New to playing Skyrim with mods!

[TundraStar]

Hi guys. Im new to this forum, and i just payed and downloaded the Nexus Mod Manager. I remember playing Skyrim Vanilla many years back. It was great but I quickly lost interest because of the pure scale of it. I didnt think so many still played it. Now im a bit more matured and I thought I would give it another shot, so I bought the Legendary Edition on Steam. I am gonna play it with mods this time to make it a bit more immersive.

 

Im kind of new to mods so im by no means an expert. I now my way around PC's and installing programs and such and ive tried mods in other games before. I just need a little help here. I wanted to make Skyrim more of a survival game. I therefore checked out the article on Rock, Paper, Shotgun on which mods to install. I have therefore installed first of all SKSE and then Frostfall with Camping, Wet and Cold, Realistic Needs and Diseases 2 and Climates of Tamriel. Along with the unofficial patches of course.

 

I started a new game and froze to death during the intro at Helgen (lol!) but decided to turn off Frostfall until i was out of there at least. I cant seem to get RND to work though. I get the needs widgets up but they dont change no matter how much i eat and drink, so im guessing my load order is wrong. Do you experts have any recommendations? I have tried to follow some guides but im having trouble understanding all of them.

 

My load order is the following:

 

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp (need it for RND 2 right?)

Dawnguard.esm

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

Hearthfires.esm

Unofficial Hearthfires Patch.esp

Dragonborn.esm

Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

Campfire.esm

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

High-ResTexturePack01.esp

High-ResTexturePack02.esp

High-ResTexturePack03.esp

Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp

SkyUI.esp

Frostfall.esp

WetandCold.esp

WetandCold - ashes.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dungeons-Hazardous.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-1.esp

Run For Your Lives.esp

When Vampires Attack.esp

Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp

RND_AnimalLoot.esp

RND_USKP-Patch.esp

 

Does this look OK, or is the order of things here making my RND to not function properly? If any of you guys have any more tips for mods I should add and in what order I would greatly appreciate it. I dont want too many, and I would like to keep a sense of realism.

[michael199310]

I never had any problems with RND and I've used over 100 mods at one time. You should use Wrye Bash and BOSS for sorting your load order.

If you want mods recommendations, look at Skyrim GEMS (categorized mods).

I recently came back to Skyrim with my all-time favourites mods and here's my list of cool mods and some tools to make your gameplay better as well (it's not complete, I had many more but those are essential):
Build your own house
SkyUI
Monster Mod (w/Monster Wars)
Immersive Weapons/Armors
Hunterborn
Skyrim Unleashed
SKSE
Expanded Towns And Cities
JKs Skyrim
Bandolier
Cloaks of Skyrim
Mzark
Character Creation Overhaul
Random Start
Bounty Gold
Apocalypse/Phenderix spells
Duel Combat Realism
Enhanced Enemy AI
Loot And Degradation
Frostfall
Realistic Needs
Real Shelter/Climates of Skyrim
Helgen Reborn
Millwater
Camping Kit Ranger
Diseased
Convenient Horses
Touring Carriages
Immersive Patrols
Warzones
Sands of Time / Extended Encounters
Deadly Dragons
Wintermyst
Harvest Overhaul
Unoffical patches
Civil War Overhaul
Paarthurnax
Undeath
TDB Resurrection
Moon And Star
Agent of righteous
Wyrmstooth
Perseids Inns
Darkend
Combat Behaviour
ASIS
Combat Evolved
Archery Overhaul
Cults of Skyrim / OBIS
Sounds of Skyrim
Shroud of Jotunheim
Immersive College


Some of them don't work together, so if you want overhaul like Skyrim Redone/Skyrim Unleashed/ACE you have to pick one.

Hunterborn, RND, Perseids Inns and Harvest Overhaul work really great together if you seek more realistic and immersive approach.

Edited November 24, 2015 by michael199310