There's any mod that makes Hearthfire dlc more interesting?

[Mozart]

The vanila dlc looks so shallow and a wasted potencial overall

[Rez Elwin]

How much did you expect from a 5 dollar DLC?

[Mozart]

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

How much did you expect from a 5 dollar DLC?

More, a lot more...

[xybolt]

Both HearthFire add-on and Dragonborn dlc did not have gotten lots of attention if you compare it to Dawnguard. If you use "hearthfire" as a keyword on Nexus, you may find several mods you can use. There are "extended" mods such mods that adds a swimming pool or a huge wall around the house. These aren't in my alley.

Currently, I have these mods for HearthFire in my load order, aside from some small ones.

• Hearthfires Houses Building Fix[www.nexusmods.com]
  
• Edmond's Hearthfire Improvements[www.nexusmods.com]
  
• Hearthfire Cellars Fully Upgraded[www.nexusmods.com]
  
• Windstad[www.nexusmods.com] adding some houses near Windstad Manor

There are certainly others but I did not pick these up ...

[steventirey]

I wish they would have used it to expand on the Civil War questline. Specifically, rewarding you by making you the jarl of Winterhold. The town needs to be rebuilt anyway, and rewarding you (as both the Dragonborn and hero of whatever side you joined) by making you jarl of a broken down hold would fit.

Dragonborn adds an new map and extensive questline. Dawnguard adds a new map and extensive questline. Hearthfire adds... 3 houses. Three houses that are mostly identical, except for one unique feature each (a grainmill, fish hatchery, or bee hive).

They put minimum effort into it, so it was only $5. But it could have been more.

[Death Approaches]

there were already what, 8 player houses, they gave you 3 more and the work of building them so you have something to do with your money... it wasn't about anything but that. more fetch quests. don't overthink it.

[Mozart]

Originally posted by steventirey:

I wish they would have used it to expand on the Civil War questline. Specifically, rewarding you by making you the jarl of Winterhold. The town needs to be rebuilt anyway, and rewarding you (as both the Dragonborn and hero of whatever side you joined) by making you jarl of a broken down hold would fit.

Dragonborn adds an new map and extensive questline. Dawnguard adds a new map and extensive questline. Hearthfire adds... 3 houses. Three houses that are mostly identical, except for one unique feature each (a grainmill, fish hatchery, or bee hive).

They put minimum effort into it, so it was only $5. But it could have been more.

That would be incredible. Would be cool too if you could actually make political decisions here and there

[Fear2288]

It was a super cheap DLC created at a time before BGS would go on to develop the concept more in FO4, FO76, and SF. Also before the wave of survival sims.

It’s pretty basic and boring by today’s standards but it was a pretty neat feature at the time.

Unfortunately, mods really haven’t done much for it even years later. Aside from the ones xybolt mentioned there isn’t much else - I know there’s one for the Falkreath home that adds more buildable options. That Winstad one looked kinda cool because you can turn it into a type of small village but iirc it doesn’t play nice with tree/grass mods (lots of foliage clipping).

There are some others out there that utilize the HF system though you may find interesting.

Heljarchen Farm is more-or-less a free version of the Goldenhills Plantation CC content. Much like that, you take ownership of an abandoned farm located a little north of Lorieus farm (where you encounter Cicero and his busted wagon) and then build it up and hire people and all that.

Raventhorn uses the HF system and lets you build up an entire town in The Rift. That’s another one I’ve meant to try and never got around to it. Sounded cool, but it’s an old mod.

[Ace]

Hearthfire extended, Hearthfire improvements, Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions and Custom Home Support, Innocence Lost - Quest Expansion, LC_Build Your Noble House

You can also search with nexus or creations with the individual house name or hearthfire for other mod ideas.

[PaPaKat]

Originally posted by steventirey:

I wish they would have used it to expand on the Civil War questline. Specifically, rewarding you by making you the jarl of Winterhold. The town needs to be rebuilt anyway, and rewarding you (as both the Dragonborn and hero of whatever side you joined) by making you jarl of a broken down hold would fit.

Dragonborn adds an new map and extensive questline. Dawnguard adds a new map and extensive questline. Hearthfire adds... 3 houses. Three houses that are mostly identical, except for one unique feature each (a grainmill, fish hatchery, or bee hive).

They put minimum effort into it, so it was only $5. But it could have been more.

there is a mod called Blackthorn that lets you claim and rebuild an entire town from rubble , turns out to look nice. theres a few others like this plus custom homes you might even try Build your own outpost. just search Nexus and im sure youll find what your looking for.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Mozart:

The vanila dlc looks so shallow and a wasted potencial overall

er.... it a dlc to add housebuilding, what exactly where you expecting?
A long trawl through unexplored caverns to find the schematics for furniture?
A longwinded quest to get an architect to design the house and it's wings?
An apprenticeship to learn how to make iron fittings, hinges and nails?

It's exactly what they advertised it as.... I don't get this complaint at all......

[Fear2288]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by Mozart:

The vanila dlc looks so shallow and a wasted potencial overall

er.... it a dlc to add housebuilding, what exactly where you expecting?
A long trawl through unexplored caverns to find the schematics for furniture?
A longwinded quest to get an architect to design the house and it's wings?
An apprenticeship to learn how to make iron fittings, hinges and nails?

It's exactly what they advertised it as.... I don't get this complaint at all......

I’m giving the OP the benefit of the doubt and am assuming he’s relatively new to the game, or has just never really played around with (or owned) the HF DLC.

I could see someone who’s become accustomed to the level of customization, detail, management, and build options of FO4’s settlements, SF’s outposts, or the base/homestead building of most survival sims looking at HF and being like “wtf is this? This is so basic and boring”.

But as I said, the OP needs to keep in mind that HF came before all of that. It’s kinda like passing judgement on Super Mario 64 for not having Ray Tracing, or Doom for not having aim-down-sights.