Modding in 2026

[keeperofthegloom]

Hi all, I'm getting back into modding Skyrim (Special Edition) after a few years away. What's the state of NSFW modding in 2026? I'm imagining more than a few mods have been broken by patches and abandoned, but are most of the basics (Sexlab, SLAL, DD, etc.) still intact? And are there any new highlights?

 

Let me know if there's a better place for me to post this and thanks in advance! 

[plutocene]

Your'e posting in the Skyrim LE forum, not that anyone seems to care these days.

Same old, same old. SL, SLAL, DD, etc. are all still alive and intact. Couple more patches and headaches with compatibility.

 

This is the conversion tracking (mostly up to date) tells you what should work on SE/AE Skyrim from the old mods.

On Nexus, you may want to check out Ostim standalone and its host of submods. SL and Ostim can be run together, albeit a bit finicky.

UBE body is also worth checking out, Nexus and Discord mostly. A bit hard to set up as it requires patches for clothing.

Pandora new tool for animation's "compiling" I don't know the proper term, see nexus.

 

LE as well as SE Skyrim threads provide a host of old and new mods, way to many to go into detail. Just make sure you ensure you only install SE compatible stuff.

 

[keeperofthegloom]

12 minutes ago, plutocene said:

Your'e posting in the Skyrim LE forum, not that anyone seems to care these days.

Same old, same old. SL, SLAL, DD, etc. are all still alive and intact. Couple more patches and headaches with compatibility.

 

This is the conversion tracking (mostly up to date) tells you what should work on SE/AE Skyrim from the old mods.

On Nexus, you may want to check out Ostim standalone and its host of submods. SL and Ostim can be run together, albeit a bit finicky.

UBE body is also worth checking out, Nexus and Discord mostly. A bit hard to set up as it requires patches for clothing.

Pandora new tool for animation's "compiling" I don't know the proper term, see nexus.

 

LE as well as SE Skyrim threads provide a host of old and new mods, way to many to go into detail. Just make sure you ensure you only install SE compatible stuff.

 

 

Terrific info, thanks!

[Grey Cloud]

3 minutes ago, keeperofthegloom said:

Terrific info, thanks!

Info you could have obtained with a two-minute perusal of this forum.

[Raven 54]

47 minutes ago, keeperofthegloom said:

Terrific info

Terrific info would be when you tell us which version of Skyrim you are attempting to mod, LE, SE, AE, which Mod manager you use, etc. , etc.

[keeperofthegloom]

2 hours ago, Caveman 74 said:

Terrific info would be when you tell us which version of Skyrim you are attempting to mod, LE, SE, AE, which Mod manager you use, etc. , etc.

I said Special Edition in the OP, though for mod managing I use Vortex

Edited January 18 by keeperofthegloom

[keeperofthegloom]

2 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

Info you could have obtained with a two-minute perusal of this forum.

Ah, right, that's what forums are all about: going out of your way to avoid collaboration and discussion! As noted in the OP, mods get broken by patches all the time and since I've been out of the loop, I was just hoping to get out in front of any compatibility issues. If you don't want to help, that's fine, but you don't have to be snotty.

Edited January 18 by keeperofthegloom

[Grey Cloud]

You asked: 

4 hours ago, keeperofthegloom said:

What's the state of NSFW modding in 2026?

Leaving aside the fact that we are not yet a month into 2026, if what you say about mods being broken by patches all the time is correct and the time you have been "out of the loop" for an undisclosed period of time then how do you expect people to come up with a meaningful answer?

 

1 hour ago, keeperofthegloom said:

Ah, right, that's what forums are all about: going out of your way to avoid collaboration and discussion!

Ah, right, that's what search engines are all bout: posting on a forum and waiting for a response when you could have a screen full of answer in seconds.

Edited January 18 by Grey Cloud

[Akaiku]

has anything been done to address the 'hm, modding skyrim takes like 40 hours to set up' issue?

[keeperofthegloom]

40 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Leaving aside the fact that we are not yet a month into 2026

 

 What? What difference does that make? Should I have said "really, really late 2025"?

 

40 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

if what you say about mods being broken by patches all the time is correct and the time you have been "out of the loop" for an undisclosed period of time then how do you expect people to come up with a meaningful answer?

 

Now there's a reasonable request for further info, if phrased in a needlessly hostile way. I haven't modded since about 2023.

 

40 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Ah, right, that's what search engines are all bout: posting on a forum and waiting for a response when you could have a screen full of answer in seconds.

 

I AM using search engines and checking through the forum. I just figured dropping a line into a group full of people who have stayed more up-to-date than me would also be helpful.

 

Just trying to mod a game over here, dude. You're going to be fine, I promise.

Edited January 18 by keeperofthegloom

[plutocene]

1 hour ago, Akaiku said:

has anything been done to address the 'hm, modding skyrim takes like 40 hours to set up' issue?

 

40 hours? You mean per week? Seems accurate. Seriously, depending on your ambition and time budget it may take months to set it up. If you do not want to deal with the hassle, best download a pre built collection. There is stuff like that on the nexus, search youtube for preview look and ask around.    

[traison]

16 hours ago, keeperofthegloom said:

I said Special Edition in the OP...

 

Skyrim SE doesn't officially exist anymore, are you sure you have SE? If you haven't done anything to preserve your Skyrim SE version then you have Skyrim AE. Don't download mods with dlls in them until you know which version number you have.

 

14 hours ago, Akaiku said:

modding skyrim takes like 40 hours to set up

 

Fast boi.

 

15 years and counting.

Edited January 19 by traison

[Akaiku]

6 hours ago, traison said:

 

Fast boi.

 

15 years and counting.

 That being trying to follow the guide on this form on how to setup skyrim.

 

Really takes away the desire to try, got through a bunch of it and was all, "eh... "

[Miauzi]

Vor einer Stunde sagte Akaiku:

Das heißt, ich versuche, der Anleitung in diesem Formular zu folgen, wie man Skyrim einrichtet.

 

Das nimmt einem wirklich die Lust, es überhaupt zu versuchen. Ich habe einen Großteil davon durchgearbeitet und dachte nur: "Na ja..."

 

I always laugh when I read stuff like this:

 

There are MORE THAN 100,000 different mods for the SE/AE version of Skyrim—most of them on Nexus. Since you can barely install more than 1,000-2,000 mods in a game (for technical reasons)... it would probably take several thousand million years to try out all the combinations... perhaps the current age of the universe isn't even long enough for that.

 

And you want everything at the push of a button... because otherwise the grapes hanging too high are "sour" for you??

 

[Miauzi]

Vor 22 Stunden schrieb keeperofthegloom:

 

Wie bitte? Was soll das denn ändern? Hätte ich sagen sollen: „wirklich, wirklich Ende 2025“?

 

 

Die Bitte um weitere Informationen ist durchaus berechtigt, auch wenn sie unnötig feindselig formuliert ist. Ich habe seit etwa 2023 keine Mods mehr erstellt.

 

 

Ich nutze Suchmaschinen und durchsuche das Forum. Ich dachte nur, es wäre auch hilfreich, mich in einer Gruppe von Leuten zu melden, die besser informiert sind als ich.

 

Ich versuche hier nur ein Spiel zu modifizieren, Mann. Alles wird gut, versprochen.

 

Nonsense!

 

Why do you think the forum moderators "pin" certain posts? Maybe so you can find these important posts WITHOUT searching!

 

Yes, we all started small with modding, but we didn't all act so strangely "helpless" at it... especially if, like you, you've already been here before—how else would you acquire knowledge about various NSFW mods?

[Count Chocula]

On 1/18/2026 at 8:22 AM, plutocene said:

Your'e posting in the Skyrim LE forum, not that anyone seems to care these days.

You're the second person I've seen post this recently. There's no "General Discussion" thread in the SSE sub-forums. By this reasoning, the "What are you doing right now in Skyrim?" thread should be "What are you doing right now in Skyrim LE?"

[Count Chocula]

On 1/18/2026 at 12:38 PM, Akaiku said:

has anything been done to address the 'hm, modding skyrim takes like 40 hours to set up' issue?

Nexusmods "solved" this issue with Collections and paid subscriptions. Modding Skyrim like you're running a big combat in Baldur's Gate 3.