Found a horse - Can I keep it?

[Didz]

My character is only level 3, but I was exploring the hills around Riverwood and discovered a dead bandit lying beside the road with a horse standing next to him.

I managed to sneak up to the horse without starling it, and having looted the corpse of the bandit, discovered that I could actually mount and ride the horse. Up to that point I didn;t relaise that my character knew how to ride.

Anyway, after a few more adventures I have returned to Riverwood on my new horse. But I haven't got a clue what to do with it. It's sort of taken me by surprise as I assumed that it would be ages before I could afford to buy one.

The thing is that whenever I dismount it has a habit of wandering off. So unless I can do something to bind it to me or restrain it I risk losing it every time I get off.

Also I have a feeling that as soon as I log off it's going to dissappear.

Any advice, or am I just wasting my time trying to keep it?

[Daisuke Hanata]

Horses you buy, stay with you. Horses you find, not so much (as far as I know) Do the dark brotherhood questline, you will thank me later :)

[Didz]

Yeah! I've done a bit more research and it looks like a lost cause.

There are a lot of jokers making suggestions like 'get off it and hit it' or 'shoot it with an arrow' and it will be yours.

The most plausible suggestion was to enter 'setownership' into the console with the horse selected. I actually tried that but it didn't seem to make any difference.

The most plausible answer so far is that as soon as you get off the horse it will wander off and try to find it's way back to where you found it. But that it will probably get killed on the way, so even if you went back again it probably wouldn;t be there.

It's a shame because it's a really nice dappled grey horse, which is pretty unusual from what I've seen.

Anyway, I'm just going to make the most of it whilst I have it. I'm only level 3 so, suddenly finding a horse means I can pretty much explore the whole area now very quickly and gain some value from it before it dissappears.

I find if I 'park it' (for want of a better term) carefully in a reasonably tight and enclosed space it does tend to stay where I put it at least for a short while. However, I actually got off it earlier to loot a chest in an apparently abandoned camp I discovered and heard all this commotion behind me only to turn round and discover three bandits trying to kill it.

Fortunately, I was able to dodge all three of them, jump on the horse, and ride it to safety with all three of them chasing me down the road. Still keep looking over my shoulder in case they are still chasing me.

[DFH01]

I seem to get free horses from Riften, maybe it's because i help the stablehand.

[Matymus]

you could drop by the skyrim nexus and look for 3 mods that'll make things so much more interesting and simple for you when it comes to horses

First mod: convenient Horses which gives you options like the horse will follow and give off a certain type of personality cowardly or stubborn along with armor options and if followers will have horses and their setup with them and so on.

Second mod:Convenient horse herder which gives the player ownership over any horse it happens to successfully mount stolen or otherwise but it takes time to take ownership over said horse and it also automatically NAMES the horses for you instead of just "horse" lol both are pretty cool mods and both work together very well with little to no conflict.

Third Mod: Horse Whisperer which adds into your spells a whistle and a locator and i think a few other things but the whistle must be learned by whistling at NPC's and such until someone tells you you've done well.

[★Kelvy★]

If it say steal horse leave it, if it says ride horse OK, leave horse(unmount horse) and it returns back where you found it.
Buy horse and ride get off and go on foot, horse will follow.

[Didz]

No it's not stolen. The owner seemed to be a bandit, but when I found him he was already dead and the horse was just standing there next to him. It just said 'Horse' no mention of stolen at all.

I'll have a look at that whistle mod and see if it looks like it might work. However, at the moment I've just finished a grand mounted tour of Skyrim and discovered Whiterun, Riften, Windhelm, Ivarstead and Rorkikstead and a lot of farms and forts in there respective area's.

So, even if the horse dissappears now i can fast travel to a lot of locations.

I also had great fun using my two-handed hammer mounted to smash the bodies of all the wolves that tried to eat my horse enroute. So, i gained a level and lots of wolf-pelts.

Back in Riverwood for the night now, and have saved the game with the horse jammed into the narrow gap alongside The Sleeping Giant tavern. If it's still there in the morngin i might do a bit more exploring.

[Didz]

I already have 57 mods, and I've just installed Whistle, so that will be the 58th.

At the moment I am having fun, but I'm not really bothering about power levelling or anything and I'm only level 4. My only real dissapointment so far is with the limited NPC interaction, but it's difficult to see how that could be improved.

The game itself is just visually stunning, and the mods I'm using really make it special.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200093405

[Didz]

I know about Nexus, in fact I use their discussion forum sometimes, but for some reason their site won;t allow me to download the mod manager. So i get all my mods from the Steam Workshop.

It's difficult to imagine having 300 mods, but having said that I've only been playing about a week and I already have 58, so perhaps it's not so surprising.

About the only console command I'm using at the moment is 'tm' when i want to take a screen shot. I can;t really see a point in using mods or console commands to cheat, as it makes the game pointless. I'm mainly interested in roleplay and immersion so I'm not even bothering to level particularly.

If I recall correctly the screenshot of Garik on his horse was taken outside the tavern at Rorikstead. That was about as far North as I rode, and i then did a circuit to the west and came back into Riverwood from the direction of Helgen and the Guardian Stones, Having left a few hours earlier on the road to Whiterun.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=199099443

[Braden]

Originally posted by Didz:

I know about Nexus, in fact I use their discussion forum sometimes, but for some reason their site won;t allow me to download the mod manager. So i get all my mods from the Steam Workshop.

It's difficult to imagine having 300 mods, but having said that I've only been playing about a week and I already have 58, so perhaps it's not so surprising.

About the only console command I'm using at the moment is 'tm' when i want to take a screen shot. I can;t really see a point in using mods or console commands to cheat, as it makes the game pointless. I'm mainly interested in roleplay and immersion so I'm not even bothering to level particularly.

If I recall correctly the screenshot of Garik on his horse was taken outside the tavern at Rorikstead. That was about as far North as I rode, and i then did a circuit to the west and came back into Riverwood from the direction of Helgen and the Guardian Stones, Having left a few hours earlier on the road to Whiterun.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=199099443

You dont need that manager i got mine from Pirate bay XD

[Didz]

I did try and dowload it from a few other locations, but my Anti-virus firewall lit up like a Christmas tree everytime I tried so in the end I stuck with the Steam Workshop and the built in mod management tool. So, far it seems to be working ok.

I've only found three mods that I wanted that I couldn't obtain from the workshop, or other manual download locations. One of those was Frostfall, which used to be on steam but was removed by its author, another was War Zones which I've only ever seen on Nexus, and the third was Pumping Iron.

I substituted Hypotheria 1.4 for Frostfall, but I am just about to unload that as it's seems to be behaving eratically and I'm not happy with the results I'm getting. It's just annoying that the cold doesn't affect my character and force me to play appropriately in cold climates.

[RunfromChron]

do i need the mod manager at nexus to correctly use the mods there? i just downloaded them manually and put them in the data folder

[Didz]

Originally posted by bradenm1:

Turn off your anti virus all the good mods are on Nexus..

I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon. I use this PC for work as well as entertainment, so I'm not going to risk infection for the sake of a few game mods.

And so far, as I've said most of the mods I've wanted have been available elsewhere anyway. It was just Frostfall, War Zones and Pumping Iron that I wanted and couldn't find.

here is Little ammount of my mods

Cool! I'll have a look through and see if there are any more that appeal to me. I've noticed a few already that I've installed, but I have developed a bit of a mod addiction since buying Skyrim so I'm always window shopping.

Do you find you get a lot of mod conflict issues with that many mods loaded?

I was looking through and noticed that you have a few mods I looked at abd decided not to instal, because they said they had conflicts with other mods I had loaded.

So, far I've been lucky and the only visible conflict I have is between the River Cottage Mod and Riverwood enhanced, which actually results in two bridges colliding. The stone one that comes with River Cottage and a wooden one provided by the Riverwood mod. They just sort of meet and intermingle on the Riverwood bank of the river, which looks a bit messy, but doesn't seem to upset the game.

Originally posted by bradenm1:

No, you dont need the manager its just easier to keep track of your mods If you get as much mods as i have you are going to need it.

Yeah! but you have 300 mods. I find the built in mod-manager available by clicking on Data Files, quite adequate to manage my merger 58.

[Mog-Dog]

I found a horse in a similar way, and wasnt sure if it would stick around so I bought one wen I could. That horse still follows me around even when Im riding the new one. Guess I have a backup

[Didz]

Originally posted by bradenm1:

I have so much mods idk what some even do like the fishing one i have never used and prob never will XD

Oh! I have the fishing one, but i can't say I've really used it much yet.

I just thought it might work well with a survival mod later, but I'm still working on that. I currently need a lot of leather to make a camping kit. The last time Garik got caught out in the wild during the night he ended up sleeping in the tent of some random female huntress he discovered over near the Guardian stones.

She wasn't very talkative, but it kept him warm for the night.

[Didz]

Originally posted by bradenm1:

Lol, the way you say that makes it funny.

I know. It's my GM side, it tends to turn everything into a story or plot line.

In fact, I think she was bugged as she had dialogue options that related to the hunters guild, but when I selected them she just gave me a blank stare and said nothing.

However, Garik had wandered around for too long and night fell before he could leave her camp. That might not be a problem in the vanilla game, but one of my mods makes night-time really dark, and cold. Garik actually got lost trying to find his way home from the Sleeping Giant one night so I was nervous about making a trip back to Riverwood at night without a lantern.

I noticed that the huntresses bed roll in her tent was not 'owned' so just spent the night in her tent. I just sort of borrowed her camp site for the night.

I get the impression you aren't really as much into the roleplay aspect of Skyrim as I am. A lot of your mods seem to be geared towards the 'herioc' and 'dramatic', whereas I tend to go for 'grim and gritty'. So I'm not that interested in sexy armour and weapons, I tend to get more excited about mods that make my character sick if he eats raw seafood.

Garik has already had food poisoning once. I think as a result of eating an uncooked clam, and it cost me a days adventuring as he was constantly dehydrated. Presumably because he was puking his guts up, although that wasn't animated (thank god).

He was also almost permanently drunk, as most of the liquid he had available to drink was alcohol based.