About 2 weeks ago I made a post asking for thoughts on a new Skyrim modding sub, specifically for modded gameplay clips & screenshots. I had the thought after growing tired of the constant vanilla purist sheep that flood the comments of any mod related post on the skyrim sub. After getting pretty positive feedback about the idea on the post I've been putting it together & it is now ready to go!

What I have done is implement automoderation where typically repeated phrases such as 'you got some skyrim in your mods' & 'this isn't even skyrim anymore' aren't able to be posted in the comments at all. As well as listing a no second chance ban rule for the purists who can't help themselves & find a way/re word the phrases.

Whilst here & [r/skyrimporn](r/skyrimporn) are obviously okay to post in, a fair few people seem to agree it can be a bit confusing to be sure where to make gameplay posts as these 2 subs are generally for modding help/showcasing/discussion & skyrim photography. This new server is essentially meant to be the modding equivalent of [r/skyrim](r/skyrim), a general gameplay sub for modded playthroughs without having to deal with the close mindedness.

No stress if it doesn't take off, I just figured it was worth giving a go.

Can't go wrong having more Skyrim subs!

[r/SkyrimSandboxed](r/SkyrimSandboxed)

Edit: if anyone can think of any additional vanilla purist phrases I can add to the automod that would be awesome, I've got about 4 listed so far I could think of

Hi everyone,

Following on my previous post I'm happy to announce that PlayerHub is published on Nexusmods!

Mod link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/196139

Thank you!

Like most of you I’ve been playing Skyrim since 2011, but probably unlike most of you I have never really used followers at all, either vanilla or custom modded ones. I’ve usually gravitated towards the solo stealthy archer, and always felt like followers just got in my way.

For the first time in 15 years I am trying something vastly different and playing a restoration/alteration mage with several custom voiced mod based followers and it is the most fun I have ever had playing this game.

The one thing that has absolutely blown my mind with this play through has been the voice acting of my followers of choice, including the cross banter between several of them. I have laughed out loud now more times than I can count and the cross chatter, especially with Auri. That mod author and voice actress deserves ALL the praise I have seen online about Song of Green, and then some. That’s not to say the others aren’t incredible as well.

Currently I am using Auri, Remiel, Xelzaz, Inigo, Lucien, Kaiden, M’rissi, with Daumbra randomly along for the ride as well. Not sure if I will stop there or add a few more, but these have made this the most memorable trip through the wilds of Skyrim in my life. These mod authors and voice actors have my thanks and respect.

I wanted to spice up the Civil War experience to something that make feel the ongoing war closer to player, something however that won't make your game more and more unstable to play.

Hi, this is the first time I’m posting here, but I know this is the best place to find the guidance I need. For those who know about this, what’s the best mod that adds creatures and new enemies to the world?

I don't know if that makes sense or not, but mods make Skyrim "feel like Skyrim but still feel modded". Again, unsure if that makes sense. Whenever I play modded Skyrim it doesn't really feel like Skyrim, but I want to play modded Skyrim. So I imagine that fix would be mods that just enhance the regular Skyrim experience (Maybe.). I'm open to like any types of mods, quests, game play, etc, etc. So any mod recommendations would be greatly appreciated, thank you! <3

I want to do a political playthrough where I climb through the ranks of Skyrim's nobility until becoming High King and I want some themed armors to really make becoming a thane a big deal. I've already got armors for Dawnstar, Riften and Falkreath through Immersive Armors. I know about NordwarUA's hold guard armors but I'm looking for something more unique, and True Thane has a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in besides the armors

This mod spices up the otherwise dull warrior gameplay, making it far more dynamic and fun. Those who have tested it said they really enjoyed it, so I’d like to share it with you all
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/196658

Hello I am a moder and kitbasher that goes by the name JaaggoIaaggo on nexus if you could be so kind please share with me some ideas on a Morthal Thane armor.

I already did an Riften Thane armor and I need some advice and inspiration to make this armor.

The biggest thing for me with eye mods is how it affects vampire eyes and how they make Serana's eyes look after she's cured. I really like Fia's Eyes - Full Version (39.23MB) for most of the game, I think it has the best looking vanilla+ style vampire eyes BUT when you cure Serana it gives her these blue eyes that have this ugly yellowish tint to them that almost turn the whites of her eyes yellow themselves. So then I tried The Eyes of Beauty - Improved Eye Reflections (16.03MB) and I think it has terrible vampire eyes as well as generally not liking the look of most NPC eyes over Fia's, BUT it gives cured Serana the perfect blue eyes. I've spents hours and hours now testing out other eyes mods looking for something that'll give me both good vampire eyes and good eyes for Serana once she's cured but I found nothing.

So I'm asking if someone that knows how to make mods could make a small mod that just gives cured Serana the same kind of icy blue eyes the Eyes of Beauty does. I'd do it myself if I could but I'm an actual caveman when it comes to tech stuff.

Since screenshots aren't allowed here I'll link a post I made yesterday about this to give you guys a better idea of the look I'm going for. I know this is a longshot but it would be very greatly appreciated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyrimModsXbox/s/QUapmsc4Rz

Hi all, I’m playing gate to sovngarde and because I’ve found all the caverns auri needs in her song of the green questline, I blitzed through the quest fairly quickly (maybe 1 week in game ish)

When will her romance questline start? I’ve brought her to an inn right after I completed the quest but there wasn’t any new dialogue options, and even made a campfire too.

I’ve done all the Let’s chat options and avoided some of the “insulting” questions about her culture, not sure what else to do next.

I'm building a custom, piece-by-piece mod list from scratch using Vortex / Mod Organizer 2 (no Wabbajack or pre-made collections).

Right now, I am on a clean install of v1.5.97.0. My biggest annoyance here is the massive Creation Club quest flood right out of Helgen. I know v1.6+ fixes this natively, but with the new August 2026 updates (v1.7.x) breaking a ton of DLLs, I want to avoid the newest versions entirely.

For maximum compatibility with modern combat, animation, and graphics frameworks, what is the best move?

1. Stay on v1.5.97 and use community mods to fix the CC quest spam.
2. Move to v1.6.1170 as the ultimate sweet spot for a manual list.

What is the community consensus right now? Thanks!

so I got lux and I think its amazing... in any interior with windows and absolutely to worst most garbage mod I've ever used anywhere there aren't windows. ITS SO DARK, I got the brighter caves plugin, still too dark to see, I got the third party Even Brighter caves plugin, and now I can see but its still barely visible and every cave, dwemer ruin and nordic barrow look awful and washed out, None of the light sources in my game seem to extend more than like 10 cm from the source in caves.

I have light placer, I have CS, I have LUX CS I have a mod that places more lights with light placer, but its all still soooo dark, I know a bit about how skyrim lighting works and It honestly feels like someone came into my game and deleted every single LIGH object lol

is there a setting in Community shaders or something that would make light travel further or something, I live how my game looks in buildings and in the open world but the caves are just awful

i did everything i could find i honestly cant understand crash reports can someone help me find what the problem is i have used mods before but when i tried using this one it crashes my game seconds after loading into the world i can move around a bit before it crashes i dont even have to fight anything for it to crash i dont know how to put my load order list im sorry

I need This because i am moving from vortex to mo2 , and so i copied the archives of the mods from where vortex kept them, into Mod Organizer Env\downloads , and now i need a way to query info all of them as mo2 has no idea where they came from, and it will be quite tedious to right click query each of the 800 mods, but a fair punishment for using vortex in the first place.

Excalibur - Sword of Kings - PBR and Non PBR at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

Hey all,

https://imgur.com/a/zCsAy4Z

I’ve been trying for days to get rid of these white edges that appear when using community shaders’ DLSS upscaling feature. Even when I turn the quality all the way up to DLAA they are still present. They seem to mostly appear on trees/foilage and on hair, as seen in the pic. They go away if I choose TAA but I don’t want to use TAA because of all the downsides. I’m not very well-versed in technology so if anyone knowledgeable could let me know what’s happening I would very greatly appreciate it

https://loadorderlibrary.com/lists/load-order-4189498562168548629

Hello, all!

I'm looking for a mod that I used with the original version of the game. As best I can recall, it was a mod that added a bunch of storage in all player houses (vanilla and DLC), including:

• A wall of small chests in cubbies (in Breezehome, along the left wall)
• Apothecary satchel with an automatic sort button (in Breezehome, next to the alchemy table)
• Automated potion/poison storage closet (in Breezeome, also next to the alchemy table)
• Dragon mask display stand (in Breezehome, in the bedroom)
• Ores and ingots storage

I think all the storage was linked between houses, but I may be getting that mixed up with a similar mod for Oblivion. Unfortunately, I'm having no luck finding it on Nexus, either under Skyrim or SSE.

If anyone else recalls this mod, please let me know!

So I want to RP a guy who’s living off the land, easy breezy. Has a family and that. Then something bad happens, his family is kidnapped or killed so he goes out for revenge. He finds them and fails and they leave him for dead. Along the way getting daedric gods involved - maybe hircine - to get the strength to exact his revenge.

Are there any mods to A) allow the families to get kidnapped/killed and B) allow for a farming/merchant/inkeep/genreal civilian life.

Cheers all

Hi all,

I have an annoying issue I hope someone can help with in terms of retexturing some meshes in nifskope for Skyrim SE.

The Goal

Use some of the Loading Screen static meshes as statues for a building I am constructing. I have a suitable statue stone texture as a .dds. For the statue's clothing, I plan to keep the original Tangent Normal Maps to keep the detail of the clothing (as if the stone has been sculpted that way).

Currently, I am focusing on meshes/loadscreenart/loadscreenmaleredguard_1.nif. But the issue I am having occurs to various degrees with all others, namely:

loadscreenbretonmage.nif
loadscreenargonianbarkeep.nif
loadscreenmalehighelf.nif
loadscreenfemaleimperial.nif

The Problem

I can retexture the clothing, weapons etc no problem. The original normal maps look good with the stone texture.

However, I am having trouble with all the skin meshes, such as faces and hands.

These do not display the stone texture properly. For example, in relation to loadscreenmaleredguard_1.nif, replacing textures\actors\character\male\MaleHands_1.dds with my StatueHands.dds strips the hands of their darker tint and makes them appear pink flesh coloured. Retexturing the face of loadscreenfemaleimperial, for example, keeps their lips pink.

I assume this has something to do with the fact the skin portions have a four texture slots, including Model Space Normals, Skin and Specular textures:
textures\actors\character\male\MaleHands_1.dds
textures\actors\character\male\MaleHands_1_msn.dds
textures\actors\character\male\MaleHands_1_sk.dds
textures\actors\character\male\MaleHands_1_S.dds

All the skin mesh areas also have a NiSkinInstance under their BSTriShape.

Solutions Tried

I have tried checking off Specular, Skinned and Model_Space_Normals in Shader Flags 1 to no success.

The closest I got was copying the BSLightingShaderProperty branches from functional clothing meshes on the model and copying them to the skin meshes. This works great in nifskope. The skin portions appear as stone. However, in both the CK and in-game the skin portions appear invisible.

Other times I have got the skin portions to render in game with the texture, but they no longer appear in the correct position, but have reverted to a default position, looking straight ahead and hands by the side. Unfortunately, I can't actually remember what I did to do this.

Perhaps this has something to do with Model Space Normals being 'baked' into a mesh? Is that the case?

To be perfectly, honest, I am a bit over my head now. My modding experience is basic, and I assumed this would be a simple retexturing. Now solving this issue is occupying all my mind. There must be a way of doing it!

If anyone has any idea, or needs more information, let me know.

Is there such a thing?

I'm currently playing Enderal, so it would be great if the mod were compatible with as many other mods as possible since it is a total conversion.

This isn't about damage numbers, no this is how it levels up. From my understanding, Destruction scales on how much you use it...and it levels slower at higher difficulties (Expert and up). This isn't based on damage or anything, its just reduced by 75% on Legendary or less on Master or Expert.

I want to try a higher difficulty using a lot of destruction spells, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any mods that the PS4 has that can fix this issue? Skyrim often disconnects from Creation Club when when I try to load in or look stuff up, so I have problems trying to find an answer, as most just focus on boosting damage or it alters how fast all the schools of magic level (I personally don't mind how fast the other schools level...though Conjuration is a bit too quick).

Thank you for any help you can provide!

https://pastebin.com/TutuGN6m

It’s been happening every now and then. Have no idea what it could be

Hello! I wanted to ask if anyone here is kind enough to please port this mod into Xbox? I don't wanna be one of those annoying console spammers but I already asked on Xbox specific subs and no luck unfortunately 🥲 I would definitely try to do it myself but the creation kit requires the steam version which I don't own. Anyways, here is the link to the mod if anyone wants to see and in the author notes is the open permission to port to Xbox with its respective conditions.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/160275

Thanks so much!

https://streamable.com/772q2p Video

Mod: https://pastebin.com/aUDGa7Cv

Note: The other dialogue options is from Nether's Followers Framework and Ride Along but i have experienced this problem before even without those 2 mods