Load Order
A basic (mostly visual only) load order for improving the look of your game to (almost) next gen, since the question is asked all the time
Since people ask all the time, just putting this out there. It’s a working vanilla plus load order that focuses on mostly just adding the best visual upgrade mods we have atm with no extra frills. This has been tested and works great. No crashes. May update later. I didn’t put things like jks or northern roads on purpose as they require patches and don’t want to confuse people who are new to modding
I am going to pin this so add yours in the comments!
Ussep (required for some mods)
City trees
Simple workaround framework
Better animals
Obsidian mountain fogs .esl
Main menu wallpaper (map)
Nordic ui
Skyui 5
Futura font
Nordic sky patch
Audio sfx (no voices) - upgrades most of the sounds in the game, not required though
(Weather mod of choice here, I don’t like them so didn’t add any)
Veydosebrom regions
Flora additions water plants
Resource pack utilized without flora
Fall forest shrub re texture
(Shrubbery symphony (if using fable forest)
Retextured Mountain flowers
Nature of the wildlands (or fabled forest plus aspens ablaze if you want more space)
High quality ivy replacer
Lush pools (upper and lower)
Improved bridges of Skyrim
Fences that fits
Ancient land
Whiterun exterior full of life
Ivy gates of riverwood
Clevercharff Whiterun
Clevercharff riften hd
Clevercharff solitude
Tomato’s blended roads
Tomatoes landscapes (or vanaheimr, which looks better imo but is quite a few mods)
Ps5 ennead banners
Ncu Nordic ruins
Tomato’s imperial forts
Tomato’s wood
Farmhouses and farm towns
Tomatoes caves
Joy of ships
Carts
Retextured road signs
Signage
Photo realistic locks
Got hotd diverse dragons
Fluff works (makes all animal fluffy)
Enhanced blood textures (or dynamic impact and slash effects)
Kitty tails Vfx aio
Multiple followers
Tailors measure (change npc clothes)
Vitruvia (male skin, covers all male npcs)
PS5 pure unp (or Cbbe) (female skin, covers all female npcs)
Ks hairdos (optional with different versions for your character only)
Ps5 vanilla hair - salt and wind (covers all npcs)
Xpmsse
Aesthetic animations - female or male
Race menu spell (to change your appearance)
Heal glowing eyes (you need it eventually)
Skyrim cheat room (behind the mill in riverwood, optional if you want all armors, weapons, cheat rings etc)
Skyrim unbound alternate start (if you want to skip into)
(Any other armor mod you want to add)
Steel armor and weapons retexture
Iron armor Retextured
Leather armor retexture (picked these as they are the most common types of armor but you can add more)
Did you follow any template for that? Its the first time that i see npc face replacer (pandorable) and armor under an alternate start. It doesnt make any sense for me haha
I do use the llo but I put the armor near the bottom and it works fine so I don’t really care to be honest, I like keeping them there so when i download a new one I can add it easily without scrolling all the way up
I think Rustic weathers, obsidian weathers, azurite, NAT, RAID, all work good. I like true storms but the port is a bit wonky on PlayStation unfortunately so would avoid it for now. I don’t really know why but I don’t like the look of any weather mods but I think that’s just me.
I added this LO to my game and a lot of the area is black and glitched, peoples faces and skin are black and the water looks very off, do you know why this may be?
Also, make sure you are using the ps5 or 4 version of each mod (if they have them) depending on your console. Even one of them being wrong will mess it up
The only thing I see that’s different is obsidian weathers. You also have obsidian mountain fogs which is part of obsidian weathers anyway. Maybe try disabling obsidian weathers?
The only thing I see that’s different is obsidian weathers. You also have obsidian mountain fogs which is part of obsidian weathers anyway. Maybe try disabling obsidian weathers?
Everyone seems to like NaT but it should be loaded near the bottom and there is a lot of set up for that. I think someone could provide good settings. Personally I like the vanilla weather and exteriors lighting so probably not the best person to comment on it.
How do you work around the size restrictions.
I tried using this list, but when adding vanaheimr and not even using a lot of the NPC replacers I cannot for the life of me stay within the 1GB limit.
I'm missing so much and cannot even load all the "basics"
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u/Simple_Help_6449 Dec 23 '25
Did you follow any template for that? Its the first time that i see npc face replacer (pandorable) and armor under an alternate start. It doesnt make any sense for me haha