Essential Favorites
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.4% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #35 of 113 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
SKSE plugin that prevents favorited items from being sold, crafted, disarmed, disenchanted, or dropped.
Essential Favorites is an SKSE plugin for Skyrim that stops you from accidentally selling, crafting, disarming, disenchanting, or dropping items you've marked as favorites. It's a must-have quality-of-life tool for any player who hoards gear, with nearly 10k endorsements and 2.6 million downloads.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust: 9,678 endorsements and 2.6 million downloads prove it's a staple.
- Saves you from heartbreak when you accidentally sell your Daedric artifact or disenchant your favorite enchanted sword.
- Zero hassle: install and forget—it just works in the background.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires SKSE, so you'll need to set that up first if you haven't already.
- Only works for items you've favorited—if you forget to favorite something, it's still fair game.
- No in-game configuration to tweak behavior; it's all-or-nothing.
For Skyrim players who've ever rage-quit after selling their best weapon or accidentally breaking down a unique item. If you're a hoarder or just want peace of mind, this is essential. Skip if you never use the favorites system or play without SKSE.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you install SKSE first and launch the game through skse_loader.exe, not the default launcher.
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 to install the plugin—it'll handle file placement automatically.
- After installing, favorite your most precious items in-game to protect them from accidental loss.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- powerofthree
- Version
- 2.4.1
- Downloads
- 2,561,893
- Endorsements
- 9,678
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 12/2/2020
- Updated
- 7/12/2026
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