Morrowind

Oblivion

Shadowrun Returns

Skyrim

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age 2

The Witcher

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The Witcher 2

X: Rebirth

World of Tanks

Legend of Grimrock

Dark Souls

Fallen Enchantress

Far Cry 3

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Dungeon Defenders

Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights 2

Mount & Blade

Mount & Blade: Warband

Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Left 4 Dead 2

Minecraft

Knights of the Old Republic II

Warcraft 3

Mass Effect 3

Sins of a Solar Empire

State of Decay

Saints Row 4

Savage XR

Faster Than Light

Knights of the Old Republic

Mass Effect

Starbound

Deus Ex

Torchlight II

Grand Theft Auto IV

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Mafia 2

Zoo Tycoon 2

Thief 2: The Metal Age

Mass Effect 2

Halo: Combat Evolved

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Kerbal Space Program

Game Dev Tycoon

Battlefield 2

DmC: Devil May Cry

Madden NFL 08

Batman: Arkham Origins

Black and White 2

X3: Terran Conflict

Just Cause 2

Disciples 3: Reincarnation

Towns

The Sims 3

RPG Maker VX Ace

Remember Me

Crysis

Team Fortress 2

Jade Empire

Euro Truck Simulator 2

3089

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Drox Operative

Risen

Crysis Warhead

Crusader Kings 2

Half-Life 2

Borderlands

Myst Online: Uru Live

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3

Thief 3: Deadly Shadows

Doom 3

Arx Fatalis

Batman: Arkham City

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

Command & Conquer: Generals

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

The Elder Scrolls Online

Rimworld

Men of War

Borderlands 2

Fallout 2

South Park: The Stick of Truth

ArmA 3

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Resident Evil 4

Rodina

War Thunder

Star Wars: Empire at War

Sacred

Tabletop Simulator

TUG: The Untitled Game

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

Space Engineers

Skyrim Special Edition

# Description

I realize that apparently everyone who gave feedback on installation of this list was unable to install it properly?

When Skyrim was at its 1.16.640 version I made the list in one computer then installed it in another, although the process is not one-click, it shouldn't be so hard that results were so dismal. Anyway, I'm planning on making a new, more simplified list as soon as time permits. I was able to effectively stop updates on one of my games (not on the other though, so the first The Magically Hip Collection went kaput (also because of several mod updates that rendered the list unloadable).

\*First off, this is HARD, VERY HARD! Keep difficulty at Adept. \*

*Second, even if you have Nexus Premium and are able to do a one-click-download-all gig, read my instructions thoroughly and check the mod pages for additional information. If you have questions, join my Discord Mana Vault Inn and ask for support!*

*This Collection has many quest mods in it, I am in the process of testing it right now.*

***

# Main features

It's OKAY to be defeated. Not all stories start and end with an invincible, victorious hero.

You will begin as a nobody, and will struggle immensely to reach a place of relative power.

But if and when you do, it'll be glorious!

\*I tried my utmost best to make sure this collection would completely change the way you approach Skyrim. During my testing, at first I would try to storm into danger, like packs of wolves or bandit parties, but only discovered grief, defeat, several bruises, cuts, broken bones and impairing diseases, and loss of my gear for it. \*

\*You will need to focus your energy into slowly gaining knowledge and power: \*

\***- You have very limited inventory space (volumetric, categorized and weighted management of items you can carry), the more weight you carry the slower you'll move.** \*

***- When you get defeated you won't die, but you'll find yourself in strange places, many times very far from where you were, and will have lost some of your things as well as gained certain fears or disadvantages because of your defeat.***

***Succeed***

**A quick notice, this collection has several female outfits that are very revealing. I tried my best to get variety and balance between skimpy and not-so-skimpy, but it is a fantasy game and I always liked the idea of bikini armor. If this bothers you, this collection is not for you.**

What this collection DOESN'T have:

\- Sex, fertility or seduction mods. It has a friendship mod though, I'm Glad You're Here.

\- High Poly Head mod by KouLeiFoh. Because it's not on Nexusmods. What you get is the Vanilla head mesh with Expressive Facegen Morphs, several HDT hairs for both men and women, eyes, brows replacer, my preferred female skin set with complexion and makeup changes, men make use of zzjay's Males of Skyrim so they'll have toes, and women make use of CBBE 3BA. This isn't enough? Replace or overwrite those mods with the ones of your choice, but be aware I won't provide support to those changes or additions.

\- Generated LODs: I don't use them, I have no patience to learn xLODGen and DYNDOLOD when I'm still learning CK - I'm a mod author focused on other areas of modding. I use distant DoF blur to mitigate the weird vanilla lods.

***

# Before you start

\*\*This is very, VERY important: \*\*I won't provide support to your changes made to my collection. This means, if you decide to make changes, especially mid-playthrough, and things get borked, that's not on me and please understand I'm already testing MY preferred list of mods for my concept, I won't be testing other mods besides my list. This collection is supposed to be compatible with itself, not with other, unforeseeable stuff. This goes for ANY change, unless you are able to identify an incompatibility between mods I've included.

Please don't install stuff like JK's Skyrim or Cities of the North or whatever. It will cause incompatibilities, stuff will most probably clip, etc.

PLEASE BE AWARE this is being shared by me as a WIP` - or Release Candidate if you will -, most of this Collection is as of yet still UNTESTED, as I've only played through about 6 to 8 hours of this.` THIS IS NO LONGER THE CASE. This collection may still be WIP, but I've tested it much over the last weeks and things seem to be working properly, mostly. There is a log of known issues that I mean to address as time and my own skill as a mod author permits, please read so you won't be taken by surprise. Installing this, as modding any game, still means INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK. Things might not work as intended, glitches might occur, etc.&#x20;

I AM asking for testers and reports from users, but cannot state this enough, even as a modder you must be prepared to install things at your own risk, there is never any guarantee of anything whatsoever. What this collection doesn't do is break computers - I tried to tone down on mods that are heavier on the GPU -, so if for some reason your computer or GPU breaks down/melts/etc., I will take NO responsibility. Nor with your savegames, nothing.&#x20;

I recommend that you have a decent, relatively modern CPU - i5 HQ 6st gen onward -, at least 8GB of DDR4 RAM (preferably dual-channel), at least 4GB VRAM (I'm testing with a laptop GTX 1650 DDR5, I recommend though that you use at least a 1660 or better, since fps for me is not optimal with three custom-voiced followers along - 35/40 fps in interiors, can go down to around 20 fps in exteriors), and please install both the game and the mod staging folder in an NVMe SSD if possible. It'll still work in HDD or SATA SSD, but obviously loading times and responsiveness will suck in comparison.

Please test the game WITH and WITHOUT Papyrus Tweaks NG, I have it installed but it seems to be dragging down fps a bit for me. - I actually removed it I think, it was sitting there unused and disabled.

*- This is NOT an update to The Magically Hip Collection, but a NEW COLLECTION of its own. Do not "UPDATE" from the Magically Hip. If you have that installed and are in the middle of a playthrough with it, DECIDE, either you KEEP with it or SCRAP it and install this collection instead.*

\- You need up-to-date SKSE besides the latest version of Steam Skyrim Anniversary Edition. It is highly advised that you use the full AE Upgrade, I am not sure how this mod list works with only the 4 free creations. But I do know for certain you NEED Saints and Seducers, since I included several mods for them.

\- Use an SSD!!! Also, check machine minimum requirements.

**Known issues:**

\*If you're trying to install The Magically Hip REDUX on your updated Skyrim AE v. 1.16.1170 (or at least using latest updates to the included mods), but are getting an Open Animation Replacer error, install everything through the instructions I give through the Collections page, then RUN NEMESIS, and after it's done, TURN OFF the mod UNDERDOG Animations, it's what's giving issues to OAR. You'll keep at least the basic anims and OAR won't try to interpret its conditions for animation variance.

\*As of latest updates, Simply Climb and EVG Animated Traversal seem to be more fickle than before. I recommend disabling those mods and their dependencies for now (there's a mod that integrates several EVGAT paths into dungeons, disable that too).

\*I feel that the new Skyrim update meant more of a modpocalypse than desirable, please be patient as mod authors endeavour to update their work.

\*Smashman's Nessa replacer has an issue with her equipment when she "dies", she will revert to her prisoner outfit which shows a wrist gap. I have tried mitigating this by going into SSEdit and REMOVING her OTFT record as well as placing light armor in her inventory - also in SSEdit, since she somewhere along the line stopped allowing me to access her inventory, she gives the dialogue line that would precede access but then nothing happens. Nessa seems to have some sort of strange interaction with some mod in this collection OR she has this glitch to her, I don't know which.

This seems to have worked itself out after I cleaned Nemesis cache folder and generated new behaviours, so if it's a fresh install you shouldn't find issues \**Most annoying thing in REVISION 5 is how Skyclimb will stop working after a while - activating will give you the lever animation. It's a new mod, and groundbreaking, but also complex to integrate with an already very expanded world of interactions and animations like I built here. Be patient and keep a look out for updates, I will too.*

\*REVISION 5: Rest by Campfire has an unexpected - and I believe unpatched for now - interaction with Hunterborn's lesser power Primitive Cooking. When you approach a regular vanilla reference campfire and try to use the power, you'll get a message stating "There are no nearby heatsources". I will try to patch this up somehow if possible.

\* I'm Glad You're Here may give you trouble when you want to mount your horse. Check the MCM for that mod for an option that is intended to fix this.

This also seems to have worked itself out in my last session when I chose Carry Your Carcasses with Horse option in Immersive Equipment Display \**Horse Display Items mod and Carry Your Carcasses are giving me trouble since when the carcass shows on the horse, if I pick it up it will become invisible. I'll need to have a closer look at the Immersive Equipment Displays instructions in order to fix this.*

\*Diseased Remastered REMOVED IN REV2 \*- Diseased Remastered has fatal illnesses, those are also harder/very hard to cure. Please be very careful about getting sick, and try not to ingest unknown alchemical ingredients - I got Black Heart Blight from ingesting spawn ash and couldn't treat the illness, kept on playing until I reached a point in which a loop with Shadow of Skyrim ensued, effectively preventing me to keep playing. These situations are equal to permadeath - I'll need to start a new game - so be warned.

\*I haven't addressed this, hopefully Everglaide will, eventually \*- Frissa Blackbriar from Deluge dungeon mod has a very visible neckseam and texture difference. This is nothing major but may hamper immersion.

\*This was resolved, there are much less times in which animations don't play, removed several skypia mods \*- Sometimes, some animations stop working/character stops animating. I'm thinking this is because of the amount of skypia animations I installed on top of Underdog.

\*Surprisingly enough, this hasn't been happening lately. I strongly advise you not to recruit her before going to Dragonsreach for the first time and interacting there \*- Eris from ezPG has trouble with both her outfits conflicting with Vanilla Hair Remake for NPCs. Solution: Take her outfits from her - sell them, you won't need them - and give her whatever clothes you want. Do it as soon as you recruit her so you can avoid seeing her look all weird/floating head/weird bald.

**Requirements**

- *Full Anniversary Edition Skyrim (up-to-date Steam version)*
- *skse*
- *(Optional) ReShade, turn on Luma Sharpen and Smart Sharp, especially if you're setting up Display Tweaks for 80% resolution or less (1536\*864)*
- *Correctly set up BODYSLIDE and NEMESIS in your Vortex, these will DEFINITELY be needed!*
- *Correctly set up xEdit and Quick Auto Clean with your Vortex, it may be needed.*

**Best practices**

- \*You need to install SKSE, \*
- After everything is installed:
- \*run Nemesis, \*
- \*run Bodyslide batch with my preset (or get your own, but I'll argue mine works very well with Pumping Iron and Stay in Shape), Vanilla Armor Replacer always takes precedence - meaning it should overwrite everything BD's Vanilla Armor and Clothes Replacer has. Just batch gen everything and make a rule in Vortex that forces Vanilla Armor Replacer (mod by Loveisinstant) load AFTER BD's Vanilla Armor and Clothes Replacer. BD's is kind of optional (I know many of you don't like Bikini armors, but I do), I prefer my armors skimpy to those vanilla-style blocks of mush that for instance the Bonemold armor looks like. I tried not to go extremely skimpy with stillettos, but BD's is I feel a decent compromise. \*
- *I have not included male armors because frankly I couldn't care less :D I play as a female. If it bothers you, just get Frankly HD's stuff or something. Just remember to have those plugins loading BEFORE my armor and clothes replacer mods. I have enhanced armor and weapon textures with a couple of mods, so although they look essentially the same, they'll look a bit more high-rez.*
- \*This collection now uses ENB, I strongly advise either Aequinoctum ENB, Re-engaged or Intrigued ENB (this one is heavier on resources though, although not too much)
- \*optionally you might want ReShade with full support and my mod Mana Vault Enhancer, ReShade opens with Home key. My ReShade preset should be a decent substitute for an ENB, but the game will not look the same \*
- *To configure Carry Your Carcass, press Shift + Backspace, then go to View option on the top menu, select Custom Items, go to Global tab, open the pick-list, select Carry Your Carcasses preset, then click on Merge.*
- *In ezPG, DON'T install Marked for Death or Faction Exclusivity, I strongly advise you to install ALL of it apart from the modules I mention here. Also in ezPG, Erin from Light and Shade has some incompatibility going on between her armor and the Vanilla Hair Remake for NPCs. I simply SOLD her armor off, you should as well. I know, she won't be wearing her blindfold, but you can get a custom outfit mod for her if you like. Besides, I kind of like seeing her whole face with that windy hair, she kind of looks roughly lovely, that incredible voice and accent and all... :D I might create a patch sometime if I'm able to, to make her not conflict with the hair mod, but for now this is how I prefer her. She looks lovely in a regular hide or studded armor, by the way.*
- As a rule of thumb, in Random Alternate Start, choose the longest waiting time after creating your character and set up your mods' MCMs during that time (Hunterborn, Nether's Follower Framework, Shadow of Skyrim, these especially NEED to be enabled and configured to your preference - in Hunterborn, turn off manual loot, make the pelt prices higher but not the highest, make dressing require a hunting knife, turn on ALL the compatibility custom pelts and combine options on).&#x20;
- Next, SAVE the game BEFORE you get randomly spawned into Nirn so you can come back to get a different start if you end up having trouble (as in, if you're in a place you don't know how to get out of).&#x20;
- You will no longer spawn in Solstheim as long as you install the right Random Alternate Start file - the one which states NO SOLSTHEIM.
- If you're spawned into a tremendously difficult area, just try to survive, and if you get defeated, let Shadow of Skyrim do its thing, do as in golf, play it as it lies. Shadow of Skyrim will respawn you... somewhere.
- VERY IMPORTANT: set up Shadow of Skyrim to DEVELOPER MODE and select ALTERNATE START COMPATIBILITY, otherwise it won't kick in until you get to Helgen.
- If you, like me, are tired of the usual fish-eye type of view of Skyrim - makes sense in first person, but not in third person, which is how I play the game mostly - then open your MCM, go to Mod Settings, 3PCO, General, and CHANGE FOV to 50/60. Congrats, your Skyrim is now flat instead of round - you'll notice as well how faces become different, more like in the screenshots that screen archers make. This may seem Baka, but I just discovered this mod's nifty edit very recently while fiddling with it in Legendary Edition.

***

# Minimum Recommended specs

*Hardware setup suitable for this collection.*

- GPU 4GBVRAM or more (tested with laptop GTX 1650). I have no idea how you could make this work properly with less than this, perhaps if you remove all the texture packs I added it'll work better. Optionally, Papyrus Tweaks NG may improve your game's flow (for me it didn't, so I removed it from the list)
- RAM 8GB or more
- CPU i5 6st gen or more
- Highly recommended: SSD install of both the game and the mod staging folder

***

# Compatible collections

\*I'm sure it's compatible with my collection \*[Mana Vault Party CUSTOM Collection | Skyrim Special Edition | Nexus Mods](https://next.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/collections/hykkyp)

Yep stylish rags

Violet's no forsworn but they do have stylish rags

Beautiful Regalia of the Scorned by goampuja

AND Dark Dreams by goampuja because it's so stylish

With the coolest orc writer around

At the inn with Khash and Eris

Setting out from Whiterun

Ri-chan cutie in the background

Cold near Morthal swamp

At Summerset Isles

Skyrim Collection The Magically Hip REDUX test: Skyclimb and other mechanics

A huntress life with Disnel -No ENB- WeReLite Reshade 2 edit

The Magically Hip REDUX BETA

Not all stories start and end with an invincible, victorious hero. Mana Vault - My goal for this collection is a highly modded game with realistic gameplay that can be enjoyed in a laptop. Installation difficulty: moderate to advanced.

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