Great Skyrim Home: Sjel Blad Castle, for PC and Xbox

[@SBXDesign]

Thanks for reviewing my mod, I really appreciate it!

[@SkyrimPlus]

I sure have enjoyed playing with it over the years! Can't wait to check out the 2.0!

[@SBXDesign]

@@SkyrimPlus I am trying to work on it as much as I can, but life gets in the way. Ugh, lol.

[@SkyrimPlus]

@@SBXDesign I understand that! Take your time. Don't burn out. When it's done, it will be awesome! And even if it doesn't get done, your first home was still AMAZING. Thanks for the joy you've given so many through sharing your work and time!

[@dilligaff1979]

Pity the file size is nearly 700Mb! Better be worth the wait and the size.

[@lenol0315]

you are a god

[@aircdutchef]

Also I recommend getting hjertesten hall one of my favorite unique homes (it has a treasure room for all the artifacts like this dragon claws , the elder scrolls" but most importantly you get a small town with a black Smith

[@SkyrimPlus]

I've featured Hjertesten Hall on my channel! It's my most viewed video! That home is very unique, too!

[@Ghostrick74]

Definetely my favorite modded home of all time ! I entirely translated it in french for me and the author kindly created a Nexus page for it 🙂. This home is truly a work of art !

[@SkyrimPlus]

Agreed! It is amazing whenever you install it and start walking towards the entrance and seeing how massive it is. And it doesn't disappoint inside either! Packed with features! Thanks for translating it for the French players in the community!

[@dakotastein9499]

its a shame this castle was never finnished i had always hoped that the creator would one day return to complete it.

[@SkyrimPlus]

He is working on a whole new version, which you can download and check out the alpha edition, although there is still a lot of work ahead. I believe it's called SBC 2.0 on Nexus, if I remember correctly.

[@dakotastein9499]

@@SkyrimPlus Really? I was told the creator passed away...I'm glad to here he is well.

[@SkyrimPlus]

@@dakotastein9499 He commented on this thread 7 months ago, so I think he's alive. I could be wrong, but I hope not!

[@dakotastein9499]

@@SkyrimPlus Either that or he respawned from a previous save.

[@SkyrimPlus]

@@dakotastein9499 😆

[@eternaldarkness3139]

Holy F... The talent these modders display is phenomenal. It is indeed a shame they didn't finish this. You can center an entire playthrough around this. I'm glad I found your channel, discovering all these amazing homes.

[@SkyrimPlus]

Thank you! There are tons of great homes that have been featured, and there will be tons more to come, thanks to talented mod authors like soulbladex and others. The keep the creativity coming, and I love seeing what everyone adds to this great game!

[@trentargante8384]

Behind the throne and then behind the round table - that room with the strange pillar in it - is a teleporter that takes you to another room that gives you a selection of portals to take you to the main cities of Skyrim.

[@SkyrimPlus]

Oh, wow! I am going to have to go see that again! I guess we can mark that down as another feature for the house that has the most features!

[@sandyshautru3638]

This thing is amazing. I had to do the patch thing for the vault and stuff; but wow what a creation. Inigo got stuck in one of the living quarters pools but we got through it, hehe.

[@SkyrimPlus]

For sure! This is a top 3 home ever.

[@johng7106]

Holy shit! This isn't a home. It's a game on it's own!

[@SkyrimPlus]

Impressive, right?!

[@drakkondarkspell]

Holy shit! I have my new home.

[@SkyrimPlus]

Oh yeah...This one is definitely in my top 3. It's hard to pick which is number one. So many great ones!

[@digitalwolf9582]

Amazing video. All your hard work prepping was obvious and appreciated. Thanks.

[@SkyrimPlus]

Thank you! I wanted to do it for one of my top 3 homes of all time!

[@Napalmjoe93]

Great player home showcase 👏 It definitely sold me on downloading this and helped heaps with understanding. Thanks for this 🙏

[@SkyrimPlus]

Glad you enjoyed it! I enjoyed making this one, as this is one of my favorite player homes ever!

[@anthonymorris1360]

What a gorgeous creation, I love you author; you're so talented! Thanks for the great tour SP. This is an explosion of creative talent, my mouth was open, agape even, during this tour. I have a tendency to bang on about this, but if only the brightly lit areas, the great hall and children's bedroom especially, were blessed with UE5 or a proper lighting treatment. They looks so good, but so held back in that ageing engine's light. The darker areas look so much better and it's a shame that has to be the case. Moan over! Thansl so much for this & all the best.

[@SkyrimPlus]

@anthonymorris1360 He did a masterful job for his first mod! He is working on a second version of this home. The WIP version is posted on Nexus, too, if you're curious. It's SBC 2.0 .

[@dane6079]

I don't know if you keep track of comments on older vids like this, but this is one of the best skyrim house tours I've ever seen on yt, and it not only got me into watching your other really well made vids, but this castle motivated me to pick up Skyrim again for the first time in years! If you do happen to read this, in your opinion, what are some other castle homes you would recommend for an xbox player?

[@SkyrimPlus]

That's quite the compliment! I'm glad you're inspired to start playing again! Another castle mod I would try would be Deus Mons. It's got a cool backstory, being the Skyrim home of Miraak, guarded by a dragon that you have to recovery the key from (it's corpse), and it has some really cool features, like an upside down waterfall where the water flows up. Unfortunately, it was never fully completed, but it's worth checking out, for sure. Castle Gonduin is really cool, too. It's near Riverwood, and you have to lift a curse (quest) in order to gain possession of the castle and restore the areas around it. I love mods that have quests to gain the home and also love restoring areas, so that's a win. Raven Castle is the largest home I've ever seen. It's vampire-themed. There is a quest associated with the mod, although it doesnt give you markers, and it's a little hard to navigate. The home has a lot of NPC's, different areas to visit, etc., but if you want to get lost exploring a cool home for hours, check it out. And you will get lost. Guaranteed. :D Also, not really a castle, per say, but I love Morskom Estate, located in Dawnstar. You have to rid the home of a former serial killer in order to gain the right to buy the home. Then, you can restore the home by buying upgrades or gathering materials and constructing them yourself. Time passes for the upgrades to take place, so it's immersive, and the home is interactive and looks great! Not to mention, it has a boat that can go to different locations, and it has a mail system too. Really neat large home! These are a good start! Happy hunting!

[@dane6079]

@@SkyrimPlus thank you for all of the suggestions! I’m excited to take a look at all of the videos for them and see which are gonna be best fit! I think my big goal for this playthrough is going to be using the Amazing Followers Tweaks mod as well as My Home is Your Home mod to deck out my followers and move them into these castles, creating a bunch of safe strongholds across the map as I explore in survival. I hope those mods will work with these incredible homes lol. Thank you again!

[@SkyrimPlus]

​@@dane6079 Castle Revelhost would be good for that, too. It's really big, has npc's, a lot of soils, an underground cave, etc. It's in the Rift. And Lakvan's Stronghold gives you a quest to rescue the home from a murderer and rapist. You get to bring him to justice. It's North of Solitude. Glad you're enjoying the hunt!

[@dane6079]

@@SkyrimPlus So many options, so little space for console players. Thanks for all the suggestions! I’m trying to balance my load order to fit the 5GB constraints I have to work with, but I’ll have to check out those two new locations before I finish up! Thank you for everything!

[@eduardomenendez2692]

Love this place and have the newest version but like the first one no progress has been made since 2022... but its still great

[@SkyrimPlus]

It's just so different from anything else available... And so many options to customize, tons of potential new followers, mounts, etc. I LOVE it. I tried the new one out, and it looks like it has potential, but there are a lot of spaces unfilled still, so I still prefer the original.

[@aircdutchef]

This gives me villian vibes

[@aircdutchef]

I also recommend doing dawnguard for before any other dlc cuz there is some cool mods for the dawn guard doc

[@henryethagaming1368]

Wow, that's an impressive home! And all those features...

[@SkyrimPlus]

Absolutely! One of my favorites ever. I follow the mod author on Facebook too, and he is currently working on a complete rework of this mod and also considering making tutorials on how to use the Creation Kit to help others start modding. He included so many features that other mods don't have, and I haven't seen any similar to this! But if you liked this home, check out Mortum Castle. It's really large too, and has a lot of custom NPC's and well decorated. I have a video on that one as well.

[@henryethagaming1368]

​@@SkyrimPlus Yes, I am currently checking some of your other videos. They are really well-made and informative + very recent. Many thanks for making these! I am still looking for a big home. I love the feature with the NPCs here and the storage. Not sure what to think about the Hall of Ascension, but it gives the fighting pit a purpose I guess. I'm also not sure about the NPCs having so much money on them. I am currently playing with Real Estate and Drunken Dragon (that player-owned store). Being able to easily sell my loot like that could make anything else redundant. I don't mind the unfinished children's room. I guess I'd leave them anyway in one of the vanilla homes under the care of a huscarl, maybe in one of the cities, so they can play with other children. What I am looking for is something big, after playing the Dragonborn DLC. I want to take Miraak with me and roleplay that he got his own castle. I've seen "Deus Mons - the Castle of Miraak" on Nexus, have you ever tried that by any chance and would recommend it? Sorry, I just thought, I'd take the opportunity to ask. Hope you don't mind!

[@SkyrimPlus]

@@henryethagaming1368 Thanks for the compliment! And as far as talking about mods, I don't mind at all! I could talk Skyrim homes all day and enjoy it! Deus Mons is another Behemoth of a home, and like Sjel Blad, there are sections that remain unfinished. It's supposed to have belonged to Miraak in Skyrim. You have to defeat a dragon to gain access to the house, which appeals to someone like me, who doesn't want to receive home mods for free. Like Sjel Blad, there is a ghost steward, but Deus Mons uses the ghost as the current steward. Like Castle Gonduin (another huge home mod I would recommend, although I don't have a video on it...yet...), the steward can sell you upgrades. Deus Mons still has cool elements of design, like a source of water that flows up instead of down, but the design is much more vanilla than Sjel Blad and much less customizable. They both have great views and located fairly close to each other. And Deus Mons has a recall spell, whereas Sjel Blad offers recall spells to every specific room, which is really neat, so if you don't want to travel through a whole castle to get access to your alchemy lab, you can teleport directly to it through use of the spell. In my opinion, Sjel Blad is a much more useful home, but role play purposes can heavily influence a playthrough, so if you are playing with Miraak, Deus Mons could be a good addition to your game. If you are looking for end game, huge homes though, consider The ones mentioned above, Mortum Castle, Raven Castle (although that one is too big for me... I think that one's the biggest I've seen), one of LC's home, like LC Build Your Noble House or LC Feudal Keep, or Castle Revelhost.

[@henryethagaming1368]

​@@SkyrimPlus The teleport could in fact "make the deal"... I honestly don't see myself running through dozens of rooms just to do alchemy and would probably end up in the vanilla alchemy shack for crafting, if I had to. >_< I don't like "free" homes as well, but I am already setting myself the condition to finish the Dragonborn DLC first, so I'd take it as a "reward" then. I guess I could set myself the limitation of not being able to sell anything in that castle and just ignore how much money the NPCs actually have. Well, I'll download it and take a closer look. Oh, and I have both LC mods installed, but planned them in my head canon more for political gain than an actual home. Talking about building... I also loved Blackthorn, but it caused a crash at some point (in a former play-through). Since then, I haven't tried it again. Again - thank you so much! Also for the additional info. :) It's really helping me in my decision.

[@SkyrimPlus]

@henryethagaming1368 Absolutely! I almost included Blackthorn, too, but I didn't know if you would consider that big enough. In that space, you could also download Hejertesten Hall, which gives you a whole property, where you can recruit workers for the property, and those that you recruit have their own homes on the property to live. They also produce items, so if you asked the farmer about the crops, you get a share of the crops without having to harvest them, etc. Also, Waterview in Skyrim is a beautiful property in that same spot for $5000. These do conflict with each other and "The Scarlett", a HUGE ship that you build and decorate the inside, recruit workers, and the ship, like Blackthorn, can earn you residual income. And you have to clear a whole cave of bandits in order to recapture the ship, so role-playing is there for you. Sorry for adding more considerations. I get carried away sometimes. 😆

[@R3SPAWN0_0]

Is there room for AE content? I’m having issues finding a good collectors home for AE content and items

[@SkyrimPlus]

No. This doesn't. There is a mod called Anniversary Edition Museum, where you cast a spell and it takes you to a wharehouse-like structure to store your AE items. I think if you search that name with my channel, I've featured it before. Hope this helps!

[@R3SPAWN0_0]

@@SkyrimPlus I appreciate the help I did find your video on the mod and it’s exactly what I’m looking for and maybe I can use another mod for SE content also library mod from the same author?! I’ll be definitely check them both out, I appreciate the help and keep up the good work on the videos definitely got a sub, I appreciate the response back as well, thank you again

[@reiss2522]

What texture mod are you using for the castle? It looks amazing

[@SkyrimPlus]

That's either all the original mod or it might be influenced by Skyland AIO. 😀 Awesome home, right?

[@reiss2522]

@@SkyrimPlusthank you!!! Just added it to my version now Xbox and it looks amazing

[@aircdutchef]

Also the spirit of transformation isn't there

[@SkyrimPlus]

?

[@aircdutchef]

When I entered the room it wasn't there the others were fine I'm reaching out to the mod developer to see if he knows why

[@Yut_TheDev]

I have a problem, i installed it correctly but it wont load into my skyrim even though its enabled and on my mod order. Nothing appears on the map its like if it was never installed

[@SkyrimPlus]

Which console do you use? And did you get this version or SBC 2.0? If it was SBC 2.0, that's a WIP mod.

[@Yut_TheDev]

@@SkyrimPlus I'm actually on PC and i used the last version avaible on Nexus mods for Skyrim SE

[@SkyrimPlus]

Do you use a mod organizer? If so, I would click and deactivate the mod and then click it again to reactivate and then load your game to see if reseting it works. If that doesn't work, try lowering it in your load order. If that doesn't work, I would remove the file and the archive and try redownloading it. Let me know if any of these work!

[@Yut_TheDev]

@@SkyrimPlus Ive reinstalled, its on my load order etc and still doesnt appear in game, and this happens with other player houses that ive tried apart from this one. Only some has worked. And the mod isnt giving my any conflicts with other mods so i got no idea why it isnt working, should i get the 1st version of the mod even though it may have less content and more bugs? To see if it appears on the game finally

[@Yut_TheDev]

Reinstalled it*

[@1Rane]

I can’t move my kids in…

[@SkyrimPlus]

I think because the child wing was never finished, this won't work for kids. If you want a home with a lot of features that supports kids, you may want to check out my feature on Lonewolf's Manor. With help of other mods, it can support up to 100 followers, kids, as well as it having all crafting, it's own mine, a hidden room for unique items, and it's located just outside of Riverwood, so it's very convenient. Here's a link to my feature on it, if you're curious: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYDOi36YmamWapI

[@wod5203]

I tried this mod on Xbox in its early days. Spectacular castle home, but it had flaws and was still a WIP mod. I ended up deleting it not because it was bad, but because it had issues that needed resolution. I'd find the teleportation spheres on the floor, and they wouldn't work there so every location they linked to became inaccessible. I found a workaround, but after time that became more of a nuisance to navigate as more spheres would eventually relocate and become unusable., I tried it again a couple years ago on PC and the same issues arose, so I figured the author gave up on it, because none of the things promised in the description had been implemented or finished. As cool as the mod is, it's really just too large in scale, if I spend more time getting to somewhere I need to get to to craft, that is less time I'm crafting and less time to actually play the game. No offense intended to the author, it's a great idea, but maybe too grand to implement successfully...

[@SkyrimPlus]

He is working on a new version of the mod, and a work in progress version is up right now, but it's still in the early stages of development from what I've seen. Fingers crossed that one day that gets finished. 🤞

[@Duncan_Idaho84]

Does this exist for PS4 Pro?

[@SkyrimPlus]

No, it's not. Unfortunately, Playstation doesn't allow any mod that uses external assets, so it really limits the modding you can do.

[@SuperDarkLord7]

What armor is that?

[@SkyrimPlus]

That's the Bloodborne Armor Set from Team TAL. It isn't on Nexus. I found it through a Google search on an atypical modding site.

[@SuperDarkLord7]

@@SkyrimPlus thanks so much!

[@regalprivate6372]

how many followers can i have here ?

[@SkyrimPlus]

The home itself has a lot of natural followers in the barracks. I'm not sure if there is space for many more, unless you let them share in your bed chambers. Or perhaps if you had a mod manager, perhaps you could assign them to use the beds in the barracks and different times than the assigned NPC's if they aren't marked as owned. Some follower frameworks allow you to pick what time your followers idle and what time they sleep.