Lucia & Alesan refusing to come home

[Red the Mudkip]

(I don't know if this is the right place to ask, so if it isn't, please direct me to where I should go.) So I live in a modded Breezehome. I have the Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions mod, and I've adopted four kids - Lucia, Blaise, Sofie, and Alesan. For a long time, all four were acting normally, going to sleep in my house at night and playing outside during the day. They would also go home and do chores when I asked them to.

Shortly after installing the updated My Home Is Your Home mod and having Serana move in with me, Lucia and Alesan started acting as though they hadn't been adopted. Lucia went to The Bannered Mare at night, and Alesan just was totally missing, period (I assume he went to Dawnstar). I've tried using moveto player inside Breezehome for both kids (at night when they should be sleeping), but when they get inside, they just go back out and head to Dawnstar/The Bannered Mare. I've also tried using disable+enable and recycleactor. Neither of those have worked.

It's really frustrating. Does anyone know what the problem is, or how I may be able to fix it? I think it's been a few in-game weeks and the problem certainly hasn't fixed itself. If it helps, the mods that I suspect might be interfering are:
-Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29249)
-My Home Is Your Home (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18045) (it should be noted that the kids were acting fine until I installed this)
-Breezehome TNF Beds Plus (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54199/)

EDIT: I'd like to add one more thing - I mentioned they're ACTING like they're not adopted. But their dialogue is still the adopted child dialogue.

Thanks for your time.

[fauxpas]

Reload a save from before you installed my home is your home AFTER uninstalling said mod.


Alternatively keep the mod and load a save from before you adopted said children.

[Red the Mudkip]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Reload a save from before you installed my home is your home AFTER uninstalling said mod.


Alternatively keep the mod and load a save from before you adopted said children.

Thank you. I tried the first option, but they're still behaving the same way. I'm afraid that I might have permanently damaged Skyrim, if that's even possible.

[Eternie]

The other thing to look at, is your load order as to which of those mods take priority.

From your description it sounds like the mod Breezehome TNF Beds plus may interfere with multiple adoptions and be giving the kids their normal behaviours instead of your home life.

I'd agree with fauxpas about loading a previous save when it was working properly ... then at that stage ... look which mods you had and in which order where those mods loaded.

Did something change or what was added that stopped it from working?

[Red the Mudkip]

As I said, this changed when I installed the My Home Is Your Home mod. I believe TNF Beds Plus is explicitly listed as compatible with Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, so I doubt those two are the ones conflicting. And as stated above, I uninstalled MHIYH and then loaded a save from before I had originally installed it - they displayed the same behavior.

Do you think the issue might fix itself if I start a new game from Helgen again?

[Eternie]

Generally all mods can conflict and it only matters which one wins. Though often one part of one mod may win but not another bit.

Which mod manager do you have? Do you know your mod manager enough to look at the what conflicts these mods have?

Do you have TES5Edit? If so then you could look up conflicts and possibly see where the conflicts are.

Either way You definately should load a save before this problem started then delete the save that have this issue and keep playing without whichever mod caused it.

[Red the Mudkip]

I don't use a mod manager, actually; I install all of my mods manually - that might explain the problem? I don't know.

In any case, thank you for your help! I'll install TES5Edit and see what the problem is. Thanks again. <3

[Eternie]

You should get to learn using a mod manager as the smallest little nuances of what each mod loads is virtually not knowable.
That's what mod managers do they manage all the background detail that each mod adds, changes or blocks. With hundreds of thousands of data records it would be near impossible to keep track of each actual record, then there are scripts that get loaded by activators for each and every animation action in game.

Your choice your game as always I use to use NMM (nexus mod manager) when I first started modding, In that the exact order you loaded the mods made the difference in which mod overwrote which mod and which mod would win a particular conflict.

Then changed to MO (Mod Organizer) to get better control of the whole modding isssue Which only loads mods from a load order list and doesn't just dump everything into your data files. Way better once you learn how to use it.

Of course now neither is THE preffered mod manager and Nexus is pushing for everyone to go to Vortex or NMM2 or MO2. Which you choose will help determine how successful your modding becomes