Under construction!
Before installing anything on my list bear in mind I’ve been playing since release. Because of the way Skyrim handles savegames and scripts, everyone who mods their Skyrim should know about “clean saves.” If you don’t, google it or something. With that consideration some of the mods I have can’t be removed safely unless I completely gut my older characters or go through the whole save cleaning process. Some mods are obsolete and/or have better successors out there. Take a look at Mods made obsolete by USKP before installing any fixes in particular.
Also, yes, these mods are all loaded into my game.
I have Hi-Res Texture Pack, Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn.
General Fixes
- Unofficial Skyrim Patch
- Unofficial Dawnguard Patch
- Unofficial Dragonborn Patch
- Unofficial Item Fixes (Old and possibly outdated)
- Vampire Lord drain with Serana fixed
- Vampire Lord Collision Fix
- Chillrend Sound Bug Fix and Removal
Gameplay Tweaks
- No More Glowing Edges Mod
- The Cartographers Map Markers
- Dragon Priest Mask Quest Markers
- Stones of Barenziah DROPPABLE plus Quest Markers
- Improved Container Names (No longer maintained, also the successor seems to have disappeared. Considering making my own version, but works as is and useful)
- KenMOD – Lockpick Pro – Cheat (when you’re used to Thief’s system you kinda HATE the lockpick minigame)
- Alternate Start – Live Another Life
- Loadout
- Vampire No Sun Damage – Cloaks Helmets and Hoods
- Shadowmarks Guide
- Thieves Guild Requirements – No Auto Quest Start Brynjolf (Primarily just to keep Brynjolf from harassing my non thief characters.)
- Swap Rings to Other Hand (Allows to wear two rings)
- Smaller Ice Spike and Ice Spear
- Skyrim Enhanced Camera (makes first person look more like Outlast’s camera)
Perks Overhauls
- Pocket Crafting Shop (HEY. It’s magic. It’s completely legit)
- No Head for Perk (Helmets shouldn’t even be required for the perk)
- Ridin Dirty
- Treebalance – Heavy Armor Tree (with optional Light Armor Tree to not conflict with Ridin Dirty)
- Treebalance – Smithing Tree
- Treebalance – Speech Tree
- Alchemy Overdose
- Quadruple Enchantments
Crafting
*Needs Sharlikrans Compatibility Patches
Powers & Magic
- Spend Dragon Souls for Perks
- Dragonrend Hurts
- Dynamic Magicka (Almost required for anyone playing a pure mage character- actually makes magical battle viable as much as a 2handed melee character is)
- Ancient Spells 2
- Forbidden Magic Spell Pack 1
- Forbidden Magic Spell Pack 2
- Forbidden Magic Spell Pack 3
- PJs Spell Compendium for Skyrim
Weapons
Followers & Companions
- Goddess Follower
- Companions and Followers (Essential version)
- Dimitri Follower by CrimsonFairy
- Elven Follower Aranya
- Julien Christophe Priest of Mara – Julien the Wild
- Lilium Follower (with Petal Cloak fix)
- Onmund by CrimsonFairy
- Sofia The Funny Fully Voiced Follower (I actually find her a bit annoying but I think it’s the way some of the lines are delivered. She’s pretty neat otherwise.)
- Vath Firehall
Homes/Abodes
- Alastherium Sanctuary (Requires Dawnguard)
- Silverfish Grotto
- Unlimited Bookshelves
Creatures
- Cliffracers (WHAT. It makes me nostalgic…)
- Convenient Horses (+ Unique Frost +Faster Sprint)
- Non Hostile Bears because Damn, son.
Animations
Oh boy, before I list these out, bear in mind I had a specific install order.
First, XPMS and Ragdolls Realistic Force, then UNPB BBP Redux (and click NO to overwriting the XPMS skeleton!) and just brought in whatever animations I wanted from UNPB Redux.
Then, I installed Mystic Knight Animations and clicked NO to whatever conflicted with the other mods. THEN I installed 360 Walk Run Plus and also clicked NO to overwriting files from the other mods.
So I was left with the XP skeleton, UNPB BBP walk, run and breathing idle animations, and filled in whatever was left over not covered by UNPB and Mystic Knight with 360.
Stand Up Get Up I don’t think conflicts with anything, and neither should FNIS or FNIS Sexy Move.
Remember to FOLLOW FNIS INSTRUCTIONS. You HAVE to use common sense with these and I am getting odd random errors of my character suddenly doing the Stiff Armed No Animation thing while jogging/falling even though I’m pretty sure I did nothing wrong installing these– a change of direction fixes it. It’s a really strange bug. Except for Sexy Move and AE Animations they’re all replacers.
- 360 Walk Run Plus
- AE Animations
- D13 Faster GET UP STAND UP
- FNIS Sexy Move
- FNIS (+ Creature +Spell Packs)
- Pretty Sit Idle
- XP32’s Maximum Skeleton
- YY Anim Mystic Knight Replacer — ONE of my favorites and I love the casting animations (and who the hell says it’s more feminine? They look awesome on males to me)
- Realistic Ragdolls and Force
Armors
- Golden Eagle Heavy Armor
- Freya’s Raiment
- Dark Messiah Armor Pack
- AA Armor
- Evil Mastermind Armor
- Grace Darklings Elven Scout Armor (Requires Dragonborn)
- Raven witch armor and Apex Werewolf
- Saber Dress by Hentai
Jewelry
Replacers
- AEterna Circlets — I have made my own FOMOD installer to automate installation. It’s a half assed job but it gets it done without having to mess around with AEterna’s manual installation and then having to hunt down the different pieces when uninstalling it. This is for the BIG PACK not the basic. You have to unzip the folder and then add the fomod folder to the AETerna big pack archive. Then you add the archive to whatever mod management program (say NMM) and activate it. I provide it as is but if you see something wrong with it give me a heads up.
- Phantom Earth (You can see this in my screenshots!)
- O Starry Night (My own mod, I’ve gotten a lot of beautiful nightsky screenshots with it and it works great with CoT)
- Archmage Robes No Mud or Dirt Retexture
- Dragonborn Mages Robes Retexture Pack
- Stormcloaks wear Buchanan Hunting Tartan Cloaks (Not my mod, however someone requested so I am currently working on a Campbell retexture, which is what my boy character is wearing sometimes in the header.)
- High Quality LODs (In order to use with NMM open the archives and repackage the options in new archives, or create an installer.)
- High Quality Snow Texture
- Superior Lore-Friendly Hair – HD textures
Clothes
- Cloaks of Skyrim (+ Dawnguard content)
- Elven Dresses by Naihaan (both packs)
- Flowing Cape With Physics
- Noble Wedding Dress
- SC – Noble Dresses
- Tifa Outfit-black advent children cloth by Himmelsky (I have absolutely no reason for this one other than it’s Tifa.)
- Velvet Robes and Cloaks
- Winter is Coming (patched with Cloaks of Skyrim)
Lighting & Environmental
- Alternative Lighting 2
- Climates of Tamriel
- Skyrim Bigger Trees (Smaller SBT and Riften Bigger Trees)
- W.A.T.E.R.
- Rainbows
- Shooting Stars
Sounds
- Ambient Seagulls
- Film Score Sound Track
- Fuz Ro D-oh – Silent Voice (Requires SKSE)
- Immersive Skyrim Thunder V6
- No Player Moans
- Remove Annoying Lines
- Oblivion and Morrowind Soundtracks Addition (This is only the ESP which adds the tracks to the music list. Must actually own the music to both games– I do but I won’t send you the files. Either grab the MP3s out of Morrowind and Oblivion’s game folders or buy the albums and follow the mod instructions.)
- Symphonies Of Skyrim
New Content/Enhancement
Character Creation
- Apachii SkyHair (Main, Male, 72 Female, Wigs)
- Vie Hair (Male Only) (Archive has a password, read Vie’s info)
- Enhanced Character Edit
- Final Younger Characters
- The Eyes Of Beauty
Realistic Needs & Diseases (must have patches to go with some of the other mods)
Morrowind Imports
HDT High Heels (I like their mod team name!)
Better males – Beautiful nudes and faces – New hairstyles (Contains NSFW Skyrim models, search for it on the Nexus)