LOOT - Load Order Optimisation Tool

Introduction

LOOT is a plugin load order optimiser for Starfield, TES III: Morrowind, TES IV: Oblivion, TES IV: Oblivion Remastered, Nehrim: At Fate’s Edge, TES V: Skyrim, Enderal: Forgotten Stories, TES V: Skyrim Special Edition, TES V: Skyrim VR, Enderal: Forgotten Stories (Special Edition), Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 4 VR. It is designed to assist mod users in avoiding detrimental conflicts, by automatically calculating a load order that satisfies all plugin dependencies and maximises each plugin's impact on the user's game.

LOOT also provides some load order error checking, including checks for requirements, incompatibilities and cyclic dependencies. In addition, it provides a large number of plugin-specific usage notes, bug warnings and Bash Tag suggestions for Wrye Bash.

While LOOT is able to calculate correct load order positions for the vast majority of plugins using only their content, it cannot do so for all plugins. As such, LOOT provides a mechanism for supplying additional plugin metadata so that it may sort them correctly. An online masterlist is provided to supply metadata for many plugins that need it, while users can make their own metadata additions, which are saved in their userlist.

LOOT is intended to make using mods easier, and mod users should still possess a working knowledge of mod load ordering.

See Introduction To Load Orders for a general overview and LOOT’s Sorting Algorithm for an in-depth article on how LOOT operates.

Documentation

To learn more about LOOT, please read it's documentation over at Read The Docs:

- Application Documentation

- API Documentation

LOOT's official version as well as all accompanying files can be downloaded from it's official website or from this Nexus page, though the Nexus will exclusively provide the Installer executable, which is per se everything you need. In case you prefer preconfigured . 7z archives over Installer executables, please head over to LOOT's official website.

Unofficial developer builds of LOOT can be accessed as GitHub Actions artifacts from our LOOT repository.

Installation & Uninstallation

LOOT requires a 64-bit version of Windows 10 (1809) or later.

LOOT can be installed either using its automated installer or manually from a release archive. If you are using the installer, just run it and follow the wizard steps. If installing manually, extract the downloaded archive to a location of your choice.

LOOT requires the MSVC 2022 x64 redistributable to be installed.

The installer automatically downloads and installs the redistributable if you don’t already have them installed, but if you use the release archive then you will need to do so manually.

If LOOT was installed using the installer, then use the uninstaller linked to in the Start Menu to uninstall LOOT. If LOOT was installed manually:

• [] Delete the files you extracted from the location you chose.

  [] Delete the LOOT folder in your local application data folder, which can be accessed by entering %LOCALAPPDATA% into Windows' File Explorer.

  LOOT requires a 64-bit version of Linux.

  LOOT can be installed as a Flatpak application or from a release archive. The Flatpak approach is recommended over using a release archive as the latter does not include any third-party dependencies, which must be installed separately.

  For detailed instructions please read this section of our documentation.

  Contributing & Support

  LOOT is very much a community project, and contributions from its users are very welcome, whether they be metadata, translations, code or anything else. The best way to contribute is to [url=http://loot.github.io/docs/con