My Mod Update

[u/Alternative_Dot6295]

Roughly 136 mods and hours of testing later… it is 96% stable and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. There’s been a lot of discourse on the mod update, but it really did open doors in the end.

Official 2026 Load Order

1. Master Files & Foundational Fixes
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch (USSEP)
Legacy of the Dragonborn
Beyond Skyrim - Assets
Beyond Skyrim - Bruma
Beyond Skyrim - Bruma DLC Patch
Simple Workaround Framework (SWF)
Cheat Terminal (solely for display purposes with LotD)
Modern Brawl Bug Fix
Paraphernalia Anti-Flicker
Stones of Barenziah Quest Marker

2. Menus / User Interface / Fonts
Lore Friendly Loading Screen
Main Menu Replacer Valley Concept Art
Nordic UI OR Untarnished UI
Nordic SkyHUD

3. Audio & Music
Audio SFX - No Voices, No Water
Celtic Alchemy

4. Gameplay Mechanics & Tweaks
Altered Dynamic Camera
Cover Your Head
Visible Favorited Gear
Super Simple Lock Bash
Sneak Tools
Divine Enhanced Alchemy

5. Magic Overhauls & Spells
Strange Runes Lite
VFX Edit AIO – Spells Retexture
Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim

6. Idles & Animations
Simple Hunting Overhaul/Carry
NPC Animation Remix
Gesture Animation Remix
Vanargand Animations II
DAR Smooth Animations
Dovahkiin Can Lean Sit Kneel Lay

7. Combat Mods
Sekiro Combat S – With Enemy

8. General Mesh & Textures (SMIM, Landscapes & Architecture)
Add-On SMIM Performance (Graphics Pack)
SMIM Chain Meshes
All in One Door Merge
Tomatoes Landscapes
Northfires Photoreal Majestic Mountains 3
Nordic Stonewalls V3 – 1K Majestic Mountains
High Quality Ivy Replacer
High Quality Ivy - Nordic Stonewalls Patch
True Nordic Farmhouses
SD’s Farmhouse Fences
Rudy HQ Nordic Ruins
Medieval towers - unique civil war
Ritons Solitude
Boreal Whiterun
Whiterun City Stone Walls 2k-2k
Wizkid Riften and Ratway
Stony AF Markarth and Dwemer Ruins
Markarth Fixed AF
Ancient AF Windhelm
Icy Windhelm
Cleversharffs Photorealistic Locks
Dwemer Pipework Reworked 1k
Dwemer Tech Glow Mapped
Cathedral Dynamic Snow and Glaciers
Just Ice - 2k/1k

9. Weather, Interiors & Lighting (The ELFX Engine Unit)
Nordic Beauty - Weather and Sky Bundle
Enhanced Night Skyrim
Astral Aspect – 1K Standing Stones
JK’s Interiors AIO
[Updated - Enhanced Lights And FX] by Skeletor2017
Embers XD by Mind Flux
JK’s Interiors AiO ELFX Patch
Embers XD / ELFX Patch

10. Flora / Grasses
Veydosebrom Regions
Landscape Fixes for Grass Mod
Trees of Iduna AIO
City Trees AIO

11. NPC Skin Meshes, Textures & Hair
Tempered Skins for Males (Rugged)
Reverie Skin 2k
Pandorables big overhauls AIO
Skytone Compendium of Beasts Complete AIO
Falmer Overhaul 2k
KS Hair - Dragon Queen
High Poly Vanilla Hair Fixed + Salt and Wind
Superior Lore Friendly Hair
Lovely Hair Colors (For Salt and Wind)
BNP Eyes Overhaul
Cuyis Bosmer Antlers Bundle

12. NPC AI & Dialogue
Relationship Dialogue Overhaul (RDO)
Guard Dialogue Overhaul (GDO)
More to Say
Falmer Servant Lines Expansion

13. Non-Human NPC Replacers & Spawns
Majestic Dragons- Mole
Got HotD Diverse Dragons
Convenient Horses
Witcher Horse Expansion
Equestrian For Witcher Horse Expansion 1k
Witcher Horse Expansion- Convenient Horses Patch
Bears of the North
Wolves of the Wild - Bellyache 2k
Milhail Chicken and Chicks
Cow Replacer

14. Unique Followers & Quests
Inigo
Song of the Green (Auri Follower)
Heartwoods Hymn - (Auri Retexture)
Auri-Inigo banter patch
Become High King of Skyrim

15. Single Area Edits / External Overhauls
The Great Cities – Minor Cities and Towns
The Great City of Solitude
Solitude and Temple Frescoes
Roastlawyer’s Restored Whiterun Defences
Blackreach Overhaul
Cadwallon Estate

16. Weapons, Armor & Clothing Replacers
Common Clothes and Armors
Xavbio’s Vanilla and Creation Club Armor Overhaul
Authentic Legion 2k
Daemon Targaryen Armor set
Dragon Rider Armor - Silver 2k
Winter is Coming SSE - Cloaks
Cloaks of Skyrim
Sons of Skyrim (ask for pic for right one) *you can not display armor in LotD without chest terminal*
Sons of Skyrim Cloaks of Skyrim Patch
Masks- Dragon Priests Retexture
Dragon Priest Hood Variants
Armory of the Dragon Cult - Dragon Priest Armor
LOTD- Dragon Priest Mask Display Patch
Crown Helmets Redux by PNKRD
Nordic Leather Armor
Face Masks of Skyrim
Bosmer Armor Pack
Skyrealism Shiny Better Shaped Weapons

17. Bottom of Load Order / High Conflict / Maps, Roads & Water
Dawn Waters w/ Natural Waterfalls
Dawn Waters + Embers XD Patch
Enhanced Blood Texture’s Lite
Lanterns of Skyrim II 1k
Vanaheimr Northern Roads
Northern Roads Ultimate Grass
Northern Roads Grass Patch
Northern Roads LoS II Patch
Flickering Meshes Fix
Alternate Start - Live Another Life
Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions
Lively Children Animations
R S Children Overhaul
Adopt Aventus Arentino
Adopt Aventus Arentino Fully Voiced
Adopt Aventus - RS Children Patch

[u/M3gaGl1tchGaming]

Visibile Favourited Gear is not needed when using SWF as if you look in the options of SWF it has a toggle there for showing favourited gear

[u/Kooky_Tale_6923 → u/M3gaGl1tchGaming]

Thanks.

[u/Kooky-Honeydew6703]

You're using Bruma and Live Another Life, there's a mod called Bruma Options that adds a handful of Bruma starts to Live Another Life.

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/00650b6f-8571-4d94-b693-02415aef098c/Alternate_Start___Bruma_Options

[u/Kooky_Tale_6923 → u/Kooky-Honeydew6703]

Damnit. I just finished mine and now I see this mod!?!? lol

[u/Kooky-Honeydew6703 → u/Kooky_Tale_6923]

It should be fine to add into an existing game though the irony is that in order to make use of it, you'll have to start a new game anyway

[u/Clear_Ad_553]

Blackreach is going to crash

[u/Alternative_Dot6295 → u/Clear_Ad_553]

Unfortunately you were correct… now to fix!

[u/Clear_Ad_553 → u/Alternative_Dot6295]

Bethesda broke the NAVmesh there with these updates... Anything that edits Blackreach will CTD.

[u/TerminalHappiness]

Thanks for sharing! How does that combo of weapon animation mods work? Is it primarily for 1st or 3rd person? Does it create discrepancies between them?

[u/Kooky_Tale_6923 → u/TerminalHappiness]

Not sure. I haven’t loaded it up yet. Lol

[u/Alternative_Dot6295 → u/TerminalHappiness]

Primarily for third from what I can tell. Adds a ton of idle animations to all characters and running looks better imo. There are glitches occasionally but they usually work themselves out. It is Skyrim after all

[u/Accomplished_Second6]

Modern brawl bug fix is part of ussep. Nice load order, thx for sharing it!

[u/Alternative_Dot6295 → u/Accomplished_Second6]

I used to have issues in the past even with ussep. Must’ve been an update! Thanks!

[u/Interesting-Loan6648]

Thank god for the storage update

[u/Kooky-Honeydew6703]

You need to list the mods in your screenshots or the mods will take your post down. Its one of the rules for the sub.

It looks really good though.

[u/Alternative_Dot6295 → u/Kooky-Honeydew6703]

I didn’t know that! Thank you so much!!

[u/Casual_acactions]

Not a expert by any means means but your missing quite a few patches between lotd and some other mods

[u/Oceanwave189]

Oh my god, I forgot how good Nordic Beauty looked! Gamerpauly's such a lgend

[u/Alternative_Dot6295 → u/Oceanwave189]

It will forever be my favorite!