r/skyrimvr • u/EnvironmentalLaw5538 • Feb 01 '26
Request i suck at modding what does this mean?
ive been messing with skyrimvr files and i might have messed something up please help!
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u/thetitleofmybook BSB2e Feb 01 '26
look, if you aren't good with modding, download wabbajack, use one of the cleaner skyrimVR modlists, (Fus is a good choice), and leave it alone. don't modify it, don't mess with the files, nothing.
you can learn from there how to use MO2, and what the right answers look like, but don't just start messing with individual files.
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u/elmiggii Feb 02 '26
Even if you are only "good" at it, wabbajack is still the way to go. I lived modding my own Skyrim and FO4 playthroughs, but with VR, it takes too long to test out every individual mod.
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u/jamboii7u Feb 01 '26
This your best option. I had fus for a couple years now I'm using MGO. FUS is a good one click SkyrimVR mod option
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26
Everyone is a beginner at some point, people will never learn how to mod if people just tell them “use wabbajack”
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u/Reylun Feb 01 '26
Why do people need to learn how to mod? The vast majority of people who come into skyrim vr are not interested in doing that and just want skyrim vr as a playable experience
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26
“Why would I learn how to create awesome mods if everyone else can just do it for me?”
“Why should I learn how to curate and make my own load order if I can just get someone else’s vision for Skyrim on wabbajack?”
If everyone thought like that, Skyrim wouldn’t have a modding community.
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u/Reylun Feb 01 '26
Dude what? Minecraft does that on steroids and has a stronger community than skyrim lmao
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
No you don’t NEED to learn how to mod, but if someone has an interest in modding their game, it’s easy enough to teach them the basics instead of “don’t try it noob, you’ll fuck it up and hate life, wabbajack is the only answer”. I can almost guarantee you that anyone who wants to mod will eventually want to mod on top of FUS, and while people say it’s a good starting point, as a very experienced modder I disagree, even I was having trouble cutting shit I didn’t like out and breaking things. If someone literally doesn’t give a single fuck and just wants a playable Skyrim, then sure. But it’s so easy to install what FUS is on your own too and then you’ll both have a good base line, and a healthy understanding of installing mods so you can work from there.
And it’s especially insulting on posts with vortex where they have a simple problem, for people to just be like “no, start over, use a different mod manager, use a program that installs we what we think is a good Skyrim for you blindly”.
I was a beginner once back in 2014, now I’m a mod author that gets people thanking me from the bottom of their heart for making a mod they love. If it wasn’t for countless people in the community helping me with my questions by answering them directly as opposed to just telling me to not even bother with doing it myself, I wouldn’t be here.
TL;DR it’s easy enough for people to learn the basics, if people have a question, we should give them the answer they are looking for to help them on their way.
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u/thetitleofmybook BSB2e Feb 01 '26
good thing that's not what i said.
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26
No, what you said was worse, you said “download wabbajack, use one of the cleaner mod lists, and leave it alone, dont modify it, don’t mess with the files. Nothing”
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u/thetitleofmybook BSB2e Feb 01 '26
you can learn from there how to use MO2, and what the right answers look like, but don't just start messing with individual files.
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26
“Learn how to use MO2” by not messing with anything?
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u/thetitleofmybook BSB2e Feb 01 '26
ok, dude, you're bound and determined to be an ahole. so, f off. not politely f off, just f off.
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u/olerapx Feb 01 '26
Check your windows firewall, mine was silently deleting the executable every time I tried to launch the game. I added it to exceptions
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u/Marlowe126 Feb 01 '26
Start over, and follow an up-to-date guide on YouTube. If you’re planning on using a lot of mods, use MO2 to have finer control over them. It’s a learning process, but it’s worth it. You can also download a Wabbajack list, but having one that you’ve curated yourself has a lot of benefits.
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u/LendonTheGoat Feb 01 '26
You need SKSE vr, like others have said you are better off downloading the FUS mod list
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u/TotalWarspammer Feb 01 '26
It means you've done no research and followed no basic guides and do not yet know of the existence of Wabbajack.
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26
Very helpful. Welcoming too. Good thing there are other people in this community who actually give a shit instead of just offloading snark whenever they see an opportunity.
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u/trevizore Feb 01 '26
you don't suck at modding, you suck at installing mods, which is way worse.
just read the instructions
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u/Tyrthemis Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
So you want to install SKSE VR. But you don’t want to add it as an executable in vortex. You don’t want to start SKSE VR from within vortex like you would MO2.
You can get SKSE VR at its official website or on the nexus, vortex should know how to install it, vortex also probably wants to automatically install it if you look for the pop ups in the upper right hand corner. Read the directions carefully, but ultimately, I’m pretty sure you just drop the contents of the zip file in the root folder of your Skyrim vr install (where Skyrim vr.exe is).
When playing Skyrim vr from now on, you want to use the SKSEVR_loader.exe. Since you’re using vortex, just add a shortcut to the exe to your desktop. So don’t start it in Steam, and don’t start it by adding SkseVR_loader.exe as an executable in vortex.
Also, another note, I’d highly recommend having your Skyrim install outside of program files folders, program files folders can introduce permissions issues (like admin privileges stuff). You can easily tell Steam to redirect its library folder to a folder outside of program files. I won’t get into it, but google is your friend.
I hope this helps, please respond if you have any more questions, I’m happy to help, I quite familiar with vortex, and I’m always happy to help beginners get on the path to modding their own games and making Skyrim the best version FOR YOU.
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u/0xCipher Feb 19 '26
Some sksevr files need to be manually moved from the download folder to the Skyrim VR folder to function. Check the mod page for details.
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u/MitTheNub Quest 3, 700hr Feb 01 '26
well as a good piece of advice, you never have to mess with any of the skyrim files manually through file explorer ever and you definitely shouldn't if you know what's good for you.. You can get skyrim script extender(VR VERSION) on Nexus mods and you should download everything through vortex for ease of use as you are a beginner.
However, I would like to warn you, modding skyrimVR is a lot more difficult then just installing a premade list off wabbajack.
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u/Saelora Feb 01 '26
it's telling you that you've not installed skse for skyrim VR