wax2k

Recommended load order and other recommendations based on my personal experience (using mainly settlement mods) and helping others so far: Apart from that, a common reason for crashes on workshop menus is missing meshes which seems to happen more often lately when installing with NMM or MO2. Please check, if all files from your settlement workshop mods are correctly installed or try to install manually. Seeing that you also run quite some weapon/armor crafting mods, you might also already have run into the category cap. So you might want to check for the newest versions of AWKCR, Crafting Workbenches, Armorsmith Extended and other crafting-related mods. As for all the scrapping mods you use: I haven't used these due to the known issues with them. I personally can recommend the latest version of Spring Cleaning so you might want to check it out.

Please export your full load order from NMM in text form and put it here in spoiler tags and I'll provide recommendations.

Please export your full load order from NMM in text form and put it here in spoiler tags and I'll provide recommendations.

That is a risk you always take when modding. You can't completely avoid that and no one can guarantee you, that it won't happen, so save often and keep your saves. That being said: those three mods are at least unlikely to corrupt savegames. The thing with the XSnip-mods is/was, that they had a significantly higher risk of bloated/corrupted savegames than mods done with XEdit. But still: FO4Edit is not the CK and still has a lot of unknown records, so mods done with it will still have a higher risk than mods done with the CK will have when it comes out. In any case: use common sense. Don't use mods on their initial release unless you're willing to take the risk for the sake of bugtesting and helping to improve it. Browse the description, posts and bug reports on every mod. Look for replies of the mod author. If you get the overall impression, that the author does a good job actively battling bugs and informing the users about known issues/workarounds etc. and that he/she puts heart and effort in the mod, you're probably good to go.