!Maidens of Darkness

[soreo16]

hey im trying to enter embershard mine and i CTD everytime did the texture fix still happened looked at the file and noticed Tatyana the npc in there doesn't have a texture file in 2.0a

 

[another nobody]

On 12/23/2025 at 12:46 AM, shrek6667 said:

does this mod work with the buxom wench yuriana  mod? game crashes every time  embershard mine.

 

I've been using both mods together for a few months.  Currently on 1.1b.  I am on Linux with Proton 9-17.  I don't have crashes, but I do have overlapping combat zones - WOW those are intense.

 

On 1/2/2026 at 3:45 PM, ShinsFortress said:

I finally found Belladonna and while she's a well above average bit of art, that Val Gorthia place...   Ugh!  Clever design, even 'unfinished', but a chore.  Is she worth it?  Hmmm.

 

Still, hats off to Rowdy for the work.

 

I just found this last night and have Belladona now.  It took two trips.  I collect way too much loot and this dungeon is a nightmare!  I felt like I was going to meet a minautaur any second and my 6 companions and 3 captured wenches were scattered all over the place.  I literally started dropping items at certain spots so I could quickly know where I'd already been at junction points (the twine from the minautaur myth).

 

I did find the combats challenging and I tried some sophisticated techniques to improve my odds of both surviving and capturing a few bandit wenches (there's that game overlap).  I can say that visually, she's worth it.  I'll find out over time if she adds survivability value.

 

On 1/2/2026 at 4:48 PM, quasimodo75 said:

It works nicely for me. Did you check your mods with Wrye Bash, LOOT and so on?

 

I use LOOT even though I have a built in sort on Vortex.  I figure it helps.  However, I don't know anything about Wyre Bash - any tips for use cases?

 

On 1/4/2026 at 12:02 PM, RowdyD1313 said:

I plan on returning to MoD late spring, though it really depends on my recovery. Things could be pushed back a bit depending on how things go. 

 

I didn't know you were ill.  Take it slow - health is most important.  I do have a question, and I think I saw the answer a page back.  Sometimes I find a maiden bound at a post, and there is no way to initiate a dialog with her.  It's like she's part of the background and is quite frustrating after an hour killing everything in sight to get there.  I'll try that console command.

 

Is there any way to update the mod mid-game?  I'm a bit frustrated that I start a new run with a version of this and BW, only to have them both superseded a week into playing.  I'm not going to start a new game for a long time at this point. 

 

Heck I'm shocked I'm still playing Skyrim three years after finally trying it.  I need to move on to something else for a while.  I was enthralled by Witcher III and BG III until I finished them, but then was sucked back into Skyrim by all the cool mods.

[another nobody]

As I mentioned, I got Belladonna last night after a hellish dungeon crawl.  I never got the key to the main big door (is that one of those barred from the other side doors?) and ran into a game freeze upon reaching the end of the caverns to the left.  It is clearly a path into the darkness, and when I get near I get a dialog "TO  " (nothing after).  The game freezes, no CTD.  Just frozen with no responsiveness.  I have to kill the game from the Steam app.  Is this the unfinished area someone referenced earlier?

 

[Wolfen09]

On 1/22/2026 at 10:41 AM, another nobody said:

As I mentioned, I got Belladonna last night after a hellish dungeon crawl.  I never got the key to the main big door (is that one of those barred from the other side doors?) and ran into a game freeze upon reaching the end of the caverns to the left.  It is clearly a path into the darkness, and when I get near I get a dialog "TO  " (nothing after).  The game freezes, no CTD.  Just frozen with no responsiveness.  I have to kill the game from the Steam app.  Is this the unfinished area someone referenced earlier?

 

 

yeah thats not finished, the game does that when its looking for a load cell that doesnt exist.  So just dont exit that door.

 

As for how rowdy is doing, surgery was a success but still in hospital waiting for bowels and intestines to wake up (they werent in a useable state for a year afterall), its taking a long time so hes getting more tests to see whats going on

[flyers68]

I installed Maidens of Darkness 2.0h and when I enter the Embershard Mine it kicks me out of the game. I don't have any mine texture mods or anything that alters the mines. Do you have any idea why this is happening?

[intellectual bimbo]

hiii, so I was checking the mod and found Pete's Hideout, but I'm unable to enter, when I get close it shows "To " then my screen gets slightly darker and kinda locks my character and my inputs, I still can access the console and teleport somewhere else like whiterun then game goes back to normal so it's not a crash, already tried manualy installing the mod but sadly it changed nothing, is there any way that I can fix it?

[Nobody00053]

On 2/17/2026 at 6:03 PM, intellectual bimbo said:

hiii, so I was checking the mod and found Pete's Hideout, but I'm unable to enter, when I get close it shows "To " then my screen gets slightly darker and kinda locks my character and my inputs, I still can access the console and teleport somewhere else like whiterun then game goes back to normal so it's not a crash, already tried manualy installing the mod but sadly it changed nothing, is there any way that I can fix it?

Do you have the Maiden Resource Pack installed

[intellectual bimbo]

On 3/10/2026 at 2:46 AM, Nobody00053 said:

Do you have the Maiden Resource Pack installed

yes, I also tried the manual inst to see if it would change anything but it did nothing even on new games sadly

[Nobody00053]

15 hours ago, intellectual bimbo said:

yes, I also tried the manual inst to see if it would change anything but it did nothing even on new games sadly

try this replace make a copy of the resource packs esp for a backup. then use the esp i send you here as a replacement this is the one i uses for mine. now that being said i think rowdy made a patch for the bug you have. with this esp replacement you don't need that patch the and shoot me the esp you have so i can check it. ive sent this esp im sending to you to rowdy too so techincally you could already be useing it. but im not sure i sent it to him when he was about to go into the hospital for his surgery so im not sure if he replaced it. yet.

MaidenResourcePack.esp

Edited March 12 by Nobody00053

[RowdyD1313]

21 hours ago, intellectual bimbo said:

yes, I also tried the manual inst to see if it would change anything but it did nothing even on new games sadly

If the above MRP.esp from Nobody dosen't work for ya, try this esp of Maidens of Darkness.
 

!Maidens of Darkness.esp

Edited March 13 by RowdyD1313

[intellectual bimbo]

9 hours ago, Nobody00053 said:

try this replace make a copy of the resource packs esp for a backup. then use the esp i send you here as a replacement this is the one i uses for mine. now that being said i think rowdy made a patch for the bug you have. with this esp replacement you don't need that patch the and shoot me the esp you have so i can check it. ive sent this esp im sending to you to rowdy too so techincally you could already be useing it. but im not sure i sent it to him when he was about to go into the hospital for his surgery so im not sure if he replaced it. yet.

MaidenResourcePack.esp 825.09 kB · 1 download

 

3 hours ago, RowdyD1313 said:

If the above MRP.esp from Nobody dosen't work for ya, try this esp of Maidens of Darkness.
 

!Maidens of Darkness.esp 1.89 MB · 1 download

seems like it's working now, thanks a bunch ❤️ 

[Dovahbear91]

The armours that the Maiden enemies drop count as Stolen. Can we have this removed? There are some armours from them id like to try, but i dont wanna risk having them confiscated because i get fined for loitering 

[RowdyD1313]

22 hours ago, Dovahbear91 said:

The armours that the Maiden enemies drop count as Stolen. Can we have this removed? There are some armours from them id like to try, but i dont wanna risk having them confiscated because i get fined for loitering 

Hmmm that shouldn't be happening. I'll double check but make sure another mod isn't changing the armors to count as stolen.

Edited March 15 by RowdyD1313

[slm8]

here's a workaround, tho. A spell for ownership https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/62266

[badfish48]

Hey all having an issue where CTD when going near Malirune, AI telling mecrash-2026-04-04-17-15-52.log its that specific NPC just looking for thoughts and opinions, thanks in advanced

 

[DarthMob31]

Having an issue with the npcs breast glitching out and bouncing everywhere

 

[kiera_tbd]

Anyone heard from Rowdy?  Is he doing okay?

[DrHuge]

Im getting this on all the maidens of Darkness

[RowdyD1313]

On 5/7/2026 at 9:49 PM, DrHuge said:

Im getting this on all the maidens of Darkness

Hey sry for the late response. Hmmm have you tried installing the textures/mod manually? Usually when I get this it's brows that didn't install correctly.

[DrHuge]

3 hours ago, RowdyD1313 said:

Hey sry for the late response. Hmmm have you tried installing the textures/mod manually? Usually when I get this it's brows that didn't install correctly.

ok wi will do that now.  thx

[exryt1]

When I enter the mine, the game crashes. I use Vortex, and I have everything installed there, from Fast HDT-SMP, CBPC, My Home is Your Home, and Relationship Dialog Overhaul.

And the Maiden Resource Pack, Maidens of Darkness, Kelly 2.0, and Daedric Maidens.

I think I also installed it manually—that is, I dragged the files from the Maidens of Darkness folder into the Skyrim data folder.

I don’t know what could be going on. By the way, I also have the Yuriana mod.

Please, if anyone knows, I’d appreciate a reply.

 

[Wolfen09]

On 5/26/2026 at 11:05 PM, exryt1 said:

When I enter the mine, the game crashes. I use Vortex, and I have everything installed there, from Fast HDT-SMP, CBPC, My Home is Your Home, and Relationship Dialog Overhaul.

And the Maiden Resource Pack, Maidens of Darkness, Kelly 2.0, and Daedric Maidens.

I think I also installed it manually—that is, I dragged the files from the Maidens of Darkness folder into the Skyrim data folder.

I don’t know what could be going on. By the way, I also have the Yuriana mod.

Please, if anyone knows, I’d appreciate a reply.

 

 

couple things, assuming you mean embershard mine.

 

could be a couple things, 1. is textures and mesh issues from a borked download or mod deployment (rowdy has mentioned the install fomod being weird sometimes) or 2. you dont have the correct zaz framework should be 8.0+

 

if you dont know or dont want to hunt down id's in xedit to teleport a girl to you then i suggest running up towards bleak falls barrow and entering pete's hideout (it has a map marker, its before the halfway tower on your way to bleak falls barrow from riverwood).  upon entering if you crash theres a good chance its a zaz issue, but if its ok, then go through the cave and find bianca and see if it crashes when you get near her (yes the cave has seam and floating things from time to tie as its still WIP) if thats the case then its probably a texture issue

 

and if its possibly the zaz issue but you have the correct version, try re-running fnis, nemesis, or pandora

a lot of pre made mod lists ppl get may have earlier versions of zaz

Edited May 29 by Wolfen09

[exryt1]

On 5/28/2026 at 9:48 PM, Wolfen09 said:

 

couple things, assuming you mean embershard mine.

 

could be a couple things, 1. is textures and mesh issues from a borked download or mod deployment (rowdy has mentioned the install fomod being weird sometimes) or 2. you dont have the correct zaz framework should be 8.0+

 

if you dont know or dont want to hunt down id's in xedit to teleport a girl to you then i suggest running up towards bleak falls barrow and entering pete's hideout (it has a map marker, its before the halfway tower on your way to bleak falls barrow from riverwood).  upon entering if you crash theres a good chance its a zaz issue, but if its ok, then go through the cave and find bianca and see if it crashes when you get near her (yes the cave has seam and floating things from time to tie as its still WIP) if thats the case then its probably a texture issue

 

and if its possibly the zaz issue but you have the correct version, try re-running fnis, nemesis, or pandora

a lot of pre made mod lists ppl get may have earlier versions of zaz

Thanks, I've already figured out what the problem is. By the way, I went to the Valtheim Towers looking for Belladonna but couldn't find her. Maybe there's a hidden door or hatch leading somewhere?

[Wolfen09]

1 hour ago, exryt1 said:

Thanks, I've already figured out what the problem is. By the way, I went to the Valtheim Towers looking for Belladonna but couldn't find her. Maybe there's a hidden door or hatch leading somewhere?

 

Valtheim is a huge wip and a huge mess of a maze.  Shes in there with another, its been a while since I've been in there but I believe she's in an upper level and the other above that.  Do not enter the cave in the bottom level the game will crash as its not connected to anything yet even though it has a trigger on it (idk why he set the thing to trigger if its not ready but he did)

[exryt1]

12 hours ago, Wolfen09 said:

 

Valtheim está en construcción y es un laberinto caótico. Ella está ahí con otra persona; hace tiempo que no entro, pero creo que ella está en un nivel superior y la otra más arriba. No entres en la cueva del nivel inferior, el juego se bloqueará porque aún no está conectada a nada, aunque tenga un activador (no sé por qué lo configuró para que se active si no está listo, pero lo hizo).

Maybe it's a place I haven't discovered yet, but I went there and didn't find any maze—just two towers connected near a cliff. So, does Valtheim not exist, or is it somewhere else on the map? Sorry.