Skip the Main Quest Options

[SubRosa]

I found two mods that allow you to skip the game's main quest. Both seem to use a bath file(s) that you run from the console, using console commands to complete the quests.

I tried out this one, which seems to go into more detail in by using the setstage command rather than just completequest for every quest. It also gives you all the dragon shouts you are taught by going through the main quest.

It has 4 batch files you run in order, each doing part of the main quest. That gives you the option of simply skipping over parts of it, and doing the others if you want.

I did find one bug with it. The creator suggested using it with an alternate start mod. I tried it with mine, and in the end I found that I was invisible when in first person! I could not see my hands or weapons I equipped. I could still hit things with my invisible weapons though. I could also see the effects of spells I equipped hovering in mid air, and they still worked too. I tried all the fixes for this bug I could find, but none worked.

So I went back and started a new game the normal way, and went through all of Helgen and down to Riverwood. Then I ran the batch files, and everything worked fine. I was visible in first person.

Today I went and tinkered a bit with the first batch file, and added in a couple more setstage commands to the starting quest. I tried it out, and afterward I could see my hands in first person! So that worked.

I changed the block of the first quest to this:

setstage mq101 0
setstage mq101 30
setstage mq101 50
setstage mq101 60
setstage mq101 65
setstage mq101 100
setstage mq101 150
setstage mq101 160
setstage mq101 180
setstage mq101 202
setstage mq101 240
setstage mq101 900

So if you want to have the main quest done, but are tired of doing it, this looks like it will take care of that for you. I have not tried playing very far after this. So I am not positive how it all works out. I guess I will find out.

It does add the attunement sphere and runed lexicon into your inventory so you can get into Blackreach and get the elder scroll if you want to. They are not marked as quest items however, so you can put them in a storage container for later, which is nice.

[Renee]

Yikes, that sounds tiresome, all those dragons just as you're trying to walk from one location to the next! So the mod does work, but it does some strange things, too. I think I also have random dragon attacks set to rarely occur. Probably once every 30 days as well, with some small amount (maybe 10% chance) of actually rolling. Thing is, dragon attacks should be challenging and special. In my opinion they shouldn't happen all the time. In the tablegames they were very rare, and I've tried to mirror this through mods.

I was thinking of using this mod to get past things like the forced greeting you get when you walk into Dragonsreach the first time. It then ropes you deeper in the main quest. It would be nice to be able to buy and sell stuff from Farengar without getting caught up in all that. When I do non-main quest games I simply never go there at all.

Yeah, that's true. There's a lot dependent on what we do in the game, such as we can't just do the Main Quest without needing to JOIN Mages College, if I remember correct.


macole: Lydia was actually beloved by a lot of gamers back in the day, but yes, I get what you're saying. Amongst us here at Chorrol, she's not used as often. An example is with Claire Voyance, my cleric from Chorrol. She has Breezehome and she has three followers: two of them are vanilla and one is mod-added. She also has Lydia, however, Lydia does nothing but stay in Whiterun most of the time. She guards Breezehome and watches over Lucia.

Maybe it's because Lydia is given to us, while the other followers Claire has were all hand-picked and chosen. Lydia just seems sort of ... "eh" compared to the hand-picked ones.

[Lena Wolf]

Lydia just seems sort of ... "eh" compared to the hand-picked ones.

"I am swoooooooorn to carry your burdens!"

I think "eh" doesn't quite cut it.