With the exception of the Wrye Bash methods below, all the techniques described here require a good understanding of TES5Edit (or equivalents for other games including TES3Edit for Morrowind, TES4Edit for Oblivion, FO3Edit for Fallout 3, FNVEdit for Fallout New Vegas, FO4Edit for Fallout 4), and the record structures of plugins.

The techniques below are listed in order of increasing complexity. Some of these methods create or merge compatibility patches for multiple mods using a single esp plugin, thus reducing the need for multiple esp plugins to provide compatibility patches for various pairs of mods. There are multiple methods that can be used to merge all or portions of esp plugin files to allow large collections of plugins to fit inside the plugin limit of Bethesda games. This small guide outlines the primary methods for merging existing plugins and for creating plugins that merge conflict resolutions and content for multiple mods. While this may seem like a lot, most heavily modded games need more plugins than allowed with this limit. 1.4.3 Using ModGroups to Simplify Manual Conflict ResolutionĬreating New Plugins that Merge Multiple existing Plugins or Provide Conflict Resolution across Multiple Mods įor TES and Fallout Bethesda games, primarily Skyrimīethesda role playing games using the Gamebryo engine, including The Elder Scrolls games (TES4 and TES5) and Fallout games (Fallout 3, Fallout NV, and Fallout 4), have a limit of 255 plugins (roughly 140 for Fallout New Vegas).1.4.2 Guide to make a patch for solving conflicts.1.4.1.1 An Example of Using Copy as Override and Drag and Drop to Change a Subrecord for a Patch Plugin.1.4.1 Manually merging plugins with TES5Edit.1.4 Manual Merging of Mods with Conflicts.1.3.2 Wrye Bash for TES games and Wrye Flash for Fallout games.1.3.1 Automatic Merging by the Skyrim Executable.1.3 Automatic Merging of Plugins that can have Conflicts.

1.2.3 Using LOOT (Load Order Optimization) to maintain proper load order.

1.2.1 Automatic Merging of Multiple plugins with Merge Plugins.

1 Creating New Plugins that Merge Multiple existing Plugins or Provide Conflict Resolution across Multiple Mods.

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