Skyrim Special Edition brought advanced support for modding with 64-bit on PC, meaning players can load up more heavy mods with fewer issues and instability. For all the mods listed in this round-up, we'll be using the Nexus platform and the Nexus Mod Manager to install them. Here are the best mods you should install for your next Skyrim playthrough.
See where you're going: A Quality World Map
The map isn't necessarily bad in Skyrim, but there are a few improvements that A Quality World Map by IcePenguin brings to the table. The mod includes a set of highly-detailed world map textures, complete with roads. This is a must-have for anyone who enjoys walking (or riding) everywhere without the use of fast travel. This mod also adds a detailed Solsteim map. And there's even a paper-style map!
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Start a new life: Alternate Start
When modding Skyrim, some bad things can happen, especially during the opening scene. This is a heavily scripted part of the game and one that can cause problems if you have mods that interfere with Bethesda's code. Alternate Start provides the option to skip the start of the game altogether, protecting against crashes, and can even allow for some interesting role-playing adventures.
Free at Mod NexusCall down the heavens: Apocalypse
This is an important mod for anyone looking to do a mage build. You get 155 new spells, all of which are added to existing vendors and loot lists, no script bloat for enhanced performance, compatibility with many other spell-related mods, and the ability for unique mage builds that do not focus on destruction or conjuration. You will need ASIS (Automatic Spells, Increased Spawns) for NPCs to be given new items and spells.
Free at Mod NexusMake torches useful: Darker Nights
As the name suggests, this mod makes the nights in Skyrim darker, depending on personal preference. For many, the evenings in Skyrim were far too bright, and Darker Nights provide the option of 6 different levels that can be set to create a more atmospheric experience during the late and early hours of each day.
Free at Mod NexusSkryim never looked so good: Enhanced Lights and FX
Enhanced Lights and FX is a sizeable mod that creates a more dynamic and realistic mood to the Skyrim landscape by adding actual lighting to all light sources and removing any light without a source, as well as the addition of numerous effects including smoke, volumic lights, and more. If you want dungeons, interiors, and Skyrim in general, to look better, you need to install ELFX. Just don't install the weather part of the mod if you plan to use True Storms.
Free at Mod NexusWalk-in wardrobe: Immersive Armors
Skyrim has a bunch of armors already available, but Immersive Amors is a mod that takes kitting out your characters (and NPCs) to the next level. 55 new sets are included, alongside 396 shields and various other miscellaneous apparel items. That's a lot of new items to play around with. Different sets and items have specific stats that are integrated into the game through quest rewards, placement in dungeons, and given to certain people.
Free at Mod NexusCountless ways for decapitation: Immersive Weapons
Much like the Immersive Armors mod, Skyrim has a number of weapons already available for you to use, but Immersive Weapons adds around 230 more, not to mention new weapon sets to make various new melee builds viable. Not only is it great to see and use the new weapons, but hothtrooper44 made sure that the mod doesn't have a negative impact on the lore, just in case you wish to play as close to vanilla as possible.
Free at Mod NexusChoose your starsign: Ordinator
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The perk tree could do with some improvements to make each playthrough and build feel more interesting and unique. This is where Ordinator comes in, adding more than 400 perks to the game, completely overhauling each skill tree. You'll need to visit the Nexus page to see all the perks added, but it's a comprehensive list and Ordinator is a mod I simply cannot play without.
Free at Mod NexusFus-Ro-Dah: Realistic Ragdolls and Force
The ragdoll effect in Skyrim can lead to some hilarious situations, including those moments when a giant will send you to outer space with a whack of its club. That's no good for role-playing and immersion, which is where Realistic Ragdolls and Force can lend a hand. Bodies now react to gravity and force more realistically. It's a small, but effective, mod.
Free at Mod NexusShimmering splendar: Realistic Water Two
With the updated water flow system and more included in Skyrim Special Edition, mods that affect the natural liquid are now more important when the aim is to create a more realistic-looking environment. Realistic Water Two takes Bethesda's improved system and takes everything to the next level with higher quality effects and textures, not to mention more accurate water body movement depending on the location (sea, river, pond, etc.).
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Free at Mod NexusSeriously. Run.: Run for your lives
Run for your lives is a package of two handy mods, developed and uploaded by the same author. Run for your lives and When vampires attack affects the way NPCs react to dragon and vampire attacks, namely those who are unable to fight back. Instead of witnessing absolute carnage due to citizens of Skyrim not fleeing to the safe indoors, installing these mods lets you fight off deadly beasts with guards by your side.
Free at Mod NexusMust-have tool: Skyrim Script Extender 64-bit
Finally, the extremely talented modders behind the exceptional Skyrim Script Extender has released a version in beta that works wonderfully with Skryim SE. What this tool allows you to do is install mods that require additional functionality that the base game engine simply cannot offer. I'm talking a better UI experience that wasn't designed for consoles, more feature-packed mods, and more.
Just make sure you download and install the version for SE and not the old Skyrim. Afterward, you need to launch the SKSE64 .exe and not the Skyrim executable through Steam.
Free at SKSEHow the UI should be by default: SkyUI
This is currently an early testing build of the excellent SkyUI mods, but it's well worth checking out now. What it does is revamps the entire UI, allowing you to more easily navigate your inventory and such, seeing more information at a glance.
Free at Mod NexusBetter looking ropes: Static Mesh Improvement Mod
SMIM is a huge mod. And by huge we mean massive in both scale and size of the download. Totaling nearly 1GB, this package contains a bunch of improved 3D models for various things like robs, chains, lanterns, and other objects. It's particularly effective if you're one to notice when things look slightly out of place or aren't high-quality assets.
Princess maker 2 mods pc. Princess Maker 2 Refine offers a unique life simulation gameplay where the player takes a role as a father for a young girl and raise her into adulthood. Players have freedom of choices on how to raise the child, but each choice will impact on the outcome of what she will become. I know a lot of people already have fanarts of 'insert character here Maker' so it'd be great to be able to do silly edits like that. (personally I'd love to swap out the princess and butler for Glenda and Mr Gaga from the anime) though I dunno, if you wanna do an uncensor patch or whatever then you could do that. Princess Maker 2 Uncensor Patch:: Second installment in the Princess Maker series of life simulation games developed by the Japanese computer game and anime production company Gainax. You are a war hero who raises a girl to the age of 18. At the end of the game, your daughter goes into a line of work; what this work is, how much talent she has for it, her marital life, and her overall.
Free at Mod NexusUncover hidden secrets: The Forgotten City
How does an expansion sound? The Forgotten City has you covered with an award-winning unofficial experience, backed by superb writing, original orchestral score, and voiced dialog that offers around eight hours of gameplay. You're tasked with entering an underground Dwarven city and uncover a mystery, and it's non-linear too with multiple endings.
If you've finished the main plot numerous times and are soon running out of things to do, give The Forgotten City a go.
Free at Mod NexusMake Skyrim feel more alive: True Storms
The weather effects in Skyrim are pretty good, but since everything was compiled way back in 2011, there's definitely room for improvement. Cue True Storms. This is a must-have mod for anyone looking to create a more immersive Skyrim experience with the weather really adding to every outing. It brings fog, variable weather, high-quality sound effects, new textures, dust storms, and more.
Free at Mod NexusFixes Bethesda never made: Unofficial Skyrim: SE Patch
This is a must-have download for anyone, even if you do not wish to get into modding your Skyrim install. As the name suggests, it's a compiled package of fixes, improvements, and additions to the title. Hundreds of gameplay, quest, NPC, object, item, text and placement bugs have been fixed. Seriously, there's no reason as to why you shouldn't install this patch.
Free at Mod NexusChoosing the best mods
The absolute must-have mods for Skyrim include SKSE, SkyUI, and Alternate Start. The rest depends on your system specifications, your desired playstyle and what type of content you want to add to the world of Skyrim.
But what are your favorite mods for Skyrim Special Edition? Are there any you have for Skyrim that have yet to be ported? Sound off in the comments. We'd also like to thank modders for their continued support in extending the enjoyment of games, particularly Skyrim. You guys are incredible.
Creation Club recently arrived for Skyrim Special Edition, and as with Fallout 4 it provides a small selection of weapons and armor available to buy for Skyrim SE. There are also two modes—one that brings mobs of zombies at night, and another that introduces an official survival mode.
I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking Bethesda selling a survival mode for Skyrim SE is a bit dubious. There are loads of free survival mods and have been for years, for both the original Skyrim and the Special Edition—most notably Chesko's outstanding Campfire and Frostfall mods—and surely these mods are the inspiration for Skyrim SE's new paid content. Plus, when Bethesda's survival mode for Fallout 4 was released it was (and still is) free. While survival mode for Skyrim SE was free for its first week, it's now for sale, and I don't have to take the internet's temperature to know that plenty of people are a bit hot about it.
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At the same time, I'm curious about the mode itself. Having already bought some items from Creation Club for Fallout 4, I decided to buy and try out the new survival system. SSE's survival mode costs 500 credits in the Club store, which is about $5, though naturally you can't buy $5 worth of credits: the minimum amount is 750 credits for $7.99. Even with the 100 free credits Bethesda gives you, you still need to spend $8 if you didn't grab the survival mode while it was free (I forgot to). I've said it before, and might as well say it again: it really sucks when you have to buy a preset amount of funbux for something you want, instead of just paying whatever the actual price is.
Faced with the prospect of starting a new game and beginning with that long wagon-ride into Helgen, the arrival of Angry Shouty Dragon, the familiar tutorial escape, and the uneventful trot into Riverwood, I decide to download the always wonderful (and free) Alternate Start mod (here's the link for standard Skyrim), which lets you begin your game as someone other than the Dragonborn on your way to execution in Helgen.
One of the several options is to start is as a traveler who awakens on a sinking ship in freezing water off the coast of Solitude. You have to escape the capsized ship, gathering what few items you can along the way, and swim to safety through frigid waters. Seems like a great way to start a survival game.
Can confirm: cold water is cold. Really cold. As I splash around in the bowels of the flooded ship, the freezing water eats away my health quickly, and I can only spend a few seconds paddling around before I'm near death. In SSE's survival mode, being cold limits you from filling your health meter completely (it also makes lockpicking and picking pockets more difficult, presumably due to shaking fingers). You don't automatically regain health over time in this mode, either, though that's not such a big deal in Skyrim since every character is born with a healing spell. As long as you can find a few moments of privacy and a have a few centimeters of magicka, you'll be able to stay alive and heal.
As I escape the ship and climb out onto the iceberg it hit, the hunger system kicks in frequently—a bit too frequently for my tastes, though that's certainly not exclusive to Skyrim SE's survival mode (I've griped about the common problems with hunger systems before). I do enjoy the hunger notification itself: it's a rather convincing sound effect of a hungry stomach gurgling. I just wish it wouldn't occur so often: I've scarfed down several apples and five entire cabbages already but I'm still almost always hungry.
There's no thirst system in Skyrim SE survival, which feels like an odd omission. Granted, the world is mostly covered in snow so it seems unlikely you'd ever become dehydrated (if this hypothetical thirst system let you consume a fistful of snow, that is), but it does feel strange that nothing regarding thirst has been included.
Standing on the ice floes, I try repeatedly to swim to the relative safety of land. For a while, it seems like I simply won't be able to make it: I keep freezing to death the instant I make it to the next floe. Below, enjoy a small supercut of my repeated deaths just as I reach safety.
After about five tries I finally make it, after taking a sprinting jump off the first floe and using my healing spell the moment I've got my boots on the next one. Rather than run toward Solitude, I aim for Dawnstar. Fast-travel isn't an option in this mode, though at least you can save your game whenever you want.
Along the way, I try to stay warm. There's something enjoyable about warming yourself by the fire in a game, and you can do that in SSE's survival mode. In terms of keeping warm with clothing and armor, though, it feels a bit like they just slapped a warmth rating on items, and too often it's the same rating. I examine each wearable item I find, expecting to have to make difficult choices, sacrificing armor rating for warmth, but it's never really the case. Iron armor has a warmth rating of 27. Fur armor has a warmth rating of 27. Standard clothing has a warmth rating of 27. I do find some items with ratings as high as 54, but I never really feel like I'm making a tough choice in terms of what to wear, or that spending time comparing the pros and cons of outfits is worth it. This may also be because there's simply so much clothing and armor easily found in the game, and even with the mode's reduced carry weight I've got several types of armor and clothing in my inventory.
Unable to cook in the first few fires I come across (and unable to build my own fire and use it for cooking wherever and whenever I want) I scarf down some raw fish meat to answer my growling stomach and am immediately stricken with food poisoning. This reduces my stamina and magicka recovery, and prevents food from healing me, but the main effect is that the NPCs in Dawnstar constantly tell me I look sick. It feels a bit impolite of them, so I steal as much food and clothing from their homes as I can.
I'm pretty tired of being cold all the time so I decide to head south, though I immediately encounter a blizzard, which forces me to return to Dawnstar for a bit, and later I have a harrowing few minutes of trying to warm myself by a troll's fire while mammoths attempt to stomp me into paste. I'm currently fighting my way through a cave full of bandits, mainly because I'm simply hoping one of them will have a potion that will cure my food poisoning, some warmer booties, or maybe just a damn cooking pot so I can fry this fish meat before eating it.
After a few hours of play, I'm generally feeling like the Creation Club survival mode is okay: it's a good way to introduce players to the concept of survival if they've never used a survival mod (or never played a survival game before). It does add an extra layer of thought, slows the pace of game down, and gives you a series of little decisions and makes those decisions feel more weighty. For someone who doesn't want to go through the rigamarole of installing free mods and utilities, and doesn't mind spending $5 (technically, $8), it's not a bad option to get your feet wet.
There are, however, better, more robust, more flexible, and more enjoyable options if you want to bring interesting and challenging survival elements into Skyrim, and they're free. Again, start with Chesko's Campfire and Frostfall. (Special Edition versions here and here). They take a bit more work to get up and running, but they're absolutely worth the extra time, and you don't have to buy anything.
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So manually placing objects in the world is a right ass on toast. Also I've noted that when you re-load into an area things tend to get 'bumped' so all that nice organizing you did in your house goes out the window as things go flying the second you walk through the door like you've got some kind of passive-aggressive poltergeist living with you.
Are there any mods that help with this? I'm trying to avoid just dumping everything in a chest and forgetting about it.
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Skyrim Special Edition Item Placement Mods
Slof's Posh College Robes
I reworked the college robes from my original Posh Pack to make them more fancy and elaborate. Also now does both male and female.Slof's Posh College Robes
I reworked the college robes from my original Posh Pack to make them more fancy and elaborate. Also now does both male and female.Slof's Better Horses
Starting as a simple texture tweak to enhance the horse colours, this grew and grew into 7 extra packs of horse colours, from the common to the exotic.Slof's Better Horses
Starting as a simple texture tweak to enhance the horse colours, this grew and grew into 7 extra packs of horse colours, from the common to the exotic.Slof's Red Werewolf Retexture
One of my characters had red hair, so I made his werwolf form match!Slof's Red Werewolf Retexture
One of my characters had red hair, so I made his werwolf form match!Slof's Shiny Glowy Circlets
Shiny bling for the massesSlof's Shiny Glowy Circlets
Shiny bling for the massesSlof's Brighter Guards
Just a little retexture job to brighten up the town guards.Slof's Brighter Guards
Just a little retexture job to brighten up the town guards.Slof's Iridescent Greybeard Robes
Ooh shiny - greybeards don't have to wear grey!Slof's Iridescent Greybeard Robes
Ooh shiny - greybeards don't have to wear grey!Slof's Posh Clothes
Mages and Noblemen should not have to walk around in faded, dirty clothes!Slof's Posh Clothes
Mages and Noblemen should not have to walk around in faded, dirty clothes!XENB Lighting and Effects Overhaul - Obsidian - Cathedral - NAT - Vivid - Rustic - Aequinoctium - Obscura
Finally out of beta and better than ever! Perfected lighting conditions, expanded weather support, and updated shaders. Utilizes ENBSeries to add true HDR, add and replace visual effects, and revamp lighting.XENB Lighting and Effects Overhaul - Obsidian - Cathedral - NAT - Vivid - Rustic - Aequinoctium - Obscura
Finally out of beta and better than ever! Perfected lighting conditions, expanded weather support, and updated shaders. Utilizes ENBSeries to add true HDR, add and replace visual effects, and revamp lighting.Mighty Bellyaches New Dragon Species
This is a patch that customizes Bellyache's New Dragons to be more unique and resourceful, fueled by custom spells, shouts and abilities from Enhanced Mighty DragonsMighty Bellyaches New Dragon Species
This is a patch that customizes Bellyache's New Dragons to be more unique and resourceful, fueled by custom spells, shouts and abilities from Enhanced Mighty DragonsTemple Antique Statues
Brought the statues from 'Antique Statues for Skyrim SE' into the temple of KynarethTemple Antique Statues
Brought the statues from 'Antique Statues for Skyrim SE' into the temple of KynarethGerdish Tiles of Kynareth Temple
Gerdish Tiles Retexture comes with 3 color versions.All Textures are my own from my Kitchen and my Bath!I used the diffuse 4k Texture and put it 4times in a square for the 8k texture.And this texture upscaled to 8K with AI software for the optimal look! Increase volume in vlc.Gerdish Tiles of Kynareth Temple
Gerdish Tiles Retexture comes with 3 color versions.All Textures are my own from my Kitchen and my Bath!I used the diffuse 4k Texture and put it 4times in a square for the 8k texture.And this texture upscaled to 8K with AI software for the optimal look!Russian Translation - Field Medic SE
Позволяет передавать зелья спутникам и компаньонам.Russian Translation - Field Medic SE
Позволяет передавать зелья спутникам и компаньонам.Mushroom Follower
Made a mushroom follower to test stuff out and thought it would be fun to share them.Mushroom Follower
Made a mushroom follower to test stuff out and thought it would be fun to share them.No More Blurry Constellation Stars (optional No Galaxies)
Replaces the blurry red/blue vanilla constellation stars (or galaxies, or both) with an empty alpha channel. Doesn't touch regular stars and is fully compatible with all night sky mods - just let them overwrite this mod. Or overwrite other mods with this one to remove constellations/galaxies you don't like and keep only the parts you like.No More Blurry Constellation Stars (optional No Galaxies)
Replaces the blurry red/blue vanilla constellation stars (or galaxies, or both) with an empty alpha channel. Doesn't touch regular stars and is fully compatible with all night sky mods - just let them overwrite this mod. Or overwrite other mods with this one to remove constellations/galaxies you don't like and keep only the parts you like.Combat Difficulty Customizer
Allows you to change damage dealt and taken on any difficulty in a simple MCM menu.Combat Difficulty Customizer
Allows you to change damage dealt and taken on any difficulty in a simple MCM menu.Fortified and Animated Fort Doors SE
New door meshes and textures with custom animations and matching sounds for all the forts in Skyrim.Fortified and Animated Fort Doors SE
New door meshes and textures with custom animations and matching sounds for all the forts in Skyrim.Maya Standalone Follower
My New Follower CUSTOMIZED ARMOR OF PHOTOS NOT INCLUDEDMaya Standalone Follower
My New Follower CUSTOMIZED ARMOR OF PHOTOS NOT INCLUDEDRay's UHD Temple of Kynareth Pool
Took it down cause I thought it was shit but Elsopa convinced me it's good.Ray's UHD Temple of Kynareth Pool
Took it down cause I thought it was shit but Elsopa convinced me it's good.Keeper Carcette Survives SSE - Russian translation
Перевод мода Keeper Carcette Survives SSE на русский язык. Мод добавляет в игру выжившую после атаки на Зал Дозора Каркетту и изменяет сигнальную башню Стендарра.Keeper Carcette Survives SSE - Russian translation
Перевод мода Keeper Carcette Survives SSE на русский язык. Мод добавляет в игру выжившую после атаки на Зал Дозора Каркетту и изменяет сигнальную башню Стендарра.Russian Translation - Depths of Skyrim - An Underwater Overhaul SE
Перерабатывает подводную среду и добавляет контент в Море Призраков.Russian Translation - Depths of Skyrim - An Underwater Overhaul SE
Перерабатывает подводную среду и добавляет контент в Море Призраков.
Thanks for reading, and I really hope this mod comes out soon for all of those people trying to move around objects and slamming that plate into a wall to get it to stand up.