[Carriage For Goldenhills / CFTO + GHP]

[What does this mod do? / What does this mod require?]

This mod adds a carriage service to Goldenhills Plantation, something that was oddly overlooked in vanilla / Creation Club content concerning the area of Rorikstead in general.

The service is activated via an unmarked "microquest" that is completed by picking up and taking a letter in the Frostfruit Inn, which is in Rorikstead. Look for the glorious cheese!

Once the letter is taken, the carriage service that appears near Goldenhills Plantation functions as a free ride to most of the holds and cities in Skyrim.

With the "Carriage for Goldenhills" mod package, the carriage service functions like any Hearthfires / BYOH carriage service.

If you're looking for something more thorough and have CFTO installed, you can use the "CFTO+GHP" mod package instead.

The CFTO version I've updated to not even bother with the microquest as it was simply too much hassle to script it properly.
Install at any time, preferably after you start and progress through the Farming content some.
The letter is still included, but not required or even linked to the carriage spawning.

ONLY CHOOSE AND USE ONE PACKAGE AT A TIME.

Both require the Creation Club content "Be A Farmer", or "Farming" as it is called in the CC marketplace.

[Creation Credits / Development Details]

This was a lot of work, spent nearly a day or two but I figured it out for the most part. I learned from another mod for "Helgen Reborn" that adds a carriage service to that town.

There was originally a dialogue tree being planned and set up but the CK decided it didn't want to do that, always crashing whenever I added a topic. So I resorted to using a letter to activate the references via a "microquest".

As such, I feel I should thank Tooplex and Balok for Helgen Reborn, Kinaga for CFTO, and Bethesda, especially Virginia “Steelfeathers” Smith for crafting such a helpful Creation to begin with. There is also one script I picked up from the CK wiki.

[Where to find the letter? / Can I activate the Carriage before completing the Farming quests?]

The letter, signed as from Thannor, is on the bar next to some rather delicious-looking cheese. Look around in the Frostfruit Inn, you'll be fine.

As for requirements of quest completion, you can actually take the letter before you even reach the plantation. Ol' Thannor is just happy being the local wheelman, for what it's worth.

Idealy, you should pick it up after the quest, but I won't judge you for opening your presents early! In my testing, he doesn't worry himself over the ghosts, either.

[Installation]

Use whichever mod manager / installer you like. Load order shouldn't matter too much, but maybe sort your load order just in case.

Please let me know if you find or encounter any oddities or errors with either version installed. The sooner I know of a problem, the sooner I can get to work on remedying it!

[Uninstallation]

Use your mod manager / installer to disable the mod, or at bare minimum, remove the .ESP that was included with this mod from your Data folder. Mod Organizer 2 makes all this very easy, by the way.

[Conclusion / Permissions]

I don't mind if you want to learn from this particular mod, but if you do, please give credit where credit is due.

Many thanks to Bethesda and their Creation Kit software. Without them, this would not be possible.

More thanks to you, for reading, downloading, and enjoying this mod!

Now, climb in back and we'll be off! Safe travels!