FUS VS wabbajack

I used Wabbajack to install FUS. Needed to pay 5 bucks for a Nexus premium membership, but the modpack works perfectly. I think the Nexus premium is optional if you're okay with babysitting the installation and manually queueing up the next mod.

FUS page: https://github.com/Kvitekvist/FUS

the install guide on the nexus pages/the github pages for the FUS modlist https://github.com/Kvitekvist/FUS were actually more straightforward than any video tutorial I tried watching. Theres plenty of pages on how to setup a clean install of of skyrim and how to set up and where to install wabbajack. And then its just a one click install for any premade list of mods. Idk, not having to pause a video and go back if you missed something having the steps to scroll up and down on a page was simpler for me.

Step 1: Start with a Wabbajack Modlist. I recommend FUS.

I second this - check out the FUS "modpack" - lots of VR-specific fixes and improvements, with optional Visual & Gameplay improvements. Really worth it. There's an install guide at the above link!

I'm building upon the FUS Wabbajack modlist by adding expansions and LotD, and I've reached the point of needing to merge plugins. I've gotten zMerge working, and I'm following Lexy's merging practices, but I'm stuck on the last step where you use merge plugins hide to disable/hide the plugins you've merged.

Use The Fus Modpack Which can be installed via Wabbajack which is a modpack auto installer.

Like I said I am completely new to modding anything let alone Skyrim VR but this mod list works great out of the box, I leave it on the second profile (FUS ROH) and it pretty much just works. Hope this helps 🤷🏼‍♂️ Here’s the link FUS If you search “FUS mod list” in YouTube you’ll get a ton of tutorials

As far as I know, downloading and installing each mod is the main method for the modding-openmw lists.

There is a tool to try to automate game modlist installs called Wabbajack [1]. It was briefly discussed on the openmw forums [2]. I'm not sure if anyone has tried further to get the modding-openmw lists working with it. I have never used Wabbajack, so I don't know too much other than it exists. It still seems to have extra requirements according to the post, including a premium NexusMods account if you don't want to manually download everything.

Just as I typed all the above I saw a mention of portmod [3] in the modding-openmw guide about mod managers. Seems it's like Gentoo's portage, but for game mods. I see it has some meta packages for modding-openmw in their ebuild-like repository [4], but I don't think any of the big lists have been updated in awhile. Also, there again seems to be issues with it auto downloading from NexusMods mentioned in the issue tracker. Nevertheless, it looks to be an interesting project.

[1] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack

[2] https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=7581

[3] https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod

[4] https://portmod.gitlab.io/openmw-mods/meta-momw/

There haven't been a need to mess around with mod load order since at least 2019.

https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/releases/tag/3.0.5.0 download for 3.0.5.0

Wabbajack is the name of an installer to simplify installing mods, in these days of a modded skyrim install having potentially hundreds of mods totalling more gigs than the entire primary game install.

All previous releases are readily available on the Wabbajack Github Releases page: https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/releases

To do that: download https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/releases/download/2.5.3.28/2.5.3.28.zip. Unzip to a folder called 2.5.3.28 inside your directory where wabbjack.exe is located. Run 2.5.3.28\wabbajack.exe

You can also check out Wabbajack which is used with this modding guide. This should hopefully set you on the right path. Pre-Skyrim modding typically uses 3rd party modding software that is more in-depth and configurable than MCM to the detriment of being accessible to those less inclined to spend time setting up mods.