The Lore Reason for the closed gate are bandits. The Jarl dont even have the control over her capital town of Rifton. The soldiers and guards of rifton cant actually beat up the bandits wich permanently attacked the gate. The jarl decied because of that to close the gate permanently. If the player conquers the bandits forts and hideouts in the rift would it be also Lorewise make sense to open the gate agin.
This is grate thank you. I can believe after all this time. That area is fixed. Before all the dlc's Dragonborn, hearthfire, and dawnguard. There was a door ther but when you went though it it gliched out in horrer. colors section changed to red some vanished. It was bad. When i saw this i had to test it. Last i tested it was version 1.5.7 now i am in 1.6 something. Well it is gone now. The glitch bug is not there so i have down loaded this and now the old door from the first game is BACK!!!!!! AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NO GLICH WA HOOOOOOO!!!!!
Just installed it works well my follower went with me in and out of the gate. Dont know when they fixed the back glitch but i tested it before i installed your mod to see if it was still there and it was fixed. So for all you old players like me this will put it back. Thank you again good mod. Brings back the old days before the dlc's.
So... The reason there's no door there in vanilla is because the Jarl didn't have the manpower to guard all three gates from bandits, and the bandits had been getting so bold that they were actually attacking the city itself. She doesn't have the manpower because the Blackbriars and the Thieves guild have been sucking all the money out of the local economy...
So she simply ordered that gate to be boarded up. Wild, huh?
To open the gate midgame after the shadedown, here is a guide for noobs like me:
press ~ to open the console (or ^ on a german keyboard layout) click on the door while the console is open (you will see a number / id for the door) type unlock in the console and press enter
The door is unlocked now. You may have to look away from the door and look at it again to update the mouse over text. The companion teleportation works fine for me with the fixed city gate.
It was restored by JK Skyrim too but I removed it from that mod. There is a reason Bethesda didn't add that third Gate. For me it make Dawnguard area more secret and protected.
That would be great mod, if you could add few city guards there. There is a purpose why this gate is been "board". From Elder Scrolls Wiki:
One of the gates to Riften is boarded up. A path leads from the boarded gate to the Morrowind border, although the border gate is not traversable. Although according to the official game guide, that gate was boarded up due to a large amount of casualties from bandit attacks that happened right outside that gate. See Riften, in the official paper guide for Skyrim, original edition.
Thank you so much for this! I use a 'towns' only version of JK's Skyim and this compliments it perfectly. It restores that door nicely. I had done it myself, but your solution is nicer.
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PLEASE port if you can! 🥺
Just installed it works well my follower went with me in and out of the gate. Dont know when they fixed the back glitch but i tested it before i installed your mod to see if it was still there and it was fixed. So for all you old players like me this will put it back. Thank you again good mod. Brings back the old days before the dlc's.
So she simply ordered that gate to be boarded up. Wild, huh?
There is a purpose why this gate is been "board". From Elder Scrolls Wiki: