Thinking about revamping my Skyrim

[MilosLegacy]

Ive been playing with my mods for a while now, i really enjoy it but i wish my game looked better. Ive been thinking about starting over and setting new mods. Keeping the sex mods and the HCoS mods but i am SO scared that im gonna break my mods again. I hate not knowing how to mod properly. Ive looked over the guides and i feel so stupid that i get overwhelmed and I just shut down. the last mod i installed broke all my animations and it took days to reset everything. I lost sleep. hahah How do you guys know what your doing? Cuz i want to add Skyfurry NG or something so i can play as a furry and have all my creature fun too... im just scared

[nilead]

 

3 hours ago, MilosLegacy said:

How do you guys know what your doing?

We dont.

[Grey Cloud]

Don't have a plan. That way nothing can go wrong. 

 

On a more serious note, there is nothing wrong with trial and error and learning from your mistakes.

[Miauzi]

Vor 6 Stunden schrieb MilosLegacy:

Ich spiele schon eine Weile mit Mods und es macht mir echt Spaß, aber ich wünschte, mein Spiel sähe besser aus. Ich habe überlegt, von vorne anzufangen und neue Mods zu installieren. Die Sex-Mods und die HCoS-Mods würde ich behalten, aber ich habe so eine Angst, dass ich meine Mods wieder kaputt mache. Ich hasse es, nicht zu wissen, wie man richtig moddet. Ich habe mir die Anleitungen angesehen und fühle mich so dumm, dass ich total überfordert bin und einfach aufhöre. Die letzte Mod, die ich installiert habe, hat alle meine Animationen zerstört und es hat Tage gedauert, alles wiederherzustellen. Ich habe deswegen schlaflose Nächte gehabt. Hahaha. Woher wisst ihr eigentlich, was ihr tut? Ich möchte nämlich Skyfurry NG oder so etwas hinzufügen, damit ich als Furry spielen und all meine Kreaturen-Sachen haben kann... Ich habe einfach Angst.

 

Welcome to modding!

That's precisely what learning with mods is all about – until you know what you're doing, you won't know for a long time... that's what creates the learning curve.

 

Just watching tutorials isn't nearly enough – the learning effect (from "seeing") is minimal. It's much more important to follow a tutorial (even if it's just for learning purposes) – essentially, to recreate a mod image exactly.

In doing so, you'll encounter problems, and solving them is what truly leads to UNDERSTANDING – "what you're doing."

Only then are you ready to expand such a mod image with your own desired mods.

 

The following guide is highly recommended for this learning process – meaning you should actually follow it exactly.

 

[MilosLegacy]

8 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

Don't have a plan. That way nothing can go wrong. 

 

On a more serious note, there is nothing wrong with trial and error and learning from your mistakes.

very true, just wish id learn faster. hahah

[MilosLegacy]

hahaha now that i took the risk and tried to add something my game says its missing mcmhelper.esp and crashes... im cooked i dont know what i did because im pretty sure i have it installed. i didnt delete anything

[Grey Cloud]

4 minutes ago, MilosLegacy said:

hahaha now that i took the risk and tried to add something my game says its missing mcmhelper.esp and crashes... im cooked i dont know what i did because im pretty sure i have it installed. i didnt delete anything

Your mod manager will tell you if you have mcmhelper installed.

Make sure you have installed any mods required by the mod you just installed.

[MilosLegacy]

7 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Your mod manager will tell you if you have mcmhelper installed.

Make sure you have installed any mods required by the mod you just installed.

Yeah it says that mcmhelper is installed. When i boot up and hit continue it says that i need mcmhelper for creations... i dont know what i did. I feel like an idiot i should have left everything alone. I test started a new game and the player character is now invisible. I dont know how to fix this.... i need some real help

[Miauzi]

Vor 9 Minuten schrieb MilosLegacy:

Ja, es wird angezeigt, dass mcmhelper installiert ist. Wenn ich das Spiel starte und auf „Weiter“ klicke, erscheint die Meldung, dass ich mcmhelper für Kreationen benötige… Ich weiß nicht, was ich falsch gemacht habe. Ich fühle mich total blöd, ich hätte einfach alles so lassen sollen. Ich habe testweise ein neues Spiel gestartet, und jetzt ist der Spielercharakter unsichtbar. Ich weiß nicht, wie ich das beheben soll… Ich brauche dringend Hilfe.

 

My advice – and believe me, I've done this myself more than 20 times – is to start completely from scratch.

This means choosing the "atomic option":

- Uninstall the mods (but keep the archives, i.e., the compressed zip files)

- Uninstall the game and delete the game folder

- Reinstall the game

Now use the guide I linked and rebuild the game completely according to these instructions.

 

Yes, this is painful, but such failures are part of modding... there's no point in trying to find the error (or explaining what you're doing wrong) because your current knowledge of modding is so limited that you won't understand what we're telling you.

 

Of course, you can ignore all of this, but you probably won't have any success in solving your problems.

 

 

[shrtjsrtj]

2 hours ago, MilosLegacy said:

hahaha now that i took the risk and tried to add something my game says its missing mcmhelper.esp and crashes... im cooked i dont know what i did because im pretty sure i have it installed. i didnt delete anything

Are you using Vortex?

 

Sometimes it doesn't enable .esp's, go into "Plugins" and check to see if it's enabled.

[Miauzi]

Vor 9 Minuten schrieb shrtjsrtj:

Nutzt du Vortex?

 

Manchmal werden .esp-Dateien nicht aktiviert. Gehen Sie in den Menüpunkt „Plugins“ und prüfen Sie, ob sie aktiviert sind.

 

That's one of the reasons why I switched to "MO2" after many years of using "Vortex"... I have a much better overview thanks to the side-by-side windows (mod on the left - plugins on the right).

[Count Chocula]

I really don't know why anyone would use Vortex unless they want to use Nexusmods collections. It is so clunky, cumbersome and unintuitive compared to MO2.

[belegost]

On 11/7/2025 at 6:29 PM, Count Chocula said:

I really don't know why anyone would use Vortex unless they want to use Nexusmods collections. It is so clunky, cumbersome and unintuitive compared to MO2.

I am going to quote myself from here:

 

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Whoever tells you that one is better than the other, because <insert any reason>  is an idiot and their opinion should immediately be disregarded as an ignorant, ill-informed babble, showing they have absolutely no idea about the subject.