Frostwalker - SKSE Plugin
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🔍 Analysis
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📋 About This Mod
Mod Description
Frostwalker lets frost spells freeze the surface of water. ❄️🌊
Whether you're crossing a river, creating temporary cover, or simply leaving frozen footprints across a lake, Frostwalker adds a new layer of immersion to frost magic.
Generated ice uses Skyrim's built-in Hazard system rather than persistent placed objects. Hazards have a predefined lifetime and are automatically cleaned up by the game, allowing Frostwalker to generate large numbers of ice floes without permanently bloating save files.
🧊 Additional Features
Actors with the "Frostwalker_FrostWalk_Keyword"
automatically freeze water beneath their feet as they move.
This allows custom creatures, NPCs or followers to naturally walk across water.
For cloak-style abilities, use:
Frostwalker_FrostCloak_Keyword
Fire Melts Ice
Heat naturally melts ice.
Actors carrying the Frostwalker_FireWalk_Keyword melt nearby ice significantly faster while walking.
Likewise, cloak effects using
Frostwalker_FireCloak_Keyword
will rapidly melt surrounding ice, allowing fire-based creatures and spells to counter frozen terrain.
Included SPID & KID configuration includes vanilla Flame and Frost Cloaks, Fire and Frost Atronachs.
Honi the Frost Atronach Cat, Frost Coursers, Frost Lord and More Ancient Frost Atronachs by MihailMods - Frost Walk
Igni the Fire Atronach Cat, Fire Golem and Flame Turmoil by MihailMods - Fire Walk (Melt Ice around)
❄️ Technical Details 🌊
NPC Can walk on the ice as well!
Compatibility
Frostwalker is a SKSE plugin that lets frost spells freeze water surfaces, creating temporary ice floes you can walk across. It uses Skyrim's Hazard system for dynamic, save-friendly ice generation, and includes SPID/KID configs for frost-walking creatures and fire-melting mechanics. Ideal for players wanting immersive frost magic interactions.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Clever use of the Hazard system means no permanent world edits and no save bloat—you can spam ice without wrecking your game.
- The SPID/KID configs are a godsend for creature mods—your frost atronachs and Mihail's frost beasts actually walk on water now.
- Fire melting ice is a nice touch that makes fire spells feel like a real counter to your frozen paths.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires SKSE and likely Address Library, so if you're not on the latest Skyrim version or don't have SKSE set up, you're out of luck.
- The ice is temporary by design—if you wanted permanent bridges or platforms, this isn't it.
- Potential conflicts with other mods that alter water physics or the Hazard system, so test with your load order.
For Skyrim players who love frost magic and want a dynamic, immersive way to cross water without cheaty console commands. Also perfect for modders who want frost-walking creatures or followers. Skip if you're looking for permanent terrain changes or if you don't use SKSE.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have SKSE installed and launch the game through SKSE's loader, not the vanilla launcher, or the plugin won't activate.
- If you use a mod manager like MO2 or Vortex, let it handle the plugin installation and check that the SPID/KID configs are being loaded—you might need to rebuild your mod list if they don't apply.
- Test the ice on a small pond first to see how the melting timer feels; you can adjust spell effects or keywords in xEdit if you want longer-lasting ice.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- RavenKZP
- Version
- 2.1
- Downloads
- 7,466
- Endorsements
- 228
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 7/7/2026
- Updated
- 7/25/2026
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