Load Order by Category - by Nuverotic

[Nuverotic]

   I see a lot of people still asking about load order by category and there's not a lot of QUICK to google information out there with a complete list, containing examples. So I wrote one myself. Hopefully this will help some people out.

 

Skyrim Load Order by Category

By Nuverotic

 

0. Tools (SKSE, LOOT, Xedit, WryeBash, etc)

1. SKSE Plugins (Address Library, Papyrus Extender, JContainers, Base Object Swapper)

2. Bug Fixes and Tweaks (Engine Fixes, MFGFix, USSEP)

3. Foundational (Campfire, Frostfall, SexLab)

4. Alternate Start (Whichever Alternate Start You Choose)

5.HUDand UI (SkyUI,QuickLoot, iEquip, TrueHud)

6. Race Menu (Race menu Mod and Fixes)

7. Game Mechanics (Sacrosanct, Anything that changes base gameplay)

8. Perk Overhauls (Ordinator, Summermyst, Adnromeda)

9. Magic and Spells (Apocalypse, Any mod that adds magic or spells)

10. Leveled Lists (adds to leveled lists, Chests, Merchant Items, Rebalanced Leveled Lists)

11. Enemy NPC Leveled Lists (Mods that add enemies to the leveled lists)

12. Music (No explanation Needed)

13. Sounds (Audio Overhaul, Immersive Sounds, SFX Overhauls)

14. DLC Mods,Quests and Content Addons (LOTD, Beyond Skyrim, Vigilant)

15. Base Models and Textures (SMIM, Ruins Clutter Improved, Skyrim 2k)

16. LODs (DynDOLODResources, Lod Textures)

17. Landscapes (Blended Roads, Parallax, Seasonal Landscapes)

18. Ice, Snow & Ash (Simplicity of Snow, Footprints, Snow Effects, BetterDynamic Ash)

19. Mountains & Rocks (Majestic Mountains, HDStoneQuarry)

20. Trees & Bark (3DTrees, Aspens Ablaze, Bent Pines, Fallen Trees)

21. Grass (Folkvangr, TamrielicGrass, Origins of Forest)

22. Plants (Cathedral Plants, Rally’s Solstheim Plants, Unique Flowers and Plants)

23. Weathers (Seasons of Skyrim, Wet and Cold, Morning Fogs, R.A.S.S)

24. Sky (Shooting Stars, Rainbows, Praedy’s Sky, Bigger Moons)

25. Water (Water 2, Wavy Waters, NAtural Waterfalls, Splashes of Skyrim)

26. NPC Resources (Hair, Facegen Morphs, High Poly Head, CBBE, SOS, Eyes of Beauty)

27.Added NPCs (Immersive Wenches. Citizens of Tamriel, Interesting NPCs)

28. Followers (Inigo, Vilja, Sophia, Lucien, Meeko)

29. NPC Visual Overhauls (Modpocalypse NPC’s, Pandorables, Bijin, Any Replacers)

30. NPC AI (Immersive Citizens. Immersive Patrols, AI Overhaul,GuardDialogue Overhaul)

31. Cities (TheGreat Cities,Dawn of Skyrim, JK’s)

32. Towns and Villages (Expanded Towns and Cities, TheGreat Towns)

33. Farmhouses (R’s Windmill, Parallax Farmouses)

34. Player Homes (Breezehome, Elysium, WInd Path, Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions)

35. Other Locations, lands and Ruins (Covered Bridges, 3d Signs)

36. Interiors (Dungeons Revisited, Skyrim Underground, JK’sDragonsreach)

37. Combat (Any Mod that changes Combat or adds to it)

38. Regular Quest Mods (Quest mods that aren’tDLC sized)

39. Armor (All your Armor Mods) 40.Clothing(All your clothing mods)

41. Weapons (All your Weapon Mods)

42. Animals and Creatures (Bellyaches,DiverseDragons,Giant 2k)

43. Clutters (Forgotten Retex, Ingredient Retex)

44. Statues and Shrines (Stunning Statues of Skyrim)

45. Collectables (Nuverotics LOTDPainting Replacer, Unique Treasures, Oblivion Artifact)

46. Misc Model Replacers (Keys Redone, High Poly Project)

47. Lighting FX and Particles (Dust Effects, Spell Impacts, ENB Particle Lights, LUX)

48. Core Animations and Framework (XP32 Skeleton, Faster HDT-SMP, Stances)

49. Attack Animations (No explanation Needed)

50. Movement Animations (No explanation Needed)

51. NPC Animations (No explanation Needed)

52. Common Animations (No explanation Needed)

53. Adult Animations (No explanation Needed)

54. Survival and Needs (iNeed, Keep it Clean)

55. Crafting (Complete Crafting Overhaul)

56. Combat and Enemies (Valhala, Smoothcam, TKDodge, Max Carnage, OBIS)

57. Economy (Trade and Barter, Landlord)

58. Religion (Wintersun)

59. Misc Gameplay (Nethers Follower Framework. I’m Walking Here, Simplest Horses)

60. Races (Aetherius,Growl)

61. Immersion (Go To Bed, Simply Knock, Better Courier)

62.Patches (No explanation Needed)

63. ENBs and Reshade (No explanation Needed

If I've somehow made a mistake in this list, please let me know below in the comments and I'll change it if it needs to be.

Edited January 12 by Nuverotic

[Canaduh]

I'd warrant adding a resources slot between 2 & 3, for adding widgets and resource packs, at least that's where I have mine.

[Nuverotic]

29 minutes ago, Canaduh said:

I'd warrant adding a resources slot between 2 & 3, for adding widgets and resource packs, at least that's where I have mine.

I put all my widgets with my UI. But which resource packs are you referring to? I could add a new line, I just want to make sure I know what and why.

[Canaduh]

Some of the things I put in there are things that will be transformed or utilized by the main engines but need to be present to draw on such as ;

 

• dTry's Key Utils (Requires SKSE - AL so I place it later)
• Payload Interpreter (Required by various combat packs in MCO. Does nothing on it's own.)
• Relinker Output (Was a resource for uniting merged plugins)
• Scaleform Translation++ (Resource used by mods that change description boxes and UI elements)
• Quality Cubemaps (Resource utilized by some overhauls and parallax mods)
• Follower resource pools : Nether's Jen & Kat, Manguz, Mana Vault, CVR etc.

[Nuverotic]

35 minutes ago, Canaduh said:

Some of the things I put in there are things that will be transformed or utilized by the main engines but need to be present to draw on such as ;

 

• dTry's Key Utils (Requires SKSE - AL so I place it later)
• Payload Interpreter (Required by various combat packs in MCO. Does nothing on it's own.)
• Relinker Output (Was a resource for uniting merged plugins)
• Scaleform Translation++ (Resource used by mods that change description boxes and UI elements)
• Quality Cubemaps (Resource utilized by some overhauls and parallax mods)
• Follower resource pools : Nether's Jen & Kat, Manguz, Mana Vault, CVR etc.

Ah yes. I have d'Try's and Scaleform PP in SKSE Plugins. First Category. 
I've honestly never heard of any of the others. The Quality Cubemaps MAY be in my load order, but I'm not sure. I have some Cubemap fixer in there somewhere. 
Thanks for the heads up. I wouldn't know where to put that category currently. I can look into it but I'm making a pretty detailed guide on Downgrading Skyrim, Setting up MO2, Cleaning, Load Order, and Lovers Lab Mods install, in one Google Doc. So I'm preoccupied with that at the moment but I'll definitely look into this sometime over the next month.

Thanks again Canaduh