Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 54 : Race Menu

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The current top dog in the hot file section is the Race Menu mod. This mod is a great way to start your Skyrim adventure.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Full Moon' courtesy of BlackWolf25.

RaceMenu...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 53 : Wet and Cold & Footprints

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A couple of great mods that will make your Skyrim experience a lot more immersive. Yes, it is a word now. I don't care what the spell checker says!

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Skyrim Extended Glow - Daedric Armor' courtesy of Xanshio. See the mod in action here.

Download Links:
Wet and Cold
Footprints...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary : Christmas Special

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Although perhaps it should have been called the Saturalia Special? Merry Christmas Nexus.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Windhelm' courtesy of rwdarrow.

Download Links:
Saturalia - Christmas In Skyrim
Christmas Lanterns...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 52 : Enhanced Lights and FX

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Make your interiors look better with a great new lighting mod.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of jeakiller.

Download Links:
Enhanced Lights and FX...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 51 : Instinctive Exploration and Skyrim Configurator

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This was not a planned video, but I found a fairly unknown mod that I think has a lot of potential and wanted to showcase it to you all.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Bird of Brey' courtesy of kaldaar.

Download Links:
Instinctive Exploration
Skyrim configurator...

Happy Birthday Skyrim (Epilogue): A look forward

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The epilogue to the 2012 Anniversary Edition of Skyrim Mod Sanctuary.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of OrmrSnaethorsen.

Download Links:
Better Dialogue Controls...

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 5)

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The fifth part of my look back at the first year of mods for Skyrim.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Snow White and The Huntsman-ish' courtesy of graphiccore.

Download Links:
More Hotkeys Please SKSE BETA
Vampire Lords can Loot and Activate and Open the Map - With Werewolf Now
Better Vampires by Brehanin 5_4
Bat Travel Vampire Power for Dawnguard DLC
Vampire Predator Vision
Belua Sanguinare Revisited - Dyn...

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 4)

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Part 4 of my look back at the first year of mods for Skyrim. This is a long episode covering 51 mods, so bring snacks.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Frostbite Spider' courtesy of Sideshow95.

Download Links:
Realistic Lighting With Customization
HD Textures DLC Fix
Shadow Striping Fix
A Better Whiterun - City Under Construction - BETA
ULTRA REALISTIC WORLD LIGHTING for Skryim BETA
Lanterns of Skyrim - Ar...

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 3)

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Part 3 of my look back at the first year of mods for Skyrim.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Lord Necron' courtesy of yhwhwarrior.

Download Links:
WARZONES - Civil Unrest
Open Cities Skyrim
Cloaks of Skyrim
RCRN - Realistic Colors and Real Nights
A Thinner Compass
IMAGINATOR - Visual Control Device for Skyrim
Beautiful Whiterun
Winter Is Coming - Cloaks
Lockpick graduation by Lilyu

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 2)

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Part 2 of my look back at the first year of mods for Skyrim.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Before The Storm' courtesy of kaldaar.

Download Links:
RWT Realistic Water Textures
Realistic Lighting Without Post-Processing
JaySuS Swords
Bucklers
Arrowsmith - Reupload
Better archery Eagle Eye perk
Balanced Magic
Mage-Friendly Dragon Priest Masks
Warmer Magic Lights
Staff of Magnus I...

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 1)

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In this video I look back at a year of Skyrim mods and how far we have come, and possibly how much further we have to go.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of BlakkPhoenix.

Download Links:
1. Nexus Mod Manager
2. Enhanced Blood Textures
3. Lockpick Pro
4. Large Address Aware : No longer needed
5. Interface Hard Coded Key Tweaks
6. Skyrim Sunglare
7. 4GB Skyrim : No longer needed
8. Simple Borderl...

TES5EDIT : Cleaning your master files

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In this video I try to help mod users the basics behind cleaning the official Bethesda master files to remove dirty edits and deleted references. I hope it helps.

Download and documentation links
TES5Edit.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

TES5EDIT : Cleaning your mods

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In this video I try to help mod makers understand the basics behind cleaning their mod files. The video covers the basics of how to do it, and more importantly, why you should do it. I hope it helps.

Download and documentation links
TES5Edit.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

Skyrim song : Khajiit like to sneak

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Modders are not the only people getting creative with Bethesda games. I thought you guys might enjoy this song about Khajiit by a musician Known as MiracleOfSound. He makes music and songs inspired by popular games. Hope you enjoy....

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 50 : Halls of Dovahndor and Hunters Cabin of Riverwood

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A couple of player homes are the subject of this episode. Both by the same author, but both are very different homes indeed.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'End' courtesy of kaldaar.

Download Links:
Halls of Dovahndor
Hunters Cabin of Riverwood...

TES5Edit EXPERIMENTAL is now available for experience testers to try out

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Experienced modders will be well aware of the excellent tools known as tes4edit, fo3edit and fnvedit, and you may have been eagerly awaiting the Skyrim equivalent. Well the good news is that an experimental version is now available for testing. PLEASE note the word EXPERIMENTAL.

You can download TES5Edit 3.0.22 EXPERIMENTAL here.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 49 : Blaze of Eventide, Nordic Ranger and Ritual Armor of Boethiah

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A mix of mods for you in this episode, all of which made it to the 'hot files' section of the Nexus front page.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of BlakkPhoenixx.

Download Links:
Blaze Of Eventide
Nordic Ranger Outfit
Ritual Armor of Boethiah...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 48 : Airships

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A video about airships in Skyrim.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Airship' courtesy of tekmage.

Download Links:
Dwemer Skyship fully flyable
Airship - Dev Aveza...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 47 : aMidianBorn Armor

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A video focusing on re-texturing some of the vanilla armor sets.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of kailay.

Download Links:
aMidianBorn Leather Armor
aMidianBorn iron and banded armors
aMidianBorn steel armor
aMidianBorn steel plate armor
aMidianBorn Dwarven Armor
aMidianBorn Elven Armor...

The state of Dark Souls modding

Hi everyone, I'm Durante (the guy who made DSfix), and this is my first Nexus news post. I'd like to provide some information on what is possible with Dark Souls modding at the moment, and what might be possible in the future.

Currently, there are two ways to mod Dark Souls. On the one hand there are program modifications such as DSMfix, the 60 FPS mod and my own DSfix, which work by .dll wrapping. On the other hand, since a few versions DSfix supports overriding any of the...