About this mod
An innovative and unique grass overhaul, with a plugin made from scratch, for both Skyrim and Solstheim.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Mirrors
- Changelogs
The Grass Your Mother Warned About aims to be everything its name intends to be. You’ll get hooked and won’t want any other grass mod out there – I hope so at least – because I guess I’ve made a mod that is like one of those cases of “love or hate”.
This mod is a comprehensive overhaul of the game grasses, that just started as a simple grass mod for Xbox back in March of 2021 and became an ambitious project that I hope to become a sweet memory for the modding community.
If I ever label this mod with any style it would be fantasy themed, because it stays a bit away from the other grass mods available, that goes for a bleak and more realistic look. I’m not saying that The Grass Your Mom Warned About is not lore-friendly – YES, it does! – however you can expect a more colorful and epic experience.
Talking about epicness, I’d like to highlight all the inspiration Northern Grass and Folkvangr gave me to build this mod: without those great mods this wouldn’t be possible.
For installation, use your favorite mod organizing tool or extract all the files inside your data folder.
For INI settings I used the following on my Xbox One S and had decent performance, so I guess most PCs can handle them. (You can edit your Skyrim.ini or simply use the one provided by this mod)
[GRASS]
bAllowCreateGrass=1
bAllowLoadGrass=0
iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=15
iMinGrassSize=40
If it hurts your performance you can increase iMinGrassSize until you have acceptable results, the higher this value the less grass density.
NOTE: that is meant to be TEXURE!
This mod must be loaded under your landscape textures and above any mod that does land edits (water mods included), as any other grass mod. Important note: load this mod after any mod that touches swordfern.dds and fallforestobject02.dds (Like Skyrim Flora Overhaul, Mari’s AIO and others). If you use Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods please read the PATCHES section at the bottom of this page.
As this mod was developed originally for Xbox, where people sometimes can’t find much useful replacers for vanilla stuff, I added some improvements to the console version. However, I didn’t put them into this main file, once PC players have more (and better) options available. If you find any of my console improvements useful you can download them in the miscelaneous files.
The stuff I have improved are pine shrubs (normal and snowy), thickets (normal, snowy and ashy), vine maples (normal and snowy), and dirt cliffs.
You can find a patch for Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods in the optional files. If you use that mod it will mess with Solstheim grass if you don’t use the patch.
In this case your LO must be:
- The Grass Your Mother Warned About
- Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods
- Patch
Thanks for all mod authors that allowed me to use their work in this mod.
vurt for Skyrim Flora Overhaul
JonnyWang13 for Cathedral Landscapes and Cathedral 3D Pine Grass
Josh Ezzel for Unique Grasses and Groundcovers
32cm for Tamriel Reloaded Grasses, Plants and Shrubs
Ryonalice for Grass Field R
Elinen for Hoddminir Flowers and Hoddminir Plants and Trees
code1k for Unique Solstheim Grass (Plugin only)
RoboBirdie for Landscaping Resource
MartynaGrek for this 3D model
And several non-copyrighted authors for providing their work for free.
Skyfall_515 and JarlBallin89 for testing on Xbox.
NaVerron, Warlock174 and StoneSpiralGaming for testing on PC – what I can’t – so I could make a solid mod for both platforms.
Neardaniel for some reliable upscaling
Join Tales From Tamriel Discord server to find me :)