So yeah... I figured like Oblivion I could decorate my home in Skyrim with some of the loot I found in dungeons and whatnot.

I brought home a load of silverware, and spent the better part of an hour (if not more) placing everything on the table, then adding food and what more to make it look like a really nice feast. Then I went on to spend a long time placing a statue, along with some flowers and decoration in the shape of a small altar, or shrine if you want.

Considering the complete pain in the ass mechanics in Skyrim as far as placing items go you can say it was a real exercise in frustration from beginning to end.

But I did get everything right, despite being unable to properly turn items around, or move them closer/further from you, or any way of making certain items even stand upright (why can't we grab the edge, or top, of a goblet so it will hang down and "land" properly). Instead you have to battle the goblet by banging it against the side of a table, or a wall, just to make it turn so that you can place it standing up rather than rolling around on side or even upside down.

Anyways, I got it all placed, pressed F5 to quicksave, grabbed a soda, went outside the house to go sell some gear... I come back in to grab some ore and leather to up my smithing... and my first reaction is.... what in the F***!?!

Result follows... put it like this... I left, and never gonna place a single decorative item again in Skyrim. B.R.O.K.E.N. mechanics.

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The bug is only present the first time you try to place items and then exit and return.

If you re-place them after the first time, they will stay where you want them to.

This was the 2nd time I placed the items.

I did the table finished, but not the shrine first time, and I accidentally pushed something off table, so I pressed F9 to reload since I had just saved it... and when it loaded up... BOOOM!! Whole damn room in shambles.

Then I replaced it, and did the shrine and some other stuff.

Left house, came back... you see the result right there.

Pointless.

didnt place as many things (ons dwemer core:P ) but it stil at the same place i left it
so its either what above said, first time leave it happens
or u somehow placed too many things too close to each other and it bugged

Just shout at it and be done with it.

Yeah, umm... I get that you put forth some effort to place everything where you wanted, but the ability to manipulate objects doesn't really serve any purpose in the game. It's a minor perk, at best, and one we should feel fortunate to have. While the semi-realistic physics, which is the word I think you were looking for, are a notable feature of the game, saying that it's broken just because we can't place every item in the game exactly the way you want, or that they do or do not stay where you put them... well, that's hardly a game breaker. I find it pretty silly that anyone would even consider raising a complaint about it, in fact. There's a huge world full of stuff to do in Skyrim and here you are, nit-picking over not being able to set your silverware on the table. Wow. Talk about missing the point.

Sorry that a game of this magnitude can't satisfy your need to flex your interior decorator talents... maybe try The Sims 3? *shrug*

meh, if we can't move items and place them, then they might as well just be fixed objects and unmovable ~_~

Somebody Fus-ro-dah'd your dining room!

Same thing for me. I put a bunch of nice helmets on the mantle of my Solitude house. I blame Mjoll, I think she's just clumsy.

I was reading somewhere else on the forum that they will be trying to address this in the patch, the OP on the topic said they spoke to Bethesda about it, got a kind of vague response but seem to be working on it.

I really hope this up coming patch is going to help a lot. SO many mechanics have errors in them, it seems they didn't have much testing time to meet their deadline. Really though if anything is to be fixed companion leveling should be.

that glitch pretty much kills any hopes of decoration; that and 90% of the armor/weapon displays dont work.

No its not a game breaker but it is an RPG and some people like to do that, especially when option is there to do it, eg buy furniture for your house, fill your book case and weapon rack, the ability to manipulate items. Its been made a part of the game on purpose.

I've got two tricks to placing objects. First, objects seem to stay if you drop them from your inventory and don't move them afterwords. I've quit dragging objects into place, and I now rely solely on dropping them out of my inventory. It is FRIGGIN [censored] that objects don't stay where you drag them, but they don't seem to. For me this works almost 100%.


The other thing that works sometimes (but is not as good as my first solution) is to rest after placing items before leaving the room, or saving the game.

I want to know if these work for anyone else, keep me updated.

What an incredibly condescending post.

Yes I had no idea Bethesda had "Gaming Police".

Everyone plays their own style, there are people out there just killing everyone in game and ignoring the quests completely, what ever rocks your boat. :biggrin:

Why don't you decorate your real home in real life instead of wasting your time doing the same thing in a video game is beyond me...

Really hope this is fixed in the patch, so I can rip everything off the shelves and stuff them with goodies.

Because things you do in a video game is so much cooler then doing it real life.

Did you ever play Fallout? If you did, you'll know the advantages. You can't put a missile launcher on your dining room table IRL.

Not really. No. It's a RPG, not a design-your-own house video game.

Oh get a life and quit trying to tell people how to play their game, youre just bored and looking for a fight.

I was heartbroken to find this bug all my dreams of having a house decked out in Dwemer shizz and artifacts, swords, shiny stuff, rare things GONE!

It's a double wammy anyway, as the grab feature is really bad at the moment it's extremely difficult to arrange objects on a table for Talos' sake.

well what u said there made no sense.. role playing game? Yes..as in u play a character to a specific personality and do the things you would actually have to do. That means not just teleporting from place to place, then dumping the stuf u spent hours finding in a chest along with 100 other items..but showing it in ur house and/or decorating. Why pay 25 000 for a house in solitude if ur not gonna make it look nice..

the point of an rpg is for u to play your style and add as much realism u want for ur self (to an extent)..as in u play a role.. thats why the grab feature is there in the first place, a LOT of people love it and used it quite a bit in ES games..

Fact is, I got some nice trophies from my travels: Glenmoril witch heads, Blade of Haarfang, Shield of Solitude, Blade of Woe, Axe of Whiterun, a nice collection of helmets belonging to different armor sets, some cool staffs, dragon priest masks. It'd be nice to have a place to showcase my accomplishments.

To those being condescending [censored], go enjoy your call of duty or whatever. Let the rest of us be.

I miss morrowind's item placing mechanics :C