How to use the compatibility patches and a suggestion of your load order with Palaces & Castles Enhanced
For the full list of compatibility patches and what these patches actually do, read my Article here.
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To use any compatibility patches with Palaces & Castles Enhanced,
1. Make sure that some mods are incompatible with each other.
For instance, Holds The City Overhaul and Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul are both compatible with Palaces and Castles Enhanced but they should not be used together as these 2 mods are not compatible with each other.
The following combination of mods is good:
Palaces and castles Enhanced Holds The City Overhaul Enhanced Lights and FX ELFX Enhancer Legacy of the Dragonborn Skyrim Project Optimization Skyrim Radioactive Glorified - Interiors Compilation (Palaces and Castles Enhanced Compatible Edition)
The following combination of mods is bad as the mods written in red letter are incompatible with each other:
Palaces and Castles Enhanced Holds The City Overhaul Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul Legacy of the Dragonborn Skyrim Project Optimization Skyrim Radioactive Glorified - Interiors Compilation (Palaces and Castles Enhanced Compatible Edition)
2. Load your plugins and compatibility patches in the following order.
Palaces and Castles Enhanced should be loaded near the bottom of your load order. Please make sure to build your load order to ook like this:
*1 USLEEP patch for Palaces & Castles Enhanced can be loaded anywhere after USLEEP. *2 Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul can be loaded either before/after Palaces & Castles Enhanced. *3 Make sure to use Palaces and castles Enhanced Compatible Edition of Skyrim Radioactive Glorified - Interiors Compilation.
Overall, the patches for Palaces & Castles Enhanced should be loaded in the following order:
1.USLEEP Patch (anywhere) 2.Main File (Palaces Castles Enhanced.esp) 3.Patches for Alternate Start, Extra Guards, Inconsequential NPCs, Interesting NPCs, Legacy of the Dragonborn, Skyrim Project Optimization, and /or No Custom Music Patch 4. Patches for Holds the City Overhaul or Skyrim Sewers 5. Patch for Immersive Citizens 6. Patch for Enhanced Lights and FX or Shadows 7. Patch for ELFX Enhancer
If you're skilled enough, I recommend you to try merging some patches to reduce the number of plugins. Make sure to create the merged patch keeping the correct order and make sure if your merged patch is good to go after creating it.
For some reason should you uninstall this mod, please keep in mid that: 1. Uninstallation is not encouraged and users should be careful about it. 2. You see some "glitches" after uninstalling this mod, such as furniture floating in the air and certain NPCs being naked, and you may have to use other mods to address these issues in game, such as Jaxonz Positoner and mods that allow you to change NPC's outfit. 3. That said, the safest and most advised way to go about this is to go back to the save before this mod was installed.
[Before Deciding to Uninstall the Mod]
If you see any issues supposedly cause by installing this mod and you wish to get rid of them,
1. Please check that your Palaces Castles Enhanced.esp is in the advised place in your load order. You might think every mod author nowadays tells you to place their mod in the lowest position, so you let LOOT decide where this mod goes into your load order. Don't do that!
2. Is this a mid-game installation? Assuming you've read the description, that it's generally not very encouraged, you should always make a backup of your save so you can always go back to it. Some users reported that this mod works just fine without a new game, so it varies. You should visit each location (especially Blue Palace and Palace of the Kings) immediately after installing this mod without a new game, and see if there are any chairs floating in mid-air or something being weird. If you see some issues, it means your game is way too progressed to allow this mod to be installed. You shouldn't spend several hours slaying bandits before noticing these issues, other wise you might lose some of the progress you made.
3. If you've already spent many hours playing Skyrim with this mod installed and suddenly decided that this mod needs to go, for whatever reason, your best hope is: a. Travel to qasmoke cell and wait there for 1 month b. Use the console command "resetinterior" for every interior cell including WhiterunDragonsreach, WindhelmPalaceoftheKings, SolitudeBluePalace, RiftenMistveilKeep, MarkarthUnderstoneKeep, SolitudeCastleDour, and DLC1DawnguardHQ01. You'll still need to expect many issues that you may wish to resolve by using Jaxonz Positioner and NPC outfitting mod afterwards.
Hey all. This is mostly for other poor saps like me; I was very interested in the mentioned quest to restore the Pelagius Wing as mentioned in the Blue Palace component mod, but after completing the quest couldn't find the dialogue for it.
I'll save anyone else like me the time: the author removed it in 2017, you can't do it.
Unfortunately, I learned this through scrolling 15 pages back to 2017. The entire comment is "The hotel quest has been omitted in this version. :) ". No mention why, and it's certainly not in the changelog (I checked the whole thing before scrolling 15 pages). This omission isn't in the description here either, despite the fact that the old Blue Palace page redirects you to this mod with the expectation that the same features are in this one. In addition, it appears that the author has made a decision not to even respond to the several questions since about it, since apparently the one sentence 6 years ago is enough.
All of that said, this is of course a great mod. I love the interiors, the changes, and overall the proper grandiose air it brings to the nobles of Skyrim. If not for my frustration with this I'd call it a 10/10, and even with that significant annoyance it's still a solid 9.
It's accessible through a trapdoor, either near the bed in one of the main hall chambers (one with a fancy vanity desk) or the Jarl's bed chamber under a movavable rug.
I use a Banner Mod for Skyrim. However, in the Palace of the Kings (Windhelm) this mod's banners are present. Is there any way that I can edit them? I couldn't find them in the Textures folder.
Here is the path for it:Textures\Insanity\Architecture\Windhelm and put any stormcloak flag there you want to use but make sure it is named "sonsofskyrimfancybanner"
Vortex is saying palaces and castles enhanced.bsa - is loaded by palaces and castles enhanced.esp, is intended for use with oblivion. I am guessing the bsa file has an issue or just broken?
IS this mod compatible with dawn of skyrim and great cities mod? because some castles/palaces are not looking like they are affected by the mod one specific one is understone keep is still looks like the vanilla version please help (T_T)
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For the full list of compatibility patches and what these patches actually do, read my Article here.
To use any compatibility patches with Palaces & Castles Enhanced,
1. Make sure that some mods are incompatible with each other.
For instance, Holds The City Overhaul and Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul are both compatible with Palaces and Castles Enhanced but they should not be used together as these 2 mods are not compatible with each other.
The following combination of mods is good:
Palaces and castles Enhanced
Holds The City Overhaul
Enhanced Lights and FX
ELFX Enhancer
Legacy of the Dragonborn
Skyrim Project Optimization
Skyrim Radioactive Glorified - Interiors Compilation (Palaces and Castles Enhanced Compatible Edition)
The following combination of mods is bad as the mods written in red letter are incompatible with each other:
Palaces and Castles Enhanced
Holds The City Overhaul
Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul
Legacy of the Dragonborn
Skyrim Project Optimization
Skyrim Radioactive Glorified - Interiors Compilation (Palaces and Castles Enhanced Compatible Edition)
2. Load your plugins and compatibility patches in the following order.
Palaces and Castles Enhanced should be loaded near the bottom of your load order. Please make sure to build your load order to ook like this:
Example#1 - Immersive Citizens + Palaces & Castles Enhanced Build
TOP
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch
[ANY] Enhanced Lights and FX
[ANY] ELFX Enhancer
[ANY] Skyrim Project Optimization
[ANY] Interesting NPCs
[ANY] Inconsequential NPCs
[ANY] Extra Guards
[ANY] Legacy of the Dragonborn
[ANY] PCE - USLEEP Patch *1
[ANY] Other Mods
[ANY] Alternate Start - Live Another Life
[1] Palaces Castles Enhanced
[2] Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul *2
[3~7] PCE - 3DNPC Patch
[3~7] PCE - Inconsequential NPCs Patch
[3~7] PCE - Legacy of the Dragonborn patch
[3~7] PCE - Alternate Start Patch
[3~7] PCE - Extra Guards Patch
[8] PCE - Immersive Citizens Patch
[9] Immersive Citizens ELFX Patch
[10] Immersive Citizens ELFX Enhancer Patch
[11] PCE - Enhanced Lights and FX Patch
[12] PCE - ELFX Enhancer Patch
END
Example#2 - Holds + Palaces & Castles Enhanced Build
TOP
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch
[ANY] Enhanced Lights and FX
[ANY] ELFX Enhancer
[ANY] Skyrim Project Optimization
[ANY] Interesting NPCs
[ANY] Legacy of the Dragonborn
[ANY] PCE - USLEEP Patch
[ANY] Other Mods
[ANY] Alternate Start - Live Another Life
[1] Holds
[2~7] Holds Interesting NPCs Patch
[2~7] Holds Skyrim Project Optimization Patch
[2~7] Holds Interesting NPCs Patch
[2~7] Holds Legacy of the Dragonborn Patch
[2~7] Holds Alternate Start Patch
[2~7] Holds USLEEP Patch
[8] Holds ELFX Patch
[9] Holds ELFX Enhancer Patch
[10] Skyrim Radioactive - Interiors Compilation*3
[11~15] Skyrim Radioactive - Interesting NPCs Patch
[11~15] Skyrim Radioactive - Skyrim Project Optimization Patch
[11~15] Skyrim Radioactive - Legacy of the Dragonborn Patch
[11~15] Skyrim Radioactive - Alternate Start Patch
[11~15] Skyrim radioactive - USLEEP Patch
[16] Skyrim Radioactive - Holds Patch
[17] Skyrim Radioactive - ELFX Patch
[18] Skyrim radioactive - ELFX Enhancer Patch
[19] Palaces and Castles Enhanced
[20~23] PCE - Interesting NPCs Patch
[20~23] PCE - Skyrim Project Optimization Patch
[20~23] PCE - Legacy of the Dragonborn Patch
[20~23] PCE - Alternate Start Patch
[24] PCE - Holds Patch
[25] PCE - ELFX Patch
[26] PCE - ELFX Enhancer Patch
END
*1 USLEEP patch for Palaces & Castles Enhanced can be loaded anywhere after USLEEP.
*2 Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul can be loaded either before/after Palaces & Castles Enhanced.
*3 Make sure to use Palaces and castles Enhanced Compatible Edition of Skyrim Radioactive Glorified - Interiors Compilation.
Overall, the patches for Palaces & Castles Enhanced should be loaded in the following order:
1.USLEEP Patch (anywhere)
2.Main File (Palaces Castles Enhanced.esp)
3.Patches for Alternate Start, Extra Guards, Inconsequential NPCs, Interesting NPCs, Legacy of the Dragonborn, Skyrim Project Optimization, and /or No Custom Music Patch
4. Patches for Holds the City Overhaul or Skyrim Sewers
5. Patch for Immersive Citizens
6. Patch for Enhanced Lights and FX or Shadows
7. Patch for ELFX Enhancer
If you're skilled enough, I recommend you to try merging some patches to reduce the number of plugins. Make sure to create the merged patch keeping the correct order and make sure if your merged patch is good to go after creating it.
1. Uninstallation is not encouraged and users should be careful about it.
2. You see some "glitches" after uninstalling this mod, such as furniture floating in the air and certain NPCs being naked, and you may have to use other mods to address these issues in game, such as Jaxonz Positoner and mods that allow you to change NPC's outfit.
3. That said, the safest and most advised way to go about this is to go back to the save before this mod was installed.
[Before Deciding to Uninstall the Mod]
If you see any issues supposedly cause by installing this mod and you wish to get rid of them,
1. Please check that your Palaces Castles Enhanced.esp is in the advised place in your load order. You might think every mod author nowadays tells you to place their mod in the lowest position, so you let LOOT decide where this mod goes into your load order. Don't do that!
2. Is this a mid-game installation? Assuming you've read the description, that it's generally not very encouraged, you should always make a backup of your save so you can always go back to it. Some users reported that this mod works just fine without a new game, so it varies. You should visit each location (especially Blue Palace and Palace of the Kings) immediately after installing this mod without a new game, and see if there are any chairs floating in mid-air or something being weird. If you see some issues, it means your game is way too progressed to allow this mod to be installed. You shouldn't spend several hours slaying bandits before noticing these issues, other wise you might lose some of the progress you made.
3. If you've already spent many hours playing Skyrim with this mod installed and suddenly decided that this mod needs to go, for whatever reason, your best hope is:
a. Travel to qasmoke cell and wait there for 1 month
b. Use the console command "resetinterior" for every interior cell including WhiterunDragonsreach, WindhelmPalaceoftheKings, SolitudeBluePalace, RiftenMistveilKeep, MarkarthUnderstoneKeep, SolitudeCastleDour, and DLC1DawnguardHQ01.
You'll still need to expect many issues that you may wish to resolve by using Jaxonz Positioner and NPC outfitting mod afterwards.
Sette.
Mod Author Status: Busy
I won't be responding to your comments until I finish working on my new mod. Sorry!
The new mod is almost complete but it needs a lot of voice acting so it will take a few weeks to publish it.
All I can say for now is my new mod is going to be big and exciting!
I'll save anyone else like me the time: the author removed it in 2017, you can't do it.
Unfortunately, I learned this through scrolling 15 pages back to 2017. The entire comment is "The hotel quest has been omitted in this version. :) ". No mention why, and it's certainly not in the changelog (I checked the whole thing before scrolling 15 pages). This omission isn't in the description here either, despite the fact that the old Blue Palace page redirects you to this mod with the expectation that the same features are in this one. In addition, it appears that the author has made a decision not to even respond to the several questions since about it, since apparently the one sentence 6 years ago is enough.
All of that said, this is of course a great mod. I love the interiors, the changes, and overall the proper grandiose air it brings to the nobles of Skyrim. If not for my frustration with this I'd call it a 10/10, and even with that significant annoyance it's still a solid 9.
and put any stormcloak flag there you want to use but make sure it is named "sonsofskyrimfancybanner"
BTW, Can you make standalone mods for Dawnguad fort, Dragonsreach, and Understone Keep?