Nexus Mod Manager and Wrye Bash - NMM & WB

[Concibar]

Hello everyone.

I am very new to modding. I only used the NMM by now but I got to the point where I realy would like to merge mods which alter the leveled list.

I started reading about Wrye Bash, but I was a little bit confused by the massive amount of information in the readme.

 

So here is my question: Did I get it right: BAIN is a Mod Manager, like the NMM and is required for Wrye Bash?

Or can I still just install and uninstall my mods via the NMM and merge them with the Bashed Patch in Wyre Bash?

[Jeir]

You don't need to use BAIN to install mods. I install both manually and with BAIN with no issues.

Other people have installed with NMM only and have had no issues with Bash.

 

The way to merge levelled lists is the move the Bashed Patch 0.esp into your Skyrim/Data folder if it's not already there, open Wrye Bash, find the Bashed Patch, right-click it and click on 'Rebuild Patch'. A window will pop up, so just go through the options (not really necessary most of the time) and click Build Patch. Just let it work and you're done.

 

Also with Bash, you can manually edit your load order (unrecognised files at the bottom of your list? Just click and drag them into place!), and also launch BOSS, TES5Edit etc. from it easily.

[Concibar]

So Wyre Bash detects all the mods I installed, no matter if this was done manually, with NMM or with BAIN?

[Jeir]

It detects the .esm and .esp files that are in your Skyrim/data folder. It doesn't matter how they're installed, just that they're there.

[Concibar]

Thanks. I think that's all I need to know :)