Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16399478-20130726035813/@comment-13199219-20130726051406

Pickleseller wrote: Also, bandits can kidnap your spouse. However, if you are thane of the hold and get a housecarl for your hearthfire home, the spouse will not be kidnapped, as the housecarl protects them.

Also, it adds the ability to adopt to children, which is pretty cool. It adds new street urchins you could adopt, or you could go to the orphanage in Riften.

It's really good if you want to roleplay self-sufficiency. You can farm on all properties (You get a little garden) and in the Heljarchen Hall/the Pale/Dawnstar house, you can get a grain mill to grind your own flour for bread, which you can bake in your hearthfire kitchen oven! (The ideal house for a farmer roleplay would be heljarchen hall, with the kitchen and bedroom wings.)

Finally, Hearthfire adds some new recipes for normal cooking, and stuff you can make in the hearthfire home exclusive oven (Such as bread).