Some Patches For Skyrim Cut Content Restoration

I realise the number of patches available these days can be overwhelming at times. It's a lot to install, and can be a pain sorting them, especially when the order they are loaded in can be key. Despite that I was pleased to see how many were available these days, because they save me time. I was also pleased to see more obscure or specific ones were now been released, many of which come from patches people have made whilst patching their own game.

So I've decided to release some I made for mine. When I patch my mod lists, I normally create patches which cover a whole category, such as Animal, and Creature patch, and forward all edits made by those type of mods into it. This time, I decided to make individual patches for any conflicts between specific mods. It ended up totalling around 700 patches, all of which were in addition to the patches currently available on the Nexus.

I'm not going to release them all, just ones I think others will find useful. Many are fairly minor, and not using them won't break your game, but many have more significance. Some might fix a water seam, the position of some furniture, or combine edits to an NPC made by several mods.

Some are load order based, because any mod with an ESM, ESL or ESP flagged as an ESM will be loaded first, and any mod which includes the same record even in its vanilla form, will remove the edits made by the ESM. Many patch persistent flags, or location records. Some are patches for patches.

In the end of the day it's up to you how much effort you want to put in to modding your game. I do think that some issues people encounter are caused by these smaller conflicts. I started patching my games this way several years ago now, and since i have, my games have been incredibly stable, with all mods working as they should.

I once came across someone saying they didn't use Lux because of all the patches needed for it. They even said they used another lighting mod because it doesn't require as many, but then someone pointed out that the lighting mod they had chosen does need that many patches, they just don't exist.

I was on the fence if to make the change from Cutting Room Floor to Cut Content Restoration. I wanted to because CRF has always conflicted to some extent with other mods I use, mainly with Nav Mesh records, and although not game breaking, it could look messy at times in Xedit.

It was a risk, because I installed it early on, and then said no to all the CRF patches offered by other mods, and it would have been a major pain to backtrack, and find them again if I went back to it later. When I finally checked it in Xedit against my entire load order, I was so happy to see how few conflicts it caused. It h