Hey guys, first time posting here. I finally saved up enough gold to buy a house in solitude and all the upgrades (I know its overrated but why not?) and I was utterly horrfied when I found that none of the bloody weapon racks or displays worked. Its bad enough that I can't decorate the house with the teasures from my adventures the old way like in Fallout as whenever I reload the house everything is on the floor but now I can't even use the display racks? What was the point in buying the house anyway? I could have just bought the breezehome in whiterun and could have dumped everything in a chest.

I know this is not intentional but its still very annoying, plus nothing about it has been mentioned in the 1.2 update despite this being a pretty bad glitch. I doubt they will fix the items randomly going everywhere when you try to drag them places but I would at least like to see this fixed.

Since I doubt I am the only one can anyone tell me a quick fix? Or am I stuck until behesda patches it?

I can confirm that this is happening to me too. But at my house in Whiterun. I am unable to place anything on the rack. Their is no indicator that pops up to give me an option to place it. Hopefully it's fixed soon.

I haven't heard of a fix, but try this:

Go back to a save before you purchased the house . . . If you REALLY want to try and get it to work.

Do the quests for the steward, so you can buy the manor, but do not buy it yet. Do the quest for Elisif so that she opens up the possibility to become thane of Solitude.

Help 5 people out etc, make sure the quest (under Miscellaneous) disappears, then talk to Falk, and purchase the house, but do not buy upgrades.

Then talk to Elisif, she makes you Thane and issues you with housecarl, then talk to Falk and buy all the upgrades at once.

I did it this way, all the racks/plaques/mannequins work fine, except the weapon rack in the basemant can only hold 3 weapons even though it has 5 spaces.

Make sure you don't enter the house until you've bought all the upgrades.

Hope this helps!

Buy all the upgrades before entering the house. You don't have to be a Thane either.

I'm almost positive that this is happening to all Xbox users. There are quite a few housing glitches, the ones I've seen are:

• Weapons disappearing into the walls when trying to mount them.
  
• Mannequins occasionally glitch and move around my house (Solitude)
  
• Mannequins require a mini-loading screen to load the armor they're wearing. This might not be a bug but it should be in the loading screen when you first enter your house.
  
• Items almost never stay where you put them. Putting a unique item on a table or stand results in it on the floor or gone.
  
• Weapon racks do not utilize all the space they have. Solitude's weapon rack has 2 empty spaces, Markarth has 1.
  
• Katanas (Blades swords and the Ebony blade) cannot be mounted on weapon racks. They fall off whenever you leave and come back.
  
• Certain maces and staves have a huge amount of difficulty being mounted on a weapon plaque. They will float in mid-air or be stuck halfway in the wall.

So far, this is all I've noticed but there are quite a few glitches in houses that definitely prevent you from decorating and customizing your house. It is not a big deal to me, personally, but it is something that would be greatly appreciated if fixed.

One thing I've done is reloaded a save before I first entered the house and my mannequins stopped moving and the plaques stopped rejecting my weapons, but the rest still happen just as often as before and the plaques can make you lose items.

The only house I have is the one in Whiterun, and all the weapon racks - save the one above my bed - don't give me the option to interact with them. Is there any confirmation that Bethesda is going to address this, or are we just pissing in the wind here?

Wow I just assumed the weapon racks couldnt be used at all. So I am also having this issue

Having the same problem in both my house in riften and in windhelm. manequins are working, put weapon racks and plaques are all non functional.

Paleez Bethesda, fix this in the patch... it's not listed in the notes, but I still pray

The weapon racks in the houses in whiterun and Solitude do not work* Mannequins move and glitch out of place upon entering any house. Objects you place in the home sometimes explode all over the house like the outcome of an orc college party, lol. I will not be purchasing any DLC until these and other glitches are fixed.

Yeah, my weapon racks still don't work as well.

Same it is kind of bugging me, but I know a patch will come out soon enough .

Lol

Really annoying, I am one of those people who really dives into the role-playing piece of this game, so I really want these damn weapon plaques, bookcases, shield plaques, weapon racks, and house quests to work properly. Dammit Bethesda, just fix this stupid bug. Very rarely do any of the items I have listed above work.

I assumed that this was one thing that was going to be fixed in the latest patch. From all the problems that the patch seems to be having, we're lucky the weapon racks don't set our houses on fire when we walk by them or spew poison at us.

1.2 i go in house at whiterun i click on weapon rack it puts my axe on the rack. go out the house and back in, axe is still on rack and i pick it up like normal.

i just got house in riften but dont have upgrades yet on house to test.

Possible fix for weapon racks (works for me, anyway): If you buy a house, do not enter it until you've purchased all of your house upgrades. Or at least, the upgrades that you know will have weapon racks (so you can ignore porches and gardens).

I tested this with three homes. From what I can tell, it seems that entering your home for the first time seems to set up some permanent conditions, and if you have no upgrades purchased at that point, then a weapon rack added to the home after the fact isn't going to work for you. However, if you buy the home upgrades before setting foot in the house, then once you get inside, your weapon racks should be accessible. For those of you who have a home where some weapon racks work while others do not, it probably means you entered the home for the first time after buying one or more upgrades but not all of them (specifically, not the upgrade for the area where your weapon rack is non-functional).

Edit: Whoops, I see Xaxus already covered this more succinctly a few posts above.

this is fine, except for the house in windhelm. you HAVE to enter it to complete a quest. that and my wife bought breezehome and all the upgrades all at once, and she still can't use the weapons racks. hopefully they correct this soon

Shouldn't have to do that...they need to fix the weapon racks in Windhelm as well also i have a dresser that appeared inside my bookshelf there?

Yeah, extremely PO-ed about the Windhelm house right now... You HAVE to go inside BEFORE it allows you to buy upgrades... I think that fix is bogus because I bought Honeyside in Riften and all the upgrades before I went inside and the weapon racks still don't work.
The mannequins work fine but none of the display racks or plaques work.

Same here, right from the start I couldn't click on it so I thought it was just for show. I've had the game for about 2 weeks and only just found out from a friend at the weekend that you can put stuff on them.