Can you hire guards in hearthfire

Followers who can become StewardsEdit If a follower is in close proximity of the homestead, and they qualify for stewardship, they will initiate dialogue and remark that such a fine homestead needs a steward and will offer their services. Alternatively, a new dialogue option will appear for the follower while on the property if the follower qualifies for stewardship. A steward is an individual who offers his or her services in protecting and maintaining a homestead in The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire.

Contents [show] Choosing a stewardEdit Once a homestead includes a basic small house, the option to appoint a steward becomes available. These include the following: Housing improvementsEdit Stewards can arrange for several additions to be added to the homestead. A maximum of three can be bought. These include: Improvement Quantity Cost GoldIcon Clay 20 bricks 20 Quarried Stone 20 stone Sawn Logs 20 logs Furnishing the homesteadEdit Rather than buying materials and crafting all the furnishings in a homestead, a Steward will offer to deal with the whole process for a flat rate.

If this option is chosen, the furnishing won't appear instantly as they do when crafted, rather, each piece of furniture will appear over a period of many days. Crafting the nails, hinges, locks and iron fittings also raises the smithing skill. BugsEdit PC PS3 Purchasing furnishings from a steward will sometimes say "You can't afford that", even though enough gold is on hand. This can also occur when remodeling a small home into an entryway before hiring a steward at which time the furnishings for the entryway be won't be able to be bought.

There is no known fix for this bug yet. A way to fix this is to kill the cow then enter and exit the house so that the corpse disappears. This will bring back the option to buy the bard. Buy the bard before buying the cow again.

PC PS3 Purchasing furnishings from a steward will sometimes not work and the furnishings will not appear. Analysis of the game on , at Lakeview Manor: The rate that newly-purchased furnishings appear seems to be linked to the number of times the Homestead is loaded, and not the elapsed time in the game. Newly-purchased furnishings for the Bedroom add-on did not appear in the room while waiting even after waiting for 20 days , but fast-traveling between Riften and Lakeview Manor 20 times eventually loaded all of the furnishings.

How do you get the bard? I saw an option for my steward to hire one but I told her to do something else and now that option isn't there anymore. User Info: thekosmicfool part 2.

Yeah, the trick is to NOT hire your housecarl as the steward. The housecarl will hang around either way, but if you pick someone else to be the steward, they can defend the property as well. So it's like having 2 guards. Cover your knees up if you're gonna be walkin' around everywhere.

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User Info: -Salik-. User Info: 20ME2cmpnvet. Hire people as your steward. They will protect it most of the time. Also become Thane in that hold , so you get a housecarl and they will patrol around the house.

I made sure to get a combat capable wife too, but If you havent been around the house for a while. Bandits will kidnap your spouse while your gone.

I came home to my Steward fighting a bandit and they had a ransom note on them. User Info: charon78au. You can't hire guards, specifically. As mentioned, your housecarl, steward and spouse will be the only "defense" your home has. Best tip is to marry a follower not your housecarl for that house. Hire a follower to be your steward once again, not your housecarl for that house. Leave your housecarl as your housecarl.

You can use housecarls from other holds. For example, I had married Lydia, had Rayya as my housecarl and hired Iona to be steward. Leave a good weapon on each of them and visit home regularly, and you'll be fine.