Skyrim Special Edition

This post describes some known bugs, and provides steps to debugging common issues with my mod. If your problem is not addressed there, then please follow the steps in #4.

KNOWN BUGS

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DEEP ELF MALE FOREHEAD BUG (AKA: HELICOPTER-LANDING PAD FOREHEAD)
* Caused by switching from the female sex to male sex in racemenu. Can be fixed by dragging the Face Part slider to the left until the forehead looks normal again. See pictures below:
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NIZROK ISN'T MOVING IN HIS POWER ARMOR
*fix by taking the fuel rod out of his inventory and putting it back in.

TURNING INTO A VAMPIRE MAKES MY SKIN PURPLE/BLUE/ETC
* When turning into a vampire, your skin may revert to the default Deep Elf skin tone (which is a purplish-blue). I don't know wtf is causing this, but I do know that installing RaceMenu fixes this.

BEAST FORM REVERTS TO VAMPIRE RACE
* Entering Beast Form and reverting back to your humanoid form transforms you to a vampire. This can be fixed by adding the Dwemer Werewolf Fix item to yourinventory and equipping it before you activate Beast Form.

You can obtain this item by entering the console with tilde~ and typing in: help "dwemer werewolf fix" (with quotes) and add the item to your inventory with player.additem ____________ 1 (where the blank is the item's code)

DUPLICATED STARTING BOOKS
* After you start a new game/character, you may get duplicates of the five starting books if you exist the racemenu too fast or immediately after choosing your race. Not sure how to fix this.

WARP JUMP CLIPPING
* Warp Jump may clip you through walls and cause you to fall through the earth. Not much I can really do about that so just be careful of where you warp jump to, and always try to aim at the floors.

DELAYED SLOW TIME EFFECT
* The Slow Time effect may trigger later than it should, or sometimes not at all when using Warp Jump, Gravity Bomb, or End Time.
  • - This is sometimes caused by script lag, but the slow time effect can sometimes not take effect at all when using Gravity Bomb or End Time on large groups of enemies

SUPER SLOW TIME

If you are using any shout or slow time related mods, you might experience the super slow time bug. You should disable or uninstall these if you want to play this mod.

AUTOMATON NOT DEPLOYING
* Sometimes your automaton will not deploy when you drop your containment sphere
  • - This can happen due to script lag. Try picking it up and deploying it again, or go indoors and deploy in there
  • - Sometimes your automaton’s containment sphere can bug out and you will need to either
  • craft a new one, or add a new one to your inventory via the console.
  • Just make sure you get rid of the bugged automaton first by either removing it from your inventory or disabling it in the console

AUTOMATON NOT FOLLOWING YOU THROUGH LOAD DOORS
* Sometimes your automatons may not follow you through load doors. They are not 'lost'. They will be in the previous room you left them in.
  • Temporary fix: Teleport them to you by casting Recall Automatons (only works if you marked them beforehand) OR wait for them (by pressing T) will cause them to teleport to you immediately

"FILE PATH TOO LONG" ERROR IN VORTEX/NMM/MO WHEN INSTALLING (FIXABLE)
If you can't install due to a "File Path too long" error in your mod manager, download the mod manually from the site, and rename the .zip file that you downloaded to something shorter, like "TLD.zip". Then try installing it again, manually


DEBUGGING TIPS
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If you are experiencing any of the following:

1) Crashing to desktop upon loading the game, or the game will not start at all, then you are missing the requirements for this mod to function. You must download and install the basic requirements for my mod, as well as the requirements for any optional plugins or patches that you chose to install in the installer.

If you are missing just one dependency, your game will not start, or it will crash upon starting. This is the case for any mod that has dependencies on other plugins.

2) Vampirism is not working (skin tone is changing, eyes are not becoming vampire-like, you aren’t getting the vampire powers or abilities, etc). You can try one or more of the following:
* Try reinstalling the mod and rereading the installation guide. When installing you must make selections based on what vampire overhaul you are using, if any. If you are using Better Vampires, select Better Vampires; if you are using Sacrosanct, select Sacrosanct; if you are not using any overhaul, select none.

* Read the Load Order section, and make sure you followed the load order instructions for the vampire overhaul (if any) that you selected in the installer. Better Vampires and Sacrosanct have specific and different load orders in order to be compatible with my mod, so you must load them correctly.

* If your skin tone is reverting to the default purple dwemer skin tone, install RaceMenu and its requirements. This should fix that.

3) You are experiencing clipping in the face, brow, beard, etc on your male or female dwemer. This can be fixed by either installing Ethereal Overhaul, or Aesthetic Elves.
* If you installed Ethereal Elven Overhaul, you MUST make sure that you load EEO's mod folder at the bottom of your load order, and EEO's plugin at the bottom of your plugin order. If anything overwrites either EEO's mod folder or plugins, EEO's mesh fixes won't work.

4) FOR EVERYTHING ELSE
Everyone’s modlists are different, so there is not a specific fix for everything.
The best you can do is isolate the source of the problem. You can do this by following this debugging procedure:
I) Disable every mod in your modlist except for my mod’s and its most basic requirements (disable any of my mod’s optional plugins as well). Start up the game, and try to reproduce the bug. If it persists, then it is a problem with my mod, and should be reported. If it does not, proceed to the next step.

II) If the problem does not occur, or cannot be reproduced, then the problem is on your end. It may be an unidentified mod incompatibility, or it might have something to do with your load order. Now you need to identify and isolate the mod that is causing this problem.

III) Put all the mods that you usually play with into small or manageable groups (I usually do this in groups of 20-40).

IV) Then enable each group one by one, starting from the top of your modlist to the bottom. When starts to occur again, then that means that there is a mod or several mods in that group that are causing the problem. Disable the group and enable each mod in the group one by one until you can reproduce the bug. If a mod that you enabled causes the bug, then it is likely the source of the problem.

V) Once you’ve found the source of the problem, disable that mod, re-enable all your other mods, and start the game. Try reproducing the bug, and if the bug does not occur, then the mod that you isolated in step IV is the source of the problem.

VI) If the problem persists, then there may be another mod in your load order that is helping cause this problem. Repeat steps III and IV until you’ve isolated all the problem sources in your modlist, and in your bug report.

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