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The best Skyrim Special Edition mods
Several years into its life, the all-time Skyrim Special Edition mods caught up to the all-time in Oldrim modding. Many of our favorites from the original have been ported across, then you may recognize some of those on this list.
Oldrim Modding
Looking for mods for the original version of Skyrim? We've selected over 100 of the all-time mods for improved visuals and optimization, new quests and locations, roleplaying and immersion, creatures and NPCs, and much more than. These are the all-time Skyrim mods.
But there are enough of newer mods likewise—a decade into its life, both original Skyrim and the Special Edition you can safely alt-tab out of are yet fertile ground for new creations. Skyrim modding yet hasn't slowed down with new additions every week.
Skyrim Script Extender has been updated for the Anniversary Edition, and many of the mods that were broken during the changeover are working once more now. Withal, in one case SKSE is installed, you should become into Skyrim Special Edition's properties in Steam and set it to "Only update this game when I launch information technology" and launch Skyrim with skse64_loader.exe, equally otherwise any new updates will break the Script Extender and you lot'll have to download a new version of it.
Some of the following Skyrim Special Edition mods can be found on Bethesda'south site, merely the links we'll post usually signal to our go-to sites, NexusMods or AFK Mods. Mods added in recent updates of this list take been marked with a ⭐. And if you're looking to have even more fun in Skyrim, check out our listing of Skyrim panel commands.
The best Skyrim Special Edition mods
Mod managing
It's easy to become carried away modding Skyrim Special Edition. To aid y'all keep runway of all your various additions, exist sure to employ a mod director of some sort. Here are the ones we suggest you try out.
Vortex
For downloading, installing, and managing Skyrim Special Edition mods, nosotros recommend Vortex. Information technology'due south simple to use, and information technology works with a number of other games like the Fallout series, the Witcher series, Darks Souls, XCOM 2, and lots more than. Make certain to download the version that lets y'all pick a custom install installation if you don't accept Skyrim on your C drive.
Mod Organizer 2
As an alternative to Vortex, Modern Organizer 2 is meant for modders who plan to practice a lot of experimenting, keeping divide profiles and installing then uninstalling various mods. If you really intendance about how smashing your folders look, Mod Organizer ii is probably for you. Ane downside to Mod Organizer 2 is that if you lot plan to mod multiple different games with it, switching between them tin exist a hassle. The easiest style to practise that is to install it separately for every unmarried game you want to mod.
Patches, UI, and cheats
We all know the reputation Bethesda'south games have. Plenty of fans accept taken it upon themselves to fix bugs, optimize systems, and make user interface more than to their liking.
SkyUI
The heavens parted, gilded saints sang, and SkyUI was supported by Skyrim Special Edition. This interface replacer makes Skyrim feel similar it was designed for mouse controls, and lets yous filter and sort inventory based on weight, value, damage and the like. Also adds an in-game mod configuration menu several other mods rely on. It's essential.
Better MessageBox Controls
Increases the clickable areas of card items so they're the actual width of the item rather than just an cool little foursquare in the center of it. You take no thought how much improve this tiny quality-of-life tweak makes things. Information technology also improves the keyboard controls in a few means. For example, tab will always take yous back a phase and enter will permit you select an option fifty-fifty when yous're crafting and would normally accept to mouse back over it.
A Quality Globe Map
Skyrim's map is functional but dull. A Quality World Map offers multiple means to prepare it. Information technology tin supervene upon the map with a much more than detailed earth texture, with colors that assistance delineate the separate areas much more obviously, just there'due south too an option to take a paper map, with a more Oblivion look, if that's your thing.
Achievements Mod Enabler
Just because yous're modding doesn't hateful yous're cheating (necessarily). So why does the SSE disable achievements if you've got mods running? Stick it to 'em by using this plugin from xSHADOWMANx that lets you earn achievements even while using mods.
⭐ Proteus
While you lot could switch to some other savegame to play your Khajiit archer for a while, Proteus lets you import your characters into an existing globe state—meaning yous can switch to a character with their ain items, skills, and spells, but continue your electric current quest progression. NPCs who have died remain dead, items left in storage can be retrieved, and so on. It as well lets you edit NPCs and items, even the weather. Some of what Proteus makes possible is already doable with Skyrim's console commands and existing mods, but this brings information technology all together in a unmarried pop-up carte.
Proteus replaces an older version called Project Proteus. The new version runs faster, and when swapping between characters you at present switch to their location rather than them being summoned to you, making for a more GTA 5 kind of experience. There are a agglomeration of other tweaks equally well. If you've got Project Proteus installed, uninstall and supplant it with Proteus instead.
An improved grapheme cosmos carte du jour with numeric displays for all sliders and the power to choose whatsoever color for your pilus, skin, or other tints rather than being limited based on race. In that location'south a sculpt fashion if you want to go right into messing with the geometry of your head, and yous tin can turn the lite illuminating your face on and off to see how your features volition look in different situations, which is a blessing. (Note that an update to this mod made it uniform with the Anniversary Edition afterward a long menses of not working.)
⭐ Downgrade Patcher
If the Ceremony Edition update is causing your favorite mods grief (we're talking about But Knock here), this will coil you lot back to Special Edition version ane.5.97. There are two versions to download, and the All-time of Both Worlds version lets you keep all the Creation Club content added past the Anniversary Edition.
Unofficial Skyrim Patch
This mod is a compendium of hundreds of fixes for bugs, text, objects, items, quests, and gameplay elements assembled by prolific modder Arthmoor. The patch is designed to exist as uniform as possible with other mods. If you've got a few hours, you can read through the patch notes.
Binaural 3D Surround Sound for Headphones - HRTF
"HRTF (Head Related Transfer Functions) refers to the way that the curvature of one's ears are used to localize sound in 3D infinite." I don't know exactly what that starting time sentence ways, simply I empathise the second i. Brand SSE more than realistic for your ears with this mod, though annotation it only works if you play exclusively in showtime-person. You may also want to check out Immersive Sounds for a huge overhaul of Skyrim's sound effects.
Quests and locations
Skyrim may be a huge place, but modders are ever finding ways to make information technology bigger. We've collected some really impressive location overhauls to expand your Skyrim experience forth with some huge quest mods to take yous on new adventures.
The Forgotten City
Skyrim'southward got lots of adventure, just hither'south about 10 hours more courtesy of writer and developer Nick Pearce. Play detective and solve a murder mystery while exploring a massive, ancient city. It's got splendid, award-winning writing, a non-linear story, fantastic voice acting by a large bandage, an enjoyable original soundtrack, and even a affect of time travel. Here'southward our write-up of the Forgotten City Skyrim mod. It's also been adapted into a standalone game set in aboriginal Rome.
Legacy of the Dragonborn
Adds a gallery y'all can fill with unique items, a museum to your achievements that is also a library, a storage facility, a questline of its own, and a identify to learn archaeology complete with its own perks. While in that location is a version of Legacy of the Dragonborn for Oldrim, the v5 update specifically for Special Edition remaps the building to make it larger and more like a real museum.
Enderal: Forgotten Stories (Special Edition)
This total conversion creates an entirely new globe, very nearly the size of Skyrim itself, and populates it with new dungeons, quests, monsters, and fully voiced NPCs. Some of Skyrim's systems have also been tweaked, at that place's a new custom story to savour, and a good l+ hours of new adventures to be difficult. You tin can read near the opening hours of Enderal here.
Vigilant SE
Vigilant is a four-office quest modern that adds some Dark Souls flair to Tamriel. Afterward getting stuck in Oblivion, you'll confront off against otherworldly monsters and big, Souls-mode bosses while exploring areas filled with special items and keys. Beyond that, the 'Anvil of Zenithar' allows players to craft their ain wares afterward finishing objectives, besting bosses and reaching new areas. Vigilant Voiced adds vox-acting.
You can also snag the aforementioned modder's Bloodborne-themed risk called Glenmoril.
Moonpath to Elsweyr
Moonpath to Elsweyr was one of the commencement quest mods for Oldrim back in the twenty-four hour period. Information technology'due south made its mode to SSE at present with its two new regions and custom quests. In Jody's Moonpath spotlight he talks to its original creator.
Helgen Reborn
Who'due south going to rebuild Helgen later it got toasted by a dragon at the beginning of the game? You lot are, of course. It's a huge, fully voiced quest mod where y'all'll restore the town, choose a faction, and fight in the new loonshit. Chris wrote about Helgen Reborn years ago for Oldrim, so we're psyched to replay it in SSE.
Cutting Room Floor
Another big mod from Arthmoor restores loads of content that exists in SSE'due south data files only wasn't implemented in the game. Numerous locations, NPCs, dialogue, quests, and items have been brought back into the light, and Skyrim is richer for it.
JK's Skyrim
This big construction overhaul modernistic redesigns all of Skyrim's major cities and some settlements as well. Every urban center has been reimagined to more distinctly fit its own theme with new buildings and vendors. It doubles as an immersion mod as well, with local banners and guards irresolute allegiance every bit Skyrim's civil war develops.
The Asteria Dwemer Airship
In that location are player abode mods to suit all tastes, but the Asteria is a particularly nice one—a flying ship with all modern cons, past which I mean storage infinite and crafting tables. It'due south permanently docked, nevertheless, and can't exist moved around, though it does have a teleporter for a more immersive culling to fast-travel. If you want a flyable skyship, attempt the Dev Aveza.
Visual mods
Even with Skyrim Special Edition, there's nevertheless plenty of room to brand Tamriel prettier. Modders have updated how characters expect and added higher resolution textures, among other things, to put a new shine on the game.
Climates of Tamriel
Climates of Tamriel is a huge overhaul adding new conditions types, new lighting, and clouds. It tin brand night-time darker as well for a more immersive adventuring experience. There's fifty-fifty a winter version that covers even more of Skyrim in snow.
Realistic H2o Two
Realistic Water Two, drawing and expanding on the work of some before water mods, adds ameliorate ripples, larger splashes, re-textured foam and faster water menses in streams, bobbing chunks of ice, and even murky, stagnant-looking water in dungeons. For all your extremely realistic screenshot-taking needs.
Full Character Makeover
Skyrim's NPCs already looked dated when the game was first released, and they certainly haven't anile well. The SSE might amend the looks of the globe, but it doesn't bear upon its citizens, so this modernistic from Scaria should be on your list. Information technology gives anybody in the game (including your avatar) a facelift with more detailed textures that won't kneecap your framerate, without making characters look out of identify.
Vanilla Pilus Replacer
We tin all agree Bethesda'south RPGs aren't often stunners in the hair department. So many hair mods go carried away turning characters into models, though. Vanilla Pilus Replacer aims for more than lore-friendly changes for Skyrim's default hair choices and then NPCs await a less scraggly merely withal like they hail from Skyrim. Be certain to check the "recommended mods" section of the page to get your characters looking exactly similar the ones in the screenshots.
Static Mesh Improvements
While Skyrim Special Edition adds plenty of enhanced visuals, information technology doesn't do a thing to meliorate the original game's low-poly meshes. This modern edits hundreds of 3D models placed in thousands of different locations for items similar piece of furniture, ataxia, architectural elements, and landscape objects to make them look nicer and more realistic.
⭐ Security Overhaul SKSE - Lock Variations
The Security Overhaul Lock Variants and supplemental Security Overhaul Add together-Ons mods add together a whole bunch of new lock designs for you to peer at while you're heroically robbing Skyrim of its every terminal septim. The locks range from startlingly cute to mystically eerie to fairly disgusting, but they're all lore-friendly and wonderfully animated. There are even new sound furnishings to accompany some of the weirder designs.
Glorious Doors of Skyrim
Hear me out. Bated from NPC'due south faces, what are yous going to have your nose up confronting in Skyrim most ofttimes? Well yeah, enemies, only also doors! Modder "Hype1" has created lots of new door meshes with glorious 4k textures and then you'll never exist stuck picking the lock on a low-res door once more. While you're at information technology, Book Covers is a mod that will make books every bit cute equally they deserve to be.
Companions and creatures
Skyrim is an even more beautiful place thanks to the visual mods and new locations on this listing, but you'll want to populate information technology with interesting people too. These mods add together some of our favorite companion characters, and some cool creatures for them to fight likewise.
Shirley
This companion mod is a particularly sweet one, based on popular octogenarian YouTuber Shirley Curry, otherwise known as the "Skyrim Grandma". Created by fans and voiced past Curry herself, the Shirley companion shares Curry's likeness. Tamriel's Shirley has her own lore-appropriate backstory too. After you lot've completed her recruitment quest, Shirley will join you, fighting aslope you as a barbarian warrior—Curry'southward preferred combat way. Curry has already started playing with the mod herself, which you can catch the commencement of in her video series.
Inigo
Mayhap you don't retrieve a bluish Khajiit who follows you around commenting on everything and being sarcastic about Lydia is what Skyrim needs, merely trust us on this. Inigo has tons of dialogue, some tied to his own questline and more than that crops upwardly at appropriate times depending on the location you're at. He can be told where to go and what to exercise by whistling, and will follow you even if y'all've got an existing companion, chatting away with them thanks to skilfully repurposed voice lines.
Vilja in Skyrim
A sequel to a much-loved Oblivion mod (which Terry Pratchett contributed to), Vilja in Skyrim adds the not bad-granddaughter of the original Vilja equally a follower. She's an alchemist with her own questline to follow and a unique organisation to requite her orders—essentially spells spring to hotkeys that can be used to co-ordinate attacks. Like Inigo she doesn't count toward your follower limit, and if introduced to each other Inigo and Vilja will even conversation among themselves.
Yennefer of Vengerberg
Will nosotros ever tire of crossovers between our favorite big RPGs? No, we definitely will not. This follower modernistic adds a custom-made Yennefer that re-purposes her lines of dialogue from The Witcher 3. She dual wields magic, of course. Sadly, she isn't eligible for wedlock. The same modder has as well made a Ciri follower mod and contributed to mods for Geralt and Triss followers all based on their Wild Hunt selves.
Amazing Follower Tweaks
This extremely popular mod for Oldrim is ane you'll want to grab the Special Edition version of also. Information technology lets you micromanage a lot of details about your companions similar their gear, how to fight, and which of your many houses to live in.
Convenient Horses
This mod makes having a horse much less of a headache. Y'all tin take conversations from horseback. You lot can boodle and gather herbs while mounted. Your followers tin can even buy and ride their own horses instead of sprinting helplessly behind yous.
Diverse Dragons Drove
Despite the Special Edition'south visual overhaul, its dragons are yet a chip irksome. This modernistic, contributed to by a big collection of modders, adds 28 new and unique dragons with dissimilar models and textures, and capable of over a dozen new breath attacks and abilities. The dragons come in different ranks equally well, to ensure you have a challenge no thing what your level.
Strigoi - Enhanced Vampire Encounters
With Strigoi installed, whenever vampires spawn in that location's a gamble to meet some of its new varieties of bloodsucker. These powered-upward undead might turn into bats, throw you around, or merely more often than not exist a lot tougher than regular vampires.
Insects Begone
Why is it always spiders in RPGs? Well, information technology doesn't have to be. Insects Begone replaces all the spiders and chaurus insects with bears and skeevers instead. It also removes decorative spiderwebs and other spider-related decor. If yous can't bargain with all the giant spiders plaguing Skyrim, this mod will squash them.
Magic, combat, and skills
If being the Dragonborn isn't enough, these mods give you new abilities to tinker with. Some are mundane skills like boosted crafting abilities, others are new shouts and spells to play with.
Arcanum: A New Age of Magic
Arcanum is a huge addition to Skyrim's magic system. It lets yous summon tornados and meteors among many other feats. It doesn't just throw all these new skills at y'all as shortly as it's installed, though. Arcanum is great for starting a new playthrough of Skyrim with considering unlocking spells is a more lore-friendly journey of custom quests, crafting, and adventuring.
Combat Gameplay Overhaul
CGO strikes a slap-up balance for those wanting a chip more out of Skyrim's gainsay without turning it into too much of a fast-paced action game. It adds the ability to dodge roll, which surprisingly looks pretty decent in starting time-person. There's also the power to switch between one- and two-handed grips to change how attacks state. Oh, and you can assault in midair, along with lots of other smaller tweaks.
Modder "DServant" likewise created the Archery Gameplay Overhaul which takes a similarly even-handed approach to improving bow use.
Wildcat - Combat of Skyrim
Wildcat is a much heavier combat overhaul, and an extremely popular one. Information technology makes combat more deadly with increased damage and stamina use, but that'south not all. Information technology also adds an injury system where taking enough impairment has a hazard to give y'all a serious injury that could knock yous downwards, unequip your weapon, or requite yous other dangerous effects. It rewards you for properly timed blocks and for attacks of opportunity while enemies are performing other deportment besides.
For the Thieves Lodge and Dark Brotherhood members among us, Sneak Tools adds extra functionality to being good at hiding. Instead of just a damage bonus, you can impale NPCs from behind with daggers, knock them out with fists, and assassinate them while they're sleeping. You can dunk torches and arrows to better sneak through the shadows and apply a bunch of new pointer types with sneaky benefits.
When y'all're not playing a metal-plated tank, at that place's less employ for smithing. Archers, thieves, and other stealthy characters have no issues finding light armor on their adventures, so at that place's never been much reason to make it themselves. This modernistic past Arthmoor gives slippery sorts reasons to learn smithing past letting them forge arrows, lockpicks, and guild-specific armor, also as cook downwards bulkier armor they'd never actually wear into ingots.
Roleplaying, survival, and immersion
Roleplaying and immersion mods are all aimed at making Skyrim Special Edition experience simply a flake more than real.
No NPC Greetings - Reduced Range Greetings
Sick of NPCs repeating the same catchphrase from beyond the street every time they see you? Sick of guards commenting on your best skills, which they somehow know all about just by looking at you—even Sneak? This mod has a few options for fixing the issue, whether you want to reduce the distance these barks trigger at, or get rid of them altogether.
Simply Knock SE
Sometimes you don't desire to break into someone's dwelling house and have the local baby-sit after yous. Instead of lockpicking, this mod gives yous the choice to merely, yous know, knock on the door. If someone is home they might answer, giving you the choice to earn entry with your spoken language abilities. If they don't answer, then get your lockpicks out. (If this modern causes crashes after the Ceremony Edition update, check the sticky post at the superlative of this folio for a solution.)
Alternate Start - Live Some other Life
If you lot're playing Special Edition, you're starting from scratch whether yous're a newcomer to Skyrim or a veteran. Why not start your new game every bit someone other than the Dragonborn? Alternate Start—over again, by Arthmoor—is a roleplaying mod that gives you choices on how you'd similar to begin your next playthrough. Are yous a patron at in inn, a company arriving past boat, a prisoner in a jail prison cell, or a member of a guild? You lot tin can get-go as a soldier, an outlaw, a hunter, even a vampire. Information technology'southward a great way to re-experience Skyrim from a unlike perspective, and skip the tutorial while you're at it.
Open up Cities
It'southward a little immersion-breaking to enter a urban center through a gate and run across a loading screen. Open Cities aims for more of a Morrowind feel: the cities aren't instances, they're part of the larger globe. Stroll right in—or ride in on horseback—without a break in your experience, and these cities will experience more similar real places than loaded-in maps.
Opening Scene Overhaul
This mod, by elderscrolliangamer, changes and enhances Skyrim's opening sequence by restoring dialogue that Bethesda chose to cut, but which is still nowadays in the game files. With that content restored, you'll larn more almost the earth you're preparing to inhabit by listening in on additional conversations and seeing full sequences that were snipped earlier release. Best of all, if you cull to side with the Stormcloaks, you'll actually exist able to escape Helgen with Ulfric himself at your side.
Relationship Dialogue Overhaul
This mod by cloudedtruth adds thousands of lines of voiced dialogue for NPCs to make you experience like you lot take a closer and more personal relationship with followers and friends. Your spouse will no longer sound like a random follower, but accost yous in a more than personal manner, and those you've angered will take a host of new insults to hurl your manner.
Frostfall and Bivouac
Skyrim Panel Commands
There'due south no need to play Skyrim as a humble warrior. Become a giant, fly, walk through walls, spawn whatever item yous want, and even become Santa Claus with Skyrim console commands, and give yourself every item in the game with Skyrim item codes.
Looking to turn SSE into a survival feel without having to rely on the Cosmos Club's survival mode? Then bundle up and look no farther. These mods from Chesko brand the frosty world of Skyrim more dangerous more than immersive and enjoyable with a system that makes you manage your temperature in the cold climate. Hypothermia is an event, particularly if you lot swim through icy water, so you lot'll accept to clothes warmly, and camping ground elements include craftable tents, torches, and other gear. There'due south even a crafting skill organization.
Too, check out Wet and Cold, which adds weather-dependent visual effects and sounds.
⭐ Survival Control Panel
If you do desire to stick with the Cosmos Social club survival mode, perhaps because yous got it equally part of the Anniversary Edition, this command panel will let you modify how it works. Y'all can plow on and off options like whether you demand to sleep to level upwardly, as well equally modifying the warmth rating of apparel, including cloaks if you've got a mod that adds those.
Positive Undressed Reactions
What could perchance be more immersive than walking around in your underclothes and beingness lavished with compliments by strangers? OK, maybe it'due south not that immersive but it is a fun one. On top of that, this modernistic also uses a very cool new AI-based voice synthesis tool called SKVA Synth to create some of its voice lines.
Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/best-skyrim-special-edition-mods/
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