New Webiste! New Blog!

Hello Everyone! 

Some of you may have noticed that this blog has not been update for a longtime. That is mainly due to me not getting around to updating it (LAZY!) and in part because I wanted to work on a fresh take to the blog. 

I can now reveal that I have a new website;  

>>> a new home for Alien Void<<<

Alien Void now lists my mods latest videos and has it's own separate blog space. So for anyone who is looking for a one stop place for my mods (all are linked to NEXUS MODS) and want to find out what is going on in my own little void so please check out the new website. 

This blog will no longer be updated but will be still be available. 

Lake View Manor - A Hearthfire Modlist.

Hello everyone,

I have picked a strange topic for this post but it is one that I have wanted to make for a long time. While there are many mods out there that add super forts or massive player homes to Skyrim, I have pretty much loved the Hearthfire locations. In particular the Lake View Manor house.

What it is about this area I do not know, but its my go to home every time. On top of this I like building my own home.

Now before we being you will see a lot of mods on here that are designed to enhance the Hearthfire experience at Lake View Manor. What you will NOT find are large, terrain altering "super mods". What I mean about a super mod is a mod that adds loads of stuff. I like to keep things simple, small so as better to have control over what I would like to get out of the game.

Also, I felt rather lonley out in the wilderness so I have included a "compliments" mod section which, amoung other things, includes two town mods which sit either side of the genral area that the house is built. It truly feels like you are a lord of the land!

As such the following list of mods are mods that I use to give me a greater control over the way my Lake View Manor looks and I hope that you will all enjoy it.

-MA-

 Modlist:

Essentials

Any mod listed here is what I class as essential for anyone using the Hearthfire DLC.

Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition PatchA comprehensive bugfixing mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition (Which includes Hearthfire)

Interior

The mods in this section change the interior of the house or add to it. 

Shezrie's Hearthfire Kitchens and Greenhouses

The kitchen mods place a kitchen in the small room behind the main hall in the Hearthfire houses. So now instead of using up the East Wing for a kitchen, you are free to use it as a Library or Armory and still have a working kitchen. The greenhouses put a greenhouse in the North Wing of Hearthfire's houses. So now you don't have to choose between a greenhouse and bedrooms.[NOTE: its is recommended that you do not build anything in the NORTH WING with this mod.]

 
 Hearthfire Attics
Adds attics to the Hearthfire homes.

Interactive Wash Basins For Hearthfire
This mod makes the wash basins in Hearthfire homes usable. Using the wash basins gets you clean which increases your health regeneration by 10% for 4 hours 

DLC Shrines for Hearthfire Homes
This mod adds 4 new buildable shrines in the cellar of all Hearthfire homes. You can now construct altars to Auriel, Azura, Boethiah, and Mephala using Hearthfire's build your own house system.  

Coffin Cubby.
A secret room for your coffin.
I personally use the Coffin Cubby - Lair : Adds a much larger room complete with coffin, candle, dining table, blood extraction area, and of course your own personal cattle! file.

Lakeview Manor Staff Enchanter
This mod adds the ability to craft a staff enchanter to Lakeview Manor.  It can be located on the second floor of the main hall.

Dragon Claw Stands.
A simple mod to provide display stands for your dragon claws.Not all houses can display every claw due to limited space. The Hearthfire houses split them up between the Main Hall and the basement 

Exterior

The mods in this section change the exterior of the house or add to it.

Lakeview Manor Upgrades  
A small simple mod that adds a wall that can be built, guards to patrol, some extra lighting. As well as the option to have the steward remove the Warlock Altar.

Lakeview Manor Fish Hatchery plus opt Mill
Adds a Fish Hatchery to Lakeview Manor in Falkreath. Same Hatchery as the one in Windstad Manor. [NOTE: I use only the Fish Hatchery as unfortunately the placement of the optional mill conflicts with other mods in this list.]
 
Hearthfire Balconies
I use ONLY the Arbor and Fountain setup. What you choose to use is up to you. 
 
 Larger Hearthfire Gardens.
Adds more planting spaces to existing Hearthfire gardens. [NOTE: See also "compliments" for More plants and recipes for Hearthfire mod that can be used with this one.]

Lakeview Manor Cellar Door
This is a simple mod that adds a trapdoor from the outside of Lakeview Manor leading straight to Lakeview Manor Cellar. 

 Lakeview Manor Road - Hearthfire
This mod adds a road from the lake just north of Hearthfire DLC's Lakeview Manor
[NOTE: Only use version 1.2. NOT 1.2b. IT will cause conflicts with other mods in this list]

Lakeview Manor Lights
Outdoor lighting for the Hearthfire Lakeview Manor home.

Lakeview Chairs
Adds two chairs. No really. Just two chairs. 

People

This section covers new NPC's added or old NPC's changed.

Hearthfire Black smith (Material Merchants)
Adds a smithing materials merchant to the three homesteads for Hearthfire. 

Dominions Hearthfire Stewards
Adds new NPCs who can become stewards for those that don't want to use the original companions.

In-House Materials Merchant for Hearthfire homesteads
your new home comes with a specialised Khajiit who deals exclusively in Hearthfire items.

Lakeview Manor Merchant - Haus Seeblick Haendler
Add a merchant in Lakeview Manor cellar.

General Merchant for Lakeview (in Pinewatch)
Antonius is a general merchant, who is also a fence, and he is in Pinewatch's exterior. You can find him sandboxing around the area. 

Materials

This section contains mods that make it easier to get access to Hearthfire materials such as clay, stone, glass and what not.

Hearthfire - Buy Ingots From Stewards
Allows you to have Iron and Corundum ingots delivered to your chest in batches of 20 and 10 respectively, by talking to your steward 
  
Hearthfire materials buy from Blacksmith
This mod adds the commen building materials to all Blacksmith merchants.The materials added: 100 Nails, 10 Locks, 20 Hinges and 20 Fittings.

Buy stone blocks and clay. Hearthfire.
Allows you to buy stone blocks and clay from merchants like Belethor.

Hearthfire is a part of skyrim 
Adds 4 ovens into the game. Every tavern now has the new items like milk, butter, breadloafs, pies and wine

Misc

Mods that affect Lakeview manor but don't fit in any other category.

Daily Eggs
This mod makes only chicken nests respawn daily (every 24 hours).

Lakeview Manor Horse Relocation
sets your horse to spawn on the right side of the stable if you fast-travel to Lakeview Manor. 


Simple Cow and Goat Milking
This mod adds the ability for you to walk up, activate a cow or goat, and watch a brief animation before you receive a jug of milk

Workable Churns
Allows you to use the Hearthfire churn at any time if you have a jug of milk to spare. No more waiting for respawns! Now, 1 jug of milk can be converted into 1 bowl of butter. Complete with immersive messages such as "You've made butter." and clanking sounds.
  

Compliments 

These mods while not actual Lake View Manor mods compliment Lakeview manor.

More plants and recipes for Hearthfire including Dawnguard and Dragonborn plants
As the name suggests allows for the planting of more plants.

Return Home - Teleport Spells - With Optional Hearthfire Support
This mod will add a spell tome to each of the 5 houses you can purchase throughout Skyrim. Using this tome will teach you a spell called Return To "Home Name" that will teleport you back to that particular house.The Hearthfire version contains everything from the normal version but also books for the Hearthfire houses

Places: Oakwood -Hearthfire Edition-
Oakwood is a small hamlet in Falkreath hold on the road between Falkreath and Riverwood. It sits on beside the lake that Lakeview manor gets built on!
 
Town of Pinewatch (Near Lakeview Manor)
This mod adds a fully navmeshed village around Pinewatch with NPCs that have their own lives and schedules! Does not move Pinewatch. 

 

Winterhold Bridge Repaired.

Hello internet!

I released another mod today: Winterhold Bridge Repaired.

If like me you got tired of the broken bridge at Winterhold then this is the mod for you. I have seen various mods over the years that have fixed this, most are bundled in larger overhaul mods some others just didn't do it to the scale that I wanted to do it.

While not perfect, it does the job that I want it to do.

Gameboy Modding - Pokemon, Charizard.

Hello everyone,

I know this is blog for Morrowind and Skyrim modding but I wanted to share my latest creation with you. Its a mod for a gameboy. A real life mod!

Many of you may have seen that video of the artist Oskunk painting his with a picture of Charizard. If you havnt I suggest you check it out. Its a really good bit of work.

I thought to myself - how the hell did he do that? After some research I decided to give it a go myself. I mean what could go wrong, right?

Getting an old broken gameboy (£10 thank you ebay!) I used some citidel paint; the stuff they use on warhammer figures and painted it red. I got my hands on the pens that Oskunk uses and well started work on my own version. Below is the end product as well as some snaps of my progress throughout the experience.

I had a fund time doing this and I learned a lot!

-MA-


This is the end product (scroll down for more pics.)

 

Dragonborn DLC is a part of Skyrim

 Hello everyone!

Having been away from the modding scene for a while I decided to tinker in Skyrims Creation Kit (dont worry Morrowind fans I am still modding Morrowind!).  This is the end result of trying to make the Dragonborn DLC more immersive to Skyrim.

As with any expansion by Bethesda they always seem to make it the new content seem so isolated and distant. They did this for Bloodmoon with Morrowind and again with shivering isles for Oblivion. Its a trend
that has carried accross to the Dragonborn DLC and it really bothers me how distant it seems.

This mod attempts to integrate the Dragonborn DLC into Skyrim by taking some of the new content and making them available in Skyrim.

Npc's will sell items from the Dragonbron DLC. I have tried to keep it to a minimum so as not to wreck immersion and to at least save some surprises for visiting soslthiem.
The main features of this mod is to bring the staff crafting system to Skyrim, and many of the court wizards/college mages sell heartstones and unenchanted staffs as well asproviding the services to enchant them.
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Here is a detailed list of what has been added to Skyrim:
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Brand-She - the dark elf in Riften will now sell a handful of items from Morrowind. These include books, clothing and some ingredients.

Revyn Sadri in Windhelm has a chance to sell common and uncommon books from Morrowind/Solsthiem along with select parts of Chitin and bonemold armor (no complete sets) alongside
netch leather and Chitin plate to craft them with.

New Gnisis Corner club in windhelm has a chance to sell ash yams and Morrowind Bevrages.

Spell tomes for Bound dagger, poison rune and frenzy rune have been added to spell tome levelled lists and thus have a chance of appearing for sale by court wizards, college mages and turning up in loot.

Heartstones can be brought from court wizards and the College Mages of Winterhold.

Heartstones also have a chance of appearing in Warlock loot. This is an extremly low chance though.

Unenchanted staves can be brought from the College of Winterhold mages. Its done by class so for example an unenchanted Destruction staff can be brought from Faralda who is the destruction mage.

Unenchanted staves can also be brought from the court wizards. Each court wizard sells only one type. That is as follows:

 - Wuunferth (Windhelm) Illusion
 - Sybille (Solitude) Destruction
 - Madena (dawnstar) Conjuration
 - Wylandriah (Riften) Restoration
 - Calcelmo (Markarth) Alteration
 - Farenfar (whiterun) Destruction

Staff Enchanters can be found the rooms of all Court wizards mentioned above.

The beverage Flin has been added to the ruraldrinks levelled list used by innkeepers.

Boar tusks have been added to Apothecary Uncommon levelled list

Wild Boar have been added to the Forest and plains levelled list so you can encounter them in the wild.

The Fine clothes added by Dragonborn (fine clothes and fine boots) have been added to clothing levelled lists so will apear in loot and for sale.

Urag gro-shub (winterhold) will have a chance to sell Dragonborn books from the common and uncommon lists.


overall the mod adds Dragonborn loot to Skyrim.

Drow mask with ears

I didnt like how the mask look almost identicle to my Dragon priest masks so I modified it some what and added some ears.

Drow Helm and Masks

Been working on some more retextures and decided on something darker. I am a huge fan of the drow and so decided to make some drow-inspired helms/masks. Take a look (Click picture to enlarge)

Updated on the Drow Bows

Drow bows are nearing a release!


I have four bows done (no more than that!) - 2 distinct models. 



Learnt alot about texturing when making these, alot about UV maps and high res texutres/layers so I am quite proud of them.

Nest new

tweaked the mesh, added some sticks and more "straw"

fence update

Tweaked the mesh to get rid of a strange shaddow in the center of the sticks. 

The textures in the first pick are using a texture replacer from my game as they use a deafult texture from Morrowind. So it will be effected by texture packs.

The last picture is the fence using just a standard wood texture from morrowind. 

Skyrim Cloth Armor

Still going through old files on my External Hardrive and found this lost little bit of armor. A bit from the readme:

"The Armor was based on some concept art for the Home of the Nords. I made it a year or so ago and meant to give it to the SHoTN team but it was lost in a HD crash. I recently found a back up on my external hard drive."

So rather than hit the delete button I thought to share this lost file with you all.


It is a modders resource which means that you can use it in your mods if you want :D Cause I am nice like that.


You can download it here: Click Me