LE Dawnstar and Winterhold - Holds: The City Overhaul/Great City Series and ClefJ/JK Possible Patch

[StevieTurtle37]

I use essentialy a different city mod for every city I play with. I don't think any one mod author has made a series of city and town overhauls that are the best for each respective locale. For example, Holds: Falkreath is one of the best city overhauls of all time but Holds: Dawnstar is hideous in my opinion. So here's my dilema. Each mod I've picked for the minor capitals (Morthal, Falkreath, Dawnstar, and Winterhold) really needs to meet one critera: Make the Jarl's residence unique. Morthal, I wasn't worried about because I think the vanilla longhouse fits Highmoon Hall just fine. I'm using Holds for Falkreath for obvious reasons (It's incredible) but I have an issue with Dawnstar and Winterhold.

 

For Dawnstar, I'm torn between two mods: ClefJ's Dawnstar and Great City of Dawnstar. ClefJ's new textures stray too far from vanilla and not enough of the layout is changed for me to use his mod. Great City of Dawnstar's new walls and class divisions with the central wall add just what I want to Dawnstar. But here's the issue. Great City's White Hall doesn't look very nice from the outside, and the interior layout isn't great either. So, in similar terms- I think the White Hall provided isn't anything to write home about. However, ClefJ's Viking-style longhouse is unique, fits the location and theme extremly well, and the interior is perfect as well. So here's my first mod request: Make a patch for Great City of Dawnstar that replaces the White Hall with the longhouse from ClefJ's Dawnstar. Don't change the exterior or interior of the longhouse, just delete the Great City one and put this one in its place.

 

For Winterhold, I used JK's Winterhold because the ruins spilling off the edge of the ice was not only stunning- it allowed a fun way to go down the mountain. However, everything else was pretty close to vanilla. I liked Great City of Winterhold- but the Jarl's longhouse was not great on the outside so I went with Holds: Winterhold. I liked the new building style and the new castle for the Jarl, but the ruins are pretty rubbish. So here's my second request: replace ALL the ruins present in Holds with the ruins from JK's Winterhold- including those spilling over the edge.

 

These requests, I think combine the best of both worlds. The good longhouse with the good layout for Dawnstar. The good ruins with the good buildings for Winterhold. If this is anything anyone could tackle, I'd be so happy. Just remember, for Winterhold, Holds: Winterhold file from the modular install would be what you'd use. DO NOT USE THE COMPLETE HOLDS OVERHAUL FILE BECAUSE THEN I CANT USE IT. USE MODULAR.