SanguineEyes

If you're playing skyrim, then yes, your Mods are Save Game compatible. I'm not sure where you got that info from? Then why did it refuse to deploy any of the mods until I made a new game?

Ok, I'm sure its been asked before, but I was just playing ESO and I got a really good look at Sotha Sil and I was really admiring his robo arm. I am wondering, we can make eyepatches, masks, left handed rings, brandileres, and more that simply don't take any armor spots up... why cant we get a purely aesthetic Dwemmer limb replacer. Surely Sotha Sil isn't the only person in the world with Dwemmer limbs, I would LOVE to see such a mod introduced. And it would be even better if we could make them work under normal clothes, to a point that if you wore the right long sleeves and gloves, you wouldn't be able to tell, but most clothes and armor, bam! Dwemmer robo arms!

I finally figured it out, none of my mods apparently are save game compatible I had to just start a new game and they all showed up. Strange thing is that the previous save file still played vanilla perfectly fine.

Does it have to be anywhere specific? Or just "On the same drive"? Because I moved them to the same drive, and my mods still aren't showing up in game.

this thing is getting to the problem, but I'm tired as s#*! and might need someone to explain to me using slightly smaller words

ok, I've look up a dozen videos and topics on this, none of them helped. I've been told that the problem exists because the mods and the game are in two separate locations, and more or less I have to put them together. It said to just open skyrim to its file location and create a folder there. I have tried creating a folder, I've tried using the skyrim folder itself, I've tried just selecting vaguely, I've tried all these and a few others including directly pasting in the url type location of the files themselves, with and without adding \nexusmods just as the guide told me to here but all I get is this message. "You cannot put mods into the game directory. This directory is under control of the game (And potentially steam or similar) So your mods might be deleted, moved, or otherwise damaged by foreign software. Please choose a separate folder for a staging folder, one that no other application uses." I figured that was EXACTLY what I was doing... what am I missing?

Where on this page exactly is the option?