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Posted (edited)
12 hours ago, Was1 said:

My report after 20 hours of gameplay on the mod list from 3 weeks ago. Sorry for the wall of text.

 

BUG


- The Contextual Crosshair can bug and disappear after a while for seemingly no reason. I used this https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141748 to fix it.


- QuickLootEE stopped working after a while because it conflicts with the hotkey mod. It’s better to use the new version https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/120075 with the Nordic style https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/140908


You need to edit QuickLootIE.json in QuickLoot IE - A QuickLoot EE Fork\SKSE\Plugins from...
    
    "menuWhitelist": [
        "Durability Menu",
        "WidgetMenu",
        "CombatAlertOverlayMenu"

to 

    "menuWhitelist": [
        "Durability Menu",
        "WidgetMenu",
        "CombatAlertOverlayMenu",
        "UIHS_WidgetMenu"

 

(Don't forget the comma after "CombatAlertOverlayMenu," or it will not work. Took me too long to figure out.) No problem after more than 15 hours of play.

 

- Dragonborn Voice Over: We need the Dialogue Interface ReShaped FOMOD Patch in the optional files, or Dialogue Interface ReShaped won't work. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/84329?tab=files

 

- HS Player Homes - Breezehome: We need the HSPlayerHomes - Breezehome - EXD patch in the optional files, or we get a fireplace stuck under the table. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/74184

 

- JK's Guild HQ Interiors Patch Collection: You need to put the JK's Jorrvaskr - AI Overhaul Patch.esp above IMMORTAN, or I get black face on the old lady.
Same for Better Vampire.esp, or I get black face on a random vampire.
Still getting black face on Arniel Gane in the College of Winterhold. Can't find the right load order for him.

 

- Better Vampire: I got a warning in the MCM menu that RS Children conflicts with it. Couldn't find if the message was displayed, even if RS Children is installed correctly.

 

- Serana Spell Selector: The MCM menu doesn't work, so I don't think it does anything.  https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/37323

 

Own Vampire Face: Every time I loaded a save, the HPH reset to the normal face. I used Vampire Headpart Fix for High Poly Head and Expressive Facegen Morph to fix it. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/140535


But I couldn't find a fix for the eye color resetting every time.

 

BUG I think it's my fault.

 

Custom map marker distance does not display correctly on the compass (e.g., custom marker at 100m on the map shows at 1500m on the compass).


Dwarven Colossus: I got some bugged textures on his corpse.


In Whiterun: A floating tree between the temple and the crypt, just behind the gate, and one of the trees covers half the face of the Statue of Talos.

 

BALANCE:


Elmlock Armor and Blade SPID spawn too much at too low a level. One in four low-level bandits wear it, and it’s 1000 gold worth of gear for each bandit, breaking the balance very early. In the first mine close to Riverwood, I found 4 of them, worth 4000 gold.


JS Ioun Stones SE: 600 gold for each stone, and every mage starting at level 1 drops at least one.

 

Suggestion

 

Like Petrowitch posted earlier, Nordic UI - Clean StartMenu got an updated version with the quit button. Always better than stopping the game with Task Manager! :D https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/118936

 

Security Overhaul SKSE - Lock Variations: Really cool lock replacer. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/58224


And its add-ons: 


https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59529


https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/62781


https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/126119

 

Simple Horse SE: I searched for the most lightweight mod to call for my horse, who gets spooked to the other end of the world every time there’s a fight. If you know a better one, I’ll take it! https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12650

 

Thanks for the awesome modlist.

 

For horses, I have been using and liking Simplest Horses (and other mounts) with several smaller mods. The other ones that I have seen get recommended with varying levels of complexity are Press H to Horse and A Horse's Life.

Edited by trgdolors
Posted

@Was1

  1. - 3. Working on it.

  4. Didn't I already add that? Recheck!

  5A. I'll take a look.

    B. Should have already been changed.

    C. Try adding Men of Winterhold NPC Overhaul below IMMORTAN. That would be my first attempt at fixing. Whats the last mod modifying him?

  6. No problem here.

  7. Seems to work fine here... A least it did last time when I had Serana in my party.

  8. Will look into it.

  9. Check the settings of it (damn imperial system).

10. Looking into it. I might have to create a patch.

11. Thorsten already reported that (and a few other things) on Nexus. Now it is a waiting game to get patches.

12. Already working on my own SPID. 😉

13. Yep. I might remove the mod if I can't find a fix for that.

14. Upcoming, wanted to make sure it works with another mod.

15. Nope, tried it and don't like many of the locks.

16. Finetuning comes later... I want to get all big mods in first.

 

@YuFeng

1. Will check it later. And 👍for the patch.

2A. Yes, but I didn't want to add it in two spots of the guide.

2B. It isn't marked as optional because it isn't. 

3. Already on it. Noticed it when i updated the files.

4. Yep they are incoming.

5. Huh? Did I miss something? Rechecking after I compile a list.

6. Will check.

7. Will be added

Posted (edited)

Collecting links

Spoiler

Nordic UI - Clean StartMenu

Tel Jerdein                                                                                                Nexus version is fine - newly linked version causes issues.

Morrowind Creatures                                                                              Got something better

Morrowind Creatures - Fixes

Morrowind Creatures - Textures

Silt Strider                                                                                                Get too close to the new fortifications

Fishing Outfit - Textures

CCC - Fishing - HIMBO and 3BA Bodyslides

Northern Roads - HAG Occult Orphan Rock                                         Got included

 

 

SkyPatcher Keyword Framework

IWant Widgets NG

Autorun                                                                                                    Fixes windmill bug

Main Menu - Remove smoke                                                                 Fixes visuals during loading (CS/Reshade)

Nordic UI - Clean Start Menu - Fix

Lore-Friendly Main Menu Compendium

Improved Loading Screen Colors                                                          For use with a Reshade

The Citadel of Snow - Lively Windhelm Bridge

Order of Aetherius                                                                                    To add or not to add? Thats the big question...

Garden Ornaments - Bird Houses (BOS)                                               Only for the visuals 

Garden Ornaments - Wind Chimes                                                       I love them. Hearing those always gets a smile out of me.

Oil puddle                                                                                                Might help with some Reshades

FYX Smooth Wells - Compatibility Tweaks

Goblins (CCC)

Kagoutis and Guars                                                                                 Now the guards use Guar too

Kagoutis and Guars - Only in Solstheim

Kagoutis and Guars - Textures

Dremora Improvements - USSEP

Daedric Armors and Weapons Retexture                                              <Instructions required

Dark Brotherhood Armors Retexture                                                    <Instructions required

Dwemer Armors and Weapons Retexture                                             <Instructions required

Ebony Armors and Weapons Retexture                                                <Instructions required

Elven Armors and Weapons Retexture                                                 <Instructions required

Forsworn Armors and Weapons Retexture                                           <Instructions required

Ghosts of the Tribunal - Texture

Glass Armors and Weapons Retexture                                                  <Instructions required

Guards and Stormcloaks Armors Retexture                                          <Instructions required

Imperial Armors and Weapons Retexture                                             <Instructions required

Iron Armors and Weapons Retexture                                                    <Instructions required

Leather Armors Retexture                                                                       <Instructions required

Lord's Mail - Texture

Nightingale Armor and Weapons Retexture                                         <Instructions required

Orcish Armors and Weapons Retexture                                                <Instructions required

Saints and Seducers Retexture                                                               <Instructions required

Silver Armor and Weapons Retexture                                                   <Instructions required

Spell Knight Armors Retexture                                                              <Instructions required

Spell Knight Armor - Dynamic Cubemaps

CCC - Spell Knight Armor - Ryn's Karthspire Patches

CCC - Spell Knight Armor - Crafting

Stalhrim Armors and Weapons Retexture                                           <Instructions required

Steel Armors and Weapons Retexture                                                 <Instructions required

Thieves Guild Armors Retexture                                                          <Instructions required

Unique Armors and Weapons Retexture                                             <Instructions required

Redguard Elite Armaments - Texture

Vampire Armors and Weapons Retexture                                            <Instructions required

Vigil Enforcer Retexture                                                                        <Instructions required

Wolf Armor and Weapons Retexture                                                   <Instructions required

Fur Shaders Redux                                                                                   <Instructions required?

Fur Shaders Redux - HDT-SMP

Fur Shaders Redux - HDT-SMP - 3BA

Ward - Odin - Patch

Embers XD - Breezehome Patch

 

Edited by Aylis
Posted

@Aylis

Look at that. I found something again. This time it was while setting up my obody config file. I found, that the goblin followers have some problems if using the lore-ish goblin girls mod. This mod overwrites the changes done by the voice mod for them and yeets them out of Falkreath to somewhere around a campfire in the wilderness it seems. But don't worry. This time I have a solution for those, that use the goblin followers, the voice mod, and the lore-ish mod for them:

 

Step 1: Use my patch. :D

 

Step 2: Hide the following patches from the "RedBag's Falkreach - Patch Collection"

RedBag's Falkreath - Selkie Goblin patch.esp

RedBag's Falkreath - Vex Goblin patch.esp

 

Step 3: Profit.

 

Lore-ish Goblin girls have voices patch.esp

Posted (edited)

@Aylis The last mod modification was IMMORTAN himself, so I told the creator about it and a new update was posted 2 days ago. I'm going to check if it resolves Arniel Gane's black face.

Edit: Nope

Edited by Was1
Posted (edited)

If something sounds too good to be true it usually isn't. Consider Lordbound (Video) a Beta atm. What works is really good, but it is not ready to be included yet. Too many bugs that have to be fixed before I can add it. 

 

 

City Trees

The Skyshards are fixed now.

 

Restored Whiterun Defences

When have a patch (which we might get as Thorsten talked to the author) this would be a great option.

Edited by Aylis
Posted (edited)

I discovered, that we do have an SKSE mods, that could be updated from using papyrus to native functions, reducing the script bloat. It might be a good addition possibly:

iWant Widgets NG

 

 

I also found a patch for 360 Ward and Odin. According to the creator it "merges changes from both mods, it adds a 360 Ward effect with changes from Odin like cost, descriptions, skill usage multiplier etc."

 

Also, if we disable Falkreath in the first step of the City Trees installer, then the "All-In-One Tree Swap Add-on" in the step 12.2 can't be selected, so the instructions for that might need to be altered.

 

And while I can't get the new immortant version because the nexus servers say "Fuck you" when I try to download big files... just started attempt #7 to download it... I can say, that this Arniel Gane NPC dude has at least 2 problems. A black face and his absence in the Immortant AI overhaul patch.

Edited by YuFeng
Posted (edited)

Fauna - Creatures

Goblins - Redcap Patch  this patch is for Creation Club Goblins no relation to Goblins  or does it cause some problems and that's why it's here?

Armor - Light

Adventurer Armor - Fixes and SPID Distribution

Hidden at 20 Sep 2024, 12:40PM by furexarot for the following reason:
This mod is obsolete and should no longer be used. Please use this mod instead: Adventurer Armor - My Version SE by Xtudo

I found this https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/125452 haven't checked it though.

Upd. It already in Equipment Overhaul.

Armor - Heavy

Sons of Skyrim - Desaturated Textures the link leads to the page Sons of Skyrim 

Sons of Skyrim - Cloaks of Skyrim patch link to the old version of patches 1.5.0 or is it supposed to be like this?

Jewelry

Barenziah's Crown - Wearable the main file already contains .esl flagged version JS Barenziah SE - Johnskyrim.esp so the optional file is needed only if the main one doesn't work. But it works, right? I'm still downloading mods... so I haven't tried it. 

Besides, its old version 1.3.

Gameplay - Foundation

Dismembering Framework - Falmer Overhaul  there is a patch, but not the Falmer Overhaul itself.

Footprints Sand Patch This patch is now depreciated. Please use Footprints - Alternative Design  https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/109544?tab=description  or is there something wrong with this mod?

G.I.R.T.H. - Immersive Seasonal Edits There are no seasons, or will there be?

Ordinator Hey, it's updated. 0_о

Skyrim Reputation The first word is a link to YouTube... Peyton Parrish - For Honor, not bad.

Edited by petrowitch
Posted
On 10/12/2025 at 2:00 AM, Was1 said:

@Aylis The last mod modification was IMMORTAN himself, so I told the creator about it and a new update was posted 2 days ago. I'm going to check if it resolves Arniel Gane's black face.

Edit: Nope

 

 Try disabling the Textures and Mesh Patch and try again. In there, some facegen textures are overwriting the Immortan mod and probably are from an old version of it.

Posted
1 hour ago, Was1 said:

@YuFeng The new update of Immortan seems to have fixed it. I just forgot to rerun the PG Patcher.

Ah, makes sense. Well in that case, that problem is fixed and the other one with that npc dude will probably be fixed soon as well since the mod author is currently looking over the patches and adjust them to the new version properly.

Posted

Finally got the grass cache creation working again. One innocent looking patch screwed the whole process... I'll add a remark for that one.

 

Found a way to enable people to read crashlogs. The site skyrimcrashdecoder.com helps with that. Will add that as a tip tom... later today.

 

Arniel seems to avoid me as I couldn't find him in the college or at Sarthal... Oh, just saw that it is fixed via mod update.

 

 

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Aylis said:

Finally got the grass cache creation working again. One innocent looking patch screwed the whole process... I'll add a remark for that one.

 

Found a way to enable people to read crashlogs. The site skyrimcrashdecoder.com helps with that. Will add that as a tip tom... later today.

 

Arniel seems to avoid me as I couldn't find him in the college or at Sarthal... Oh, just saw that it is fixed via mod update.

 

 

 

Also,

In my experience, got better hints from the crash-logger's logs using https://phostwood.github.io/crash-analyzer/skyrim.html

It also can process Trainwreck and "old" .NET Scripts Logs.

 

Note: The xEdit scripts Find dangerous ESLs and Papitas' Find Dangerous ESL - Extended Range can assist in finding invalid records in light plugins. 

 

 

Edited by safado
Posted (edited)

My MO2 crashed and decided to sort every of my mods and separator by alphabetical order. Of course everything is deactivated, and my profil vanished.

 

It's so fun after working nearly everydays on modlist for three month to restart everything from scratch.

Edited by Magma57
Posted (edited)

@YuFeng

Will be added.

 

@petrowitch

1. See 'Collecting Links'

2. ...

3. Updated the link

4. Yes Version of a patch isn't version of a mod.

5. Only if you want to be able to wear it. Otherwise skip this one.

6. Look at the Falmer again.

7. Required for another mod.

8. Required for another mod.

9. ...

10. You found one easteregg - now get the rest. 😊

 

@Magma57

How about clicking on 'Priority'? Also check the backup function.

__________________________________________________

 

Uploaded the updated 'Config GrassControl' for the newest version of NGIO.

Edited by Aylis
Posted (edited)

*Insert hours of curses and screams here* ... I finally managed to download the immortan 6.7 update. They really should fix their servers over at nexus... hmpf!

 

But anyway...

@Aylis

With the new version, the AI Overhaul patch looks like it should do now, so no more problems there. However, with our list, we do have two problems there:

1. The East Empire Company Armor mod does have a NPC entry and overwrites immortant for some dockmaster npc or so.

2. We have AIO and Better Vampires, so we do have about 3 npcs that don't get the AIO things, because the vampire patch comes later and overwrites it.

 

I made patches for that. They can be loaded directly behind the EastEmpireCompanyArmor.esp and the Better Vampire NPCs.esp

 

Immortan - AIO - Better Vampires Patch.esp

Immortan - East Empire Company Armor Patch.esp

Edited by YuFeng
Posted
1 hour ago, Aylis said:

 

@Magma57

How about clicking on 'Priority'? Also check the backup function.

 

Of course I clicked on "priority". As I said, the priorities has been set by alphabetical order, mods and separators. For example all the mods that start by an "S" are now inside SKSE separator etc.

 About backups, I regularly save my plugin load order, but not my modfile order. As modfiles are messed and deactivated, my load order saves don't have anything to load.

 

This is not the first time MO2 crash, in fact it happens sometimes when I add some downloads. But never I get a full reset like that.

 

 

Well, I'm just so pissed now I think modding skyrim is over for me. Sorting out manually around 2500 mods, plus the one that differs from your list, for which I spend dozens of hours to setup the correct load order...  I have wasted way too much time on this monstruosity. There are way better games out there.

 

For everyone else, don't think MO2 is an absolute reliable tool. It isn't. Save your plugin load order AND mod files load order, hope you never face the big reset I get.

Posted (edited)

Yeah, MO2 sucks for that. If you disable all and then enable all, it won't put the ESPs in the correct priority order. I activated them one by one and made a backup since.

Edited by Was1
Posted

@YuFeng

I hear you. Everything on Nexus above ~500MB has a good chance of breaking during download. It seems to depend on the time. I've got sort of a timetable here with times when I don't even bother to attempt a download. Then there are others with a 50/50 chance or a few when everything works perfectly.

 

'Better Vampires NPC' will end up in 'NPC'. This was what I was looking at when the problems with the grass caching appeared. I managed to find the culprit but that took me almost a week. Anyway, so far I finished a vampire cave and found some random vampires (last one in an inn). No black or the bat-hybrid faces from Bethesda. AI also seems to work fine.

 

The second patch is very welcome. When I went through EEE I noticed that problem and disabled the armor here. But I didn't know it would affect normal gameplay too as I found no report (I always take a look at bugreports before considering to add something). 

 

Btw. with patches... Could you take a look at 'Cloaks of Skyrim'? The mod overwrites Idolaf Battleborn and causes a black face if you don't put them near the top of 'NPC'. What I had before to fix it doesn't work anymore.

 

 

 

 

Posted
2 hours ago, Aylis said:

5. Only if you want to be able to wear it. Otherwise skip this one.

The main file contains Mesh/Textures and ESL Flagged JS Barenziah SE - Johnskyrim.esp which makes the crown wearable. Optional file contains only JS Barenziah SE - Johnskyrim.esp, except that it's not ESL Flagged and that's the only difference.

2 hours ago, Aylis said:

6. Look at the Falmer again.

I'm taking a closer look at Falmer (or is this an incorrect link?), seems like vanilla HD texture. But this patch Dismembering Framework - Falmer Overhaul, for this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/86338. 

3 hours ago, Aylis said:

10. You found one easteregg - now get the rest. 😊

Odin - Magic  Overhaul another one.

 

P.S. As I understant, my English is terrible, right?

Posted

@Aylis

We will need the better vampire - aio - immortant patch in any case since the immortant aio patch and the immortant better vampires patch will override each other on 3 npcs or 4.

 

And sure, there will be a black face if immortan doesn't get to say what the head and cosmetic parts will be, so Idolaf will definitely get a blackface without a patch.

 

 

What kind of name is Idolaf anyway? Is it an Olaf that happens to have an ID? And he shows it off all the time? 

Immortan- Cloaks of Skyrim - AIO Patch.esp

Posted (edited)

@petrowitch

1. Oh, there has been a change I didn't know about. Now the second file isn't needed anymore...

2. F... My bad. Thats a link to an old previously used mod. I got the right one installed (with the same name) and was wondering where the issue was. 🙄

3. Yep. Roughly ten left. 😁

 

Nah, I get you. It is just noticable that you're not a native speaker.

 

But that goes for me too. Happily mixing selftaught 'Oxford English' with 'American English' and (sometimes) 'German'. Plus some (formerly) foreign words which got adopted here. Grammar? Just a general idea. If it sounds right (I speak some lines while typing) then I use them.

 

If you want to improve the vocabulary get english newspapers or books that interest you (for me it was the 'The Lord of the Rings') and a dictionary. For the sound I can only recommend to listen to english audiobooks or movies. This will give you a sense of the sound and flow of the language. Just avoid accents, those can be... quite jarring to hear.

 

P.S.

Depending on your level I recommend to start with easier stuff first (young adults or urban fantasy (Amazon e-books)). My start with LotR was very tough (Tolkien was a professor for language), but in the long run it did help. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to write here as much (or avoid translations wherever I possibly can). 😊

 

 

@Was1

Yep, some time ago. But I ran into issues with it (although I can't remember what exactly it was).

 

 

@YuFeng

Top! 👍

 

I'll repack your patches and add them to page #1.

Edited by Aylis
Posted
7 hours ago, Magma57 said:

My MO2 crashed and decided to sort every of my mods and separator by alphabetical order. Of course everything is deactivated, and my profil vanished.

 

It's so fun after working nearly everydays on modlist for three month to restart everything from scratch.

 

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