The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Best Immersion Mods for Skyrim
By Leon S. Kennedy
Since my first guide covering my favourite visual mods for Skyrim has been quite successful, I decided to make another guide. This time featuring my favourite mods for a far more immersive experience in Skyrim. I hope you enjoy! :D
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Frostfall & Campfire
Frostfall is a cold weather gameplay immersion mod using a sophisticated system to track your location, weather, time of day, worn clothing, and more, to determine your current condition, in a seamless and immersive way. Combined with the mod Campfire, it also features a large variety of craftable camping equipment, including craftable torches. It is highly customizable, and very compatible with most other mods, including Real Shelter, Climates of Tamriel, Wet and Cold, worn cloaks, food, timescale, lighting, werewolf, and vampire mods: Frostfall [www.nexusmods.com] & Campfire [www.nexusmods.com]
Wet and Cold
This mod adds a multitude of weather dependent effects that truly immerse you within the game. Visible drips of rain, moisture breathing out of peoples’ and animals’ faces in frigid cold, snow accumulating on creatures and structures and a lot more. This mod interacts marvelously with a lot of other Immersion mods. Combined with the following mod Cloaks of Skyrim, you’ll see NPCs bringing leather cloaks in the rain and thicker cloaks in the snow: Wet and Cold [www.nexusmods.com]
Cloaks of Skyrim
This mod adds almost 100 new styles of cloaks to the world of Skyrim, via crafting, levelled-lists, and static loot with the aim of providing some variety and flavour to the world, as well as the chance to wear a stylish cloak and quite literally keep the cold out. You will see NPCs around Skyrim wearing various cloaks, and there are unique and rare variations to stumble across in your travels: Cloaks of Skyrim [www.nexusmods.com]
Realistic Needs and Diseases
This mod is an overhaul for diseases, food, water, inebriation, potions, sleep and camping. The way it balances gameplay difficulty and realism is frankly amazing. You now have to take care of what you eat, drink water regularly, and set up bed-rolls or start a camp to get some sleep. Alcohol has some interesting effects and the tradeoff is harsher than in the vanilla game – but so much more interesting: Realistic Needs and Diseases [www.nexusmods.com]
Hunterborn
Hunterborn changes the simple routine of kill-and-loot on animals into something more immersive and offers more in-depth for the actual process of dressing down a kill, skinning it for its pelt, taking material from it for alchemy, and finally butchering its meat - based on the animal's weight, not just a single cut of venison: Hunterborn [www.nexusmods.com]
Immersive Patrols
This mod adds fully functional, scheduled patrols of almost every major faction across all DLCs, including Stormcloaks, Thalmor, Imperials, Dawnguard, Travelers, Merchants, Bandits, Skaal, Redoran, Reavers and Rieklings without cluttering the world, and also includes Warzones like battles with fort capture behavior: Immersive Patrols [www.nexusmods.com]
Organized Bandits in Skyrim
This mod adds new varieties of bandits to the various bandit strongholds throughout the game world without sacrificing performance. Each of these bandits are separated into many different types that makes every encounter with bandits both challenging and fun. All bandits are balanced to have both strengths that players must overcome and weaknesses that players can exploit. Through the Book of Bandits, a new book also distributed throughout the world, the mod will give you a basic lore friendly-ish look into the bandits and the reason why they are working together: Organized Bandits in Skyrim [www.nexusmods.com]
Equipping Overhaul
Equipping Overhaul is a complete overhaul on Skyrim's system of swapping, equipping, and dropping items. Complete with a MCM menu, all features can be reconfigured (or even disabled) to your liking! The mod can be broken down into four major features: Dual Sheaths, Geared Up, Realistic Unequip, and Lit Torches: Equipping Overhaul [www.nexusmods.com]
Real Shelter
Real Shelter simply prevents rain and snow from ghosting through solid objects: Real Shelter [www.nexusmods.com]
Footprints
This mod simply adds footprints to the player, NPCs, and creatures: Footprints [www.nexusmods.com]
Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim
Wintersun adds religion and worship. Prayer, worship at shrines and adherence to the tenets of your deity strengthens your bond with the deity and eventually grants divine powers. In addition to the divines and daedric princes, the mod adds many other deities from Elder Scrolls lore with their own shrines: Download[www.nexusmods.com]
Sounds of Skyrim
Last but not least, this mod (split in three parts) adds around 460+ sound effects to the game world, affecting almost every cell and region in the game in order to provide more immersive sounds: Civilization [www.nexusmods.com], The Dungeons [www.nexusmods.com] and The Wilds [www.nexusmods.com]
17 Comments
Heimskr 26 Sep, 2020 @ 11:39pm 
Pretty good list, I am especially a fan of Wintersun. I've never felt closer to Talos.
Leon S. Kennedy  [author] 11 Jun, 2020 @ 6:57am 
Fixed :)
svgoerks 29 May, 2020 @ 6:04pm 
You should add wintersun. It completely redos religion.
Leon S. Kennedy  [author] 28 Apr, 2020 @ 8:38am 
Thanks mate!
Gak Spackle 27 Apr, 2020 @ 10:32pm 
Great list! :whiterun:
Mr Saraf 21 Apr, 2020 @ 11:08pm 
Interesting mods, I'm already using Immersive Patrols, Wet and Cold. I might give others a shot :)
matteus47 19 Apr, 2020 @ 6:10pm 
nexus is not hard. you dont have to mess with copy and pasting files or anything. you download vortex for downloading and they appear in your data files. easy
Leon S. Kennedy  [author] 8 Feb, 2020 @ 9:34am 
You're welcome! <3
Bionicle Jackson 8 Feb, 2020 @ 9:32am 
I've never checked out the Equipping Overhaul until now ( use HDT Equipment) but I may have to give it a try next time around. Thanks for some quick n easy tips Minato.
BIG MF 21 Jan, 2020 @ 1:53am 
you forgot really useful dragons smh