

It supports all the games 圎dit supports and offers similar features. No harassment or insulting people.Other modding chat rooms. The Basics of Mod Creation! Other modding chat rooms General Rules Be Respectful We have worked hard to cultivate a positive environment here and it takes a community effort. Everything you need to know about the Creation Kit! Community Discussions based around various themes. Essential Mods A community curated list of 'essential mods. Regarding Skyrim Special Edition Guides and Resources List A comprehensive list of many guides and resources covering a wide variety of topics. If you want to know the main advantages and disadvantages of SSE so you can decide what to play, here they are. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. Want to join? Log in or sign up in seconds. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. It seems like the Merge option would do effectively the same thing, I'm just overly paranoid. This makes the mod list longer than it could be, but gives you extra control and you can make sure the patched files are being applied properly on the "Data" tab.

I just started using MO recently, but based on how MO works with its virtual filesystem the way that seemed to make the most sense to me was to install patches as separate mods with different names from the main mod and then making sure the patch was higher priority in the mod list, not load order so the patch files overwrite the duplicates from the original mod. Read the mod description, it might give you some hints on what to do. Replacing totaly removes the previous mod and installs the new one where the old one used to be, while merge doesn't touch the old mod and just ads the difference between the old and the new. It very much depends on the mod in question. Merge will put the patch over the original mod, only overwriting files that need to be overwritten. Replace would delete the original mod and totally replace it with just the patch, and that's probably not what you want. If I'm applying a mod patch, shold I merge or not? Usually merge.

I see a lot of mods asking whether to merge or overwrite. Could someone explain to me the mechanics of this.
