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The original Skyrim thread's got so much shit (whether gameplay, lore, mod, or general chatter) in it that it's hard to sort out mod recommendations from the other stuff. So I thought it was about time to have a Skyrim mods masterlist for people to recommend mods, especially with the Creation Kit coming up just over the horizon.

We've already got a heap of really, really good mods even without the CK- and when that comes, things'll only get better. Yes, I know there's a thread for a mod wishlist. But there should probably be one for existing mods, so I went ahead and asked Jon if I could make this thread. He said to knock myself out.

In hindsight, hitting my head against the wall right then probably wasn't a good idea.

Anyway.

Here are a few of the Must Haves that I recommend to get us started!

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Mod Name: Better Companions Guild
Author: Vincentlcarus
Mod Category: Menu Enchancements
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Okay, the point of this mod is to add some class to the Companions (Guild). I thought they were a little too rag-tag for a supposedly very successful and very well-known mercenary group so I decided to give them a face-lift and make them look more like an organized, well-funded Mercenary/Militia group.

Mod Name: Better Sorting
Author: Headbomb
Mod Category: Overhaul/Models/Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Fairly awesome item sorting mod. Changes item names to make it so much easier. Silver/Iron Ingots become Ingots - <Material>. You can change potions from "Potion of <Stuffhere>" to "Potion of Fortify Destruction II", or just plain "Fortify Destruction II". Soul gems you've the option of "Soul Gem I/II" or Psuedo-Vanilla "Soul Gem - Common".

Mod Name: Categorized Favorites Menu
Author: favemenumodder
Mod Category: User Interfaces
Summary: Very essential for anybody who makes heavy use of the favourites menu. This mod basically allows you to sort your favourites menu into different categories - the default would be stuff like spells, weapons, armour, potions, but you can basically configure the .ini file to set up pretty much anything. This is the default, but you can configure the file (or download a preconfigured file from some other guy) to do things like this, this or this. It even has equip sets, which are basically multiple pieces of equipment/items tied to a single favorite item - although that feature's relatively new and a bit buggy atm.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Celtic Icons for SkyUI
Author: greg4net
Mod Category: Interface
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Must-have icon replacement for all SkyUI users. I recommended the borderless version.

Mod Name: Deadly Dragons
Author: 3jiou
Mod Category: Overhauls
Summary: Makes dragon fights more challenging and rewarding. Adds more buffs to dragons, increases their health pool, resistance, etc. Higher level dragons can use spells and even some shouts. Adds a bunch of types of dragons of varying difficulty, along with a few other small tweaks and additions. Most of the stuff is optional and provides several choices.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Elys' Uncapper
Author: Elys
Mod Category: Gameplay Effects
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Note: Requires SKSE
Summary:

Mod Name: Immersve HUD
Author: Gopher
Mod Category: User Interface
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Note: Optional features require Script Dragon
Summary: The aim of iHUD is to provide the immersive feel you get from having no HUD, whilst keeping the usefulness of having one. It takes the permanantly visible HUD elements such as compass and crosshair, and hides them when not needed. Hence the motto:

HUD when you need. HIDE when you don't.

Mod Name: less touchy lockpicking
Author: tmonet
Mod Category: Lockpicking mod
Summary: Increases the sweet spot on higher level locks by a substantial amount but not enough to trivialize them at lower levels of lockpicking.see screenshots. Blue is the part of the lock that will open.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Lost Art of the Blacksmith
Author: impulseve
Mod Category: Gameplay effects and changes
Summary: Adds every missing armor/weapon improvement recipe in the game to Skyrim. Can craft such weapons as Silver weapons, lockpicks, work axes, et cetera et cetera.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Nexus Mod Manager
Author: Nexus
Mod Category: Utility
Summary: As well as all these mods, I (and everyone else) would highly recommend downloading the Nexus Mod Manager.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Obvious Skill Books by Griptzion
Mod Category: Item changes
Summary: Obvious Skill Books: Renames them to "SKILLBOOK(Skill)(#)" and makes them weightless.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Pluto's Improved Skyrim Experience (PISE)
Author: Plutoman101
Mod Category: Level Scaling
Summary: This mod, as its name indicates, aims at making Skyrim a more challenging and rewarding game without changing the feel of vanilla Skyrim. The changes made by this mod can be divided into different categories. This section deals with the changes in the main PISE.esp; for a list of changes in the optional .esps, see file list below. (note: more detailed gameplay changelog visible at
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Quality World Map - With Roads
Author: Ice Penguin
Mod Category: User Interfaces
Summary: Adds roads and routes to the World Map. There are two versions- one with only the main roads, and another with every road or path drawn onto the map. Highly recommended.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Realistic Ragdolls and Force
Author: dDefinder
Mod Category: Gameplay effects and changes
Summary: Adds the laws of gravity and physics to the game. Very realistic!
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: SkyBoost
Author: Alexander Blade
Mod Category: Utilities
Summary: Supposedly able to boost your FPS up to 150%.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Skyrim Improved Menu
Author: Sprink; Malukah, from youtube cover 'fame'(Not actually involved)
Mod Category: Interface/Menus
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary:

Mod Name: SkyUI
Author: Schlangster
Mod Category: User Interfaces
Summary: Fixes the console-based menu interface so that it's more accessible and easier to use for PC players. Inventory organization is reminiscent of the menu from Oblivion, insofar as the way it's organized. Highly recommended.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Smithing Perks Overhaul
Author: Headbomb
Mod Category: Bug fixes
Summary: Makes sure every smithing perk works as it should.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: TESV Acceleration Layer
Author: Arisu and others
Mod Category: Gameplay Effects and Changes
Summary: An SKSE plugin that increases your FPS usually from 8-10 frames per second in CPU-heavy regions inside the game.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Thuumic
Author: DeadlyAzuril
Mod Category: Immersion
Summary: Speak the dragon language into your normal PC mic to dragon shout in game. Say Fus Ro Dah, and your character will use the Unrelenting Force shout, etc.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Tytanis - The Ultimate Mod
Author:Tytanis
Mod Category: Overhaul
Summary: Adds a fuck-all load of shit for potions, crafting, items, etc.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Wars in Skyrim III
Author:Alexandrox
Mod Category: Immersion
Summary: Want more immersion in Skyrim? Want to see a village of farmers who are preparing to fight a troll ? Or be surrounded by 4 bandits, then be saved by a furious mammoths? This mod adds the possibility of encountering Bandits, Vampires, Thalmor, Necromancer, Atronach, Werewolf, Mammuth, Dragonpriest, Dremora, Boss and Giant Monsters and other, with a small chance of them meet together or 2 factions in one time: this creating faction battles and make the game more difficult.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Weapons and Armor Fixes
Author: Headbomb
Mod Category: Bug fixes
Summary: Makes sure every weapon/armor piece work as described.
Link: Nexus

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Mod Name: 1024x1024 Shadowmere and Saddle
Author: BingoMorris
Mod Category: Models/Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: "This ya boi xzibit comin' atchoo from mufuckin' Skyrim sonnn, today we gonna be pimpin' dis shadowmere - gonna put a ps3 in the horses ass shit is gonna be tight."

Mod Name: 2K High Resolution Map
Author: jac22v
Mod Category: Textures/World Objects
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: High resolution retexture for the maps you come across in the world, like the one in Dragonreach's mage's room.

Mod Name: Anti-SOPA Archery Targets
Author: markofthedog
Mod Category: Textures/World Objects
Summary: Replace all archery targets with Anti-SOPA targets. Cause fuck Lore, this is the internet. Show your impotent rage where no one can see it.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Assassin's Creed Theives Guild retexture
Author: mudkipmudd
Mod Category: Models/Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Replaces boring thieves guild armor with an Assassin's Creed motif.

Mod Name: Better Females
Author: BellaGail
Mod Category: Retex
Summary: Note this mod is a replacer and will replace any current face mods installed. This mod replaces default female face texture lips eyebrows and eye make up with a more improved high rez version. It will apply to your female character and all NPCs. I hope you like it!
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Calientes Female Body Mod Big Bottom Edition -CBBE-
Author: Caliente
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Pretty self-explanatory. The best nudemod around. Period.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Coolsims Hair Pack
Author: newermind43
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Adds pretty pretty hair/textures for female characters.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Dall's Forsworn
Author: Dall
Mod Category: Models/Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Replaces the homeless/caveman look of the forsworn to something that actually looks like a native of Skyrim.

Mod Name: Enhanced Blood Textures
Author: dDefinder
Mod Category: Models and textures
Summary: Makes wounds more realistic and blood splatters bigger and prettier.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Enhanced Night Skyrim
Author: CptJoker
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Lights up celestial bodies and stars, replacing the textures with hi-res images made from real astrophotography. Super pretty.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Glowing Ore Veins 300
Author: Baratan
Mod Category: Visuals and Graphics
Summary: Makes it so that ore glows a bit, shines a bit more so that it's more noticeable. Very useful.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: HD Mountains and Rocks New Textures
Author: ErrorEncoding
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Replaces mountain/rock textures with 4k+res textures in order to do away with the bloated mountain sides. Also makes roaming much, much prettier.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: High Quality Eyes
Author: Xenius
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Included in XCE. Makes eyes pretty and bright, but still realistic.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: High Resolution Armors
Author: jac22v
Mod Category: Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: High Resolution versions of the vanilla armors.

Mod Name: High Resolution Books
Author: jac22v
Mod Category: Textures/World Objects
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: High resolution retexture for the books you come across in the world

Mod Name: Hjerim Bloody cleanup
Author: Sk8on-Toutatis
Mod Category: Bug Fixes
Summary: Cleans up all the bones and blood left from the "Blood on the Ice" quest when you move in.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Housecarls and Followers with Zazz
Author: AurelioMagherelli
Mod Category: Overhaul/Models/Textures/Gameplay Effects and Changes
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Changes the default Housecarls' and followers' outfit to many different ones, of your choosing

Followers in Skyrim vanilla tend to revert back to their default armor/clothing after a while if dismissed.
With this mod, their default equipment is changed to more suitable ones that means less frustrating inventory and console messing around.

Mod Name: Immersive Skyrim Thunder
Author: Wordeee
Mod Category: Audio, Sound and Music
Link: Nexus
Summary: Improved sound files for all rain, thunder, Storm Call and Unrelenting Force.

Mod Name: Improved NPC Clothing
Author: BaronDavid
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Replaces all available NPC clothing and replaces it with high-res textures.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Krosis and Dragon Priest Hood Reskins
Author: masterthief300
Mod Category: Armor Retexture
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Nice retext of the Krosis mask.

Mod Name: Lush Grass
Author: Optic Shooter
Mod Category: Environmental
Summary: Makes grass that grows in the terrain denser, more realistic, and more lifelike. Pretty damn great.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Lush Trees
Author: Optic Shooter
Mod Category: Environmental
Summary: Makes your trees better and prettier. Compatible with vurt's Flora Overhaul mod.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Make dog companions into wolf companions
Author: Bellyache
Mod Category: Dog mod
Summary: Reskins your dog, and QUIETS his barking. Awesome mod, I love it and use the Husky version. I mean look at this shit from this to this
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Nicer Snowflakes
Author: evercharmer
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Replaces the default snow textures with individually done snowflakes that actually look like snowflakes if you pause the game. Pretty nifty.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: No More Blocky Faces
Author: Xenius
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Included in XCE. Removes the blocky-looking texture from characters' noses that are present in the vanilla game. This was one of the mods that was out Day One- it's a must have.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Perfect Legionnaire - Imperial Armor Reforged 2-0
Author: Ali Bengali
Mod Category: Armor Texture/Replace
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Awesome Imperial Armor replacement based on General Tullius' armor.

Mod Name: RANs Eyeliner Replacer
Author: RAN46
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Changes eyeliner colors and options for female characters.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Real Ice
Author: Yuril
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Exactly as the name describes. Makes ice and icebergs look super realistic.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Realistic Lighting Without Post-Processing
Author: 747823 and Pluto
Mod Category: Environmental
Summary: A great mod that makes the colors and lighting inside the game much, much more realistic.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Realistic Smoke and Embers
Author: isoku
Mod Category: Visuals and Graphics
Summary: Makes fire extremely realistic and beautifully rendered. Smoke looks a hell of a lot better as well. Highly recommended.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Realistic Water Textures
Author: isoku
Mod Category: Environmental
Summary: Makes the water in the game look so, so pretty. HD textures.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Skyrim HD - 2K Textures
Author: NebuLa
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Replaces much of the in-game terrain, building, interior, whateverelseisfuckinginthegame textures with HD textures (2-8k res). Makes everything fucking purdy.
Link: Nexus


Mod Name: Skyrim Flora Overhaul
Author: vurt
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: The name is pretty self-explanatory. Pretty fucking awesome set of new meshes and textures.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Skyrim Sunglare V3
Author: Laast
Mod Category: Visuals and Graphics
Summary: Adds some lensflare and sunglare to Skyrim. Soooo great.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Stormcloaks Enhanced
Author: edwardvlad
Mod Category: Armor Retexture
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Nice retext of the stormcloaks getup.

Mod Name: Wolf Armor Remix Male and Female
Author: MonsterMonkey
Mod Category: Armor retex
Summary: Total redo of the Wolf Armor. Freaking amazing
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: XCE - Xenius Character Enhancement
Author: Xenius
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Makes your characters more realistic, removing a hellovalot of ugly stuff and making things much better to look at. MUST HAVE.
Link: Nexus

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Mod Name: Dovahkiin Hideout
Author: Shawk and Krimsonlust
Mod Category: Player Homes
Summary: Adds an ingame location that's accessible from any house that you own, that leads to any other house that you own (the five purchasable houses). Doors to unpurchased houses remain locked, but this place adds a heap of extra storage space, a cool-looking hall, enchanting and alchemy tables, lots of weapon racks, mannequins, and display cases, chests, and a full smithing facility.
Link: Nexus

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Mod Name: Arcane Assassin
Author: PROXiCiDE
Mod Category: Combat
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Arrows are craftable in the MISC section, under the Forge and require Fire/Frost/Void salts + Iron Ignot as igredients depending on the type of arrow you are crafting

Mod Name: Balanced Magic
Author: mysty
Mod Category: Magic - Gameplay
Summary: A mod that improves the mechanics of magic - not just adding more spells like Midas, but actually changing damage output, magicka usage and perk effects - is pretty important. This and Better Magic seem equally decent, so it's more an issue of what you're looking for. I have found this to make higher level characters a touch overpowered, but overall it's worked the balancing issue pretty well.
Link: Here

Mod Name: Berserk Dragonslayer
Author: Phate3
Mod Category: Weapons
Summary: Adds Guts' sword from the manga comic Berserk. There are a huge number of texture mods available for this.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Better archery Eagle Eye perk
Author: Graxster
Mod Category: Perk Mod
Summary: Modifies the archery perk, Eagle Eye, so that you have a more powerful zoom in, and it burns much less stamina (20% of default).
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Black Sacrament Armor
Author: AmethystDeceiver
Mod Category: Armor/Crafting
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: One of the single best Nightingale textures I've ever seen. Hooded and No-Hood versions in one. Bonus? It's completely stand alone. Example female and Male screenshots.

Mod Name: Blades Sword Not Katana
Author: Aluminumfoil
Mod Category: Models/Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Replaces the blades sword with an Imperial model, or alternatively an Ebony sword. I think the Katana kind of breaks immersion

Mod Name: Craftable Cleric
Author: Raven42, Sharda, Daejones
Mod Category: Armour
Summary: Adds Cleric Armor, visually a combination between Nocturnal's robes and Ebony Armor, to the list of craftable armor pieces, under Ebony. The original Cleric Armor was made by Daejones.
Link: Nexus
Mod Name: Daedric Armor and weapon Improvement
Author: GarryG
Mod Category: Armour
Summary: Hands down, the best fucking Daedric armor retex that I have ever, ever fucking seen.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Dragonbone Weapons
Author: AeonVita
Mod Category: Weapon and armour sets
Summary: Adds to the Smithing menu Dragon weapons, able to be crafted out of Dragonbone. Can also add an optional Dragon Heart item in order to craft the weapons.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Dwarven Bionic Suit Dwemer Light Power armor
Author: MrMino
Mod Category: Standalone Armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Warning: Breaks Lore. For the lulz, a set of armor to turn you into a Dwarven cyborg.

Mod Name: Ebony 4K
Author: TTKRICKJAMES
Mod Category: Armor Texture
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Utterly awesome ebony Armor retexture.

Mod Name: Final Fantasy
Author: SawakiToko
Mod Category: Weapons/Crafting
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Adds a bunch of craftable weapons from the Final Fantasy games. Breaks immersion, but I some people would enjoy it.

Mod Name: JaySuS Swords
Author: JaySuS
Mod Category: Weapons
Summary: Adds over 40 new, awesome-looking weapons to the Smithing menu. The sheer variety of armaments is simply superb/
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Legendary Gauldur Amulet
Author:Robin Scott
Mod Category: Buffing Item
Summary: Did you play the Forbidden Legend quest? Were you disappointed with the end-result reward? Then here you go, a rather nicely buffed version of the end-game item, though it's one of two different versions. Make your pick and enjoy.
Link:http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3392

Mod Name: LOTR - Narsil and Anduril
Author: Isilmeriel
Mod Category: Weapons
Summary: Adds the two swords Narsil and Anduril, from The Lord of The Rings to the game.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Magi
Author: PROXiCiDE
Mod Category: Gameplay Effects
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Note: Requires Script Dragon
Summary:Check the Nexus page for more detailed info, but general discription:

Mod Name: Magic Evolved
Author: Phendrix
Mod Category: Combat/Magic
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: This mod currently adds 93 new spells to the game. This completely enhances and improves the system. Most of the spells fit right in and are well balanced for legitimate play. If you ever thought the Skyrim magic system was lacking this is the mod for you. Hours upon hours were put into this mod to give you the broadest spell selection possible. I hope you find this mod to your liking, may your magicka never run out!

Mod Name: Magicka Sabers
Author: Lord Haun
Mod Category: Weapons
Summary: LIGHTSABERS.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Midas Magic - Spells in Skyrim
Author: Xilver
Mod Category: Spells and Enchantments
Summary: Adds a metric fuckton of spells and spelltypes that are able to be used by the player, mostly original. Still requires a little bit of balancing.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Millenia Weapon Retexture Project - WRP
Author: Millenia
Mod Category: Models and Textures
Summary: Makes a large number of vanilla weapons extremely high definition, textured beyond belief. Super epic.
Link: Nexus

Mod Name: Mystic Elven Armor HD
Author: sader325
Mod Category: Armor Texture/Stand-alone Armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Beautiful Elven armor in a darker color scheme. Has both stand alone and vanilla replacement versions.

Mod Name: Nightingale Skull Mask
Author: exium
Mod Category: Models/Textures
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Retexture of the Nightingale armor, with an awesome skull mask.

Mod Name: Thief
Author: PROXiCiDE
Mod Category: Gameplay Effects
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Note: Requires Script Dragon
Summary:Check the Nexus page for more detailed info, but general discription:

Mod Name: Triss Armor Retextured
Author: Psyke23
Mod Category: Standalone armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus German
Summary: There was this awesome Triss armor floating out there on the internet, and even modified to work in Skyrim. But alas, it was a replacement for the Archmage's Robe and way too bright for my taste. So what did I do? I went ahead and edited it to make it standalone, and while at it, retextured it completely to make it fit better for my tastes. As for the stats, it should have the same as the Shrouded Armor, just without enchantments.

Mod Name: Triss' Dragonhunter Armor
Author: Adam_c_123
Mod Category: Armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Triss' armor with a dragon scale flavor.

Mod Name: Typemoon Weapons
Author: SawakiToko
Mod Category: Weapons/Crafting
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Adds a bunch of craftable weapons from the Typemoon games. Breaks immersion, but I know you Fate/Faggots want to use Invisible Air to slay dragons.

Mod Name: The Vicious Heart
Author: Sbezjko
Mod Category: Stand-alone Weapons
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Port of the Oblivion mod of the same name, from Gizmodian.


Mod Name: The Witcher 2 Geralt and Iorveth
Author: L0rd0fWar
Mod Category: Armor Texture/Standalone Armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Adds a couple standalone armor sets based on Witcher 2


Mod Name: The Witcher 2 - Geralt Light Armor and Witcher Swords
Author: Hucifer
Mod Category: Armor Texture/Standalone Armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Same as the above, but adds in some swords and enchanted versions of the armor.

Mod Name: The Witcher 2 - Iorveth Light Armor
Author: Hucifer
Mod Category: Armor Texture/Standalone Armor
Link: Skyrim Nexus
Summary: Same as the above, but adds in some enchanted versions of the armor and a few other minor details.

 

Wow thats pretty awesome for the PC users but are all these compatible with each other?

 

Most of them are. I have them all installed through the Mod Manager.

The only ones that aren't are those texture mods that affect the same things- terrain, nature, that sort of thing.

 

Lutris, great job with the sorting and thread. You've done so well you're in official charge of it now =P Tell me if you want a different title, lol. And screw you for making me add like 20 mods to my list

 

Sweet. Different title would be bawse. Also, more mods are always a good thing! :awesome

 

So is the OP going to be like a master list of all the best mods reccommended, or do you just look through all the posts to find the mods you want?

You might also have to change the posting format when the Steam workshop is running, depending on how popular it is. Hopefully you'll be able to link to a mod on the workshop somehow.

Most of the best mods I can think of off the top of my head have already been posted, but I'll look through my list later and see if I can find any that haven't been.

 

Am aiming for the first, might be easier to organize otherwise.

Yes please.

Use: [ /url] but without the spaces.

EDIT: I derped. Refer to Moridin's post.

 

To name a link, you do Name goes here[ /url] without the spaces.

 

Thanks, Moridin. This is the best list of .ini tweaks that I know of. At the top, there is an option to jump to a section - go to the page 'Advanced Tweaking' (I couldn't link directly) to see the .ini tweaks.

My favourite is the uGridsToLoad one, but I reccommend you don't go above 7. I have a top of the line computer, and the FPS was still pretty bad outdoors on 9.

 

The Black Sacrament armor mod is tits on toast. It makes you feel like your the Listener, the head of a feared group of assassins, and not some random npc with better armor. And if your not the Listener then you just look awesome as all Hell anyway.

Also thanks Lutris for bringing JaySuS Swords to my attention, I love popping behind people and getting them with the Dragonsting dagger. I can't believe that the Creation Kit isn't even out yet and already there's shit like this.

 

Tytanis

I didn't see this one posted so I thought I'd throw it up here myself, its sort of comparable to mods like FOOK for Fallout New Vegas adding a ton of new gear, crafting recipes, spells and monsters. Most importantly of all however is the very simple fact that you can ride Saber Cats and Cave Bears as permanent mounts with this mod. I don't think I need to explain much further than that.

 

Eh, Tytanis is unpopular with a lot of people (myself included) because it adds heaps of stuff seemingly randomly, with no modularity at all. Huge portions are piles of crap, and you have to have them in your game if you want one thing from the mod.

Also, it's pretty broken. And instead of fixing his mod, the author just keeps adding things, which then further break things.

So yeah, Tytanis has some cool stuff, but be careful if you download it and make sure you know what it is you're getting. It's also possible the part you want is available elsewhere, as quite a few mods are integrated into Tytanis.

 

Definitely agree with Aekiel. If any of you are modders, you'll have seen some of what Dark0ne plans to do with the NMM in the modders forums, and it makes what we have now look very basic. So much better for installing mods than the old way.

 

This. He gets credit for the effort, but he's just haphazardly throwing shit in without regards for breaking things. And he changes so much stuff it breaks a massive amount of other mods.

Yeah no shit, can't believe we forgot to throw this in at the very start. I guess it's just assumed you'll do it this way.

 

At work, but I tihnk this is the one I'm thinking of.

[URL="http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2730]Better Sorting[/URL]

Latest version lets you not only sort shit, it renames it for you if you want. <RandomNPC's> Journal become Journal - <NPCname>, portions and magic get the same shit. Fortify <Stat> I, Fortify Stat II, Raise Dead I. Raise Dead II, etc. Sooooo much better than fucking shit vanilla sorting.

 

Yep I use that one as well. I'd not mentioned it because SkyUI supposedly was working on some sort of sorting plugin, but if it did anything I cbf to see it.

 

Yeah, SkyUI on its own is kind of meh.

That said, anyone else having problems with Inventory/Shops/Chests taking fuck-all forever to open under SkyUI? Skyrim actually stops responding for like 30 seconds.

 

Nope. Not experiencing any sort of lag at all 0_o.

Weird.

 

Nope. Do you have any other inventory or interface mods? I know an early version of QD Inventory I was using caused a bad slowdown opening containers.

 

Mine ended up having the same problem as well. It turned out there wasn't enough memory so complicated things like opening doors and jiggling locks had the game lagging or frozen up for so long I could make myself dinner and be back in time for it to start working again.

If that doesn't work, I'd try re-downloading it from Nexus or seeing if it went into the right folder. Sometimes when I download multiple things at once with NMM they start pushing at eachother and/or forget to download important pieces.

Hope this helps!