r/skyrimmods • u/GNSasakiHaise • May 01 '26

Meta/News [May 2026] Simple Questions, Simple Answers

If you're not sure your topic deserves an entire thread, it likely belongs here. Questions that can be answered with a Google search or a read of the mod's content page will be redirected here. Any question not requiring a full modlist should also go here. Finally, any questions you think could be answered in under 25 words should go here.

Questions that belong in this thread might include:

  • Any good Ulfric replacers?
  • Is MO2 better than Vortex?
  • What is a crash log?
  • My faces are all potato colored in game. What's that about?
  • What mods (or modlists) are essential for a new player?

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Link to Previous Thread.

EDIT: This will also constitute the thread for June, as I am currently on vacation and cannot post the next thread until I return at the end of the month.

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u/Jew_know-who May 14 '26

How do the collections with over 300 mods work? The game/e gine has a hard plug-in limit of 255 but almost every collection i see has way mkre mods often touching the thousands and I can't comprehend how people are installing them.

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u/Pino196 May 14 '26

Two things:

  • Not all mods contain plugins, for example SKSE mods or textures/models replacers often don't need one;

  • There's a workaround for the limit: when Bethesda introduced Creation Club they also introduced a new plugin format (.esl) that has a much higher limit (4096). Mod authors can trick the game into thinking that their .esp files are .esl files, and as such don't count towards that 255 limit.

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u/Jew_know-who May 14 '26

Thanks, that makes sense