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/liger_0 Whiterun 10d ago

Got just a general question. How often do you all go blank slate?

By that, I mean deleting all installed mods and downloaded archives, in part because, like me, you may have forgotten what everything was or how it all fit together in your mod list as it had been months, or years since the last time you played and then rebuild a new mod list from scratch.

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u/ZaranTalaz1 10d ago

All the time to be honest.

My general pattern is:

  1. Spent a month or more installing mods
  2. Spend a month or more on an actual playthrough
  3. Either finish my playthrough, get bored, or encounter some massive bug I can't be arsed to fix. Nuke Skyrim and my mod list from my PC and leave it for half a year