Common Clothes and Armors
⚪ Last updated 2022⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.5% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #24 of 129 Armour mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
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Common Clothes and Armors is a combined and continued version of Common Clothes and Brigandage. It features 51 new armors and 80 new clothes, created by Franklin Zunge. The clothes are worn by the common people of Skyrim: Farmers, merchants, miners, patrons, workers and some of the wealthier citizens. They can also be bought at Radiant Raiment. The armors are worn by bandits. Since all new armors cover the whole body, half-naked bandits chilling in the cold climate of Skyrim are almost completely eliminated. The armors can be improved at a workbench, but they cannot be crafted or bought.
The textures have resolution up to 2k. If that's too much for your system, an alternative version with 1k textures is also available. Many of the armors reuse vanilla assets and hence benefit from retextures such as RUSTIC CLOTHING.
Improvements over the original mod
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[]All armors have correct keywords assigned. They're now properly affected by perks and tempering.
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]Distribution has been reworked from scratch. A lot of errors have been fixed such as spawning multiple armor sets on NPCs, flooding leveled lists for enchanted robes with common robes or wrong level requirements for armors. More NPCs have access to a greater variety of clothes than before. Bandits have access to all new armors. Citizens no longer wear the new armors because it often doesn't fit them.[]Armor rating, weight and value of all items have been carefully rebalanced, taking both realism and balance into account. This adresses some rather severe imbalances such as Scrounged Dwemer Cuirass having higher base armor rating than Ebony Armor. Balance is based on WACCF, but there shouldn't be any serious inconsistencies if you don't use the mod.
[]Tempering recipes require a single material like all other tempering recipes in the base game.
[]Armors have more descriptive and consistent names. Each armor has a unique name.
[]Clothes have more descriptive and consistent names and no longer contain numbers. The names are not unique. A lot of them are simply called Common Clothes or Common Robes.
[]Instead of editing guard dialogue, the armors use SPIKE keywords. This allows guards to comment on the armors if Guard Dialogue Overhaul is installed.
[]Armors and clothes have appropriate Warmth and Coverage ratings if Frostfall or Survival Mode (Creation Club) is installed.
[]Inventory and ground models better match the actual items.
[]Some female models are swapped to better match their male counterpart.
[]Unused male mesh for Common Robes 10 has been restored.
[]Rotation of leathergrd.nif, blackrobegnd.nif, collegrobegnd.nif, greenrobegnd.nif, greyrobegnd.nif, lightbrownrobegnd.nif and mageapprobesgnd.nif has been fixed.
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Adds over 130 new clothes and armors to the common people of Skyrim, giving NPCs more variety in their everyday attire. A popular cosmetic mod with over 10,000 endorsements and 2.2 million downloads, last updated in 2022.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community favorite — 10k endorsements and 2.2M downloads say it all.
- Adds a ton of variety to NPC outfits, so you won't see the same rags everywhere.
- Simple concept, but it makes Skyrim's world feel way more alive.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in 2022 — might have compatibility issues with the latest Skyrim patches.
- Purely cosmetic — if you want gameplay changes, this isn't it.
For Skyrim players who want more visual variety in the world, especially those who spend time in cities and towns. If you're tired of every NPC wearing the same generic clothes, this mod is for you. Skip if you're looking for gameplay overhauls — this is all about looks.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 to install and manage this mod easily.
- Check for compatibility patches if you use other mods that alter NPC outfits or leveled lists.
- Load order usually doesn't matter for simple cosmetic mods, but placing it after major overhauls can help.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Franklin Zunge and thetrader
- Version
- 2.0.0
- Downloads
- 2,160,414
- Endorsements
- 10,132
- Category
- Armour
- Created
- 11/17/2018
- Updated
- 2/21/2022
🔗 Required By 3 Mods
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