Guess I'm downgrading USSEP for now. These changes aren't even fixes at this point this is starting to remind me of the exact reason I dropped Cutting Room Floor this is unnecessary.
I'm not sure what it stood for, but it reverted some questionable changes in USSEP, and you can't find it because he-who-shall-not-be-named had it taken down from Nexus.
... there is something releated to this on the change log of USSEP: "When Redbelly Mine was fixed, its ebony nodes were relocated to Northwind Mine. This has now been updated to instead relocate them to a new small cave just to the east of Shor's Stone. The cave houses the Ebony nodes and a small pack of wolves, nothing more. (Bug #33087)"
Redbelly mine in the town of Shor's Stone (which means "ebony") is an Iron mine in Skyrim, it used to be a Ebony mine many generations ago but ran dry and started mining Iron (see ESO, and also common sense it's named after ebony), there is a quest where they have (re)discovered Ebony rocks but do not know what they are so they send you to identify them, the actual bug is the ore sample has the quicksilver Icon instead of ebony (it would make no sense for it to be iron because they already mine iron).
USSEP decides this is incorrect and changes the ebony rocks to iron rocks, and cites "b-but a strategy guide from 2011 says it is an Iron mine so there can't ALSO be ebony ignore the quest about ebony the game is wrong". This is obviously stupid, and also removes one of the most available sources of ebony in the game.
USSEP recognizes the game balance problem but because of Arthmoor's massive ego refuses to revert the change he decides to change Northwind mine (which is and always has been an Iron mine) to mine ebony. which totally ruins any lore argument he made to change redbelly because now he is changing other mines.
eventually after many years Arthmoor manages to come up with an even worse solution to the problem he created in the first place, revert the Northwind mine ebony change and instead create an entirely new dungeon to put ebony rocks in, causing mod compatibility issues, and totally divorcing the mod from lore.
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Please start a new game to use this patch
"When Redbelly Mine was fixed, its ebony nodes were relocated to Northwind Mine. This has now been updated to instead relocate them to a new small cave just to the east of Shor's Stone. The cave houses the Ebony nodes and a small pack of wolves, nothing more. (Bug #33087)"
Skyrim:Redbelly Mine - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP)
Redbelly mine in the town of Shor's Stone (which means "ebony") is an Iron mine in Skyrim, it used to be a Ebony mine many generations ago but ran dry and started mining Iron (see ESO, and also common sense it's named after ebony), there is a quest where they have (re)discovered Ebony rocks but do not know what they are so they send you to identify them, the actual bug is the ore sample has the quicksilver Icon instead of ebony (it would make no sense for it to be iron because they already mine iron).
USSEP decides this is incorrect and changes the ebony rocks to iron rocks, and cites "b-but a strategy guide from 2011 says it is an Iron mine so there can't ALSO be ebony ignore the quest about ebony the game is wrong". This is obviously stupid, and also removes one of the most available sources of ebony in the game.
USSEP recognizes the game balance problem but because of Arthmoor's massive ego refuses to revert the change he decides to change Northwind mine (which is and always has been an Iron mine) to mine ebony. which totally ruins any lore argument he made to change redbelly because now he is changing other mines.
eventually after many years Arthmoor manages to come up with an even worse solution to the problem he created in the first place, revert the Northwind mine ebony change and instead create an entirely new dungeon to put ebony rocks in, causing mod compatibility issues, and totally divorcing the mod from lore.
btw this is a "bugfix mod".
Leave it to he-who-shall-not-be-named to always find new ways to be annoying, I guess.
though i can already feel the "he-who-shall-not-be-named" fragile ego