PenisWenisGeniusJul 4, 2024

How do you install mods for Skyrim Special Edition?

https://lemmynsfw.com/post/13514333

How do you install mods for Skyrim Special Edition? - Lemmy NSFW

Seriously. I don’t know that it can be done on Linux. There was a user on protondb that claimed the game works “even with lots of mods” but there’s no way to message people on there and ask them how the fuck they got something to work. Every single mod requires “Unnoffical Skyrim Special Edition Patch” just about. That mod has esps in it. Esp mods cannot be installed without LOOT which can’t run on Linux. Even if I add my mod load order in plugins.txt and write protect it, the game still somehow erases it and refused to load any mods. Any advice?

Show threadK0W4L5K1Jul 4, 2024
You need a tool to edit mod load order you can easily manually mod but once you get a list the needs ordering you need a sorting tool and MO2 and vortex do work on linux there’s many guides on how to set it up. But yeah its not easy to mod on linux still. Chrkc out steam tinker launch it will set up MO2 or vortex for you read the inyrustions though
Show threadPenisWenisGeniusJul 4, 2024
Does there exist a file on the filesystem that stores the load orders? Where the thing that replaced Plugin.txt?
Show threadkbalJul 4, 2024

If you're using steam, it's probably steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Skyrim Special Edition/Plugins.txt. All the various tools will just try to modify that file for you.

I have ~500 mods working well on linux just by manually installing them one at a time over a couple of years.

Show threadPenisWenisGenius

Plugins.txt gets overwritten each time the game starts. In Starfield you have to download this thing called plugins enabler and then you can add mods the thr Plugins.txt file like that.

What did you do/what mods did you download in order to get the game to load mods based off of Plugins.txt instead of clearing the contents of Plugins.txt on each launch?

Also, I tried making the file not have write commands and then I tried making it readonly by everyone except superuser. The game still somehow erased the file.

Jul 4, 2024 at 11:17pmWeb
Show threadkbalJul 4, 2024

Yeah there is no "plugins enabler" required, that's just a starfield thing.

If something is overwriting your plugins.txt it probably isn't Skyrim. Maybe you're launching something other than the actual game? Such as a mod organizer type of thing which isn't working correctly. Skyrim itself definitely should not do that, nor should skse64_loader.exe which is what you'd want to run instead if you have skse (a very widely-used mod).