It's easy to use and makes downloading, activating, and deactivating mods a breeze. Available from the Nexus Mods website, just like most of the mods on our list, it will handle everything for you.
Replacing the Nexus Mod Manager is Vortex, a newer program for organizing your mod loadout. Again, make sure you read the pages for each of your mods: many of them require specific steps and instructions. Now that you've found some mods you'd like to try, here are the tools you can use to get them working.
How to install Skyrim mods How to install Skyrim mods : Gameplay mods - weapons, skills, systems, and tweaks : Content mods - quests, characters, creatures, and places : Getting started - How to install mods, patches, interface, and textures Check our other pages for all the best quest mods, new skills, and everything else you can imagine.
Mods added in the latest update of this list have been marked with a ⭐.įirst up we'll cover how to get started modding your game along with some essential improvements.
And if you're looking for Skyrim Special Edition mods, follow that link to our separate collection. This is our guide to the best Skyrim mods, sorted into categories that will make it easy for you to find what you're looking for. It's an overwhelming number to sort through, which is why we're here to help find and install the Skyrim mods you should use in 2021. Become a giant, fly, walk through walls, spawn any item you want, and even become Santa Claus with Skyrim console commands.Įven with the Special Edition released, modding Skyrim's original release is still getting plenty of new mods all the time. Here's my current mod list there's a few plugins in there that have been rolled into my Bashed Patch, and a few others that I haven't uninstalled from Mod Organizer and are still hanging in there.There's no need to play Skyrim as a humble warrior.
When I did have the iNPC compatibility patch and EFF 4.0.0 beta 13 installed, Lydia worked fine but I couldn't dismiss Zora (I would get the 'Your Follower Leaves Your Service' message, but she'd never go anywhere and nothing would change).ĮFF is pretty freaking amazing so I really want to keep using that, and I'm fine with just not having the iNPCs be able to ride horses and use the EFF features if that's just not possible (even though Convenient Horses says it should be compatible with iNPC), but I'm hoping somebody else can hand me the magic bullet. I spent a couple of hours trying to hunt down various things, switching to EFF (from UFO), trying AFT, trying the older variant of EFF so I could try the iNPC compatibility patch, but I couldn't get anything to work. I've been using Convenient Horses, and aside from the fact that 90% of the time that I use the horse horn my horse (and my followers' horses) are invisible the major problem I'm having with it is that Zora from Interesting NPCs never jumps on a horse herself.