
If you don’t run FNISS to build your animations, people will be frozen in T pose when you load your game. Run FNISS: tick the skeleton arm fix patch and no others, then click on create animations, wait to finish, then exit. Now your mods are installed, you need to build your installed body, clothing/armors, and animations. Save your game often and backup your mods and your load order so you can revert if you need to. Backup often, save often, and don’t uninstall anything mid-playthrough UNLESS it’s just textures with no scripts. If in doubt, use your MO2 to copy your profile and start a game that’s just for testing, alongside the one that you plan to play. It doesn’t matter how far below, but definitely below both of them.Īlternatively, just use LOOT to auto-sort the plugins, but do a double check as some mods need to load before/after something specific and LOOT might not always pick it up.Īfter building your armors, bodies, and animations, test the game before you get really invested in your character and playthrough. Patches go below the mods being patched in your right pane/load order. ESMs to the top for you in the order you have them in).Īlways check the mod is for Special Edition or is SE compatible, check it’s requirements, check if you need patches to make it play friendly with your other mods, and make sure it’s the latest version. ESM, as they go at the top of your load order (after installing them all in this order, just select all of the plugins and move them slightly – MO2 will throw the. This list is in the order my mods are installed in (MO2 left pane – mods) and loading in (MO2 right pane – plugins/load order). Almost all of them are as simple as clicking ‘download with mod manager’ on Nexus, or downloading from LoversLab and then using the ‘install mod’ feature on MO2. Some of the base requirements can be tricky to install (like SKSE), find a tutorial.

MO2 works well for me, and makes it easy to install mods and change the order they load in if you find conflicts. If you use another mod organiser (please always use a mod organiser), I can’t offer you any advice. I use Mod Organizer 2, and recommend you do too.
