Better Wait Menu
⚪ Last updated 2016⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.8% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #6 of 82 User Interface mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Better Wait Menu Stop wasting time waiting.
Features:
Two all-new key listeners: left and right movement keys increase/decrease wait duration by 12 hours per press. Maximum wait duration increased to 99 hours. No more slow, hourly 'ticks' of time while waiting. Or choose to leave the ticks in - both options provided in the Files section. Optional console command to enable waiting anywhere.
All too often I find myself staring at a timer ticking down the hours so that I can get out of the night and back into the day. Too many times I've rolled up on my scroll wheel to get the timer up to the right number of hours.
This mod adds keypress listeners for the left and right movement keys (that's A and D for keyboard users if you're at the default) and they modify the wait duration by 12 hours at a time! The amount of time you can wait has also been increased to a maximum of 99 hours instead of 24.
No plugins / ESP required - this is just a drop-in interface file.
Please be assured that this mod does not modify timescale to remove the hourly ticks. It's a patch to the wait menu. NPC locations will update correctly.
Unfortunately I don't have any gamepads but they should work the same way - the listeners are bound to the left and right movement actions and not to hardcoded keys. They should respect whatever keybinds you have configured! If you use this mod with a controller please let me know how it works out in the comments section!
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Better Wait Menu adds two new key listeners so you can adjust wait duration by 12-hour increments using left/right keys, increases the maximum wait to 99 hours, and removes the slow hourly ticks. A quality-of-life UI mod for Skyrim players who want faster, more flexible waiting.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge time-saver for waiting in Skyrim (130k downloads, 5k endorsements).
- Simple, intuitive controls—no menu digging, just arrow keys.
- 99-hour cap means you can skip multiple days in one go.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in 2016—may not be compatible with the latest Skyrim versions or Special Edition.
- No mention of compatibility with other UI mods or SkyUI, so conflicts possible.
- Only adjusts wait duration—no other UI improvements.
For Skyrim players who hate sitting through the wait menu's slow ticking and want to skip time faster. Perfect for survival-mode players or anyone who frequently waits for shops to open or quests to progress. Skip if you're on Special Edition or want a full UI overhaul—this is a tiny, focused tweak.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, install this mod through the manager to keep your load order clean.
- Test the left/right keys in the wait menu—they work only when the wait menu is open, not in the game world.
- Since the mod is from 2016, check if you're on Skyrim Classic (Oldrim) before installing; it may not work on Special Edition.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- registrator2000
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 130,826
- Endorsements
- 4,967
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 2/7/2016
- Updated
- 2/4/2016
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