Ever wondered why you can't wear armor or clothing over a skin-tight ebonite suit? With this mod, you can!
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What It Does
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When picking up, looting, buying, or trading a vanilla armor* or clothing* item while wearing a devious suit, this mod will prompt you if you want to get a version that can be worn over your devious suit (catsuits, hobble dresses). It only works with certain vanilla body armor* items.
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Clicking "yes" will add an alternative version of that armor to your inventory. That alternative armor uses slot 54 and doesn't have a visible body, thus it can be equipped when already wearing any body armor (like a devious suit). Clicking "no" will add the normal armor as usual. You can find and equip the new armors through your inventory as usual. This mod's armor variants all have a "DD+" suffix added to their display names.Â
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It works similar to a cloak when equipping it, in that it can be worn on top of already worn armor parts. This won't change any of your worn Devious Devices, nor any armors on NPCs, in storage chests, or already in your inventory.Â
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The armors should automatically hide some types of Devious Devices to prevent clipping (chastity bras and belts, arm cuffs) via their armor addon slots. This does not unequip them or mess with their DD functionality in any way. It also does not use or require the DD Device Hider to be active.Â
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*Vanilla Armors and Clothes This Mod Handles:
Unenchanted Versions of:
- Fur Armor
- Hide Armor
- Iron Armor
- Leather Armor
- Studded Armor
- Imperial, Stormcloak and Guard Armor
- Forsworn
- Ancient Nord
Clothing:
- Barkeeper
- Beggar
- Blacksmith
- Farmer
- Fine
- Merchant
- Miner
- Prisoner
- Monk Robes
- Nocturnal
- Thalmor
- Wench
Enchanted Mage Clothing (only vanilla enchantments!)
- College Novice, Apprentice, Adept, Expert, Master, and Arch-mage RobesÂ
- Warlock Robes
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Limitations and Conflicts
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The armor swapping system works only with a selection of pre-defined vanilla armors (see spoiler above). Any mod-added armors, including copies of vanilla armors, will be ignored by this mod.
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Some clipping might occur, especially with more extreme body shapes or around some "bulky" parts of Devious Devices (the upper cuffs of the Restrictive Gloves, for example).
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The armors from this will conflict with any other mods that use slot 54. Besides that, it should be compatible with anything else.
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It is unknown at this stage how this mod works with things like armor breaking mods or other such advanced systems. Please report any issues or oddities you might encounter.
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This mod only works for female characters.
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Performance Impact
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The mod should be reasonably lightweight. Everything runs on a quest and a single, simple script. It uses an InventoryEventFilter for the OnItemAdded event to reduce its impact when looting large stashes or using the "take all" function.
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The mod only fires in the very moment you add items to your inventory. There are no cell scans, cloak spells, inventory tracking, or update loops. The armor replacement is handled through form lists.Â
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This mod does not change any vanilla records or functionality.
Edited by El_Duderino
What's New in Version 1.0.1
Released
March 30, 2026:
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Added two basic tutorials for how to expand this mod to other armors of your choice. One PDF has shows the necessary steps in Bodyslide Outfit Studio, the other PDF how to expand the mod in xEdit.
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NO CHANGES TO THE MOD ITSELF (i.e., no need to re-download).
Installation is very simple:
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1) Install the mod like any other. Load order doesn't matter.
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2) Build the included armors in Bodyslide. Use the 3BA body and the slider preset of your choice. I have included a slider group for all of this mod's armors which you can use to quickly batch-build the whole set (see screenshot above).Â
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Requirements:
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Bodyslide and Outfit Studio:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/198
CBBE 3BA Body:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30174
3BA Vanilla Clothes and Armor (not a hard requirement, but doesn't make much sense without it if you want the DD-compatible armors to look like the originals):
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/51610
Devious Devices (any version)
Not sure which version of the base game is required. My CK is AE-1130 and I've play-tested in AE-1170.
Acro: for the 3BA body
kpvw: for the 3BA CBBE vanilla armors conversion
The countless wonderful people who are and have been involved in the development of Devious Devices!