Castle Volkihar door won't open. [SOLVED]

[Champignon]

I know this has happened a lot but I couldn't find anyone who has the same problem as me. So, I take Serana to the castle, walk up the bridge, get stopped halfway by her to speak to me and then suddenly the gate opens, without the "cutscene" where the doorman recognizes her. When I talk to the doorman he says what he's supposed to say after Serana's return, but if I try to enter the castle nothing happens. Can anyone help?

[76561198133591931]

Do you have any mods that alter Castle Volkihar? That might do it. If not, then it's glitched. I suppose you could try console command "tcl", since it's safe, and just pass through Door. Once through, just toggle off command by retyping it.

[Champignon]

Originally posted by darkknight4321234:

Do you have any mods that alter Castle Volkihar? That might do it. If not, then it's glitched. I suppose you could try console command "tcl", since it's safe, and just pass through Door. Once through, just toggle off command by retyping it.

I don't have any mods that alter the castle directly (although I don't know if agent of righteous might does something to it). I will try the console command. Thanks in advance

[Champignon]

Originally posted by begore:

Originally posted by darkknight4321234:

Do you have any mods that alter Castle Volkihar? That might do it. If not, then it's glitched. I suppose you could try console command "tcl", since it's safe, and just pass through Door. Once through, just toggle off command by retyping it.

I don't have any mods that alter the castle directly (although I don't know if agent of righteous might does something to it). I will try the console command. Thanks in advance

Yeah so that didn't work out. The castle needs to be loaded, you can't just pass through the door. Thanks anyways

[CAP]

Do you have an elder scroll? I got one from the mage's college and ended up going back to a save before I got it, two or more levels, before I could get into the castle.

[Stoob]

What I did when I had this issue:
Click on Serana so she is the highlighted RefID in the console.
Move yourself inside the caslte by typing in the console:

coc dlc01vampirecastleguildhall

Once inside, while Serana's RefID is still selected type in the console:

moveto player

The same Serana (not a duplicate) should appear next to you and the dialogues should begin. NB: on the 'moveto' command there are no full stops. For me, the rest of the quest played out fine.

[Champignon]

Originally posted by Stoob:

What I did when I had this issue:
Click on Serana so she is the highlighted RefID in the console.
Move yourself inside the caslte by typing in the console:

coc dlc01vampirecastleguildhall

Once inside, while Serana's RefID is still selected type in the console:

moveto player

The same Serana (not a duplicate) should appear next to you and the dialogues should begin. NB: on the 'moveto' command there are no full stops. For me, the rest of the quest played out fine.

THANK YOU! IT WORKED!

[data1701d]

Simplest fix: In console command type "tcl" this will let you walk through walls. Walk right through the gate then type tcl again to turn it off and proceed to castle door.

[Drutt]

The cell name didn't work for me until I omitted the 0, so it was just:
coc dlc1vampirecastleguildhall

See infobox:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Volkihar_Keep

[Drinjanin]

I have to revive this thread for the people who are stuck with this.
In the console type: coc dlc01vampirecastleguildhall

Do not forget that 0 before 1. Tlc didn't work for me, as I was unable to enter the guild hall and spawn its interior.

[abdulla]

tcl definitely won't work. I also had to eliminate the zero to coc, using dlc01 didn't do anything,

[MacKerone]

Just reviving again this thread to really help people with my little "discoveries".

I firstly want to just advise anyone that the command "tcl" won't work ONLY if you clicked on any items in the game on your screen and then a RefID is currently highlighted on your command console, at the top of the shadow fragment. So, if you just want to just pass through the gate, just check if nothing is highlighted in the console, then write "tcl" and go on.

BUT, if you want to do what the quest would need to do for you, indeed unlocking the gate, just open up the console, click on the iron gate, make sure the RefID is highlighted, and then write "disable". That will make the gate disappear and you should go fine with that.

I don't really know if there are bad consequences to this, stating that you are disabling an object in the enitre game, but it worked good for me.

[Spirit]

not sure what's going on and i know this is a old thread, but if some door doesn't work try using "unlock" command on it

[Drinjanin]

In order to avoid this kind of bugs is to avoid playing the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bugged games. I have uninstalled it a few months ago, ah, what a relief. I looked at the Skyrim folder, after uninstalling the game, with some useful stuff I have gathered over the years of playing it. The entire folder was about manouvering around the bugs via console commands. What a crap game and developers.