Hi there, fellow Skyrim modders!
I'd like to present to you my first real mod release: a player home called Amberfield Cottage.

Amberfield Cottage is a lore-friendly, Vanilla+ player home near Whiterun, designed to seamlessly blend into the Skyrim world – enhanced with a modern twist. With many custom features, display systems and dynamic storage mechanics (including a treasury!), Amberfield redefines cozy living without ever breaking immersion.

Please check it out and let me know what you think!

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/196782

Please help suggest some bad ass high fantasy HIMBO heavy or light armors either on or off Nexus.

I just came across this on the nexus: Oblivion Spell Making Altars

It seems to add spell making altars like in oblivion. It's rather new with very few downloads. Wanted to know if anyone tried it out or tested anything. I'm currently playing JoJ so I'm a bit anxious about trying it out on this list, but I for sure want to try it out in the future. Especially while using triumvirate/apocalypse spells

I saw someone comment about a mod that expands on the Grey Cowl of Nocturnal CC quest and was curious if there are many quests similar to this, or which outright just add new quests. If so, is there a place where many of these might be covered / showcased? I'd be keen to check them out! If not, do you have ones that you personally like?

So I’ve been playing Skyrim forever and I always feel like there’s a lack of orc attention! I have an extensive lists of mods I already use in-game, primarily for changing lights, weather, combat etc. but I really want more mods that include orcs.

Orc followers, location overhauls, anything- I just need good recommendations

I used to play Legendary Edition for a long time, probably from 2013 til 2019 (yes, even long after Special Edition released, mostly because of complacency and having an ond hardware). My PC has since got an upgrade and I have been playing SE for a couple years now but never tried modding anything, just went with Wabbajack auto-install modlists.

But right now I'm motivated to build a custom modlist for myself like the one I used to on LE, however the modding landscape got quite different from what I was used to and I have a lot of questions about the current state of modding and some old features I'd love to bring back.

I remember learning the most from the step project.

I'd appreciate recommendations for individual mods (especially personal must-haves), modlists that already include these features and communities/resources from where I can learn more.

Combat and AI

1. I prefer first-person combat and love Archery Gameplay Overhaul. I looked into Combat Gameplay Overhaul and got to try it a bit in some modlist I don't remeber anymore, and felt nice, but since it was bundled with other mods I can't tell which parts I liked or disliked. Does there seen like a good first-person core gameplay?
2. I would love to get a better enemy combat AI, where enemies aren't just strafing around me and using lame attacks. So I seached and found SCAR and videos show how enemies feel much nicer, but how to fix creature behavior?

Followers

1. NFF looks like is the way to go nowadays, but it seems to lack some features I relied on: forcing specific armor instead of followers just using the best in their inventory; teaching skills and spells; defining perks. It also says on it's page that there may be incompatibilities with CGO
   1. I had a bug of followers inventory reseting to their "default" like faendal just going back to normal clothes and the armor I gave him just vanishing.
   2. Is there a start guild mod where I can manager followers past the limit of followers following me so they work on gathering, forge, enchanting or do missions?
2. Alongside this what is the best horse mod?

Creatures, enemies and armor/weapons.

1. Additional enemies with unleveled world and additional effects like know your enemy
2. On LE I used to go with Immersive Creatures and OBIS along with deadly dragons, what are the modern equivalents?
3. I really like enabling tons of different builds, I used to go with one that i had to use a Java program to setup and distribute powers to npcs (I think if my memory serves me right it should be Perkus Maximus) but I already got my eyes on Vokriinator - Choice Cuts that I tried on LostLegacy modlist, what are your thoughts?
4. Also love more diversity on race effects since I am used to Imperious alongside some class selection mod and some additional birthright effects.
5. Also love additional weapons and would love to get new weapons types like tridents, halberds, lances, spears... that work with first person and followers could use (looking specifically for the Wheel of Time follower Aviendha using correct moveset).

Other

1. Is Open Cities still broken af?
2. I am so happy to see Skyrim Sewers still working (LostLegacy)
3. What is the current situation with alternative death methods? I remember only really using one on LE and it was buggy but couldn't live without it since feel like reloading an old save was lame.
4. I remember having Morrowloot with survival mods where animal resources where needed and potion/poison crafting much nicer and useful.
5. I also tried one modlist that I can't find anymore where cities where overhauled and had assassin's creed like mechanic of hiding spots, walking on roofs...
6. I remember also having a secret identity mod where I could hide my face and have a separate bounty from my character as a literally separate identity

I remember using wrye bash to compile loot and modify other game values (like a patch of some sorts) but there are so many new tools like Synthesis, BodySlide, Nemesis...

This is a lot to take in at once, so any pointers to starting points, guides, or communities would help. Thanks in advance!

I am sorry if I seen to be breaking rule 5 but I got so much to question and maybe this community could help me find other communities or resources to give me a bump in the right direction.

I have been wrestling with this install on a win10 machine for almost 2 weeks. Download goes fine, no errors. Install goes fine, no errors. All paths are correct. The only weird thing is I am putting the archives on e: to save space. It's a clean verified install of skyrim anniversary edition. the version of GTS is the AE version. no matter what I do, I get a popup on run that says it's missing about 17 dlls and if I ignore it, I get very technical errors from win. I'm just not sure what direction to head at this point, cuz this error has occurred every single time in every single attempt through a veritable avalanche of different trouble shooting efforts.

The exact dll error message is thus:

"SKSE Plugin Loader (2.2.6)

A DLL plugin has failed to load correctly. If a new version of Skyrim was just released, the plugin needs to be updated. Please check the mod's webpage for updates.

PressEToHeal.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
RainExtinguishesFires.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
Recipes.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
RecursionFPSFix.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
RenamePotionsSKSE.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
SimpleDualSheath.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
SimplyKnock.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
RaceMenu (skee64.dll): couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
SmartOptimalSalves.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
SoakingWet.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
SSMT_Fix.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
SurvivalControlPanel.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
Thaumaturgy.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
ToYourFace.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
UAPNG.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)
YASTM.dll: couldn't load plugin (0000045A)

Continuing to load may result in lost save data or other undesired behavior.
Exit game? (yes highly suggested)"

the system errors are as follows:

1. D3D11CreateDeviceSwapChain failed 0x887A0004

and

1. Assertion failed in Drivers\Render.cpp->IED::Drivers::Render::InitializeD3D:60:

swapChain != nullptr

I followed the readme, and I consistently get this error. My drivers are updated and dx11 IS supported. I am at a loss. Any help or ideas would be appreciated, TIA.

So I've been looking at posts for mods that get rid of the appearance changes for vampires since like when I became a vampire my lips became red and I hate it. The posts I've looked at are dated. Some of the suggested mods don't do it all and some of them are deleted. I looked on nexus mods and its all filled with vampire eye stuff so I can't find anything.

this is inspired by a post on this subreddit i saw from a year ago, and i had the same problem. i decided to post this because it’s halloween season and the mod is back on the front page of creations again. plus it really sucks to pay real life money for a mod that breaks

so, at the final boss fight, there is a known glitch where anise is totally invulnerable (like jyrik gaulderson in saarthal). i don’t know the cause of this glitch exactly but i found the solution. you have to sneak slowly across the big platform you’re on until you can just barely hear her speech (not the subtitles but the audio itself, also you should be hidden). make sure that you’re not triggering all of the bog guys spawning yet. wait until she’s done, then a few more seconds, and THEN look out over the edge. boom shackalaka you should see her portal thing light up and she is now avaliable to kill!

I just noticed that an enemy hitting at me wasn't making the shield strike sound, so I stood there and let him try again. Nothing. So I let him hit me without blocking, and he was just swinging wildly while nothing was happening to me, as if I was noncorporeal.

https://pastebin.com/YEjah5NQ

Hey I just started on PC, and wanted my old creation club stuff Bethesda gives every certain time on xbox, but I can't download any, it says that the download failed. I want only the couple free ones for PC like horse armor, but I can't download them, after some research I saw that they are version exclusive and not shared, so Im probably going to create another beth net account to download those. Or anyone know any fix? Or do I create another account?

There was a mod that contained them right?

Thanks for reading

Hey, pardon the last post I deleted, I managed to fix the issue only to run into a new one.

Whenever I try to build a new bashed patch, I keep getting this window popping up with this showing. Can anyone explain what this means for me?

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "wbtemp.py", line 90, in _get_global_dir

File "pathlib.py", line 993, in resolve

File "<frozen ntpath>", line 696, in realpath

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'D:\\.wbtemp'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "balt.py", line 1485, in __Execute

File "basher\mods_links.py", line 320, in Execute

File "basher__init__.py", line 1125, in new_bashed_patch

File "bosh__init__.py", line 2986, in generateNextBashedPatch

File "bosh__init__.py", line 2969, in create_new_mod

File "mod_files.py", line 251, in safeSave

File "wbtemp.py", line 240, in __enter__

File "wbtemp.py", line 197, in new_temp_file

File "wbtemp.py", line 93, in _get_global_dir

File "<frozen os>", line 225, in makedirs

PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'D:\\.wbtemp'

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/1xg6oq6/please_help_me_fix_this_it_is_driving_me_crazy/

I have posted it in r/skyrim because you can post pictures there and not here. I know this is an issue with the way ENB lights face textures, but nothing seems to fix it.

Based on the crash log, it seem like the issue has something to do with community shaders and TruePBR, but i don't even know what to do to fix it:

https://pastebin.com/5Nzm2aJY

I've installed MCO AND ALL NEEDED MODS with nemesis and ER moveset collection (OAR) and third person animations don't work.

Image posted in a comment since I can't post it in the main one. I updated a lot of mods and installed a handful of new ones and now I have some hooded icon on my screen, No idea what it is and I cannot seem to find it in my recent mods.

Hello, I have released an update for ClibDT. Many mods have been made using this toolkit.

It makes it easy to setup all the paths, tools, libraries, compiling, packaging, pretty much everything you need to make SKSE mods.

This new version has many improvements over version 5.x.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/154240

having these red triangles in specific spots when I turn the camera in a specific angles..is there a mod that is corrupting my meshes?? this is my mod list and the screenshots and ty in advance:
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/p7pcke/revisions/1?utm_source=site&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=share_button&utm_campaign=share_collection&utm_source=site&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=share_button&utm_campaign=share_collection

https://imgur.com/a/SMNysvR

Exactly what the title says. I've got the talisman, I've done "All of this Past", so it's not a failure on that, and I rest and talk to him just about every five minutes, going through the camps, inns, and even my homes. I've also taken him to the Shrine and to Shadowgreen. No new romance options pop up. Is there anything else I need to be doing or something in the MCM I can use to progress him? It's been about a full month in-game since I got stuck.

I'm using the base mod (2.1.1), Extended Edition, Transgressions Unknown, and Immersive Features, if that helps. Along with banter patches for Auri and Inigo (and a marriage commentary patch for Inigo.), and the Bruma patch (but this was downloaded after the issue so it's surely not that). I'm not using the revoiced, as it says it's incompatible with the things I have.

Hello, a good replacer mod for nameless npc, Its hard ro find a good one please

Recently I ran into some trouble with the skyrim update (see details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1wxmlqx/cant_download_anniversary_edition_on_fresh_install/), and after purging mods from vortex and uninstalling/reinstalling multiple times, I got to the point where I could get to the Creations menu and individually download all the Creations.

I started playing on what is now a vanilla AE Skyrim, and most of the game looked fine. After a while, I noticed the big exclamation points that indicate missing models/textures (specifically they were associated with the Necromantic Grimoire stuff).

So I did the first, easy thing: verify integrity of game files through steam. That process seemed to go ok as far as Steam was concerned.

But when trying to start the game (again, through Steam), I got the pop-up message saying it was checking for settings and going with ultra-HD, and then the pop-up thanking me for purchasing Anniversary Edition.

I clicked "Download" and the game CTDs after a second.

Started the game again, and this time am greeted with infinite load screen before getting to the main menu. (The dragon symbol appears on the left, but no options click on the right)

I guess at this point I need to uninstall-reinstall, but having done that so many times in the past only to get back here at square one again is a kick in the teeth.

I'd love it if anyone were able to help me just get back to the blank slate of vanilla Skyrim.

looking for mod collection for low end pc devices, would like new content , mesh , animations , textures whatever whatever makes it bigger and a new experience . i just dont want it to run on low end devices without crashing

So i have been trying to mod my game and here are the mods i have been trying to use but can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong? and how to mod the game properly?,

My skyrim version is 1.704 steam version

Here the list:

Address Library for SKSE Plugins
Pandora Behaviour Engine
PapyrusUtil SE - Modders Scripting Utility Functions
Terrain LOD redone
SkyParkour V
EngineFixes
Animation Queue Fix
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch - USSEP
Scrambled Bugs
Scrambled Updates
Scrambled Bugs Update
Script Effect Archetype Crash Fix
Papyrus Tweaks NG
Face Discoloration Fix
Sprint Stuttering Fix
Lingering Subtitles Fix
Horse Save Load Fix
powerofthree's Tweaks
Flying Horses Fixer - NPC Edition
Collision Sentinel - Crash Fix
Unofficial Skyrim Modder's Patch - USMP SE
Assorted mesh fixes
Terrain Parallax Blending Fix
Open Animation Replacer
MCM Helper
Spell Perk Item Distributor (SPID)
SSE Display Tweaks
PGPatcher
Backported Extended ESL Support
NPC Pathing NG
SmoothCam
True Directional Movement - Modernized Third Person Gameplay
Dynamic Collision Adjustment
Simply Order Summons
Swiftly Order Squad - Follower Commands UI
Precision - Accurate Melee Collisions
Paired Animation Improvements
Animation Motion Revolution
EVG Animated Traversal
Dyn FNIS AA functions
Static Mesh Improvement Mod Improvement Mod
Grass Optimizations - Community Shaders
Effects 11
Terrain Variation - Community Shaders
Terrain Blending - Community Shaders
Skylighting - Community Shaders
Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI) - Community Shaders
HDR - Community Shaders
Hair Specular - Community Shaders
Complex Parallax Materials
Wetness Effects - Community Shaders
Simplicity of Snow
Particle Patch
Upscaling - Community Shaders
Convenient Horses
Better Jumping SE
Fuz Ro D-oh - Silent Voice
Terrain Helper