Greenmount Gardens
Description
A reasonably spacious player home and farm on the road between the Guardian Stones and Riverwood.
This was originally just somewhere to try ideas (evil experiments) while learning the basics of CK and for messing about with some farming / survival mods. Soon I needed a home for myself, Vilja, a dog and a growing group of followers and children. Hence the creation of Greenmount Gardens.
Note: This is my own personal play space. It is provided as is and may never be complete or perfect. I feel this is now as compete as it will ever be. There is more that I'd like to do. But, I do not have the time. It's been a fun and interesting journey over the last several years.
Features
Indoors
4 Residents who can become companions
A Bard/companion, who performs each evening
Alchemy/Enchanting area with custom bookcases and storage
Cooking area with oven and working churn.
Many custom containers for ingredients, potions, food and drink.
Many safe storage barrels (Light brown ones) Some re-spawning barrels (Grey ones)
Plenty of room for companions and pets
Separate Main bedroom with double bed
Bedroom space for up to 6 adopted children (HF vers)
Bedrooms with beds for up to 10 companions/guests
Bathing area with auto undress/redress (Not quite perfect yet. Still working on it...)
Small armory with mannequins, weapon/shield plaques and racks. (For those of us who collect rare weapons and armors) Can now place daggers on the tables in the armory
A configuration room, allowing the player to toggle various features
Some interactive, mounted, animal heads
Outdoors
2 New patrol guards/companions (Old friends of Ulf)
Alchemy garden with 28 Hearthfires planters
Lots of landscape and garden work
A quiet fishing spot
Quiet places to just sit and relax
Crafting area
Smelter (behind Ulf's cottage)
Party area for locals to relax on weekends
Small pond with fish and fed by a spring
Cows, goats and chickens
Vegetable garden
Jethro, the horse
A pair of guard bunnies
NPC's, horse and bunnies have their own routines in and around Riverwood
Horse and bunnies return to the stables at night and when it's raining
Many Riverwood residents visit the gardens at various times (I have seen Dorthe and Frodnar join in games with adopted children)
Many custom containers for ores, ingots etc.
Some safe storage barrels (Light colored ones) Some re-spawning barrels (Grey ones)
And lot's more landscape work..
Configuration
The following features can be toggled at any time, to suit yourself The controls are located in the gallery, via the armory
Individual NPC's
Shirene's bard ability
Smelter area
Vegetable garden
Alchemy Garden
Extra trees
Extra plants
Companions bedroom (3 beds)
Children's bedroom (3 beds)
Extended childrens bedroom (3 beds)
3 Mannequins in the main hall (armory is untouched)
Notes:
Mannequins and NPC's are teleported to a holding cell. This way their inventories will stay intact.
If an NPC is a follower, you can call them back from the holding cell. (Tested with Follower Mod)
Mannequins will unequip their armour when re-enabled and generally face the wrong direction. To reset them, just go to an outside cell and return, or manually add/remove something from them.
If you toggle the children's beds, please remember to recast "Bless Home" spell. That will allow "Hearthfires Multiple Adoptions" to sense how many beds are available.
In my testing, the containers in the smelter area have kept their contents, even after being toggled several times. If you don't trust them, just stash your loot elsewhere before disabling them.
Please remember to pick and clear all plants from the Hearthfires planters before toggling them. Otherwise there will be a lot of floating plants in the Alchemy garden.
Have added 3 custom bookcases. I've tried hard to get an "everyday used" feel with them. Some are angled so the havok will lay them in the correct direction. If the books don't fall correctly, just activate the bookcase and exit. DO NOT remove books without activating the book case. The counters mess up and books tend to disappear into the realms of Oblivion. This causes Urag to get quite upset.
Residents
Elissa Bow, 1H weapons. Light armor
Ulf Bow, 1H weapons and light armor
Aeridi Conjuration, Necromancy, 1H weapons. Any armor
Jenlling Any weapon or armor
Bella Conjuration, Shock and 1H weapon. Light armor.
Hlenthis 2H weapons. Light armor.
Shirene Restoration, Destruction and 1H weapon. Light armor. (Will try to keep the team's health up)
Residents are essential and can be wed.
Female residents are now standalone and their appearance shouldn't be affected by other mods.
Male residents heads are now standalone, but their body type will be whatever you have installed.
Please be gentle, as I've never tried making one before. Or 7 of them, as is the case here. (They are the best I can do, with my limited knowledge of the process...)
Female Body Types
Female body type is UNPetite by Nightasy and textures are SG Female Textures Renewal by Hello Santa This body, by default, is NSFW.
I am checking permissions and adding UNP, CBBE bodies where I can. There will be SFW and NSFW versions available.
SFW (safe for work) = No nudity. Wears bikini or underwear.
NSFW (not safe for work) = Full nudity.
Body Height and Weight
If you wish to change either of these, select the NPC in the console and use the following commands in this order... DO NOT click on anything else while doing this.
setnpcweight x (where x=0 to 100)
setscale y (where y<1 for smaller, y>1 for taller)
disable
enable (This will reset the ugly potato head)
Bugs / Conflicts
Any mod that changes the following may conflict.
Area between the Riverwood guards camp and Embershard Mine rear entrance. [Main residence/landscaping]
Area next to the large waterfalls downstream of Riverwood. Where the wolves attack. [X/Idle Markers]
Area around the Guardian Stones [X/Idle Markers]
Area between Riverwood sawmill and workbench. [X/Idle Markers]
Area near Alvor's forge. [X/Idle Markers]
Interior of Riverwood Trader [X/Idle Markers]
Interior of Sleeping Giant Inn. [X/Idle Markers]
AI packages for Alvor, Sigrid, Hod, Gerdur, Faendal, Hilde (Base AI is unchanged, but have added packages to allow interactions with GMG)
Beautification of the above NPC's. Load these AFTER GMG (Even though I've only edited AI packages, CK also adds other data as well)
Towns and Villages Enhanced - Riverwood by Aplestormy Load BEFORE Greenmount Gardens and manually disable any trees that are in the wrong place.
Hunters Cabin of Riverwood by Okiir Major coverlap.
Hunters Cabin Of Riverwood V2 by Crack23 Major overlap
The following should be loaded BEFORE GMG
JK Skyrim
JK Riverwood
Riverwood Enhanced
Riverwood Reborn Gold
SE - Water seams
Skyrim SE has some issues with mismatched water types / flows. Personally, I find it rather annoying and immersion breaking to see the water in neighboring cells to be flowing in different directions.
This fix works for me.
1. Install Automation Tools for TES5Edit by Mator
2. Install Water Fix Script by azzendix , following the instructions provided there. This script will adjust all the water types and will add masters to ones mods.
Permissions
✔️ Yes ❌ No ✋Ask Permission
Do translate, edit, redecorate, etc and release your own vision of this mod with credits given on mod page, read me etc
Do use, edit modify and improve my scripts with credits given on mod page, read me etc
Do add a link back to my mod and let me know, so I can add a link to your mod. (We both benefit.)
Do keep it free for others to use, edit and learn from. (Everyone benefits.)
Please think kindly of me on occasion...
Do not use for paid mods.
Do not convert to other games/platforms.
Do not post my mods elsewhere.
Do not charge money for my hard work or put behind a paywall.
Do not add to mod packs without my permission
Credits
Some of these resources I've used. Some, I have gotten ideas and inspiration from. A big thank you to all for the resources kindly shared, that we may all use, modify and learn from. (If I've forgotten anybody or misinterpreted permissions, please PM me so I can rectify it.)
General Stuff
CP Apple Trees by chaospearl https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25793/?
Harvestables by ChickenDownUnder https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15108/?
Alchemy Clutter Resource by Blary
ApplesAlmighty for his cinematic of GMG0010.
Bathing Suit in a pool Script and files by Jet4571 For the scripts kindly shared, that we may all use, modify and learn from.
Ac3s and subtanker for writing this tutorial
Displays - Dragon Claw and others by Lazz
Elianora's Extra Resources by Elianora Ennead
Banners by Studio Kasumi
Flag Banner by GreyFox77
Flower brushes created by Obsidian Dawn
General Displays by Tueffel
Ingredients Wall Art Resource by Blary
Markarth City Banner Retexture by Sydzilla
Modder Display Compendium - Custom Displays for the Collectible Items found in Skyrim by MrDanSG1
Modder's Resource Pack by Oaristys and Tony67
Mystery Quest font designed by Dave 'Squid' Cohen of Sideshow (Font Diner)
New Plants V 1.3 by Tamira Yughues aka Nobiax for creating almost all of the original models and textures
Birdy for creating the decidious tree mesh.
No Moving Banners Indoors by steveowashere
OpenBooks Resource by Blary
Paintings and Frames by Artisanix
Painting resource for mods by jet4571
Phitt's Morrowind Style Lanterns by Phitt and Tamira
Strotis Outdoor Toilet Resource for Skyrim by Stroti. Converted by Tamira This is a conversion of Stroti's Outdoor Toilet Resource, originally published for Oblivion. You can find the original resource files here.
Teddybears 1.1 by Tamira and Arion Original model of the teddy: Abitor
NPCs
Skyla and Skyrim Romance for their great and easy to follow videos They saved me from spending hours pulling things apart to see how they work.
Alt Navetsea UNP Seamless by Alt3rn1ty
Better Females by Bella by BellaGail
Better Hand Mesh for UNP UNPB UNPC by MrTroubleMaker
Better males - Beautiful nudes and faces - New hairstyles by Chris57 and FavoredSoul
FemFeet by Phygit
High Res Face Maps for Men by Geonox by Geonox
KS Hairdos - Renewal by Kalilies Stealthic Khaos and Shocky Radioragae's
Younger male face project by Radioragae
SG Female Eyebrows by Hello Santa
SG Female Textures Renewal by Hello Santa
Smile in HD by zzjay
The Eyes Of Beauty by Gabriel Mailhot as LogRaam
UNPetite by Nightasy XP32
Maximum Skeleton Extended - XPMSE by Groovtama
Febrith Darkstar
Jellybean Gaming
Kriemen
ApplesAlmighty
The very first version of GMG
LE - Adoption Compatible
Hearthfires DLC
Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions
by TM Pheonix, if you want children
Body Replacers
Select one and load AFTER GMG
LE - CBBE SFW
LE - CBBE NSFW
SE - CBBE SFW
SE - CBBE NSFW
Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Edition -CBBE-
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2666
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/198
LE - UNP SFW
LE - UNP NSFW
SE - UNP SFW
SE - UNP NSFW
Dimonized UNP Female Body
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6709
UNP Female Body Renewal
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1699