follow the displayed objectives. I recently completed this quest without any problem and now have a flourishing plantation. I have taken a look at the quest in the CK and the most important actions are: 1. kill the husband's ghost, 2. read husband' note (next to his corpse), 3. find the secret alchemy lab, 4. read the wife's journal, 5. kill the wife's ghost, 6. find and read the son's journal, 7. find the wooden sword, 8. place the woorden sword in the son's room, 9. talk to the son and receive the key to the farm.

Use the following console command to display the status of all quest stages:

sqs ccVSVSSE004_MainQuest

In particular stages 50, 60, 80, 90 and 200 should be set to 1.00. If you haven't solved the issue yet, post the results of the sqs console command in this thread. Maybe I can see what went wrong.

[Altbert]

If you did visit the plantation before, as Vlad wrote, but did not actually start the quest by killing the husband's ghost and reading his note, you could try to reset the quest. This is possible because the quest is not "Start Game Enabled" or set to "Run Once":

resetquest ccVSVSSE004_MainQuest

But, even if the quest has already been started, it is worth a try before having to revert to and earlier save.

[Vlad 254]

Same here as I've yet to have a problem with this quest and my farm is running as it should with kids living there as well, oh, and the farm very profitable.

Sounds like you are not using mods but the only real issue I've seen people have with this quest is finding Rens sword if they are using the mod "Landscape and Water Fixes" which raises the ground around the water well from the CC-Farming DLC. And of course there is a mod that will revert those specific changes.

Again, I don't think you are using mods but in general that is the only issue I've seen with Goldenhills Plantation. The issue I mentioned about visiting the farm and then coming back later has only been reported by a very few number of users.

I think Altbert gave you some solid advice.

[Altbert]

One small, very insignificant correction: the boy's name is Rin. Husband and wife are named Urval and Jonquil.

Whatever may have went wrong could probably be explained by the status of the quest stages.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Vishankashot:

Recently finished the main storyline & Chose the stormcloaks, and decided to come back and do the Farm quest so i can have my own farm. First Ghost kill went well. BUT the Wife and kid don't show up at the end. just has a arrow where they should all be standing for me to hand in after i find their clues...

I've done older saves as well. Still same result...

Any solutions?

um...... The wife is in the hidden room in the cellar.... look for a big button.
The kid however is harder to find, he is by a well between the house and the Gulkir monument nearby.

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by Altbert:

If you did visit the plantation before, as Vlad wrote, but did not actually start the quest by killing the husband's ghost and reading his note, you could try to reset the quest. This is possible because the quest is not "Start Game Enabled" or set to "Run Once":

resetquest ccVSVSSE004_MainQuest

But, even if the quest has already been started, it is worth a try before having to revert to and earlier save.

I will give that a try ive done the quest before on a early gameplay as stated above but just some reason it bugged out on the wife ghost part...

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by Vishankashot:

Recently finished the main storyline & Chose the stormcloaks, and decided to come back and do the Farm quest so i can have my own farm. First Ghost kill went well. BUT the Wife and kid don't show up at the end. just has a arrow where they should all be standing for me to hand in after i find their clues...

I've done older saves as well. Still same result...

Any solutions?

um...... The wife is in the hidden room in the cellar.... look for a big button.
The kid however is harder to find, he is by a well between the house and the Gulkir monument nearby.

I've done the quest before on my very first gameplay but had to restart due to a corrupted save so ik where everything is etc button on wall lol

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by smr1957:

Using console commands does not disable achievements - though they can bork your game if used inappropriately. Mods disable achievements - but, there is a mod that fixes that - Engine Fixes, which re-enables them: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17230

Ohh most likely misread what it said on the console commands, trying to avoid using them (EVEN THOUGH, idk ANY basic commands for the game bwahaha). :P

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Vishankashot:

Originally posted by smr1957:

Using console commands does not disable achievements - though they can bork your game if used inappropriately. Mods disable achievements - but, there is a mod that fixes that - Engine Fixes, which re-enables them: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17230

Ohh most likely misread what it said on the console commands, trying to avoid using them (EVEN THOUGH, idk ANY basic commands for the game bwahaha). :P

yeah that's more of a warning for those not familiar with console commands. But I rarely use them anyway for fixes as that was not the intention for them. Not saying they can't be useful for fixes but the warning is a good thing none the less.

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Originally posted by Vishankashot:

Ohh most likely misread what it said on the console commands, trying to avoid using them (EVEN THOUGH, idk ANY basic commands for the game bwahaha). :P

yeah that's more of a warning for those not familiar with console commands. But I rarely use them anyway for fixes as that was not the intention for them. Not saying they can't be useful for fixes but the warning is a good thing none the less.

Oh yea def agree on that part, I don't use them, unless something has bugged out etc like this and i need to restart the quest (Which i don't think it's cheating if it's a bug).

But literally logged on this morning, just 10 minutes ago Vlad, and ran back to the plantation, opened the door, and the lady ghost that wasn't spawning literally started smacking me in the back of the head so it must've fixed itself when i turned the game off for the night haha. idk what jogged it back into plans but happy i can do the quest and FINISH IT!.

Sorry again if it all confusing, i understand it's a 10 year old game with bugs to be expected. but thought i'd ask and see if anyone had similar problems or encounters with this quest :)