What is the first mod you installed?

[Amethyst456]

There are millions of Skyrim mods. Some players installed many mods, some installed fewer, some reinstall mods for thousands times. But each of us had a first mod to install.

 

For me, the first mod I installed is Severin Manor music fix, a very small mod that change the default dungeon music inside Severin Manor to Solstheim music. I spent a year to play vanilla Skyrim, so at that time Severin Manor is one of the best house to me, I was disappointed that after completing the quest and getting this manor, terrible dungeon music still play when I go inside the house. So I installed this mod.

 

And what about you? What is your first installed mod, since the first time you played Skyrim?

[SirDuke]

This is what Nexus tells me about my download history;

Nude Females - Barbie Doll

12 Nov 2011, 7:22AM

Thepal

[donttouchmethere]

Ingame?

FNIS!

because of

Getting Started with SexLab

[The First Lady of Hats]

The first mods on Bethesda games always follow the same pattern.

First someone will take either the Iconic or if there is no iconic the coolest looking armor and do a really crap reteture of it in black.

The second will be making everybody naked.

Thus my first mod was probably one of those two

[misslexi9162]

According to my Nexus DL history it was "http://Really Smooth Female Faces" LOL!

[worik]

Puuuuuh    - soooo long ago

 

Either this: No Intro Fix https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6637

or that: No NPC Greetings https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/746

maybe this https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/2812

 

It was pretty sure via steam ... and in that case a mistake. Not the mod!  But the source ?

[Slorm]

Touring Carriages was my first from memory, it's what first got me into modding for immersion. I then heard about Private Needs which is how I ended up at LL

[RmX93]

Nexus history says Dimonized UNP female body in 2014

[Captain Cobra]

GALO hair, only a couple of days after the game came out.

[SmedleyDButler]

I can't recall, but I followed the STEP guide (mostly...) when I first started modding, so it was probably something stone boring like USLEEP or SkyUI.

 

The earliest INTERESTING mod I can remember installing is EEO.

[LinksSword]

Skse of course, Without that most of the mods i want wouldn't work, I remember having trouble getting hdt to work when i installed cbbe for the first time.

Now i have no issue installing hdt.

[Ernest Lemmingway]

Nexus says "All Enchant Recipes - Via Disenchant (VANILLA ONLY)" on Nov. 16, 2011. I still hate the way Skyrim handles enchanting.

 

Then several retexture mods, with Nude Females being second only after a landscape one because it came out slightly later.

[MorePrinniesDood]

SKYUI, and it's pre-req SKSE. Because I found the Vanilla interface that intolerable when I started playing.

[wokking56]

As I mentioned elsewhere I started with some weapon and armor mods. So according to Nexus my first would have to be "Throwing Weapons - Death From Afar". Hell I don't even remember that, so it must have sucked. Then followed by a couple bad armor re-textures.

[TheWilloughbian]

Apachii Sky Hair. I looked at the character when I first started the game and was very disappointed with the hair selection. I wasn't even going to start a game without some decent looking hair.

[FauxFurry]

If we're going to be completely accurate here, then I would have to say Skyrim Script Extender. It is the gateway for all of the mods which I switched to the PC version for,after all.

No SKSE means no SOS and no SOS means no SOS-UNP add-on and that's no good.

[PlayerKiller]

I remember mine was a follower mod, C35 aka Silmeria. My Asain board lurking harem hunting Pokemon collection all started with her.

[valcon767]

first day modding Skyrim on computer went like this:

 

download game to default location

install USKP

attempt to install NMM

tear at hair in frustration

remove Steam and Skyrim from computer (access issues due to letting Steam install to default location)

remove NMM and make sure Steam and Skyrim are totally gone from computer

reinstall Steam and Skyrim to C:\Steam

go to bed while Skryim downloads for the 2nd time

day 2 

install NMM

let NMM install USKP (individual patches)

download mod from another site i wanted to try (armor mod)

tear at hair again (NMM not letting me install mod manually due to lack of knowledge)

remove everything again

reinstall Steam and Skyrim to C:\Steam (again)

deploy google fu and spend next week reading to learn at least the basics

 

[tomomi1922]

OK so to be completely honest, Nexus history shows my very first download was on 23 Jul 2012, 3:55PM
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6667

My personal modding history started with Dragon Age: Origins.  And one of the first issue I dealt with in DA:O was how weird the female body was: extremely broad shoulder, either head too small or the frame too big.  So I guess that's how I picked this mod first.

[tomomi1922]

17 hours ago, valcon767 said:

first day modding Skyrim on computer went like this:

 

download game to default location

install USKP

attempt to install NMM

tear at hair in frustration

remove Steam and Skyrim from computer (access issues due to letting Steam install to default location)

remove NMM and make sure Steam and Skyrim are totally gone from computer

reinstall Steam and Skyrim to C:\Steam

go to bed while Skryim downloads for the 2nd time

day 2 

install NMM

let NMM install USKP (individual patches)

download mod from another site i wanted to try (armor mod)

tear at hair again (NMM not letting me install mod manually due to lack of knowledge)

remove everything again

reinstall Steam and Skyrim to C:\Steam (again)

deploy google fu and spend next week reading to learn at least the basics

 

LOL

I think we all have been there one way or another.  I think the first game that I seriously considered modding was The Sims 2.  Even EA kept saying modding is bad, but what is the point of the game without mod?  10 pieces of furniture and 5 outfits to choose from?  I am not into playing god simulating life generations after generations.  I am just into the RPG element where I played myself or some other roleplayed characters, and probably spent way more time in build mode (90% of the time) where time is frozen and I just built built built.  The tradition went on heavily with Sims 3, Dragon Age series, then I entered TES late with Skyrim as my first official TES game.  

Let's just say... my "modding experience" did not 100% help me learning Skyrim modding.  Steam in the mix was also a huge problem because most guides out there did not cover Steam version.  To be honest, my very first Skyrim version was off torrent.  I was bored, looking for something to get away from The Sims 3 (frankly the most unstable modding experience I have seen, the game was held together by ducktapes).  But upon a few hours of play I realized Skyrim was nothing like Everquest (that I feared).  I went a bought an official version of Skyrim so I could mod.  

But the worst habit my "modding experience" gave me would be insisting on manual installation.  Because who would trust a program to install things for me?  It took a while for me to finally give in to NMM.  

[Grey Cloud]

18 hours ago, valcon767 said:

deploy google fu and spend next week reading to learn at least the basics

 

I don't know what my first mod was. I installed a shed-load* at once because I'm one of those annoying twats who does the above first. ?

*200 or so if memory serves. The game ran fine too.  I'm so good that sometimes I scare myself.

[valcon767]

42 minutes ago, tomomi1922 said:

But the worst habit my "modding experience" gave me would be insisting on manual installation.  Because who would trust a program to install things for me?  It took a while for me to finally give in to NMM.  

nod nod 

 

when i got going good (had learned the basics at least) i was like the kid in the toy store who got told you can have anything you want, as many different things

as you want.  which for me meant changing stuff on a 1-3 times a day basis.  and while NMM will let you do this it is harder to do it in that program (or was at 

the time) which lead me to switching to MO (where doing that was much easier and faster at the time).

 

[woodsman30]

I would have to say SKSE as it made Skyrim playable then NMM and then an armor mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/7305

[tomomi1922]

37 minutes ago, valcon767 said:

nod nod 

 

when i got going good (had learned the basics at least) i was like the kid in the toy store who got told you can have anything you want, as many different things

as you want.  which for me meant changing stuff on a 1-3 times a day basis.  and while NMM will let you do this it is harder to do it in that program (or was at 

the time) which lead me to switching to MO (where doing that was much easier and faster at the time).

 

Oh yeah, I am working on MO2 right now.  Just decided to switch over 2 days ago.  Still in the thick of reinstalling.  I was a kid in the candy store as well.  Being cautious and skeptical, but at the same time bold and daring, I nearly downloaded half of Nexus.  Luckily I was quick to eliminate problematic mods and knew how to backup my saves.  
 

3 minutes ago, woodsman30 said:

I would have to say SKSE as it made Skyrim playable then NMM and then an armor mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/7305

I think the question was to ask the very first mod you downloaded, not the very first mod you want to download.  Certainly now we are the veteran of the modding scene (give or take) and a lot of us can write in-depth tutorials on many things.  But when we first started in Skyrim, we would have been complete noobs.  How would you even know SKSE exists?  

Back in my time in 2012, I don't think CBBE was even a thing.  SKSE was yet to exist either.  Nexus was probably full of those recolored mods (where people just repainted the texture of some Vanilla outfits).  I think NMM was out already.  

[woodsman30]

1 hour ago, tomomi1922 said:

I think the question was to ask the very first mod you downloaded, not the very first mod you want to download.  Certainly now we are the veteran of the modding scene (give or take) and a lot of us can write in-depth tutorials on many things.  But when we first started in Skyrim, we would have been complete noobs.  How would you even know SKSE exists?  

I answered the question.  I started playing on xbox 360 and gave it up because it sucks in vanilla went back a few years later and found a whole new scene I did not start playing on PC until 2015.. I did a lot of homework before I decided to play on PC Hence SKSE to make the game playable why would you question my statement do you know me?