Best Skyrim Mods 2020

Skyrim mods that will improve your gameplay, visual graphics and dozens of textures. Every single mod is for free and you can download it by using nexusmods.com. I will update this guide as soon as possible. Check it out, remmember to like and comment. Enjoy!

Welcome

Welcome to my tutorial

You can download mods through Nexus Mods Manager, Mod Organizer, Mod Organizer 2 and Steam.

Nexus Mod Manager[www.nexusmods.com]
Mod Organizer[www.nexusmods.com]
Mod Organizer 2[www.nexusmods.com]

Performance and bug fixes

Optimized Vanilla Textures[www.nexusmods.com]
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch[www.nexusmods.com]
Unofficial High Resolution Patch[www.nexusmods.com]
Crash fixes[www.nexusmods.com]
MM - Whiterun 512[www.nexusmods.com]
MM - Solitude 512[www.nexusmods.com]
MM - Riften 512[www.nexusmods.com]
MM - College of Winterhold 512[www.nexusmods.com]
Remove Interior Fog V2[www.nexusmods.com]
Remove Underwater Grass and other stuff too - A Performance Mod[www.nexusmods.com]
Insignificant Object Remover[www.nexusmods.com]
Faster Sleep Wait (SKSE)[www.nexusmods.com]
Cobb Bug Fixes[www.nexusmods.com]

Interface

SkyUI[www.nexusmods.com]
Extended UI[www.nexusmods.com]
ElSopa - Animated Colored SkyUI Widgets[www.nexusmods.com]
ElSopa - Animated Celtic Icons For SkyUI[www.nexusmods.com]
SkyHUD LE[www.nexusmods.com]
Immersive HUD - iHUD[www.nexusmods.com]
Customizable UI Replacer[www.nexusmods.com]
A Matter of Time - A HUD clock widget[www.nexusmods.com]
Easy Wheelmenu[www.nexusmods.com]
A Quality World Map and Solstheim Map - With Roads[www.nexusmods.com]
RaceMenu[www.nexusmods.com]
Better MessageBox Controls[www.nexusmods.com]
Better Dialogue Controls[www.nexusmods.com]
iEquip[www.nexusmods.com]

Armors & Weapons

Immersive Armors[www.nexusmods.com]
Guards Armor Replacer[www.nexusmods.com]
Common Clothes and Armors[www.nexusmods.com]
Artifacts - The Breton Paladin[www.nexusmods.com]
ESO Altmer Armor by NewerMind43 RELOAD[www.nexusmods.com]
ESO Nord Armor by NewerMind43 HD Edition[www.nexusmods.com]
Ulag's Legacy[www.nexusmods.com]
Peacekeeper Armour[www.nexusmods.com]
A Girl Has Armor[www.nexusmods.com]
Aesir Armor[www.nexusmods.com]
Armor Of Intrigue[www.nexusmods.com]
Breton Knight by NewerMind43[www.nexusmods.com]
Zerofrost Mythical Armors and Dragon[www.nexusmods.com]



Immersive Weapons[www.nexusmods.com]
Vikings Weaponry - Johnskyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Radzig Longsword[www.nexusmods.com]
Noldor Content Pack[www.nexusmods.com]
CROSS_Crucible[www.nexusmods.com]
Warrior Within Weapons[www.nexusmods.com]
Billyro's Weapons[www.nexusmods.com]


Real Bows[www.nexusmods.com]
Scoped Bows[www.nexusmods.com]
Faction Crossbows[www.nexusmods.com]
The Huntsman[www.nexusmods.com]

Graphics

Textures are avaible in 4k, 2k, 1k, 512.

Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM [www.nexusmods.com]
Y.A.L.O - Yet Another Landscape Overhaul[www.nexusmods.com]
Pure Waters [www.nexusmods.com]
Frankly HD Imperial Armor and Weapons[www.nexusmods.com]
Frankly HD Thieves Guild Armors[www.nexusmods.com]
Frankly HD Dawnguard Armor and Weapons[www.nexusmods.com]
Frankly HD Shrouded Armor[www.nexusmods.com]
Frankly HD Masque of Clavicus Vile[www.nexusmods.com]
Enhanced Blood Textures[www.nexusmods.com]
Skyrim 2019[www.nexusmods.com]
Ruins Clutter Improved[www.nexusmods.com]
NobleSkyrimMod HD-2K[www.nexusmods.com]
Book Covers Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
aMidianBorn Caves and Mines[www.nexusmods.com]
aMidianBorn Solstheim Landscape[www.nexusmods.com]
aMidianBorn Landscape[www.nexusmods.com]
aMidianBorn Book of Silence[www.nexusmods.com]

Gameplay & Immersion

Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Vokrii - Minimalistic Perks of Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Thunderchild - Epic Shouts and Immersion[www.nexusmods.com]
Imperious - Races of Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Wildcat - Combat of Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Summermyst - Enchantments of Skyrim[www.nexusmods.com]
Moonlight Tales - Werewolf and Werebear Overhaul[www.nexusmods.com]
Better Vampires 8.3[www.nexusmods.com]
Skygerfall -- Daggerfall's Main Quest in TESV[www.nexusmods.com]
Legacy of the Dragonborn[www.nexusmods.com]
Arcanum - A New Age of Magic[www.nexusmods.com]
Citizens of Tamriel[www.nexusmods.com]
Depths of Skyrim - An Underwater Overhaul[www.nexusmods.com]
Realm of Lorkhan - Freeform Alternate Start - LE[www.nexusmods.com]

I do not own Skyrim mods. All credits go to modders.

[idempo10tny]

Thanks!

[Discount Canadian]

Ahh, I see. I see. I was just curious how to came to choose these mods in particular, that's all. I play with a lot of these mods myself, so I know my way around them.

Like I said, I was just curious. I was apart of Citizens of Tamriel and I saw it on this list and got excited. Regardless, you got a good list going!

[idempo10tny]

It is performance friendly list. There isnt much 4K graphics mods which use dozens VRAM memory. Although most of them are 2k which is performance friendly.

If you ask me about gameplay mods I avoided heavy scripted mods BUT I haven't played all of these gameplay mods(Also don't recommend to use all of them) so I can't tell too much. I recommend you to check the descriptions of mods that you'd like to install.

[idempo10tny]

I was modding Skyrim like a lot even more than playing. So I collected all mods that I used to play with. Also I added some mods that I found out interesting during scrolling Nexusmods.

Well, most of them is compatible with eachother. I am not 100% sure about gameplay mods but graphics are compatible. It's also matter of taste like i.e Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim and Vokrii Minimalistic Perks of Skyrim you cant use those two at same time.

[Discount Canadian]

Just curious, how did you come up with this list? Was there a certain quality or benchmark you set for this?

[DevonK]

Thanks. I got a good deal on a SE so went with that!

[idempo10tny]

Unfortunately USLEEP doesn't work with basic Skyrim, they replaced those old patches - Skyrim patch, Dawnguard etc. with one Legendary Patch, which doesnt work if you dont have DLCs, but I've found Unofficial Skyrim Patch try it:

https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=49333
Just download, scan with antivirus and add to Mod Manager.

From article:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/8fl8y6/unofficial_skyrim_patch_uskp_not_found/

[DevonK]

I have the basic Skyrim, version 1.9.32.0.8. which I want to reinstall and play again. I can't find an unofficial patch for this vanilla game without any DLC expect the high resolution package anywhere any more. Is it safe for me to use the Legendary edition patch you list above?

[idempo10tny]

In this list I placed some mods but some of them maybe are not compatible with others, but fortunately most of them are compatible, modding Skyrim is much easier than modding Oblivion, because all you have to do is just download through Nexus Mod Manager then LOOT it and fix records, clean mods by Tes5Edit,

Thanks for comment

[idempo10tny]

Hello Daniel,

Just use LOOT it will automatically order mods. This tool is recommended for modding Skyrim, works well also shows which mods needs cleaning with Tes5Edit tool - cleaning dirty plugins, wrong records etc.

https://loot.github.io/ - LOOT, this is link for exe file, download and usage is really simple.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25859/ - Tes5Edit - I will give you link to great tutorial bellow.

https://youtu.be/L6T4rKRAgwo - this guy in short 10 minutes tutorial explains usage of LOOT, Tes5Edit