What Are Your Foundation Mods?, Ones that are always in the rotation Options

[SubRosa]

I have a ton of mods, many of which add new weapons, races, armor, etc... But I don't keep them all active all the time. Typically I will only turn on the mods I want to use for a particular character, and turn off the other clothing, weapon, etc... mods that they are not using. The reason is that there is a hard limit on how many mods you can have active - 252 or so. Also the more mods you have active will eventually start to slow you game down, especially script-intensive mods or massive 2k and 4k texture packs. It all depends on how powerful your computer is to begin with of course. 150 mods might not make a beefy comp blink, but could bring one that is slow to begin with to its knees.

But even that said, I have some mods that are always active, no matter what character. These are what I mean by Foundations. They are the rock on which everything else is built. Some of them are:


General Graphics

No Tint and Desaturation (wow, there are colors again!)

No Stretching (textures)

No Blood (No Blood Splatter On Your Hud option)

No Bloom


Landscape Detail

Shrine of Azura LOD Fix

A Clear World Map

A Quality World Map - With Roads

Enhanced Distant Terrain

Enhanced Night Sky

High Quality LODs

Pure Waters (makes the water semi-transparent from above, so you can actually see the shallow parts you can walk through without swimming)

Distant Detail Hearthfire Edition

Footprints

SkyFalls and SkyMills - Animated Distant Waterfalls and WindMills


Quests

Thieves Guild Requirements - No Auto Quest Start Brynjolf

Dawnguard Delayed Start


Armor & Weapons

Auto Unequip Ammo

UltraHD - Stormcloak and City Guards

Open Faced Helmets

Runed Draugr Greatswords

Well Placed Weapons and Quivers


Gameplay

Ash Pile Expiration

Open and Lock Spells

Lockpick Pro

Player Headtracking

Puppeteer Master (pose mod)

You Are Not The Dragonborn

Improved Skill Books


Creatures

Real Foxes


User Interface

SkyUI

Immersive Hud


Other Stuff

Female Mannequins

Neutral Hjerim

Guards Equipment Comment Tweak

Long Lost Smelters of Skyrim


Then of course I have my whole array of body and face mods Listed Here


So what do other people have that is always in the rotation? It is nice to share, because that is how we learn about mods we never knew existed.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 21 2016, 03:27 AM

[Grits]

Thanks to SubRosa I’ve been using Thieves Guild Requirements – No Auto Quest Start to prevent Brynjolf from attempting to recruit every priestess, healer, and paladin that I send through Riften. It works great. Now there’s an update that has made me love the Thieves Guild the way I always thought I should be able to.

In the MCM you can customize more requirements, like how many radiant jobs you need to get the city’s special job. The best part I think is now I can add requirements for the Guild main quests, so my newbie thief won’t get tasked with major responsibility until his skills reach a point that I set. So even though he’s a reluctant pickpocket he’s going to have to get out there and work the streets in order to impress his boss. Also I can set the number of radiant quests required to advance to the next TG quest, so there’s no sense of rushing through it with the new guy. Even after Marius has restored the guild through radiant city quests he’s going to have to pull more Delvin and Vex jobs to move the TG main quest along.

There’s another mod called Localized Thieves Guild Jobs. TG Requirements has a patch so they work together. You can ask Delvin and Vex for radiant jobs in specific cities through their dialog choices. Now they no longer seem like a pair of morons who send you all over the map for no reason. Also in their dialog you can tell them you need a certain number of days for the job, and if you make it back in time there’s a big cash bonus. Marius is using iNeed for eat/drink/sleep, so he has to decide if he’s going to rest up and be safe on the road (penalties for being tired from iNeed) or push himself past exhaustion to get the money. Plus a lot of shortcuts are dangerous. I don’t know how fast travel works with this, because that would defeat the purpose.

I’ve seen Thieves Guild follower mods but I don’t use one because I made Rune into a follower. Of course so far when dragons, trolls, vampires, and assassins have attacked Marius on the road, his ‘brother in crime’ Rune has been nowhere to be found. Anyway with some backup a thief might actually survive some of the TG quests. We’ll see how many.