LE Wear Multiple Helmets

[pafman123]

There are many mods that add masks, hoods, and other pieces of headgear, but they all take up the helmet slot, so it's impossible to wear (for example) a hood and a mask at the same time. How difficult would it be to mod a small tweak into the game to allow a player to wear multiple pieces of headgear at once?

[FlapjacksNsyrup]

This would be possible to do for all Vanilla Skyrim Items, but each mod determines where it is equipped so any items added into the game through mods and there's no guarantee it would still work.

[David Brasher]

All these items usually use the helmet slot. Only one thing can go in the helmet slot. You can't put two helmets in the helmet slot at one time. So a mod like this would have to edit tons of items to NOT use the helmet slot. They would use one of the undefined unused slots. It would take a fairly long time to build a mod like this. The mod would have to be carefully planned. There would have to be a clear idea of which things would be worn together. Like maybe you could leave helmets in the helmet slot, put masks in another slot, and hoods in another slot. This would mean that you could wear 1 helmet + 1 hood + 1 mask. You could wear any or none, or any combination of the three items. But you could never ever wear two of the same item type. Like you could never wear 2 masks at once.

 

Issues:

(1) The mod would require a great many edits to be made and would therefore be sort of long and boring to build.

(2) Conflicts. The mod would only work for vanilla Skyrim and would not work for items added by mods. The extensive nature of the edits made would also cause the mod to conflict with mods that edit helmets or that use non-standard equipment slots.

[BrabbelKP]

It could be possible to make a mod that allows to equip more items to the helmet-slot, but they would all be invisible. At least there is a mod that does exactly that for rings and amulets.