With all the focus on re-releases, MMOs, and card games in The Elder Scrolls universe lately, it seems like a long wait is ahead before we get a true single-player sequel to Skyrim.
Honestly, there's no need to really ever leave the frozen Skyrim expanse, though, as hundreds of thousands of mods out there can keep you coming back for years to come.
The biggest of these radically change the game to such a degree that they qualify as total conversions -- a mythical status of mods that has given the gaming community such gems as DotA, Counter-Strike, Day Z, and Garry's Mod in the past.
Currently, most of the Skyrim total conversion mod projects aren't actually finished, or even in a state worth downloading yet. There are a handful that you can lose yourself in right now, however, giving your favorite Skyrim character whole new worlds to explore.
Sadly, you won't be finding any of these on PS4, and most won't be available to Xbox One due to console mod restrictions. Sorry folks, but total conversions are frequently PC-only territory. Now fire up that Nexus Mod Manager and get on downloading these awesome conversions!
Enderal: The Shards Of Order
If there's one Skyrim mod that best stands as an example of what is possible to achieve with a total overhaul, it would easily be Enderal. The mod presents an entirely new world with its own characters, lore, races, and history completely separate from The Elder Scrolls universe, even featuring all-new voice acting.
Enderal takes place in the land of Vyn and serves as the sequel to the previous Oblivion total overhaul mod, Nehrim. Much like with the base Skyrim, you could easily sink 80 or more hours into Enderal, exploring every nook and cranny and finding all the various quests and characters.
If you like the idea of an open-world RPG like Skyrim but aren't keen on the dumbed-down RPG elements or the story-lite approach, Enderal is frankly a better experience than the base game, with a more compelling story.
Beyond Skyrim: Bruma
The massive Beyond Skyrim project seeks to add all the lands of Tamriel into the Skyrim experience. Instead of only being able to explore within the borders of the game's namesake nation, this gigantic work-in-progress will eventually add in Morrowind, Elswyr, Atmora, Iliac Bay, and many other locations across the continent.
That's sort of an Elder Scrolls fanatic's dream come true, although it still remains a dream for now. At the moment, most of these mods are still very much in-progress affairs, but Bruma is now fully available for download, letting your Skyrim character explore locations like Frostcrag Spire, Cloud Ruler Temple, and Frostfire Glade.
The city of Bruma itself features a huge cast of additional characters with their own quests and voice acting, drastically expanding out the base game. What you get now is already pretty amazing, but when the entire set of mods is done, Beyond Skyrim is going to be jaw-dropping.
Vigilant
Bringing a whole lot of Darks Souls or Bloodborne influence into The Elder Scrolls, this mod adds in four new chapters, complete with new areas that play with the concept of the Vigilants of Stendarr standing against the forces of Oblivion.
Each chapter builds on the last, pulling you in and constantly increasing in quality and length. A little over halfway through, the Vigilant mod basically goes full throttle into horror, providing a very different experience than your standard Skyrim playthrough.
Yes, there are also devastatingly hard bosses like you'd expect from a Dark Souls-styled mod, so get ready to rethink your character build after dying the first few (dozen?) times!
Falksaar
More lore-friendly than Enderal while still taking some liberties with the Elder Scrolls storyline, Falksaar adds in an extra 20-30 hours of gameplay, with completely new areas, dozens of quests, and fully voiced characters to discover.
A whole lot of work went into this one, with an entirely new soundtrack created just for Falksaar, along with a bunch of new items, spells, and even shouts arriving along with the new area.
If you need ever-more areas to explore and dungeons to delve into, Falksaar has got more than enough to keep you occupied for hours while waiting on other total conversions to get finished.
Beyond Reach
Although this mod isn't quite done yet, it is much farther along than other mods of its scale and can currently be downloaded and played. You essentially get an unofficial DLC here, with a vast new area in the east of High Rock and a bunch of additional quests based heavily around exploration.
New factions, voice acting, armor, weapons, and spells all await you in this gray land ravaged by pox and despair. Be on the lookout for this one to get even bigger and better in the coming months.
Skyrim Redone
Although it doesn't transport your character to an entirely new area or flood the game with new quests and voice acting, Skyrim Redone is still so extensive an overhaul of the base game that it practically qualifies as a total conversion.
Essentially everything about the mechanics of the game is revamped or totally changed with this mod, from completely redone racial modifiers to vastly expanded skills, radically altered combat, and a host of other tweaks to encounter scaling and much, much more.
The guide to what all exactly is changed with the mod is more than a hundred pages long, so that ought to tell you just how extensively Skyrim is altered here.
Obviously, total conversion mods are an ambitious and time-consuming undertaking, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that there are only a few that are feature-complete already.
What did you think of our six best Skyrim total conversion picks here, and are there any others we missed that should get added?
Beyond these finished mods, there are plenty more in development, like Skyblivion (exactly like it sounds, porting all of the quests and locations from Oblivion into Skyrim) or the Nordic-inspired Hoddminir total conversion project. Others, like the horror-focused Virus mod, are currently under review and no longer up for download, but hopefully they will return soon.
Still need more mods to change up your Skyrim experience? We've got plenty others well worth downloading, so you should take a look at these:
Published Jan. 8th 2018
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High Poly Hands and Feet for UNP/7B Bodies
This mod replaces you UNP feet and hands with high poly, smoother, more precisely (and realistically) weighted models.
Why do you want it?
Well, if you’re just playing the game and don’t really care much about things like cosmetics, or screenshots, you probably don’t. However, for those of you who do care about cosmetics and screenshots, especially when it comes to using poses, these meshes look far better than the UNP originals, or better hands. They are weighted to bend much more realistically, which means all those hand angles in poses in animations will look much better. I also did some minor reshaping to the feet to give them a slightly more feminine look. Also, a lot less pointy bits. See the screenshots for examples of how these meshes look under stress.
High poly?
That means it has a bunch more faces and vertices. By design, the mesh is much bigger, so if you have a particularly low end PC, there is a chance these meshes will impact your performance. If you are worried about performance, I recommend testing this mod before deciding whether or not to use it, only installing it on custom races (so everyone and their mother aren’t using the high poly meshes) or just not installing it at all, to be on the safe side.
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Dungeon Explorer for UNPB
A conversion of the popular TES4 mash-up set, Dungeon Explorer. Converted for the UNPB body type. Unlike most of my mods, the outfit is only available by use of the console. Typing “help explorer” or “help cove” into your console should get you the item references needed to use “player.additem”.
Additionally, this is not the original version. The original version of the file received legal takedown issues due to the use of an Oblivion dagger mesh. Please refrain from reuploading the original version anywhere. It’s not a big difference, but it’s the difference between legal and illegal.
I didn’t think I needed to add this, but it should go without saying you can’t upload this one to the nexus.
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Huntress for UNPB
A part conversion of the popular Huntress outfit, well known in TES4: Oblivion. Thanks to Aery Soul/AlfaSeed for permissions to distribute this little number, and please, check out AlfaSeed’s work: http://alfaseed.deviantart.com/
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Nordic Carved Bikini for 7BO
I know I’m not nisetanaka, but his bikini armors are so damned good, it inspired me to take a crack at it myself. I hadn’t intended to release it publicly, but it ended up having about 3 times as many parts as I’d intended and I just kind of said “fuck it, I guess I’ll release it”.
You can see all the available options in the screenshots, and the readme tells you how to get it (or you can just use AddItemMenu like I know you all do). It was fun to make. Might make another.
And yes, I know I copied nisetanaka’s configuration. It was intentional. A respectful imitation of the best.
There are some alt cubemap options for people who don’t like the pure silver look, including vanilla style, if you prefer that vanilla dulled look.
And if you like this and you live under a rock, you can find more like it by the master of bikini armor, nisetanaka
Download | UUNP (LoversLab) | Screenshots | Recommended Textures
Aigis Armor
A conversion of NIHS’ Aigis Armor from TES4: Oblivion. It’s not for any specific body type, does not have a slider, and requires no special body textures.
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Improved Amulet of Stendarr
Just an Amulet of Stendarr replacer with actual 3D necklace mesh and high poly amulet. Also a much nicer texture, made by Eiries.
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Aether Suite 3.9.0 – Project KnOx
THIS MOD CONTAINS IMAGES AND SITUATIONS WHICH SOME PLAYERS MAY FIND DISTURBING. IF YOU ARE EASILY UPSET OR HAVE SEVERE FORMS OF ANY COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL TRIGGERS, PLEASE BEWARE OF THE NIGHTMARE PORTION OF THIS MOD.
There used to be some fake lore here. It’s gone now.
Welcome to the Aether Suite. A fancy name for the compilation of my random imaginings over the past (insert far too large number here) of years, and a vague attempt to make it lore friendly. At least, about as lore friendly as a Japanese school and a cyberpunk town can get. More like lore accepting? Lore embracing? Trying its best not to offend lore in case lore stops calling it? Something like that.
The Aether Suite is made up of five modules:
Arclite Community College – An idealised representation of a Japanese school, as imagined by one very bored weeb. Comes in dry and rainy versions.
Knox – A medium sized cyberpunk setting, as imagined by one very bored geek.
Photographer’s Studio – A studio designed specifically for the taking of character based screenshots.
Hot Springs Hotel – Onsen! More weebishness.
Back Rooms – Random Rooms for me to indulge my creative side. Your follower cannot travel to these rooms, and returning from them requires you to use the Aether Suite teleport to get back to the lobby.
Knox – A medium sized cyberpunk setting, as imagined by one very bored geek.
Photographer’s Studio – A studio designed specifically for the taking of character based screenshots.
Hot Springs Hotel – Onsen! More weebishness.
Back Rooms – Random Rooms for me to indulge my creative side. Your follower cannot travel to these rooms, and returning from them requires you to use the Aether Suite teleport to get back to the lobby.
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Academy Module: Screenshots | Daytime Tour Video | Nighttime Tour Video
Academy Module: Screenshots | Daytime Tour Video | Nighttime Tour Video
Christmas Location Addons for the AS
Both locations absolutely require the Aether Suite to work, and both can be accessed from different spots inside the Red Robin Lounge. 2015’s is a little less unique, since I used less custom resources to make it, but it’s still good for some Knox Christmas themed screens.
Additionally, all the resources I used are free-to-use and have links to the originals, or you can use them directly from my mods here (in the case of the Oblivion ports). 2016 also contains some new fairy light and icicle resources that I made myself, and are of course also free-to-use. So anyone planning to put together something a little christmassy this year, you can feel free to use the resources within.
The resources in 2015 are also in 2016 (as well as many more) so I recommend if you intend to install both, let 2016 overwrite 2015.
Christmas 2015 | Christmas 2016 | Requirement | Preview Pics
Dawnwood Shallows
A player home with an emphasis on aesthetics. Mostly designed as a small and attractive screenshooting location, and with most of my mods.
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The Woods
This mod is a small and simple outdoor forest styled location for screenshooting. It’s in its own worldspace and is focussed entirely on looking nice. To reach it type “cow ThWoods 0,0″ into your console (with the typo). There isn’t anything beyond the trees, so it’s not worth your time to explore.
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Clearwater Grotto
Yet another pretty exterior worldspace with pretty things and prettiness. Because pretty.
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Empt’s Shack
A medium sized cluttered shack, originally designed for my character Empt. It’s mostly uninteractive, and designed entirely with screenshooting in mind.
It can be found in the middle of the Morthal swamp.
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Inkhaven
Inkhaven is a comfy little home for mages (and their partners) designed purely with aesthetics in mind. There are little to no interactive elements, and the entire house was built for screenshooting purposes.
It’s located on the edge of the Morthal swamps.
I hope you really like black books.
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Halo’s Poser S 1.8
The main poser. It’s all about Halo’s Poser. Pinup Poser is in the past.
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MK Poser v1.0
A separate poser with extra cute and/or sexy poses.
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Knox Poser v0.7
A separate poser with 105 object poses designed for use within the Aether Suite, particularly Knox.
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FuwaPose v5.0
A poser designed for those who likes staves or have large breasts, or both.
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Public Poser
An empty pose mod. 405 empty pose slots, or 1215 empty pose slots. Designed so that pose makers have somewhere to dump their poses.
Download v1 (405 slots)
Download v2 (1215 slots)
Download v2 (1215 slots)
Lilim
Lilim is a 224 year old magical construct. Once upon a time she was a Breton, but a chance encounter with a certain malevolent Queen changed all that.
Now she’s not sure what she is, but she’s here in many forms to help you kill stuff and look good doing it.
She comes in 2 mods. 1 containing more recent representations of Lilim, and one containing older representations. All of them use her most up to date textures and meshes though.
Find Legacy Lilim at The Frozen Hearth in Winterhold, or Crisis Lilim at the Thaumaturgist’s Hut in Morthal.
Crisis Lilim | Legacy Lilim | High Res Textures | Screenshots
Crisis Lilim | Legacy Lilim | High Res Textures | Screenshots
Thurindir
Thurindir is a 100% voiced follower mod. He is a Thalmor Justiciar, with a sharp tongue and an unpleasant disposition. You can read more about him in the readme files. He’s in the Thalmor HQ in Solitude.
Also, I forgot to include credits in the readme, so here they are:
-favoredsoul for the body mesh
-geonox for the face normals and I think the body textures
-urshi for parts of the face texture
-mackoms for parts of the face texture
-favoredsoul for the body mesh
-geonox for the face normals and I think the body textures
-urshi for parts of the face texture
-mackoms for parts of the face texture
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Chelly
A testbed follower to see if I could make a follower from a character generated with ECE. She’s also one of my personal player characters.
She’s a Breton, a vampire, a thief and an archer, and she will follow you to the ends of Nirn.
WARNING: THIS MOD REMOVES THE DEFAULT BOW FOR FOLLOWERS. ALL FOLLOWERS. IF YOU DON’T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN, DON’T USE HER. Personally I recommend not being a cheap bastard and giving your followers a decent bow, if you insist on them being an archer.
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Download | Screenshots
Ilara
A headless hottie with a love for beating things with her baton.
Ilara is unique in a number of ways, but perhaps you just like girls who carry their heads on their waist? You’ll get all the information you need to find her when you load up the file.
Download | Screenshots
Download | Screenshots
J’zira’s Collection
J’zira’s Collection was my first ever Skyrim mod. It contains a large set of Japanese themed weapons, as well as a custom voiced companion.
While I am proud of what I accomplished with this mod, I do not recommend it, as the weapons were simple conversions of old, low quality Oblivion mods I’d made, and J’zira has little to offer in the way of conversation.
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Weapons of Tall Tales
A mod containing a collection of unique and varied one and two handed melee weapons. Each weapon has a back story to be found somewhere in Skyrim on a piece of parchment, and there are a couple of legendary original versions of the weapons which can be forged, hidden away divines only know where.
While I personally think the weapons look good, the mod was not well received, so I have to assume it’s not as good as I’d like to think. Just a forewarning, for those considering download.
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Conjure Mr. Cheesy
Just a silly mod. Took me 20 minutes, and I didn’t even remove the lightning effects. It’s just a storm atronach made from cheese. All the same stats. You can find the spell book on your bed in the Hall of Attainement, Mages College, Winterhold.
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HTools
Various equippable tongues and feet to aid with screenshooting. All can be found in barrels in QASMoke.
Download | Feet Screenshots | Tongues Screenshots
The Crap Chute
As the name implies, the crap chute is a pile of crap. A few things which have accumulated on my hard drive but don’t have any particular relation to anything. Custom items or weapons made for various characters or followers. I decided to put them into a pack, and release them.
The pack contains:
A Noodle inspired Cat Mask
A fedora which probably won’t fit
A pair of pretty nice glasses
Gutter – A dagger
Scythe – Previously of the Insanity’s Servator mashup
Baton – Previously of the Ilara follower
Black Bonemold Bow – Previously of the Chelly follower
Rapier – Previously of the Lilim follower
Riding Crop – Previously of the Lilim follower
Vitriol and Vitriol Dagger – Previously of the Lilim Follower
Tenderizer – Warhammer seen being wielded by Ru
A fedora which probably won’t fit
A pair of pretty nice glasses
Gutter – A dagger
Scythe – Previously of the Insanity’s Servator mashup
Baton – Previously of the Ilara follower
Black Bonemold Bow – Previously of the Chelly follower
Rapier – Previously of the Lilim follower
Riding Crop – Previously of the Lilim follower
Vitriol and Vitriol Dagger – Previously of the Lilim Follower
Tenderizer – Warhammer seen being wielded by Ru
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Halo’s Overlays
THIS FILE IS A MODDERS’ RESOURCE. I DO NOT WANT ANY “IT DOESN’T WORK” OR “HOW DO I USE…” COMMENTS PLEASE.
THESE ARE FOR UNP BODY TYPES. THERE WILL BE NO CBBE VERSION.
Just a bunch of png overlays to be applied to your msn files for unique little details. They can be applied with any software that supports dds files. (Photoshop, GIMP, etc) The overlays should be seamless, regardless of what you use, but they are likely to work better on some bodies than others, depending on what I made them for.
All the folder names are self explanatory, so try them out and see what suits you.
The one you’ll care about the most is probably the armpit fix, which makes most armpits appear smooth in-game, rather than messed up and shadowed like normal.
Special credits on the “Six Pack” abs type to SvarogNL, for the rib muscles from UNP Fitness Blender.
So, you’re about to start an exciting new adventure in Tamriel. Maybe you’ve played Skyrim before. Maybe this is your first go-around. If you’re playing on console, a wealth of options are now available to you, all thanks to the power of mods.
Accessing mods is easy: there should be an option right on the main menu:
Once selected, you will be prompted to sign in to your Bethesda account. If you don’t have one, you can make on here. From there, you should be able to see the most popular mods, highly rated mods, and more:
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It’s literally just a matter of selecting your preferred mod, and downloading it. Easy. Do note that if you have mods active, your save file will disable achievements and trophies.
It’s also worth noting that, depending on what platform you are playing on, your options will greatly differ. Unfortunately, on PS4, mods are more limited—Bethesda says that PS4 mods will not be able to use “external assets,” which is a bummer. Some of the most famous, classic Skyrim mods, like the one that replaces Dragons with Thomas the Tank Engine, use all sorts of outside assets. Alas.
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You can see this limitation on display when you compare the mod offerings. PS4, as of this writing, only has 47 mods on day one. Xbox One, by contrast, has 122. Both will gain many more mods as the days go on, but if you have a choice between the two versions, I’d suggest going with Xbox One—no shade, but that platform has more options. Bethesda says that in terms of storage available, you get 5 GB of mods on Xbox One and 1 GB of mods on PS4 as well.
With all of that said, what should you download? While you can view mods through the in-game interface, you can also sort through them on the official Bethesda website. Online, if you are logged in, you can queue up mods to download on your console, which is handy.
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Here’s what you should get, ranging from serious mods to totally ridiculous tweaks. It’s not Skyrim unless it’s both hardcore yet absurd, after all.
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch, by Arthmoor
“A comprehensive bugfixing mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition. The goal of the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch (aka USSEP) is to eventually fix every bug with Skyrim Special Edition not officially resolved by the developers to the limits of the Creation Kit and community-developed tools, in one easy-to-install package. Features: - Hundreds of gameplay, quest, NPC, object, item, text and placement bugs fixed. - Created by the authors of the Unofficial Oblivion Patch series. - No unsafe changes (such as deletions of stock objects). - Designed to be compatible with as many other mods as possible.”
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Download for Xbox One here.
Best witcher 3 mods. While you will be able to battle the native creatures of the land, the NPCs (assuming you find any) will be rather tight-lipped. The Forgotten Worlds mod was created for those of you who would like to take another look at the fantastic worlds through which Avallac’h led Geralt, or simply kill some time in the Land of a Thousand Fables. You also need to be ready for some glitches, including visual ones. With this mod, pressing one key combination will send you to any of those places.Of course, just because you get teleported back doesn’t mean that the quests completed in this or that location will once again appear in your journal – this mod is first and foremost a thing for tourists.
Call of Trainwiz, by TrainWiz
“People have often asked me “Trainwiz, if you are a wizard, and a train wizard, what train spells do you know?” So, to show those people, I created this mod. It adds a shout that, when used, will create an effect similar to Alduin’s meteor shower spell. Except instead of meteors, they’re trains. It will rain trains. You have read this correctly, and you have been warned. I take no responsibility for any damages sustained while it’s raining [censored] trains.”
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Download for Xbox One here.
Just Walk: No Fast Travel by DylanJames
“Just Walk” is a mod that disables Fast Travel and Fast Travel Messages in all of the vanilla worldspaces.
Download for Xbox One here, and for PS4 here.
Cutting Room Floor, by Arthmoor
“A content restoration mod for Skyrim and the official DLCs. From the depths of the ether, or just the cutting room floor, comes forth several NPCs, some quests, and other miscellaneous content which was created but never implemented in the game. If ever you had the feeling that Skyrim was missing something, you were probably right! This mod should relieve a bit of that. Villages that were supposed to exist have been brought back. Quests that were partially implemented have been completed. Various items have been restored that were still in the data files. NPCs have been brought back to the game and given homes where appropriate. Plus plenty of other random bits of stuff that was mentioned in the game but didn’t exist yet.”
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Immersive Poisoned Apples, by Bombchu
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“Purification of Skyrim is my love letter to Oblivion’s Dark Brotherhood questline. After finding the recipe, you’ll be able to craft Poisoned Apples at any cooking station if you have the ingredients. You can then offer the them to denizens of Skyrim in conversation, depending on your relationship with the individual and your speechcraft skill. Also, depending whom you ask, you might see surprising responses ;) You’ll also be able to sneak them into the pockets of unsuspecting victims to be discovered and consumed soon after. Note that this method does not work when used on members of the Thieve’s Guild.”
Elemental Destruction Magic, by reaperix
“Elemental Destruction Magic Adds earth, water, and wind as new types of destruction magic. Besides dealing the same amount of health damage as their vanilla counterparts, each new type of destruction magic has a unique secondary effect as well. Water spells stop enemy Magicka and Stamina regeneration for several seconds, earth spells stop Health regeneration and have a chance to stagger targets, and wind spells have a chance to blow targets away. This mod contains 30 new spells, including 24 destruction spells, 6 conjuration spells, 3 weapon enchantments, and 3 armor enchantments, and 6 new perks. New spell casting enemies that use these new spells have also been added. This mod also includes the spell Ash Cloak, to replace the vanilla Whirlwind Cloak spell and adds a new Dragon Priest masks for each element.”
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Download for Xbox One here. A similar mod, Phenderix Magic Evolved, adds 350 new magic spells on PS4, and can be downloaded here.
Campfire: Complete Camping System, by Chesko
“Campfire is the most feature-rich camping gameplay mod for Skyrim, and the foundation of Frostfall. You are immediately granted two new Survival Skills, found in your Magic menu: Resourcefulness, and Instincts. Build a campfire from a small, fragile spark to a roaring blaze, and use it to cook with a cooking pot (or just grill right over the flames). Sit with your followers, keep warm, and let the larger campfires uplift and inspire you (granting a small XP bonus). Create tents at any tanning rack. Stalk your prey using Instincts to see the sounds of nearby moving creatures, and be able to smell the dead (and undead!) from a long distance. Create and buy camping equipment using items in the world around you. Build 4 different kinds of tents, create tanning racks, a portable enchanting kit, and more. Use found deadwood to build hatchets, arrows, and other useful creations. You can create over a dozen useful items on-the-spot no matter where you are in Skyrim.”
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Frostfall: Hypothermia Camping Survival, by Chesko
“REQUIRES CAMPFIRE: COMPLETE CAMPING SYSTEM. 3.3 RELEASED. EXPECT UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT! ENJOY! You are now prepared to face a colder, harsher Skyrim. The three main components of Frostfall are hypothermia, cold water survival, and camping. Frostfall adds a deep, immersive level of gameplay to Skyrim, while keeping tedium to a minimum. An immersion mod should never get in the way of having fun. Frostfall tracks your location, weather, time of day, worn clothing, and more, to determine your current condition in a seamless way that feels easy to jump into and start playing. It is highly customizable, whether you’re looking for a lightweight immersion enhancement or a deeper challenge.”
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Beast Skeletons, by Prometheus
“The Elder scrolls world feature several races, but , don’t you find strange that in all dungeons and caves you only find human skeletons and skulls? This mod solves this little immersion problem by adding new skeletons for all races in a lore and non intrusive way . After all Skyrim is still a human dominated land so those beast skeletons will be rare, but yet , now will exhist in world.”
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Funny Followers, by Trainwiz
By now you’ve probably realized that there just aren’t any followers out there that really tickle your fancy! You’re disappointed, and expected followers that were a bit more.. well, funny.
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The Forgotten City, by The Modern Storyteller
The Forgotten City is an award-winning, critically acclaimed expansion mod offering a unique 6 - 8 hour experience: a murder mystery investigation set in an ancient underground city. You’ll need to solve it using your wits, and the ability to travel through time. It has a dark, non-linear story in which you’ll interrogate suspects, explore the city and its many secrets, and navigate challenging moral dilemmas. It features multiple endings, an original orchestral score, and professionally voiced dialogue.
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Rain and Snow FX, by Chesko
Rain and Snow FX allows your character to show frost and wetness (complete with dripping particle effects) when in the rain and in snowstorms. Your skin will also be wet during and just after swimming. When the weather clears or you walk into an interior, the effect will quickly go away. When in the snow, your skin and armor will ice over in a noticeable way. When in the rain, the effect is more subtle, but your skin will be shiny and dripping.
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Ars Metallica by Arthmoor
A simple mod to expand on the crafting system in Skyrim. The crafting system is one of Skyrim’s better features, but for thieves and archers, there’s not much use for the system. Light armor is dead easy to come by in already finished forms, but arrows can sometimes be scarce in the types you may want. Lockpicks have been known to be somewhat scarce too, yet are relatively basic to construct.
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Alternate Start - Live Another Life, by Arthmoor
Misery and despair have haunted you all your life. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, you’ve been arrested and thrown in the dungeons. Your trial was supposed to be weeks ago, only nobody has come for you. It’s been so long since seeing daylight you no longer know what month it is anymore. The dungeon is cold, damp, and worse still, you’re running out of food. At least you have that leak in the wall for water. It seems as though you’ve been forgotten, soon to rot away and die.
The eight have forsaken you! Or.. have they? Live Another Life provides an alternative means to start the game for those who do not wish to go through the lengthy intro sequence at Helgen. You will be given the opportunity to choose your race and then choose a new life for your character to lead. A wide variety of choices will be available. What you choose will have a lasting impact, so choose carefully or the gods may forsake you again!
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Relationship Dialogue Overhaul by Cloudedtruth
Adds over 5,000 lines of completely voiced dialogue for NPCs for more than 50 voice types, focusing mainly on friends, followers, spouses, and rivals. All dialogue is voiced using the original voices from the game, achieved through re-adding existing dialogue in new and suitable places, as well as editing together multiple lines to form brand new dialogue.
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Rich Merchants of Skryim, by Micah Ghost
This is a simple mod that increases the extremely low vinilla merchant gold level to 10,000 gold for every merchant in game.
Immersive Indigestion, by AlpineYJ
This mod adds some indigestion to most of the NPCs in Skyrim. In other words, they now burp and expel flatulence. This is especially so when they are eating, exerting large amounts of effort (swinging a weapon), or when they discuss parts of the civil war with you. Yes, some of the sounds I created myself using my own indigestion. I won’t tell you which ones. :)
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VioLens - A Killmove Mod by The-Reko
VioLens - A Killmove Mod SE gives you in-game control over both Ranged and Melee Killmoves.
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Ring Of Increased Carry Weight by Micah Ghost
A simple mod that adds a one ring that gives the wearer 1000 points of extra carry weight per ring, and another that adds 1000000 carry weight. It’s your choice.
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Katnip for Khajiits
This mod adds dried catnip to Skyrim, purchasable from the Khajiit caravans. If you are a Khajiit, the effects will be like that of a drug - similar to how catnip affects cats in the real world. First, you’ll get a hit from the initial intake - the world will seem as though it’s in overdrive for a few seconds (using the Slow effect). Once this has worn off, you’ll see through a drugged haze (using the Sleeping Tree Sap effect), but your power in illusion will increase, as your perception of other realities is boosted. You will also find that your hunting instincts are sharpened (one-handed skill fortified by 10%).
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P.S. Make sure to read the full description for these mods - in order for them to work, you will sometimes need additional files / other standalone mods.
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