I had a house in Windhelm, inside was a chest with all my "good" loot (dragon priest masks, armour sets, daedric items, gold (over 200k) ), its been sat there happily since I bought the place. I've bought the land in falkreath in the Hearthfire expansion, built a big house with trophy room, library, 2 adopted children and the wife moved from Windhelm to live there. I then bought the other 2 plots of land, both of which currently have the small house on them. I'd collected a few more bits on my travels such as miraaks mask and weapon set and was nearing my carrying capacity so I went to Windhelm to deposit it with the rest.........

........ only there's NOTHING there!!! Not even the bloody chest it was stored in????!!! Anyone had this happen or know how to get it back?

I guessed as we'd moved house it could have transported to my new place in falkreath but its not there or at either of my other homes?


Can someone help?

Windhelm is the Hjerim house right?

This could be the 'you lose the chest because of the bed bug' ? I think there is a collision that can happen between that chest and the bed, and sometimes the chest disappears.

I don't know of any fix for this.

Stupid bugs!

Well GStaff or anyone care to try and help?

Reload an earlier save, normally the container in front of the bed doesn't even show up, and as you found when it does its not a good container to put stuff in. Only PC players can fix the problem.

So in short your boned.

Lol,it's not the chest from the end of the bed upstairs. It's the chest as soon as you walk in the house door it's on the left hand wall right next to a shelf unit. Everything was safe in there until I built the houses required for the architect trophy.

Normally I wouldn't care as I've stuff stashed all over, but this chest had all my dragon priest masks, daedric items, armour sets (nightingale, thrives guild etc) plus other unique items

Well most of us who brought and furnished the house would not have a chest there anyway, it was removed when the house was cleaned. So it was probably a really bad idea to use it for anything, since it was a glitch in the first place. If you have Hearthfire, you could put the children's room in and see if you get your stuff back with that chest. Just make sure to take everything out of the wardrobe near the secret entrance, or you will lose all that as well.

If that does not work, you would have to go to a previous save.

I knew it! Hjerim IS haunted! s1 call them ghostbusters now

ok ok just kidding, and yea, that chest wasnt even supposed to be there, and i highly doubt youre getting your stuff back, you can try aussies idea, and hope itll work out, but dont hold your breath for it

I'd check the other chests in the house you may have forgotten exactly which one you put stuff in. I've done that a couple of times. I thought I put a bunch of items in such and such a place but had forgotten that I'd moved them. (or that I reloaded to an an earlier save before I moved said items to chest X).

No I've not forgotten which chest, it simply isn't there anymore

And are you able to get the children's bedroom? A chest comes with that and it will often use what is already available, so it could be your missing chest the extra area uses. Otherwise there is no way to get it back, it should not have been there in the first place.

I believe he said he was storing it in a container near the front door. It shouldn't be effected by the child's bedroom. Now if he'd been using the wardrobe near the back end of the first floor that be something.

I am referring to his only chance to get the chest he lost back, it was perfectly obvious he lost the chest that was originally in the home before we brought it. He already has the chest at the end of the bed, so if another chest is added, why would it not use the one just recently removed? It could return with all the stuff it had in it.

Because they're entirely different chests why would they use the same container code. There isn't a limit to the number of containers in the game.

If you buy the Breezehome childrens room, the chest that was on top of the bookshelf remains in the room, contents and all. Why would it not reuse what was there till recently. It is worth a try assuming hastings69 actually had Hearthfire installed. Unless you actually have a better suggestion?