autumnsky38 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Hi everyone. I'm replaying Skyrim again, and for some reason this time I can't seem to get the College of Winterhold quests working properly. I finished the Under Saarthal part, went back to talk to the Arch Mage, but then the game doesn't move onto the next quest "Hitting the Books". The Archmage does tell me that I have to talk to Urag in the Arcaneum, but there is no option about Saarthal or what we've found, just the regular topics like "books for sale?" or "your collection is impressive", etc. etc. I tried using the console after getting the codes from the Wiki, but absolutely nothing happened. I've never had that happen before when you can't at least get some response in the console for a quest, so I'm at a loss as to what to do next. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate them. Just the fact that I can't do this quest again is driving me crazy, making me want to do it all that much more! LOL Thanks so much,Tracy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow56 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Hi everyone. I'm replaying Skyrim again, and for some reason this time I can't seem to get the College of Winterhold quests working properly. I finished the Under Saarthal part, went back to talk to the Arch Mage, but then the game doesn't move onto the next quest "Hitting the Books". The Archmage does tell me that I have to talk to Urag in the Arcaneum, but there is no option about Saarthal or what we've found, just the regular topics like "books for sale?" or "your collection is impressive", etc. etc. I tried using the console after getting the codes from the Wiki, but absolutely nothing happened. I've never had that happen before when you can't at least get some response in the console for a quest, so I'm at a loss as to what to do next. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate them. Just the fact that I can't do this quest again is driving me crazy, making me want to do it all that much more! LOL Thanks so much,Tracy :) After getting just the regular topics from Uraq tab out of the conversation and then select him again and see if the topic for Hitting the Books shows up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlcr Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 baddxian, there was a recent thread about this issue here:http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/724946-hitting-the-books-quest-bug/page__hl__hitting+booksi think a few of them are looking for solutions also. shadow56 is right, i remember getting Hitting the Books to kick off after the Under Saarthal quest by constantly engaging Mirabelle Ervine and Urag gro-Shub in conversation several times selecting all their dialog options. also, i think this quest might be glitching because of possible issues with Fellglow Keep spawning because it may have been previously cleared or you have mods that add location/player homes to the game causing problems or Orthorn scripting (former member of the College). http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Hitting_the_Books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 I found or verified that several of the quickstarts, different starts, prostitution mods, or other character "scripting" mods can and does affect quests negatively. You can try and disable the ESM/ESP of some of these and see if it helps. I have not had an issue with quests breaking from race mods or the beauty type mods ... yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autumnsky38 Posted August 24, 2012 Author Share Posted August 24, 2012 Thanks you guys. I'm going to try any and all suggestions and see if I can't get this to work. I don't know why but I'm locked on it now and am determined to make this thing work! (lol) Tracy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattlittlej Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) ~setstage MG03 20 Edited August 24, 2012 by mattlittlej Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 @ mattlilltejYes that will advance the quest. What it won't do is fix the problem that caused the quest to break. More times then not, if 1 quest breaks, more will follow. Advancing by means of the console should only be used as a last resort if you want to play somewhat immersively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasilentduck Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 tried player.setstage mg03 10 and worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukabloodstone Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 I found or verified that several of the quickstarts, different starts, prostitution mods, or other character "scripting" mods can and does affect quests negatively. You can try and disable the ESM/ESP of some of these and see if it helps. I have not had an issue with quests breaking from race mods or the beauty type mods ... yet.so your saying that alternate start , live another life is possibly the culprit? cause if so its annoying, cause i hate the long intro, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFitz56 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 I found or verified that several of the quickstarts, different starts, prostitution mods, or other character "scripting" mods can and does affect quests negatively. You can try and disable the ESM/ESP of some of these and see if it helps. I have not had an issue with quests breaking from race mods or the beauty type mods ... yet.so your saying that alternate start , live another life is possibly the culprit? cause if so its annoying, cause i hate the long intro, Note that the post that you are quoting is 8 years old. If ASLAL caused those problems then I can assure you that it no longer does so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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