Arboreum - Verdant Cities and Settlements - Nature of the Wild Lands

⭐ ⭐ (189 endorsements) 📥 47,614 downloads 📌 v6.4 📅 1/7/2026
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By Mharlek1 · Cities, Towns, Villages, and Hamlets

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods 📅 Updated: 9/8/2026 📅 Created: 1/7/2026
⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
1🛠️ SKSE64 — Skyrim Script Extender 64 Download ↗
2🔧 USSEP — Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch Download ↗
3🖥️ SkyUI — SkyUI (MCM framework) Download ↗
4🧩 Address Library — Address Library for SKSE Plugins Download ↗
5🔧 SSE Engine Fixes — SSE Engine Fixes Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 0.4% endorsement rate
  • ✅ Updated 19 days after the latest game patch — actively maintained
  • 🏆 #1 of 30 Cities, Towns, Villages, and Hamlets mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

A visual feast of trees, light and atmosphere through Skyrim's inhabited places

Arboreum places trees for the pleasure of moving through them.

Using the beautiful assets of Nature of the Wild Lands, cities and settlements are individually composed through trees, open space, light and depth.

Trees frame streets and architecture, open and close views, and change the atmosphere as you move through each place.

This is not an attempt to turn Skyrim's settlements into forests. Empty spaces are as important as planted ones. The intention is an uncluttered landscape where trees have presence, architecture has room to breathe, and each place develops its own character.

Whiterun is spacious and seasonal. Markarth grows among rock and root. Riften is leafy and vertical. Windhelm remains sparse and cold. Solitude opens into something more garden-like and placid. Smaller settlements follow their landscape and regional character.

The assets are Nature of the Wild Lands. The composition is Arboreum.

WHAT IT COVERS

Major cities · Towns and villages · Orc strongholds · Optional outskirts · Vanilla Skyrim · Dedicated versions and combinations for supported city overhauls

Mod requirements

  • []Nature of the Wild Lands[/]

    Seasons of Skyrim and Nature of the Wild Lands Animations are optional and recommended.

    Installation

    Run the installer, it has auto-detection.

    You do not need city mods to use this.

    Every major city is optional.

    That's all you need to read to use Arboreum

    The Places
    MODDED CITIES & COMBINATIONS
    Arboreum includes adjusted and dedicated versions for a large range of city and settlement overhauls. Some require only minor placement changes; others differ more substantially from the vanilla-city version.
    Results naturally vary with the combination of city mods you use.

    Whiterun

    Description: sober streets enclosed with large trees offers travellers a quite reprieve while ancient and familiar green give way to the cosiness of a seasonal color feast. It never ages.

    • []Capital Whiterun[/]

      []Fortified Whiterun[/]

      []Dawn of Skyrim [/]

      []JK Skyrim[/]

      Compatible with:

      Breezehome mods, shops mods, npc house mods, Jorrvaskr mods.

      Markarth

      Description: Rocks and roots instill in this vertical overgrown look a lush city with a sub-tropical twist

      • []JK Skyrim[/]

        []Dawn of Skyrim[/]

        []completely unwarranted and optional pool next to Vlindrell Hall and jacuzzi´s under the guard tower, both with npcs that have auto undress scripts into undies[/]

        Compatible with:

        City of Stone, Sky City, City entrances, outskirts, GG´s Markarth, etc.

        There are more mods but I cannot accomodate time

        Riften

        Description: An abundance of leaves and tall slim trunked trees swing along the beaten paths, while rested bliss leads to the Palace (Thieves Guild).

        • []JKs Skyrim[/]

          []Dawn of Skyrim[/]

          []City of Crossed Daggers[/]

          Compatible with: temple and shops mods, honeyside mods, orphanage mods, palaces

          Windhelm

          Description: Cold and dark-themed oriented.

          • []Capital Windhelm Expansion[/]

            []JKs Skyrim[/]

            []Dawn of Skyrim[/]

            Compatible with: anything else maybe

            Solitude

            Description: Garden-like and with wide open areas, each shape and space is cared for as they give way to the cobblestone streets a placid and welcoming return

            []Grand Solitude[/]

            []JKs Skyrim[/]

            []Redbags Solitude[/]

            []Dawn of Skyrim[/]

            [*][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedit

📊 Mod Details

Game
Skyrim Mods
Author
Mharlek1
Version
6.4
Downloads
47,614
Endorsements
189
Category
Cities, Towns, Villages, and Hamlets
Created
1/7/2026
Updated
9/8/2026

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