Where is milk and butter found?

[Bullwinkle]

I want to do more cooking, but I can't find milk or butter. Any suggestions? On a related note, I was thinking of building a house in Falkreath, but I've heard you can't keep a cow because giants kill it. I assume butter comes from cows, so is Falkreath a bad choice to build a house if I want to have more butter?

[Madster]

Here's a link for all your needs.

Skyrim Food [www.uesp.net]

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

I want to do more cooking, but I can't find milk or butter. Any suggestions? On a related note, I was thinking of building a house in Falkreath, but I've heard you can't keep a cow because giants kill it. I assume butter comes from cows, so is Falkreath a bad choice to build a house if I want to have more butter?

No giant have ever killed any cows of mine. Those creatures are set to act cowardly and spawned giant takes a bit time to go agressive, so getting your cow killed by it requires a special talent, or avoiding the whole battle.

Bandits did once kill my chicken, though. Raid is more chaotic and is also more likely to get one of your animals killed. Combat oriented steward and housecarl are usually able to keep enemies surrounded, until you are able to deal with them, but lesser steward might not be able to protect your livestock.

The real problem with Lakeview mansion is the nearby dagon peak. You get to kill as many dragons you ever wanted to kill - and more.

[EbonHawk]

Do you get an alert in-game to tell you when your homestead is under attack? Otherwise, if you're off adventuring, how will you know your property is in danger?

[Ilja]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Do you get an alert in-game to tell you when your homestead is under attack? Otherwise, if you're off adventuring, how will you know your property is in danger?

Events will not take place, before PC is in the same cell. Hearthfire effects that launch while adventuring start as scripted random ecnounters events. Those should not make permanent damage to your home, cattle or NPCs.

[Bullwinkle]

Thanks for all the great info!

[sedanta]

You get fresh butter and milk after a few in-game days...they are located in your kitchen (in hearthfire dlc) if your manor was built with a kitchen.

[Bullwinkle]

Originally posted by Madster:

Here's a link for all your needs.

Skyrim Food [www.uesp.net]

That's a very helpful link, thanks much! Is it perhaps a little out of date? I didn't notice ash yams in there. Still, loads of good info... thanks!

[thelebk]

That link is actually not very helpful as it does not tell you where to actually get butter which is the OPs question. The kitchen churn spawned butter once, then never again, so this wont work. You can occasionally buy small amounts of butter from the female merchant in Whiterun who you stop the bard from romancing and from the meat merchant in the marketplace in Riften. I have found no reliable, regular, source of butter in the game with all DLC installed. It is the rarest of cooking ingredient.

[Rider]

I check every merchant I run across and buy butter, eggs, flour and milk. Innkeepers and food merchants are the most likely to have these ingredients, but I have found them with general merchants also.

It is possible that my needs mod--Realistic Needs and Diseases, does cause merchants to carry more of these items. If you are serious about cooking, I'd definitely check this mod out. Then your cooking can have a purpose. You also get new recipes. I love preparing food and surviving on what I've cooked.

[thelebk]

That does sound like a fund mod and Ill bet it adds more ingredients to the merchants in game.