How many mods do you use?

[AC Denton]

Just curious.

My last playthrough I had roughly 240 mods installed. Currently, I have just installed 184 and about to start my new playthrough.

How many mods / plugins do you typically have in your load order? + how many do you currently have?

[SpeedFreak1972]

Hmm small loadorder for LOTD if I have that in and all the collector mods I'm pushing 1400 plugins. Without LOTD I'm atm at 1200+ plugins

[Basarab Laiota]

just the creation club stuff

[Tiberius]

500mods. maybe i'll add some spid armor mods later

[Sep]

500+ mods from loverslab.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Death Approaches]

anytime people post 1000+ just assume they used collections or wabbajack if they've got a steam account less than a decade old... because it's a long, involved, fever dream spanning years to do that manually, hence the benefit of collections. Just reading the description pages of 1000 mods will take months of your minimal daily free time, nevermind conflict resolution and keeping track of incompatibilities. Some collections top 2000, even 3000. At a certain point that person just wants to "win" having the biggest known modlist, but as you know, skyrim is many games in one. Biggest Mod Load is not an achievement, though.

I'm against them, it makes for dumb gamers, but that's kind of the point, right? some people see a video and go "I want that Skyrim!" and have no idea about idles rebuilding or clothes rebuilding or body meshes/textures or load order or engine scripting limits or loose files or bashpatching or exactly what an enb or reshade is... they just want to game. (and some DO know all that, they just don't have the free time they used to, it's just easier.)

So while I'm against it, I'm glad they exist. Because without a paid account it's quite a slow process and they learn anyway, vs bulk downloading, and we definitely want nexusmods to stay in business... say what you want about their content practices, we wouldn't be where we are today without them.

480-ish on 640, ~300 on 1130, same for 1170 but I've kind of ignored it so far other than getting it set up. I have retired 1.5.097 but it's still there and working, about 240... I keep my builds separate, which takes a bit of doing and editing the steam client directly, but I've been burned too many times by bethesda's updates ruining my fun, so no more! Sometimes you want to play, not do tech support. The same reason people use collections. ^.^

[Catalyst]

i think the last i clocked was 3900 something. weeks upon weeks of downloading, sorting, categorizing, patching... numerous headaches over file structure and format mismatches, learning to hack stuff together so my unique combo of mods would be smoother... and then going "it's alive!!!!!!" when the game starts, playing for 3 hours and then forgetting about it for 2 months

[veracsthane]

i ha d 500-600 at one point before an update broke everything and it was too much effort to refind and remod everything. its ussaly an easy 200 though.

[veracsthane]

Originally posted by Gucci SmartToilet:

i think the last i clocked was 3900 something. weeks upon weeks of downloading, sorting, categorizing, patching... numerous headaches over file structure and format mismatches, learning to hack stuff together so my unique combo of mods would be smoother... and then going "it's alive!!!!!!" when the game starts, playing for 3 hours and then forgetting about it for 2 months :steamlaughcry:

chirst man what did you even add to the game despite he stupid number of animations.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Well with textures it goes fast especially individual ones.

[Mugiwara]

A little over 1400. And for the avoidance of doubt, its not a collection or mod pack. but self curated.

[Corinze]

I'm closing in on 500 on a .1107.0 build. I did use a lot of AIOs this time around. I purposely stayed away from mods that need tons of patching.

[Docsprock]

80 plus AE. There just aren't many mods I WANT in my game.

[gyattconnoisseur]

roughly 1300 i think, its the Gate to Sovngarde collection without the buggy ones like GoToBed. complete gameplay overhaul.

[Evatonic]

132 plugins total (DLC + CC + manually installed mods).
That number is probably gonna go down though, there are a couple that I dont make use of or are just annoying/broken.

[sdack]

About 50. As little as necessary, but enough to make it look and feel like a newer version of the game with as few bugs as possible.