For the slightly tl;dr among you, the load order is, as its name suggests, the order in which your mods are loaded, with the one at the very top (which should be Skyrim.esm unless you've messed something up) loaded first, followed by the next one, which is followed by the next one, and so on. One thing this mainly has to do with is mod conflicts; in the case of two conflicting mods for example, the mod loaded after will overwrite the one before, so say you have two mods that edits a specific cell somewhere, perhaps one mod that adds a tree and one mod that instead adds a rock. If the rock mod is loaded after the tree mod, the rock mod will be the one that takes effect, overwriting the tree mod and placing a rock instead of the tree, and vice-versa if the tree mod is loaded after the rock mod. Conflicts will only overwrite the specific data that's conflicting, so the tree mod could add trees to two cells, and the rock mod will only overwrite the specific cell it adds a rock to. Hence why USKP and the like specifically tell you to load them as early as possible (namely, USKP after Skyrim.esm and Update.esm, the DLC patches after each respective DLC's, etc.), so that they can be overwritten by any conflicts later in the load order. The other part of load orders is, some mods depend upon other mods (for example, the unofficial DLC patches depend upon the respective DLC's being present and loaded before the patches). If a "master" mod (one that other mods depend upon) is loaded before the mods that use it, you end up with problems. The master mods must be loaded before the mods that use it. Finally, Wrye Bash can solve certain mod conflicts thanks to bashed patches, mainly leveled list conflicts so that both mods can be in effect at the same time (one mod gives bandits a certain weapon, another that gives them a certain armor, a bashed patch would allow them to have both the weapon and the armor at the same time instead of one mod overwriting the other). That turned into a little more of a wall of text than i anticipated, but still. :tongue: