Mod lists

[Gilanthus]

I am thinking of re-installing my Fallout4 and Skyrim games, mainly due to.. well, with me testing this mod and that mod out installing and uninstalling mods my games have become pretty much a cluster-F...  There are a lot of mods I like for each game(100+) and want to make a list of what mods I like and work well. Other than pen&paper or typing a list in another window, what other options are out there so I can make sure I have downloaded backups for each mod so I can reinstall them with ease?

[worik]

1 hour ago, Gilanthus said:

typing a list in another window

That's what I did ... years ago, when Skyrim was new. And I kept to it.

Luckily the good idea hit me after my 2nd or 3rd game start, somewhere around the 15th mod and right on spot as I decided to ditch the steam workshop in the bin.

 

Nowadays my toolbox is a 6 year old continuously maintained manual list, a regular dump of my Mod Organizer profile and a old USB disk as a backup of downloaded mods and my Skyrim install folder.

[QuicksandSlowly]

Yeah you can't trust Steam not to update and break your game. Best to copy your whole game directory somewhere and save either a txt list or a profile of your mods in mod manager with descriptive titles like, "Working Mod set 12/8/18" etc.

 

As far as a list of mods to use I haven't found a really great one yet but there are guides out there. I also sometimes make stable .zip file backups of my entire game directory so if I really fuck something up with my load orders I can just wipe out the whole install and replace it pretty much seamlessly or put it on a new computer or laptop. Works ok for Oblivion, FO3, and FONV at least. Haven't tried re-booting FO4 yet but I was able to get my Skyrim (not SE) .zip working on my new machine with minimal effort and a solid chunk of Sexlab packed in there. Had to re-initialize the mods and do a tiny bit of tweaking/updating/improving but that's to be expected.

[winny257]

I have, although I Skyrim no longer play, 2 external hard drives with each 2 TB Storage!
full of mods, including many that are no longer available today and of course my modified data folder, one knows yes never, maybe I'll play it once again.