Devious Devices merge

[Baltasarr80]

Hello together im around 260 mods and i wanted to merge some mods like Devious Devices together? Can i do than did someone try it already?

 

Spoiler

together with Cursed Loot

 

I only wanna know if it would be possible and if the items would be than working afterwords.

 

I am using Z merge btw

[Monoman1]

Nope. I wouldn't do it. Has potential to break a lot of things. 

There are probably mods better suited to be merged in your LO. 

Merging framework type mods is a recipe for disaster. 

[Baltasarr80]

Yeah i thought so because one is an esm .... mmmh problem is now where to steal...

[DeWired]

Well, I guess, you can merge BRRF and ForHim into Expansion (and you should care with merge order there), but any other merges are questionable - there are mods out there using soft dependencies onto either Integration or Expansion. In theory, you can merge Assets into Integration - but I don't know how it would came out.

[Monoman1]

Any outside mod using Game.GetFormFromFile() or Game.GetModByName() will fail if the mod name is not present in the load order. These are used pretty extensively. 

Even if you name the mod the same merging may renumber duplicate formids and so GetFormFromFile may fail as well. 

Merging is a godsend but you've got to be careful. 

[Baltasarr80]

yeah ithink i get it ... well im more the try by error guy... tried it with the sos files ... same problem because they use or many mods use files from sos like sexlab/sexlab survival ... i think that this was one reason why my mcm menus were blank in the end ...

[indolu]

your best bet is to make plugins esl's. That can be done with the eslify guide. it will save you at least a little space.

[Baltasarr80]

I will take a look thanks so far...