Improving Skyrim / Recommended Mods thread (Mostly about Requiem)

[Manjuice Nutella]

Whar can I find daedra hearts?

you need to kill daedras and take it from them, or use the spell "awsum hearth teleporting jutsu" (yes, i believe thats a thing in requiem).

Where can I find static daedras then?

Spoiler

The ones in Mehrunes' shrine respawn regularly

 

[Borelli]

Skyrim emulates that situation when you spend several hours in broad daylight then enter a house you will need some time getting used to indoor light again. Problem is that in Skyrim you are in a dark cave, you look at light coming from a torch/crack in the wall for one second then turn around quickly and suddenly you get darkness over your vision. I would like to remove that because it is annoying.

I know what you mean.

Search for No Bloom (Fix Eye Adjusting) in the Workshop.
Two other non-cheating, quality of-life improving mods are Reduced Distance NPC Greeting (less "I used to be an adventurer like you...") and Racial Bonus in description, although the second is only useful when creating a new character.

For only 9kb of my hard drive space No Bloom fixed it.
Someone brofist this man

 

[deuxhero]

Where the hell do you find glass/ebony/daedric smithing books and is there another copy of the dragonbone book beyond the one in the blades temple (which can only be opened deep into the main quest)?

The other books are in logical enough places, but I have no idea where I'd find those.

Daedric smithing book location

Daedric is in Mehrunes Dagon's shrine.

Glass and Ebony I don't remember. Check the library's orc in the college of winterhold, he sells some smith books.

"One of the shrines" was my guess , but ones I did all turned up bunk. Thanks.

 

[Night Goat]

Where the hell do you find glass/ebony/daedric smithing books

The glass one can be found in the mine at Kynesgrove.

Whar can I find daedra hearts?

Enthir at the College of Winterhold sells them.

 

[DraQ]

SkyUI. It vastly improves the interface, and also provides a Mod Configuration Menu for some mods (including Requiem).

Ultimate Followers Overhaul, or one of the other follower overhauls. Followers will now level up with you, instead of remaining at the level they were when you met them. You can set them to essential if you want, and ask them to show you their stats. It does some other stuff too, but those are the most important.

Doesn't UFO fuck your followers up if you also run Requiem?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I use Extensive Follower Framework, works like a charm alongside Requiem (probably because it allows you to bark orders from a prompt instead of speaking to them, but I usually talk to them normally anyway) and seems to have the most useful features, to boot.

Spoiler

Features
-Recruit up to 100 followers at once (set PlayerFollowerMaximum to X where X is anything lower than 100)
-Follower commands are executed via menu rather than dialogue (This means they can be commanded while in combat) (Optional)
-Extra commands can be accessed through dialogue if menu is off
-Followers stats can be displayed and are categorized
-Followers mount horses if they own one and you are riding one
-Followers can "collect" or "harvest" specific item types when told to
-Followers will ride their horse to go "collect" if they own one
-Followers can "relax" or "sandbox" at point of command
-Followers outfit can be "set" from a list of basic outfits, or you can set to none and give them whatever you want
-Followers stats can be "updated" via the "Train" command
-Followers combat style can be changed to "Default", "Archer", "Berserker", "Mage", "Thief", or "Warrior"
-Followers can dual wield
-Followers "Residence" can be set to anywhere the follower is standing
-Followers can be assigned to be "Default", "Protected", or "Essential"
-Any available command can also be applied to the entire group at once
-Outfits will "persist" using SKSE when you dismiss, relax, or wait a follower

Note: As of 3.5.5 Game Setting tweaks are non optional and require SKSE 1.5.11 or higher they will become configurable in the future when the new SkyUI is ready.
Game Setting Tweaks (L - Lower than Vanilla, H - Higher than Vanilla)
fFollowSpaceBetweenFollowers - 64 (L) - Should shorten the single file follower length
fFollowerSpacingAtDoors - 256 (H)
fAIDistanceTeammateDrawWeapon - 0 (L) - Turns off Drawing Weapons when you do
fSandBoxSearchRadius - 8192 (H) - Should allow sandboxing to reach out to objects further away
iFriendHitCombatAllowed - 10 (H) - Allows you to hit your friends up to 10 times before hostile
iNumberActorsAllowedToFollowPlayer - 100 (H) - Not sure if this does anything, used to be 6
iNumberActorsInCombatPlayer - 100 (H) - Not sure if this even does anything, used to be 20
iAllyHitNonCombatAllowed - 30 (H) - Should allow you to smack around your followers 30 times before hostile

 

[deuxhero]

That does fuck up the Blades recruitment quest, but not a huge loss.

 

[Night Goat]

Doesn't UFO fuck your followers up if you also run Requiem?

The only problem I've had is that I can't have more than one follower at a time, which would kind of be cheating anyway.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

How about Amazing Follower Tweaks?

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15524//? It's what I've been using since its release. It can be played perfectly straight, or you can be a cheating sumbitch with it. In dire straights? Use a spell to forcibly recruit some wanderer on the road to be a companion.

 

[Metro]

Archery + sneak = gg. Basically cheating.

Anything with sneak is basically cheating if you don't have Requiem, Deadly Combat or something like this.

I'll use Requiem when they stop being douches and put it on Steam Workshop.

 

[DraQ]

Archery + sneak = gg. Basically cheating.

Anything with sneak is basically cheating if you don't have Requiem, Deadly Combat or something like this.

I'll use Requiem when they stop being douches and put it on Steam Workshop.

How about you stop being a faggot and learn to 7zip?

 

[Turisas]

Only n'wahs use Steam Workshop. You don't want to be an n'wah, do you?

 

[Metro]

Up yours, you swit.

How about you stop being a faggot and learn to 7zip?

How about these dumb fuckers use the platform that everyone who owns a legal PC copy of the game is using?

 

[Turisas]

You'll be missing out on a lot if you just stick with SW - there's a reason why many modders don't bother with it.

 

[Metro]

Which is.... ?

 

[Turisas]

File size limit, for one (a paltry 100MB). Plus the whole subscription thing is terrible, only way to avoid automatic updates is to unsubscribe - trading control for convenience, especially when it's mandatory, is just stupid. You can always google for more gripes, I'm no modder so I haven't had to endure it, myself.

It's decent enough for simple mods that don't need any special considerations when it comes to installation/uninstallation, but if you want to get the more complex mods to work (especially with each other), you can't just expect to press one button and have it all play nice.

 

[DraQ]

And Requiem is over 370MB.

So, yeah.

Metro , stop being a .

 

[Commissar Draco]

How about Amazing Follower Tweaks?

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15524//? It's what I've been using since its release. It can be played perfectly straight, or you can be a cheating sumbitch with it. In dire straights? Use a spell to forcibly recruit some wanderer on the road to be a companion.

was seeking something simple and easy to use.

 

[Borelli]

Features
-Recruit up to 100 followers at once (set PlayerFollowerMaximum to X where X is anything lower than 100)

Dovahkiin, you and only YOU ALONE can defeat the dragons and ... who are all these people behind you?
Oh they are just my private army, dragon hunting can be dangerous you know? I will just stay behind and use my DRAGON VOICE to command them from afar. i hope the game won't crash with 100 actors at once

 

[Clockwork Knight]

It most likely will, the engine being what it is. iirc the author said he set up a huge number just because he could.

I'll use Requiem when they stop being douches and put it on Steam Workshop.

You say it as if downloading from Nexus is much more complicated.

Download file -> unzip contents to Data folder -> check the ESP on launcher - > done

Their mod manager will also put a symbol next to the mod's name in the list if there's an update available, with the benefit of not automatically downloading it (which is a problem with those "make a clean save before updating" mods).

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Dovahkiin, you and only YOU ALONE can defeat the dragons and ... who are all these people behind you?
Oh they are just my private army, dragon hunting can be dangerous you know? I will just stay behind and use my DRAGON VOICE to command them from afar. i hope the game won't crash with 100 actors at once

If you're using Requiem prepare for it not to matter. Like I said before, I used AFT's 'Summon All' ability once to try and overwhelm a pair of OP Dragon Priests. So anyone I'd ever used as companions. From the lowly Pilgrim decked out in crappy armor we pulled off a bandit to companions from other mods, like Vilja and Atvir Dres.


It didn't end well.

 

[Carrion]

Any mods that make horses non-suicidal or worth using in general?

 

[DraQ]

Any mods that make horses non-suicidal or worth using in general?

Requiem, obviously.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Any mods that make horses non-suicidal or worth using in general?

http://www.skyrimgems.com/

Check the "Travel" section.

 

[Havoc]

What other mods should I get?

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