[RELz] Helarchen Creek

[Arthmoor]

A village in the mountains southeast of the city of Dawnstar.

Tamriel has had many villages on maps for as far back as anyone can remember. What happened to them all? Nobody really knows. This mod is simply my take on bringing one back from Elder Scrolls: Arena. Helarchen Creek was a small village in the game somewhere in the mountains near Dawnstar. Originally it appears as though Bethesda planned to put this around the Nightgate Inn, but then changed the name on that and cut the content. Some further research using old Arena maps placed the village further north anyway, so here it is.

* Two of the NPCs can be married and will optionally share their homes with you.
* All added houses are radiant quest enabled, so you may get Companions missions and anything else that's properly configured to use NPC homes for quests.

Download Locations

AFK Mods
Bethesda.net - PC + XB1

Installation Requirements

Skyrim Special Edition 1.6.1130 or greater.
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch 4.3.2 or greater.

DO NOT extract the contents of the BSA file into your Data folder as loose files, or let your mod manager perform an equivalent function on the contents of the file. Doing so will cause things to load in the wrong order and break the game. Skyrim is intended to load a BSA alongside it's ESM/ESP file. Circumventing this causes issues which I will not provide support for. If you insist on going against this advice, you will receive no support for the problems you generate as a result of this.

Installation - Wrye Bash BAIN
 
Drop the archive into your Skyrim Special Edition Mods\Bash Installers folder, then install as usual.
Make sure the mod is active in the Wrye Bash mods tab.

Installation - Manual

Drop the Helarchen Creek.esp, Helarchen Creek.bsa, and Helarchen Creek - Textures.bsa files into your Data folder.
Activate the mod using whatever management tool suits you.

Uninstalling

Due to the nature of Skyrim mods, especially those adding scripts, it is strongly discouraged to attempt uninstalling a mod from your active game. Any mod that is more than pure mesh or texture replacements has the possibility to leave behind permanent changes to your save that you may not want. This is not something modders can correct for. It is how the game was designed by Bethesda. No support will be provided for anyone who uninstalls this mod from an active game and continues on with that save.

To remove the mod: Delete the Helarchen Creek.esp, Helarchen Creek.bsa, and Helarchen Creek - Textures.bsa from your Data folder. Then reload your game as usual.

Load Order

LOOT should be used for optimal placement.

Disclaimer

This mod is not made, guaranteed, or supported by Microsoft, Zenimax, Bethesda Game Studios, or any of their affiliates.

[ejnomad07]

Your name in the mod description please! If it wasn't for me checking this forum I would have never found it via searching on console. Or pick a crazy word insert it in your mod descriptions and tell us to search by it. Thanks for yet again another great lore friendly mod.

[Tanker1985]

You can track an author on nexusmods.com. Click on their name on a mod page to go to their profile, then click on "track author." You will get a notification on the site whenever they upload something. You can then go look for it on Bethesda.net.

[ejnomad07]

Sure but it's easier if he just sticks his name in the description and not all console players know or have the smarts to get on computers and use another 3rd party site to hunt down an authors mods. They just use the Bethesda search feature. It is not an unreasonable request. I have seen plenty of console mods tell people to search a keyword to find all their other mods.

[thefirebirdman]

Arthmoor, I downloaded this as soon as it was out and its been in my core load order ever since. Just wondering, I have been to the two several times during test runs of other mods. No one in the town has any real dialog options other than the woman in the store. I can ask her what she has for sale and that's it. All other NPCs just respond with one of a few standard vanilla responses if I try to talk to them. I know you mentioned one or two are marriageable. I haven't tried that yet nor have I done the quest requirements to be able to yet. Just wondering if the limited dialog I have experienced should be expected. For example, the man running the Smith doesn't give any options to buy anything etc...

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.1

Fixed faction settings for the blacksmith so his shop would be functional.

[Dhaylen]

Version 2.0.1Fixed faction settings for the blacksmith so his shop would be functional.

The update deleted my file within the mods menu. Went to redownload and gave error.

Then looked in file location and only a .bsa file - now, manually deleted

Hope it helps

[Arthmoor]

On what platform, and downloaded from where?

[Dhaylen]

On what platform, and downloaded from where?

PC - Bethesda.net in-game mod downloader.

To fix this, I deleted the .bsa file left over - and then it downloaded.

[thefirebirdman]

Version 2.0.1

Fixed faction settings for the blacksmith so his shop would be functional.

Nice update!! Thanks, esp given the holidays around the corner. So was my experience expected then? I mean was it just that you were planning on adding more dialog/functionality to the NPCs?

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.2

Generated LOD for the village.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.3

Added a smelter at the blacksmith and extended his AI radius so he'll use it on occasion.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.4

Navmesh cleaning with new versions of xEdit.

[Leonardo]

On 4/14/2018 at 11:23 PM, Arthmoor said:

Version 2.0.3

Added a smelter at the blacksmith and extended his AI radius so he'll use it on occasion.

That's great.  Thanks for adding a smelter there.

1 hour ago, Arthmoor said:

Version 2.0.4

Navmesh cleaning with new versions of xEdit.

Thanks for the update mate.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.5

Fixed a bug with the investment option at the apothecary shop.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.6

Added exterior lighting.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.7

Shopkeeper investment dialogue is not checking the proper gold amount. This is a fix being applied which is detailed in USSEP Bug #29335.
USSEP 4.2.3 or greater is now a requirement for this mod.
 

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.8

Added the investor perks for the shops to the formlist used by USSEP to clean up perk resets when reading Black Book: Waking Dreams.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.9

Updated USSEP synchronization.

[Arthmoor]

Version 2.0.10

The .esp and .bsa files have been changed to lowercase filenames. This is to help facilitate universal filename compatibility for Steam Deck and regular linux users whose file systems are case sensitive. Many of them make use of the in-game menu to download mods and Bethesda.net ALWAYS downloads in lowercase. For the benefit of people using linux or the Steam Deck, it would be greatly appreciated if any mods which currently use this mod as a file dependency change the case of that dependency in their master lists. (Bug #34096)

[wewewi]

This town could really use some extra love, starting with an actual namesake creek (or at least one of those streams coming out of the cliff) possibly going into a small pond, possibly with a few cool fishes and a few cool bugs around/over it. And then the alchemist could have some homegrown stuff nearby. Assuming this would be mostly a trapper village, some basic equipment like a tanning rack and whatnot would also make a lot of sense. Last but not least, a few lanterns would go a long way at night.

I love your town expansions/restorations the most because your never go overboard with fluff all over the place like JKs, (even got your Morthal expansion on PC) but this one could actually use some; it is a bit dry. Telengard, Keld-Nar and Granite Hill have much more character and look more lived in.

Keep it up and thanks for all the hard work!