Adventures across the 3rd dimension

The only thing I ever tried to do in the Creation Kit was mess around with NPCs and the results were ... mixed.
I successfully changed the voice of one pre-installed mod and after becoming overconfident with that I then went on to create my own NPC follower and ... he just kept walking off somewhere.

Well, I managed to make one of my tavern brothers a bard, but I don't want him to sing all the time. And when I set up the bard stuff that AI package was auto-added to him, while my previously added packages were auto-removed.

I feel like I'm just fiddling with small things now, and I won't get much further without help... But I only found one general discord for skyrim modders and I'm not sure I like the tone there. I think there are plenty of other Skyrim related channels but they seem to mostly focus on one tool each or some such. And I hate how everything you want to do outside of the creation kit seem to need 2-3 extra tools each. Change textures, at least 2, change collisions, 2 or 3 and don't forget you need to convert to LE then back to SE to work with the one of them that seem to have no alternatives, meshes, another 1-3 tools...

Not to mention the actual asking of questions and talking to complete strangers

So I'm setting up the idle markers, the character inventories and AI packages, and I've added a horse and 2 chicken... I've yet to add dialogue and I think one of the tavern brothers will be a merchant, so one can at least drop some stuff off in Karthwasten. Maybe. But I do need to understand how to export meshes and textures and to rework collisions and add them to altered items in order to finish this thing. I can't recall if I mentioned it already but I did download and install something that would allegedly let me export meshes and textures from the game bsa files but so far it can't find any bsa files at all...

...and

Edit: I did a check of my added AI packages and hardly any seemed to be working. I made a long list of stuff that didn't work, then I read somewhere that you need to "resurrect" NPC's after changing the AI packages if you've already met them, or the save file will have old stuff... So now they're all resurrected. A few more things seem to be working. Probably not all.  

Edit2: Now the bard won't shut up and go to bed!  

I don't know what I'm doing

I don't know what I'm doing

I don't know what I'm doing

and in case anyone is curious what I am TRYING to do, I'm trying to maka e new mounted animal head... It looked OK in Blender and I could even see the collision shape, so yay! Then I exported it to nif format and opened in Nifskope only to find I only got the head, not the wooden board or the collision shape. So I opened a mounted bear, saved as a new file, replaced bear head with new animal head and everything looked fine again. Saved again. Replaced my mounted bear in CK with the new one - and this time I only got the BOARD? WTH??? Where did the head go??? so...

I don't know what I'm doing

I don't know what I'm doing

I don't know what I'm doing

I am starting to suspect you don't know what you are doing 

Whatever gave you that idea?

I'm practically a genius and know exactly what I'm doing  
 

PS: Don't tell anyone that this boar is a warthog... 

His poor little body is just dangling on the other side of that wall 

It took me ages yesterday to delete the rest of his body without it reappearing the moment I deleted the cube I used to do so...

He needs a little Meercat head mounted next to him to keep him company