Insects Begone - Modularly Removing Spiders and Chaurus

UPDATE 2/9/25

Hey all, I made this mod in college and I'm so glad that so many people have gotten great use of it over the years and gotten to enjoy the game with it. Skyrim Special Edition came out after I had already started my career and my understanding is that when I 'ported' it to SE I didn't exactly do it correctly, and currently my understanding is some users have issues with crashes with this mod in SE.

I started a new playthrough after years and I don't personally suffer from insectophobia anymore to the point where I need this mod, and I'm busy with my career. Anyone is free to take the work that I've done here and make an alternative or improvements, and if you have a good one or there already is a good one feel free to DM it to me and I can point users to your work.

Making this mod and helping people enjoy this game was a huge source of pride for me, and despite all of the other stuff I've done since, I still look back on this as something that I'm happy I did.

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UPDATE 11/16

Console versions are buggy. Both Xbox versions work fine, but appear to result in occasional crashing. The PS4 Spider version dosen't work at all, but the Chaurus version does.

I can't smooth this out now because I'm swamped with classes. I plan on trying to update/fix them over the winter. It will take awhile because I have no way to isolate what the issue is, so the only way for me to fix it is having people with both consoles doing trial and error until it stops crashing.

If some of you can test everything besides the PS4 Spider version, which I know will crash, to let me know of any issues I'd appreciate it.

The links are below. Expect instability until I can sort it out.

Xbox One - Spider Replacer (Works, Likely Causes Crashes)

Xbox One - Chaurus Replacer (Works, maybe causes crashes?)

PS4 - Spider Replacer (Dosen't work at all, will cause game to crash on launch)

PS4 - Chaurus Replacer (works, possibly causes crashes?)

DESCRIPTION

This is something that has been needed for a long time. There are a variety of mods that attempt to address the problems of those with Arachnophobia and Insect Phobias, and this mod is built off of them, but none of them support Dawnguard and all of them have little quirks that can weird someone out and make the game feel unnatural and strange.

This mod takes no half measures, it takes a 'Burn the ground and salt the earth' approach to Chaurus and Spiders in Skyrim and provides support for Dawnguard and a Variety of M