OK, so it took a grand total of 15 hours and 36 mintues to get the Land Baron and Master Architect achievements by starting a new character. Once again I'd like to thank the designers of hearthfire for not fixing the falkreath land unlock even after a few months. Good job!


If you are in the same boat as me and would like some help saving time, then I recommend that you know about this cheat (which i didn't in the beginning):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJOFz3yoCQ

and this cheat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHMJdSmxoo8

as they will both save you a fair amount of time.

Other than that it should just be straight forward boredom in grinding up to level 22 and 30,000-ish gold.


Thanks again for all that time wasted whoever designed hearthfire! That was great!!

P.S. Don't reply saying I didn't have to play it. I'm obsessive and can't just sit here getting glitched out of all but two trophies. It would just look dumb and I couldn't deal with it.

P.P.S. My post is a solution of sorts to the problem. You guys at bethesda know full well that the land in the falkreath hold is glitched for TONS of players and have yet to even acknowledge that ur fixin it. Don't whack my angry post when this is something that should have been dealt with LONG AGO.

Let me guess, your original character killed the jarl's housecarl and you could not get the land because you sided with the imperials? Maybe if you said what the problem was instead of blaming everyone else for your problem you would get a better response than a locked thread. If you did indeed kill the housecarl, why would it be a bug that you could get no land? It would seem appropriate for an RPG, that you suffer some consequence for your actions.

And no way would I ruin my game by using either of those cheats thanks. I brought it to play it! Not just cheat my way through it so I can say I got a couple of achievements.

No, I sided with the Stormcloaks and the steward can't be killed. So what? There are several ways the quest is bugged so it's a waste of time to put the details. You want details? Look at all the xbox threads. There are your details. Pick any one of the many ways the quest fails it makes no difference.

Also, it's not cheating if I got glitched out. I have millions of gold and the necessary folk that are supposed to sell me my land are all alive. It's clearly not my fault so yes, it's ok to use an exploit to fix something that shouldn't be broken in the first place. Oh and guess what? Getting pushed out of a moving car isn't jaywalking either no matter how you feel.

Then I really doubt your game glitched out, you just could not be bothered figuring it out. I read ALL the Xbox threads and the Dark Brotherhood quest was the only thing that could prevent you getting the land. Small glitches with gift quests are easily solved. Doing quests or not doing them is not a bug, that is up to you to do, not the developer. You can get that land without even receiving the letter from the courier, you just have to do it the original way.

And if you have trouble you should ask for help, not just complain it was a bug.

lol u serious with this? yeah you're right i tried zero of the solutions and found that starting a whole new game was totally easier.

good job spotting that 1. A+ for you

Wasn't your other thread locked?

It was locked, since he never actually described what the problem was just complained and ranted. And of course playing a mere 15 odd hours of Skyrim and Hearthfire is just such a waste of time. Seems Ih8Registering must have joined the wrong forum if he hates playing the game that much less than 16 hours on a second character is such a hardship.

No one forced him to do it.

Im sure this thread will end up same way as the OP's last post did...locked as its not helpful or objective at all, just more complaining

the mad is strong in this one

Well, I'm about to start the PS3 version of all the DLC and I had 100% so I did complete the DB line so I'm guessing I'll be this mad in a few weeks so if I need to use whatever he linked, I'll be appreciative.

The Lakeview mansion is sweet so I would hate to forego it. Yes, Aussie, RPGs have consequences but these are completely unanticipated and unknown by the gamer who finished main game long ago, so I think some slack should be cut here. This is why Dragonborn is so brilliant and designed to work no matter the choices you made during any of the previous game and DLC. Unless you chose to fast travel back to a certain island and are stuck there forever.....

What?

Yes, lol, there were some threads on this months ago. It's been a year since I did that quest on the PS3, but you have to take a boat to some island and take the boat back. Some people did that, but tried to go back later to look for more loot, by fast traveling. However, that island was scripted to go in by boat and leave that way, so they couldn't fast travel out. One of the patches fixed this, I think, by preventing the second trip but earlier people are stuck forever. So, other than that small glitch, Dragonborn will work for everyone. I'm still playing NiNo Kuni so Skyrim is still waiting.

oh you mean Japhet's Folly right?

^ This. svck it Litter1

ok i get that youre angry at me or whatnot for me stating this topic is utterly as useless and unneeded as your last post that got locked... but still you could refrain from being a *cough* deuce about it....

what number do you recommend then?

omg just watched the OP's links, i dont think im bro enough to handle that, what a way to ruin this game , "like ya lets just get through all this [censored] ass [censored] so i can go hurry and get 100 skills in everything so i can kill all these [censored] ass stupid monsters RAWR god mode!!"

huh? what number?

yeah.. i got back to the character that i wanted to actually play. all i did was make up for the trophy i got glitched out of.

why is that so hard to understand?


how should i know? you brought it up!

i wasnt talking about any numbers in any of my post so what are you yabbing about now?

Hi, guys. I certainly didn't mean to add to a fight. I followed the OP's links. Old news, really. The new news (and therefore, news) is the 1.9 patch will kill the famous cheat! I remember when From Software did this in both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. They killed the exploit after a year.

Anyway, I finally booted up Skyrim yesterday. My last save file was dated late Feb 2012!! I played Skyrim and all DLC on the Xbox last year. First, call me crazy but the game still looks pretty much as good as I remember it, pre-patch 1.4, which is to say much better than it looked on the Xbox when I last played when Dragonborn was released. There was almost no lag, no freezes at all. It takes about 20 seconds for the save screen to come up. I bet many people give up. I wish there was voice command

Anywho, I platinumed over a year ago. That means I finished the DB quest line. I was still able to buy the land in Falkreath. Jarl made me get another freaking bottle of mead, but then I got the offer. Yay! I don't know why I am so lucky.

And yes, I meant Japhet's Folly which 1.9 is supposed to fix, so all those people stuck may finally come home.

good 1

There's so much sarcasm in this post that I can't even understand what he is complaining about

deuce is a number? ohh dam... i mis-spelled that i guess.. i meant to say deuchebag ..or however thats written

the correct spelling is [censored], and fwiw i agree with your assesment completely =D


im sorry but i will never understand a persons want to use glitches that basically eliminate the need to actually play the game. for what its worth tho, how did you using the OI glitch help you get through a broken quest? did you just use it to level up a character on an old save or something? i mean i guess thats a "fix" but you do realize that using things like the OI glitch and restoration loop can severly corrupt your save files right? which will ultimately lead to more frustration and the eventual ruining of that character right?

i just wonder how many people start these threads saying "omg bethesda you svck you made a broken game" when in actuality it was their abuse of glitches and bugs that broke their own game.