While both of those have a lot of information, it is not always easy to find exactly what you need, especially when you don’t KNOW what you need.

I had never modded anything before 2020, so when I first decided that this was something I wanted to learn about, I went where I always go with questions: Reddit and Google. And a word of warning, if you don’t read these resources, or at very least the mod descriptions, and you try to ask for help on Reddit/Discord, you most likely won’t get many helpful responses. It’s not comprehensive by any means, but it’s a start. But seriously, I know that there will be some people that won’t read most of this, so don’t forget the HELP page exists.

If you don’t, I’m not going to yell at you, but you are disappointing Uncle Sheo and he might not share any cheese with you. I know you want to play a modded Skyrim game, and you want to do (couldn’t resist) it now, but I implore you to take some time to read through this page and the resources linked below. So, here is what to do, what not to do, suggestions on other ways to do, tools to learn how to do, ways to fix when you forgot to do, and much more. This is no more evident than when I decided to start modding, and is in no way the fault of the mod authors that they couldn’t foresee the sheer number of ways that I, and others, could find to mess up installing/using their wonderful creations (or, just as likely, they didn’t care, and honestly why should they? They put all this time and effort into creating something amazing, so we can and should put the time and effort into learning how to use it). Trust me when I say that the scope, creativity, and genius of my foolish thoughts and actions should not be underestimated.

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