Skyrim - All 18 Player Homes Ranked 

Hope you enjoyed this mammoth of a ranking Wizards! 🧙‍♂️ Which will you be choosing as your next abode? 🏡 Let me know! And for sneak peeks and 24hrs early access to all my vids 🤫 consider becoming a Patreon: www.patreon.com/theWelshWizard/membership *FAQs* 👇 Q: The sound effect at 27:35 is extremely loud, why? 🧙‍♂: My apologies! I must have forgotten to add a hyphon before the decibel, hence it's louder than full volume 😅make sure to decrease your volume at around 27:30 before it kicks in! Q: Can’t coffins be crafted for the Hearthfire Homesteads too? 🧙‍♂️: Indeed they can be, I didn’t realise! “Coffins are a craftable piece of furniture for a mansion. They are automatically placed in the cellar. For the option to build a coffin to appear, one needs to be a vampire.” Q: Can’t 3 spouses from the Dragonborn DLC occupy Severin Manor with you? 🧙‍♂️: Indeed they can, my apologies. They are Morwen, Hilund and Halbarn Iron-Fur. ru-vid.comgaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f9d9_200d_2642.png

"May Talos guide you." Thalmor: *Angrily knocking at door.*

Best part about haljarchen hall is, unlike most of the other heartfell houses its not isolated, theres a farm within walking distance and whiterun is not far off, not to mention guards actually patrol this area making it feel far more integrated into a hold then just a cabin in the woods

One of the reasons I love the Lakeview Manor so much is because you build it yourself. So the design is entirely your choice and it feels like you actually deserve to live there as you made it from scratch. (Despite the building costs)

Breezehome is the OG Goat. I really like Honeyside also.

No wonder this video took so long, such high quality! I wouldn't expect no less from a Master Wizard!

A little tip for Goldenhills: Fill up one of the fields with Blisterwort. It's the best crop for profit, the other field and planters can be whatever you want! I usually have (Creepvine,Mora Tapinela, Scaly Pholiota) in one, and Steel-Blue Entoloma in the other. Then in the second field, I have a mix of Health and Magicka restoring ingredients. That way I have crops to generate gold, quickly level my Alchemy, and restore my 2 most used stats (I love being a Mage). Goldenhills is easily my second favorite Playerhome in AE. Edit: An alternate set of Crops for Goldenhills is 16 Mora Tapinella, 12 Canis Root, and 12 Imp Stool (Harvesting gives you 48 of each), and the last 4 plots are your choice (I usually go with either Blisterwort+Wheat for healing, or Steel Blue Entoloma+Nightshade for UNLIMITED POWAH!). The 3 Main Crops will give a decently pricey poison of Paralysis and Lingering Damage Health. And unless your enemy is immune to poison, hitting them with this will cause them to fall over for X seconds (highest I've gotten with my skills is 24 seconds!) Myrwatch is the best playerhome, fight me. All you need is a fire spell to open the door, and if you are someone who adamantly despises learning and using spells, there are 2 scrolls of Fireball in Bleakfalls Barrow!

I know you didn’t talk about the quests for a lot of these homes, but the Bloodchill Manor quest is very cool. It’s short and simple, but it has a lot of personality in its simplicity

“The Scones of Barenziah”

My favorite house is Breezehome but my favorite modded "House" is the Haven Bag. A portable house inside a Magic Bag, always on you and always there.

I use Proudspire Manor as my family home because it’s the safest and most luxurious for my argonian spouse and children. It’s so cute to see Sofie and Blaise playing with the other children in the neighbourhood. Plus I always go Imperial side so that’s a bonus. Then I use Tundra Homestead as my base of operations because it has everything I need and it’s in a central location. It’s good to separate work from personal life :)

This just in, the jarl is happy to tell you about the newest bakery, *Doughvakin’s* Delights

When they're used together, Honeyside and Shadowfoot Sanctum are really great homes for just about any build. With Honeyside, you have a home that your wife and children can live & grow up in... but with Shadowfoot Sanctum, you basically have yourself a bachelor's pad that's entirely yours to decorate with all of your trophies. It's for those exact reasons why I will almost always use those two homes specifically; that said, almost every home has a use for me in some way, WW. Take the homes you can build with Hearthfire, right? Instead of building them up into huge mansions that hardly anybody will live in, I like to build the small homes and assign certain followers as stewards for those homes... but instead of being stewards, I pretend that I gifted those homes to those followers for their actions in aiding me in my adventures. In a way, this satisfies two things for me - a home that I won't live in will be used and it feels in-character when I roleplay, if the latter makes sense to you. The same logic somewhat applies with the stewards in the non-Hearthfire homes too. I won't live in them any time soon, so I like to think that my character(s) gifts them to the stewards, either out of good will or for their actions. *Edit:* When you brought up Goldenhills Plantation, I just wanted to say that I too really like the home as well... however, I don't like it because of the fact that I can live there, but because I can use it as a business venture! Much like how I assign followers to the Hearthfire homes and turn them into pretend homeowners, I plan to assign a follower to the plantation and have them be in charge of the plantation's daily operations, making money that'll go back into my pockets and into their pockets as payment for their hard work. The only reason I don't want to live there is the same reason why I don't want to live in most of the other homes on this list - location. If Goldenhills in particular were closer to Rorikstead, then maybe I'd consider actually living there. The same thing applies to some of the other homes, like Dead Man's Dread. If Bethesda had a little hindsight, they would've allowed the player to get the ship out of that cave and at least allow them to dock it in Solitude.

I'm only 30 seconds in but I have to say that the quality and consistency of this channel is incredible and appreciated.

I will say something note about Heljarchen hall, if you go to the area behind the house and up the mountain a bit it’s actually really close to one of the unmarked entrances straight into black reach

An hour!!! A full hour!!! Thank you so so so much! Listening to your videos really helps me get trough my depression, it calms my mind down and allows me to let go!! So thank you so much for your videos! They are more important to some people than you might think!

One of the few saving graces of Dead Man's Dread is that the fast travel function of the map, is very useful if you are playing survival mode and join the Volkihar faction

Take Me Home, Skyrim Roads ..!

This is my first introduction to your channel. Please know your dedication to voiceover, script, recording, and editing-- it doesn't go unnoticed. This is a 5 star masterpiece, it feels like a reality TV show for Skyrim-- a decade old game that we all cherish and love, but for the fact that there is so much dedication to something that could gave easily just been a lengthy one-time, playthrough recording of each house, it's put together like a Christmas gift. Beautifully done, I hope others join in and subscribe just as quick as I did.

After watching the entire video just now, I need an overview of all the player homes in Oblivion. Just knowing that the Wizard's Tower/Frostcrag Spire will be your number one as it also allows you to teleport to any of the Mages Guild halls in every city.

If Goldenhills just had some of those amenities like the dragon priest mask rack and stuff like Tundra it would be awesome. The gold generation from it alone still makes it an S tier for me though.

the main reason I always go with Lakeview is two reasons. First, it's the only hearthfire house that's not in the middle of a winter hellscape. 2nd, the library shelves can be activated to display all of my books. Breezehome can't do that. The extra monsters aren't a problem anyway. Not when your husband is an aprentice wizard. Not some pack mule. He'll keep the home safe while I'm away.

You’ve outdone yourself this time Mr Wizard, your narration and editing are excellent as always and I enjoy the longer videos 😀

The fishery of Heljarchen Hall is amazing in combination with the Fishery expansion as almost all the new fish can be stored in the fishery and multiply. Combine that with the garden and garden room expansion and you'll be sitting on an alchemy goldmine riveling Goldenhills Plantation due to its variety in easy access to fish.

Another scroll of pure wisdom from the wizard himself!. Great video as always man!

Obviously the pun for the seafood is “Fish Roe Da”.

All that editing is so amazing and entertaining! All your videos deserve more views!❤ My wizard hat off to you good sir, for another awesome video! 🎩🧙‍♂️ Love from Norway 🇳🇴

Man I thought this video was structured the same way it was in the past and I was waiting the entirety of Hjerm to hear the Wizards reasoning for putting it in last place. EDIT: Ok I've watched the video and I have a couple thoughts. FIrst, I would love to hear what your spouse and kids have to say about these creation club homes as I've never used them. If Aela the HUNTRESS is complaining about wolves and bears and spiders, I cannot imagine her opinion of living in shadowfoot sanctum. "How do I like living here? Are you serious? We live in a sewer. I don't know why I ever married you." Second, it's interesting that your occupation as a wizard influences your decisions, because my typical occupation is far more dishonest, and I would put Honeyside in S tier. It is only 3000 septims more than Breezehome, making it very affordable, has a door leading to two different loadzones, and being located in Riften(IMO the best hub for a specific playstyle in the game), there isn't a whole lot not to love about it if you aren't a thief. Great video, Welsh. May I call you Welsh? Screw it I already did. Keep making great content!

An hour of nonstop information. The dedication is insane👍

I'm happy this one finally got released! I was excited for it and you definitely delivered. I really like the editing and the humour mixed in with the house reviews!

Considering how much I watch Skyrim content I’m surprised I never found you sooner! Either way the production quality is brilliant and you’ve got a new subscriber

On my first playthrough of the 10th anniversary edition, I always used Bloodchill Manor. I like having all my armor sets displayed. There are so many mannequins and weapon racks there. All your dragon masks, polygons, dragon claws, etc. They all have a display. I love that.

Truthfully speaking With this level of editing and uniqueness, if you ever decided to do other fantasy game guides, or other games in general, you would easily pass a million subs

My favourite is Tundra Homestead, but the modded version which makes it an amazing home with everything you could possibly need, alongside a mod that adds a whole section to whiterun behind jorvaskar including merchants so you end up having a blacksmith a house down - amazing for feeling like you're in whiterun without the loading screens and the vibes of Lakeview manor

The Bakery Names cracked me up!! Keep up the amazing work!

There is just something about the plantation after youve got it full running with your family then all the possible pets living there. You can move in all the cc club pets. just tell them this is your new home where you want them. then tell Meeko and Vengeance to guard the farm.

Such an amazing video! So well made! I'm glad to see your take on all these wonderful homes! My personal favorite has to be Shadowfoot Sanctum purely because I am playing a stealth assassin.(Also your thumbnails are so cool and whoever made them is very talented ❤

Wow...an hour long video!? No wonder it took you so long to get it done. But it was worth the wait. Excellent video as always. I would dare say the quality gets better each new video posted! Keep up the great work Master Wizard!

So many great homes to settle in. However, I love living in the cities. It’s great having the local markets, inns and locals to talk to. Solitude and Markarth stand out to me.

Dude your humor is spot on. I’ve quietly chuckled so many times through this and I’m only in Markarth.

Funny thing, I've had the mannequins in Honey Side act like npc's a few times. Maybe not walking, but always staring at you and changing stances every so often. Kinda creepy

Greatly enjoyed it, thanks! As a matter of course, I usually end up buying all the vanilla houses as I go thru the quests as they are easy in and outs from the various locations and let me sleep. As you go higher in level, I find the Hearthfire homes to be the best because of the display aspects, as well as the fast travel to and from. The Tundra Homestead usually ends up being my home due to its proximity to the Honningbrew Meadery, and the fact that there is a radiant generation point just up the road towards the guard tower that gives you something to meet occasionally coming and going. I wish the smithing station was indoors (perhaps a secondary basement room) as opposed to being outside, but other than that I usually end up there. Well done! ☺

Oh man, I love this. Your narration and story style is hilarious, you're the first person in a while who's managed to get me to sit in one place for an hour straight watching a comparison video

After I saw you uploaded, I immediately had to watch. Thanks for the entertaining, informative, and interesting video!

one thing about lakeview manor is that there is a bunch of copys of this book called the cabin in the woods inside. its a short story about a soldier who retires to a cabin in the woods and gets chased by a psych ghost woman with an axe. kind of freaked me out at 3 am.

And another Welsh Wizard video makes my day. Nicely done yet again, mate!!

These videos are delightful, please keep up the incredible work!

Vlindrel Hall will always be my favorite house because of it’s large library and the high up view. Windstad Manor, Myrwatch, and Goldenhills are my other favorites. Fantastic video! Quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite Skyrim RU-vidrs. S Tier quality

A full hour of the wizard, we are not worthy! Your voice works well for long form videos, enjoyed this!

On my most recent play thru I'm playing a Breton Battle Mage (Heavy armor spell caster that occasionally uses a sword and shield) and the Tundra Homestead has been my home while I figure out what I want to do for my family It's actually one of the reasons I'm watching the video is to figure out which home I want to dedicate to whoever my girls spouse and kids will be while the others will be random loot drop zones

i agree with the majority of this list i think my favorite, most used, home is Windstad Manor, because out of the 3 Hearthfire home unique features, i think the fish hatchery is the most useful (compared to an aviary and a windmill) my 2nd favorite is probably just Breezehome just because it's so centrally located which is especially handy when playing in survival mode

Funny enough, I usually find myself setting up in the Archmage's Quarters in the College. It has plenty of storage, and with mods like Immersive College of Winterhold, it's a wizard's dream home

every video the welsh wizard teaches me more and more about the creation club and everytime he tempts me more with it

Best thing to do with Lakeview is to let the Giant reside there once it spawns in. It's only hostile if you go near it and while it is there all other specific homestead attacks cannot happen and it will turn on anything such as Dragons so can be used as an extra guard of sorts. If your housecarl, follower or spouse should aggro it you can quickly calm it with Ash Shell spell ( from Solstheim ) as this spell resets aggro on hit and will paralyze the Giant to boot. You may need to let it thaw though before leaving which is the only downside as this spell very rarely can make enemies invincible if you leave the cell they are in while they are still encased. You can also just save and then leave if waiting is too long in case the very rare glitch does occur but the last thing you want is for the Giant to become invincible lol. You can also heal the Giant if it has suffered damage and then Ash Shell it to stop the complaining if you like. You can use this method for the other two homesteads also. I once had a Bandit Chief follow my character into the inner cell of the homestead after spawning out of view, rush over and pick up an enchanted Daedric Greatsword which I had stored there and proceed to murder my spouse in a flash and hence the Giant strategy was devised to avoid this happening again. I used/viewed most of these houses and only a few are not considered worth it in my opinion. The dwemer one is too large and too far out. The boat one is just too much work to get to every time as kind of pointed out in this video. I also not fond of Hjerim because it locked behind the Civil War and the Civil War can break many missions in Solitude/Windhelm and Whiterun if done before them. It a risky house to acquire early basically if you want the full thing anyway. The other one is Goldenhills Plantation. Great for making money, terrible for living in. The kids may decide to not turn up and wander off somewhere as was the case when I tried to use it. Lucia seems to hang outside of the place even if you not adopted her which is odd and maybe why I had the problem when I did adopt her as she just bugged out. I managed to fix it by marrying and sending the spouse to another home but any attempts to send them and the kids back to the farm results in them all going missing and never showing up. Also it appears to be the buggiest house CC as the quest never even triggered on other characters after killing the ghost. You can still plant stuff mind. Also if you can marry the steward of Goldenhills you can just move them and collect the money from wherever you are living so no need to even go to the farm unless you want the ingredients. They must be made steward first before the ceremony of course.

17:27 I love the reference that you made here. Very fitting given how all divine shrines can be built.

Great video wizard! This gives me an idea of what i want now. Grest quality video 👍🧙‍♂️

I've typically been using Hendraheim since getting the Anniversary Edition upgrade, but I'll probably mix it up and move into Shadowfoot Sanctum. Easily one of the best parts of the majority of the CC homes is that they include specific trophy displays in their armories for Dragon Priest masks, dragon claws, and specific weapons, items and whatnot from the base game and DLC. But the Sanctum will be the residence of my all-rounder, but mainly stealth, character. The vampire home will be for my eventual vampire character once I've figured out a proper build for them.

there is also a secret room if you are a vampire in the homesteads (or at least lakeview idk about the others)

Dude your editing is so good, sometimes absolutely hilarious. A well earned sub.

Awesome video that brought me joy to watch, thanks for making funny and enjoyable Skyrim content

I just wish there was a path up to Hendraheim. It's such a pain to get to.

Large amounts of professional editing, must've taken a long time to create. An entertaining watch, keep it up!

The editing and production of this video is crazy underrated

Love the effort and production quality!

I find it ridiculous that Aela the Huntress is so against Lakeview Manor. She's a hunter! She's a werewolf! What's there to worry about?

Oh, and if you want a better Pirate Ship themed home than Dead Man's Dread... I personally used The Scarlett for a while. A very nice one that. Not only is it far better arranged, but you can sail it to various different locations about Skyrim. I don't really care for Hearthfire-style home-decorating. but it has that too. Apparently there are even better ones now though.

Ohh my gosh I love this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻

MASSIVE efforts were put into this ! Awesome video

I actually love the drawn thumbnails. They look so cool. Do you draw them by yourself?

The Grand Bathhouse is an awesome home mod. Comes with a full bathtub area where female followers to strip down to their undies. Also a Staff enchanter, alchemy, enchanting stations and it's own Sky Forge. Also kitchen, Crafting area, Imbuing Chamber, Dragon Soul Converter, Optional Dwarven Guards and Bathroom area upgrade available. Comes with 4 children's beds, 2 master double beds and 2 follower beds. Also has an upstairs fight arena cage area. If you use AFT to recruit lots of female followers, this is the home for you to set up your "Harem" of concubines.

Awesome video as always

Hendraheim and Breezehome always will be my favorite. The display of Hendra and the convenience of breeze will slap forever

I’m a simple man… I live in the Dragonborn Museum

Which homes would you (both the wizard and fellow commenters) recommend for survival mode? Since fast travel is disabled and you can freeze to death, I think proximity to a major city (and major city carriage driver) would be very important

Absolutely love this channel! Fantastic video and well worth waiting for!

I didn't know I needed this video, great!

I like most Creation Club ones. ...Never been at dwarf one. Bloodchill is one of the favorites, especially for my Assassin. With Dawnstar not too far off. Only downside is if you use magic that throws everything around... It's pain to clean. Aside Creation Club and crafted houses, I do like Solstheim one most. Crafted ones, especially Winstad are nice. Though with it you have quite dangerous neighbor. Vokun.

Rate every companion.

Just stumbled upon this video and your channel. My only regret is that I didn't find it sooner. Epic Nate, Fudgemuppet and now you are my top 3 favorite channels. I love me some long Skyrim videos. Great video please keep them coming. Here take my subscription, you've earned it.

I didn't even know about how many homes there are in Skyrim, thanks for the tier list!

Fish Roe Dah

Dear WelshWizard you are the best, you helped me beat Skyrim and the DLC's. You're guides are the best, and I wanted you to know that. I'm a assassin in Skyrim, and I'm suprised that a Wizard could help me be the greatest assassin, you helped me find Umbra and Umbra was easy. I never knew a nord could help a khajiit, now as a khajiit I can sucessfully assassinate people with your help, I've spent hours into Skyrim and you helped out A LOT! again I'm glad a Wizard could help me (a khajiit) Also if you're still reading your next video should be "Hardest quests in Skyrim"

First video I ever watched from you. One minute in: liked the video, subscribed and commented. Respect and appreciation for the amazing video and excellent research. Thank you!

so well edited. you should have more subs. this channel is my new channel to binge at work 😂

your editing is so good! loved every minute

all I came for was a list of the houses so I can know what I'd want, but my GODDDDD you DELIVERRRRRR on everything that comes with the list too! The jokes, the vibe, everything!!

34:36 that was perfectly executed (rip roggvir) nice video! i never bought a home so im going to have to consider doing that sometime.

I could watch this video forever. It's so nice to listen to a wise wizard travel around Skyrim like a realtor trying to close a deal on one of many shabby houses of varying habitability. I'm not even planning on playing Skyrim anytime soon, I'M NOT IN THE MARKET! But man... does Bloodchill Cavern look nice...

So thrilled this is out - it's amazing! 🤩

Thanks for this video. I have completed Skyrim at least 10 times and I didn’t know some of these properties even existed!!!

27:37 -the sound scared me to death as I was wearing earphones

skyrim is my favourite game of all time. thanks for making me play it again

Loving the style nd presentation, mate. Looking forward to seeing more!

Loved this! Your channel is one of my favorites!

Lakeview Manor is my personal favorite and I always went with it as my primary choice (after the expansion came out). The attacks made it fun!

Your writing and narration are brilliant.

Man my oldest vanilla Skyrim playthrough I built Lakeview and god stepping into that house the first time after finishing the full thing and furnishing it was such a great moment.

I have been entertainin a collectathon run of Skyrim where I just fill up a place with unique or cool items so this list is very informative cuz even with the time I've put in the game I have not explored all the homes yet. Thank you my good Wizard~

This man’s thumbnails have been getting better and better over the years, and I love it ❤

Is it weird that I've watched this like 3-4 times? It's so good.