Simple Bandit Camps - New Bandit Camps and Dungeons
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.5% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #4 of 7 Dungeons mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
DESCRIPTION
Simple Bandit Camps is a bandit dungeon pack aimed at adding early game friendly dungeons to holds that lacked good starting options, such as The Reach, Hjaalmarch, Winterhold, and The Pale.
My goal is to create vanilla friendly dungeons, ones that fit in with the pre-established way the base game goes about dungeon design.
Currently, Simple Bandit Camps adds 7 new dungeons to the Skyrim mainland:
- Brittle-Brine Hideout (The Pale)
- Hellivuud (The Pale)
- Bleakcoast Lookout (Winterhold)
- Karth River Refuge (The Reach)
- Hollow-Horn Cave (The Reach)
- Reachslope Mine (The Reach)
- Bitterroot Grotto (Hjaalmarch)
All locations contain the proper keywords and will be used by the radiant quest system, as well as the vanilla bounty quest system.
All interior cells have been given full lighting/navmesh and roombounds/portal markers. All dungeons were also built with base game assets.
The download includes a read-me file that details bandit camp locations and COC commands to reach them. Avoid reading it if you'd rather stumble on the bandit camps naturally.
LOAD ORDER AND COMPATIBILITY
Simple Bandit Camps may conflict with anything that edits the same exterior cells it does, currently there are no known conflicts, but if any are pointed out I will see what I can do about patching them.
The mod uses vanilla LvlBandit actors, and the few named bosses also use vanilla templates, ensuring max compatibility with vanilla setups, as well as modded overhauls like Requiem The Roleplaying Overhaul, 3BFTweaks, or anything else that heavily edits NPCs/enemies.
Do note that Simple Bandit Camps requires Backported Extended ESL Support if you are using an older version of Skyrim that doesn't support the newest 1. 71 header version.
Simple Bandit Camps includes the following patches in its FOMOD:
ELFX/ELFX Shadows
Enhanced Lighting For ENB (ELE) - Refurbished
Bounty Quests Redone - NG
Legacy of the Dragonborn SSE
Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim
JK's Skyhaven Temple
Remiel - Custom Voiced Dwemer Specialist and Companion
Requiem - 3Tweaks (3BFTweaks)
Imperial Castles of Skyrim
Nature of the Wild Lands
Simple Bandit Camps is confirmed compatible with these other bandit dungeon mods:
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Skyrim Bandit Expansion
Simple Bandit Camps adds early-game friendly bandit dungeons to Skyrim holds that lack good starting options, including The Reach, Hjaalmarch, Winterhold, and The Pale. With 295 endorsements and 61,625 downloads, it's a modestly popular dungeon pack for players seeking more early-game content.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid community backing with 295 endorsements and over 61k downloads.
- Fills a real gap—those northern holds are starved for early dungeons.
- Lightweight and straightforward: just adds camps, no complex systems.
⚠️ Cons
- Only covers four holds, so if you play elsewhere you won't see much new content.
- No mention of compatibility patches, so it might conflict with other mods that edit the same locations.
- Last updated in October 2025—could be outdated if you're on the latest Skyrim version.
For Skyrim players who want more early-game dungeons in the Reach, Hjaalmarch, Winterhold, and the Pale. If you're a completionist who's tired of the same old bandit caves, this adds variety. Skip if you're looking for high-level or quest-driven content—this is purely about low-level bandit camps.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Since it's a simple dungeon pack, just drop it into your mod manager and enable it—no patches needed.
- If you use other mods that alter those holds, check for conflicts in xEdit or load order.
- Visit the Reach early—that's where you'll notice the new camps most.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- GhoulSmasher
- Version
- 0.1.2
- Downloads
- 61,625
- Endorsements
- 295
- Category
- Dungeons
- Created
- 9/5/2024
- Updated
- 10/29/2025
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