The Treasure of Riverwood Manor: Player Homes
The mod features two small player homes near Riverwood with everything you need for a good start. The estate of Riverwood Manor contains things like forge, workbench, smelter, grain mill, garden with fertile soils for planting, an oven, a functional butterchurn for homemade butter as well as training dummies with which you can improve your skills and much more.
Player Homes
Main House
The main house is located northwest from Riverwood and can be obtained for 2000 gold from Wendy who runs the estate. Just read the note at the door to start the short quest.
Sitting Room
The sitting room downstairs features a kitchen board containing many food items by default, a fully functional butter churn, an oven, tables and chairs as well a cooking pot in front of the fireplace. There is also a training dummie here that can be used to train some fighting skills. On a table lies a book titled About Riverwood Manor which reveals some backstory.
The Player Home as of Version 1.8
The Interior of the Home
The Master Bedroom
Many items placed in the room cannot be pushed, as Havok behavior has been disabled for them. This will prevent some circumstances with flying things around. This is true for all rooms in the house.
Bedroom
The bedroom is just upstairs and is divided in two sections containing a player bed, two beds for adopted children a table, two chairs and is decorated with some paintings and wall mounted trophies. The windows have sunbeams shining through them that will change their colors depending on daytime. There is also a fully functional book shelf in this room.
Cellar
The cellar can be reached through a trap door in the sitting room and features mannequins, weapon racks, an alchemy laboratory as well an enchanting table. A door leads to the trophy room. In the trophy room you can find a Statue of Nocturnal with which you can improve your sneaking skills. Just start sneaking in front of it by moving back and forth, left and right and so on by using the WASD keys on your keyboard (or controller), but you have to make a very short pause between your actions. You sneaking skill should increase then very quickly. Furthermore there is an entrance to the sewers on the ground. The trophy room is designed to display your collectables you may find during your playthrough in Skyrim.
Lower Rooms
The Lower Rooms can be entered through a trapdoor in the cellar. The Lower Rooms contain a Trophy Room, a Library, a Bathroom, a Greenhouse, a Dining Room as well as several Bedrooms. There is also a secret room with a secret passage leading outside.
Library
Right after entering the Lower Rooms, you will find the Library to the left. There are ten bookshelves that can be filled with 540 books. On a table lies the special skill book M'aiq's Thoughts on Skyrim containing some worth reading Easter eggs. On the table you will also find a Note on the Librum of Knowledge which starts a quest.
Bathroom
The bathroom is to the opposite of the Library. If you have the mod "Keep It Clean" installed, you can refresh yourself there. The bathroom features a special pull chain to toggle bath water heating on and off. A light switch allows you to turn off the light in the dining room.
Greenhouse
The Greenhouse contains 24 planter soils for your plantings and is decorated with paintings and a deer trophy.
Dining Room
The dining room contains a large dining table and provides support for the new Fishing DLC. There are five large and six small aquariums in this room where you can place your caught fishes.
Bedrooms
The bedrooms contain up to six childrens beds, a master bed room and a bedroom for your followers. They are decorated with paintings as well. There are several light switches too.
Armory
A door in the master bedroom leads to the Armory. The Armory contains a lot of weapon racks and mannequins to display your weapons and armor, several weapon cabinets, a small special room for crafting purposes and a small bedroom. There is also a hidden panel that leads to a small secret cave with another Dragon Stone.
Secret Room
The secret room can be entered by opening a secret wall in one of the bedrooms. Upon entering, you will meet Odin, a non-hostile draugr deathlord who stands by his sarcophagus. He is quite powerful and can follow you on your travels. In the same room is a chest that can only be opened with a key. Just ask Odin for the key after starting the little quest by activating the chest. There is also another secret wall in Odin's room that will open a secret passage to the exterior of Riverwood Manor.
The secret room contains lots of chests and safes to keep your belongings in. There is also a smithing forge, a smelter, a workbench, an alchemy laboratory, an arcane enchanter and 12 barrels to tap beer, wine and some very useful potions.
Player Home in the Sewers
A second player home has been added as an alternative homestead in mod version 1.9 and is accessible via a new created entrance to the sewers located south of the player home above. It provides up to six beds for your adopted children and two beds for your followers. In order to adopt six childrens you have to install the mod Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions that can be downloaded from Nexusmods.
The Main Room
The Master Bedroom
The Childrens Room
Main Room
When entered you will be greeted by Sleeps-While-Standing who offers his services as a merchant. From time to time he will use the oven making bread. A second character here is Anette who serves as a bard for you. Just ask her and make a request. The main room contains benches and a table, an arcane enchanter, an alchemy lab, a cooking pot and an oven. A trap door leads to the sewers.
Master Bedroom
To the right of the main room, is the master bedroom. It contains a player double bed, two beds for followers, end tables, a dresser, a wardrobe and a bookcase. The room is decorated with paintings and wall mounted animal trophies.
Children's Room
Upstairs is the children room. There are six children beds in this room. Provided that you have installed the optional mod "Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions" up to six adopted children can live here. The room is decorated with paintings, wall mounted animal trophies and contains a dining table, six children chests, two wardrobes and two cupboards. There is a portal to the trophy room as well.
Trophy Chamber
A portal in the children bedroom leads to the trophy chamber. This room is scattered with child dolls and wooden swords all over the place. Entering that room will start a mini quest: Clean up the Mess in the Trophy Chamber. The room contains eight mannequins, two display cases, four weapon rack plaques, eight weapon racks, four dressers with display cases for daggers, and a large chest chest containg the spell tome Conjure Flaming Wolf that teaches you a spell to summon a fiery wolf to fight for you, as well as five new skill books and some children's clothing. In the middle of the room is large pedestal with a skeleton trophy on it. The room is decorated with paintings and wall mounted trophies and baskets.
Cellar
In the trophy room is a trap door to the cellar. The cellar contains chests, barrels, a safe for personal use, a smelter, an anvil, two dressers and some sacks. The cellar is patrolled by five friendly rats. You can kill them if you wish or leave them alone. If you decide to kill them, their remains will not be removed from the game.
Related Quests
The Treasure of Riverwood Manor
Notes
There is the possibilty to display collectibles such as Dragon Priest Masks, Dragon Claws and so on in the main house.
The estate is located west of Riverwood and is marked on the map. In order to get the key for the house, read the note at the door. This will start the quest. The key for the second home can be obtained from Wendy after starting the mini quest when approaching the sewers.
Both houses are fully Hearthfire compatible, which means your whole family can move in, but you need to install the mod Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions for this to work, which is optional. After installing it, cast the new spell "Bless Home" in one of the player homes. If you don't want your family to move in, you don't need to install that optional mod. Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions can be downloaded from Nexusmods.
Trivia
Although the mod and the description of the estate refer to a manor all the time, it may be not correct for some people. This is because the author of the mod had been unsure at first how to correctly translate the German word "Gut" ("Landgut"). Consider it as another Easter egg alluding to the big house mods out there.
The pictures on the walls refer to some computer games and famous paintings.
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