Known quest‐blocking bugs in Tuxborn - Omni-guides/Tuxborn GitHub Wiki

This page is to cover an assortment of known issues that can block various quests in Tuxborn. Some of these will be vanilla/AE Skyrim content, and some will be related to mods. The vanilla/AE ones we can't do a whole lot about. Mod ones may be fixable, and we'll call out where we can which ones are getting active attention from our devs.

For Steam Deck players in particular, note that solutions for these issues pretty much require you to get into the console. Since we also know that the console regularly crashes if you use the on-screen keyboard, getting a Bluetooth keyboard for use with your Deck is highly recommended. If nothing else so that if you run into any of these problems, you can try these solutions!

Here's the running list of issues we know about so far.

Vanilla and AE content

Bjormund Wind-Strider's body doesn't spawn at the top of the tower at Arcwind Point

This is a vanilla/AE bug, it can repro in Skyrim in general, not just in Tuxborn. The bug is what it says in the header: when you try to finish off Bones for a Crow and you get to the top of the tower at Arcwind Point, you may find that Bjormund Wind-Strider's body isn't actually there.

While this is a general Skyrim/AE bug, there is at least one Tuxborn-specific aspect to this. The Rebalancing Anniversary Edition mod sets a level requirement on Bones for a Crow. You can't launch at at all unless you're level 50 or above. So assuming that you meet that level requirement, that is the only change RAE makes to this quest.

UESP does note the absence of Bjormund's body as a known issue, and offers this console command as a solution:

player.placeatme FE02681C

This works in Tuxborn, and will move Bjormund to you. But you may find him to be alive, in which case you'll have to fight him. If he spawns alive, he will attack you on sight.

Once you kill him, you'll be able to loot his body for the Dragonbone Mail and the Dragonplate Insulated Helmet, Dragonplate Insulated Boots, and Dragonplate Insulated Gauntlets. This should allow you to resolve the quest.

Target leader doesn't spawn for radiant Companions quests

There are two different radiant quests for the Companions that have known issues with a target you have to kill not actually spawning. These quests are:

  • "Trouble in Skyrim", where you're asked to go kill the boss in a variety of locations, such as bandit camps, draugr tombs, etc.
  • "Striking the Heart", where you have to go kill a leader of the Silver Hand

In either case, the bug would be when you show up at the location assigned, and there is no actual leader present for you to kill. The UESP and Elder Scrolls wikis both reference this as a potential risk for these quests, and provide some console solutions to try.

If you are running "Trouble in Skyrim", then a potential console command for you to try would be:

setstage cr05 20

If you are running "Striking the Heart", try this one:

setstage cr09 20

If these solutions don't work for you, here are reference links with additional potential solutions:

Arena Fan's body doesn't spawn if you're trying to find the Dwarven Mail

This is for the AE quest that lets you get the Dwarven Mail, and this is another one that's known to happen in vanilla AE, not just in Tuxborn. The issue is that if you want to get the Dwarven Mail as part of the AE content, the body of the NPC you're supposed to find often just does not spawn.

In our particular load order, you don't actually have to find the Arena Fan's body, you can go straight to Bthalft and kill the Orc there instead if you want to get this armor.

See the How to start various quests in Tuxborn page for a bit more detail on this.

Dead guard's body doesn't spawn outside Dragon Bridge

If you're trying to run the AE quest Over the Edge to get the enchanted set of Steel Soldier Armor, our load order may have an issue with the body of the dead guard you have to find not spawning by the river. If you can't find that dead guard's body, this will block you from continuing the quest.

If this issue triggers for you, you should be able to get past it with this console command:

setstage ccBGSSSE058_MiscQuest 40

Legacy of the Dragonborn

Cannot talk to the Khajiit in Falkreath to launch Moonpath to Elsweyr

We've had a couple of players report an issue with not being able to launch Moonpath to Elsweyr, even if they meet the known requirements for doing so (at least level 18, The Way of the Voice completed, 70+ displays). They were blocked by not being able to talk to either Verina or Ku'rana, by their wagon in Falkreath.

If this happens to you, then try these steps to resolve:

  1. Wait for 24 hours in-game
  2. Save your game
  3. Relaunch

This should hopefully make you able to talk to the Khajiit and successfully launch Moonpath.

OLD FIXES, issues resolved in current build or in a upcoming update

Bards College Burning of King Olaf Festival doesn't stop

This is a known issue on PC builds of Skyrim, as documented on the UESP. What happens with this is that when you run the Bards College, and successfully help Viarmo present King Olaf's Verse to Elisif, you can then proceed to the Burning of King Olaf's Festival, where you are officially proclaimed a bard. The bug kicks in with how this festival never actually stops, and NPCs will stand around in festival mode.

This includes NPCs you have to talk to in order to pick up the quests for fetching instruments, which you need to do if you want to get the three Bards College teachers to bump your skills for you.

The known workaround for this problem is to open up the console and enter the following command:

setstage MS05KingOlafsFestival 200

Battle of the Champions quest doesn't start even if you meet our load order's requirements

Since we are running Rebalancing Anniversary Edition in our load order, this means that if you want to run the Civil War Champions content, you need to meet the following requirements:

  • You need to be at least level 20
  • You have to have joined a side in the Skyrim civil war, you cannot be neutral

However, even if you meet these requirements, you may see that the Battle of the Champions quest doesn't start for you, and you may not even see the expected notice on the counter of the Drunken Huntsman. If this happens, the following console command should let you proceed to launch the quest:

setstage FE01B927 20

This command should also work:

setstage ccFFBSSE001_Quest 20

We recommend stage 20 specifically as that's most relevant to the requirements specified above.

Once you use this command to kickstart the quest, it should proceed normally.

There Is No Umbra

We have a known issue with the There Is No Umbra quest, where you must merge the sword with a dagger, in the box at the Atronach Forge, and then pulling the lever. The lever is not actually visibly present, which blocks you being able to do this.

There are two possible workarounds for this problem until we deploy a real fix in a future Tuxborn update:

  1. Use the tcl command in the console to temporarily turn off collision, so that you can sink a bit into the box and get to that lever so you can use it. The lever is currently located inside the box. Then move back out and use the same command to turn collision back on again.
  2. Or, use the console command setstage 0_FloatingSwordQuest03 30 to progress past that part of the quest.

This issue does appear to be specific to running the Daumbra mod. Regular vanilla functionality of the Atronach Forge is not impacted.

Blocked while running Fixing the Transmuter quest in The Midden - Expanded

This is not a guaranteed repro, since this reproed in 0.5.2 and so far has not reproed in 1.1.1 in our testing. But noting it in here in case any player sees it. If anyone does repro this in Tuxborn's current build, please report it to #txbn-support.

Once you acquire the Arcane Grotto in the mod The Midden - Expanded, there's a side quest you can run involving fixing a transmuter machine located in one of that home's rooms. It will expect you to find the door into the basement of the Winterhold Astronomy Tower, a door which you can locate just to the west of the bridge that leads up to the college.

However, partway through, this possible bug may come into play. If it does, what will happen is that the trail goes cold. Casting the Clairvoyance spell will lead you into a chamber with a couple of upright draugr sarcophagi set into the icy wall, to the left of a low shelf. The spell's path will point straight at the sarcophagus to the immediate left of the shelf, but there will be no way to activate this sarcophagus.

This YouTube video shows, at about seven minutes in, what's supposed to happen: the sarcophagus should fall open on its own, and the draugr it contains should try to attack you.

If the bug occurs, and the sarcophagus doesn't open, then you'll be blocked from proceeding since you do have to go through that sarcophagus to get to the next area for the quest. This workaround should unblock you:

  1. Stand in front of the sarcophagus and open up the console
  2. Click on the center of the sarcophagus lid to make sure it's the active object for console commands
  3. Type disable

This should remove the lid so that you can proceed on through. You may also see the inert draugr that was supposed to attack you. If you do, go ahead and attack it. Once you take out the draugr, you should be clear to proceed with the quest.

Credits

Thanks to the following players on #txbn-general:

  • TSP for reporting the issue with the lever on the Atronach Forge during the Daumbra mod
  • locoron for additional detective work on the Daumbra mod problem
  • Kyaralys for reporting the issue with the Companions quests
  • Vengerq for reporting the issue with the Battle of the Champions quest
  • Millie for the tip about the workaround to unblock talking to the Khajiit for Moonpath to Elsweyr