Everyone should get comfortable with their fallout directory. It is a convenient tool that will be essential for a lot of things in this guide. The best current choice is the Nexus Mod Manager (henceforth refereed to as NMM) It works for Many games, Including Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, and many others.

It is 100% essential to use one if you do not wish to have errors and headaches installing and uninstalling mods. It will help you with your load order and help with the installation of archived mods. This is not for mod support or load order help, Just the core mechanics of modding.Ī Mod Manager is an essential tool that will, simply put, manage your mods. Mod Authors should tell of conflicts, and should support them on their pages. This post is not about support for mods and conflicts. Check for some video tutorials at the bottom if you are more of a visual learnerĪ lot of mods conflict with each other. It will also give a list of top mods to start off with. This will describe basics of modding and how to get started. I suggest you enlighten yourself to all of it, but its your prerogative.

This is an extensive guide to help alleviate the constant r/fallout posts about modding.

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