So I've been feeling like wanting to play modded Skyrim again but the issue I've been having is that I haven't been able to find a modding guide that's updated for the current year. I know most have moved on to automated modlists from Wabbajack but I haven't been able to find one that fits to what I want. That and I haven't been able to find any documentation on what options are chosen for certain mods in said Wabbajack lists.

Now I'm not looking for anything that explains HOW to make mods or something similar or how to install mods in general since I do know how to do it mostly, but more a guide that tells you want mods to install and the settings for the automatic mod installers (or FOMODs). Now I know about the Dragonborn's Fate guide which is good for a basic modding guide but I'm looking for something more akin to S.T.E.P. but that guide isn't as up to date. Lexy's LOTD might be a good choice too though I'm a little unsure for it at the moment even though I do want to use LOTD.

The reason I ask is cause I'd like to add on my own selection of mods and it's good to know what settings or options to select without being too overwhelmed (mods like LUX having tons of options and patches for example). That or to be able to substitute certain mods for others like NPC face mods.

Oh sure, everyone loves the hot takes. Everyone loves the big dramatic stuff. But over time things we all know are true slowly get forgotten. Well I want us to do the opposite of that. Let's talk about things that we think are obvious but that maybe people don't bring up enough

For me? Inigo is an incredible follower. I love how chipper he is. How positive his attitude stays in the face of craziness. Plus the dialogue patch with SDA makes him really funny as Serana teases him (and in my head canon, she's got a little bit of a thing for our favorite blue cat). I am consistently impressed by him especially when you think about the fact he's a decade old

What are yours?

It used to be better, but my laptop is worse now, so what mods can help? What helped you if you have such pc? My main issue right now is the outside, in some areas I have below 30 fps, the indoors are mostly fine, but would be nice to make it better too.

sometimes the problem is obvious. other times you can spend an entire evening trying to figure out why something is broken, only to discover that two completely unrelated mods were fighting over the same tiny thing

what’s the most ridiculous modding problem you’ve ever had to troubleshoot?

the original goal was to make a modlist that gave me the same feel as when i used to play the fallout 4 whispering hills mod. I’m far from being anywhere close to having a nice, fully modern list, but I do plan to continue working on it for the foreseeable future just to have and share with friends. It seems pretty stable to me, haven’t had any random crashes or game breaking bugs. I’m completely new to all of this and I don’t want to come off as some random person coming in here throwing another modlist in your face but I do think this could be a cool thing for some people, especially since I wasn’t really able to find anything that accomplishes what I’m wanting to be done.

If you wanna help me out and download the modlist I’ll leave a link to it down below. PLEASE let me know my wrongs, any rights I may have had too so I know which direction to keep heading while doing all this. Expect it to be foggy, like silent hill levels of foggy. (be sure to check the comment i posted if you do plan on downloading)

Skyrim Hill:

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/cd7xrx

Hi everyone! I'm finally at the stage where I can import my custom outfits into Skyrim- however, I am having issues with holes in my mesh when in-game. I have referenced weights from multiple base-game outfits and have done manual editing, but they all seem to leave holes at some point or another.

Is there any way to fix this? Thank you in advance.

So I recently got LUX and I really like it, it’s awesome for any interior with windows, and absolutely awful for any interior without, caves are completely pitch black, houses are dull and drab in rooms without windows even if there’s a fire/candles

Is there a good mod out there that will just add more light sources to interiors, or maybe make them more luminous, torch sconces and candle horns barely seem to light the walls they’re attached to and all in all I really either want a mod to add more light sources, or just make existing light sources brighter, like if a room has a chandelier I want the whole room to be fairy visible not the 3 foot radius directly under the light while the corners are pitch black, especially candlehorns, I have CS and a lot of its submods but the interior lighting still feels really bad, is there a mod out there that will make all the artificial lights brighter and cast shadows further?

Sorry for the text wall I just really want to know?

After I updated to 1.6.1170 from 1.6.353, My characters body became blue for no reason, I thought it was a racemenu but it wasn't, then I thought it was a problem with my skin mod, but nope! \

here's the load order:

View List - Load Order Library

and the crash logs:

a - Pastebin.com

I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for medium-large sized adventure/quest/expansion mods that work well with character builds that aren't DPS focused.

A lot of large mods, I notice, will have extended battles with tanky enemies, large sprawling Dwemer dungeons, or just generally be fully of quests where the only option is to bash something's skull in. The kind of thing that would become a slog if you were playing more of a Thief/Agent build.

These don't need to be assasin/sneak focused mods. For instance, I finally played Beyond Reach and really enjoyed how many options there were for quests that rewarded non-combat skills, or even just interesting traversal/dungeon crawling options. I truly felt like, re-playing it with my non-melee character, I had a meaningfully different experience. Same thing with 3DNPC.

Ideally, these are not quest mods that are explicitly assassination/stealth focused (I've played a lot of the DB expansion mods), moreso general overhaul mods that don't become a chore if you can't easily kill a field of 40 dremora.

Hi.

Grass growing over roads is driving me insane.

I've made a new grass cache, changed load orders, added patches but no changes seem to help.

Can anyone here help?

Cheers.

As you may know, Skyrim updated recently and that ended up jumbling a lot of mods. Fortunately, all of the mods in my list are now currently updated by their authors and are ready to be redownloaded.

Now... This is where my question rises.

I use Vortex, and some of the mods I need to update are asking me to "Pick the Files Myself". Now what does this mean, exactly?
Do I Download the new versions manually on Nexus and replace the files on the respective folders?

I *Really* don't wanna mess up my game, so please help me with this one.

Here's my modlist, as requested, and the mods that ask me to do this include "Better Jumping", "DaC0da" and "Vigilant".

Hello all, I recently installed Gate To Sovngarde and I'd like to disable the static bars at the top of my screen and use only the floating ones included in TrueHUD but I can't seem to get rid of them. Any help would be much appreciated!

Gladys the corgi won't stop tryna kill whoever i'm brawling, which quickly takes it from a brawl to an actual fight. Any mods that remedy this bwhavior? Playing on Gate of Sovrengarde modpack.

I'm looking for a mod that allows you to change the players werewolf color. The issue I'm having is that no matter what mod I install, whatever I choose for my werewolf automatically gets applied to other werewolf NPC's. I know it's probably a weird thing to be annoyed about but it bothers me lol. I just wanted my transformation to be kinda a unique thing to myself. I've tried Moonlight Mini Tales, Hairwolves, and werewolf retexture but all of them apply the color i choose to all werewolves in the game. If anyone has a sure fire mod that allows the color change for just my character specifically I would greatly appreciate it.

Also If anyone has any mods that allow the spawn of more werewolves and vampires in the wilderness to fight that would be sick!

This mod has a requirement the requires the High Poly Head.esm, problem the linked site has been blocked and taken down due to malware so its defunct, I found an archived version of the mod itself and tried that but its not the esm, is there a way to convert it or something?

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44155

Hi, I need help with my load order to prevent crashing on my ps5. Because I have very basic load order knowledge and I feel stupid. I also don't know how to get a link for my load order since I am ps5 exclusive

My mod list in order is:

SKYHUD.ESL

VINTAGE STEEL GREATSWORD

KANJS - BOOKS ALL IN ONE

NORDIC UI - ALT SKYHUD

ELLE - TAVERN MAID PS5

STORMCLOAK WARMAIDEN

HOTTEST REDGUARD PRESETS

HOTTEST NORD PRESETS

MONSTERHUNTERHUD

[PS5] NORDIC UI (SKYUI)

EPIC DRAGON COMBAT REDONE

DRAGON REMAINS (UPDATED)

DRAGONS USE THU'UM - EPIC

DRAGONS USE THU'UM

KILL FEED (PS/XBOX)

SKYRIM - REPUTATION

SKILL TREE EXPANSION

XP32 MAXIMUM SKELETON

PS5 THE PURE UNP 2K

HUMAN SERANA REPLACER

(PS5) COLOVIAN LEATHER

THE KIDS ARE UNIQUE

PS5 UNP VANILLA OUTFITS

A GUIDING LIGHT (CLAIRVOYANCE REPLACER)

UNDERWORLD LYCAN (PS5)

(PS5) SIMPLE WEARABLE LANTERNS

KOVACS DAWN WATERS V2

REFINED MOVEMENT

ARMED - A FIRST PERSON ANIMATION OVERHAUL

(PS5) FALMER OVERHAUL- PORT

(PS5) DRAUGRS - NEW MODELS

HYBRID BOOK SET

LIGHTING THE 7000 STEPS

[PS5) JK'S SKYRIM

(PS5) PLAYABLE SARAH - CBBE BY Xtudo

[PS5] ORDINATOR - PERKS OF SKYRIM

XPMSE.ESP

JAYSERPA'S LINES EXPANSION

PS4/5 OPEN FACED GUARD HELMETS

SKYRIM CUT CONTENT

THE WITCHER 3 WEAPONRY SE

FOOTPRINTS

(PS5) EVEREDGE SWORD

(PS5) FALLING SUN

(PS5) EINHERJR ARMOR

FAVORED SOUL - EIDOLON SWORD

FAVORED SOUL - SKYCUTTER

FAVORED SOUL - YGRAYNE - PS5

PS5 VERSION ORDINARY WEAPONS

SHADETREE LODGE

ENCHANTED CITIES

ENCHANTED SETTLEMENTS

HORSE AND RIDING ANIMATION OVERHAUL

REAL BOWS FOR SSE (PS5)

I actually find it pretty difficult to find any mods like that. The best I've found is Lifesworn Vestiges and Mail of the Light Carrier.

Any help would be appreciated!

Anyone know why Springganlands unbelievable tree overhaul has been removed from Nexus? Went to open the page to look for patches and it says it's been removed by a member of staff.

Formatted for 1.6.x+

This is my first public mod release! My mod is a dynamic merchant stall that is deployed via Lesser Power (z key). I'll copy the intro from my Nexus upload and link it here!

OVERVIEW
Rovan's Market Stall is a portable market stall system that lets you set up and run your own small merchant business anywhere outdoors in Skyrim.
Deploy your stall, stock the merchandise chest, and let nearby NPCs come by and purchase items from you. Your sales, inventory, and earnings are tracked through the included business ledger.
The stall is designed to be persistent, easy to use, and fully self-contained without making changes to vanilla cities, NPC records, or merchant systems.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/190200?tab=description

Note: Also not mentioned in the original overview but versions 1.2.1 (my most recent as of today) now includes allowing an NPC to man your stall while you adventure. This mod is highly compatible with other mods as it doesn't edit vanilla cells. Everything is dynamically placed and then deleted when you recall the stall. Additionally, it's very anti-save bloat as I have items deleted from the world when they're purchased instead of staying in NPC inventories.

I'm doing a playthrough and am at mid-late game where I steamroll everything as a mage, and I want to test the limits of my power.

Edit:forgot to specify modded boss

Load order: https://pastebin.com/4rcQxYKD

I've been playing with this mod for a while and had no issues, all of a sudden I'm getting vanilla enchanting table with the glow from Enchanting Tables PBR by TyLuiss. I've been using both mods together with no issues until now

So i’ve followed Skyking’s video (linked below) and it’s been incredibly helpful for generating LODS, and now that i’ve been playing with them for a bit, I’d like to try my hand at generating slightly more detailed ones, as he says himself the values shown in the video are sort of middle of the road. I tried to follow the STEP guide but I find it very confusing, and I’m not sure i’m ready to delve into grass cache so i’m not too worried about that, but anyone have a guide/preset of values for higher level lods than those in the video guide?

https://youtu.be/aKJrJ1Mgad4?is=CSGoubSaoRhvoC8v