
While you can use all of them without any conflicts with other mods, I recommend leaving out said 2 mods for several reasons. We'll be using only 8, leaving both the infamous Horse Armor and Thieves Den alone. There are a total of 10 official DLCs that have been made for Oblivion. How did I get the game not on Steam? That's a secret.

This usually only happens with certain mods, none of which are in my guide as far as I know, but if you're adamant on using Steam then make sure to disable the overlay for Oblivion in particular.

I personally recommend NOT purchasing the game on Steam, simply because the Steam overlay can range from annoyingly interfering with, to catastrophically wrecking, some aspects of the game. It's not difficult to get a copy of Oblivion nowadays, but what you want is the " Game of the Year Edition Deluxe ", which contains all released DLCs and Expansions for the game. We will be enhancing gameplay, graphics, quests, immersion, stability, and much, much more - all while maintaining lore-friendliness throughout the process. It took many hours of troubleshooting and reading comments and bug reports to finally land on a serviceable installation order, so only ignore it at your own risk.Īs with every other game guide on my site, know that this is a comprehensive modding guide, meaning that we will address nearly every category of content with as many mods as necessary, while minimizing hiccups and conflicts.

The main reason for this is due to the fact that Oblivion mods must be installed in order so that certain aspects of them overwrite each other in ways that do not break the game and mods entirely, hence the numbered steps, if you wish for everything to play nicely together. I would like to start by saying that users wishing to mod Oblivion must be very careful, as it is a fickle beast and certainly much harder to mod than Skyrim and most other Bethesda games. Also, please note that while this is definitely a guide that can be used by anyone, including modding beginners, you may be spoiled on most aspects of the game if you've never played it before. While I don't mind getting suggestions on things to addI won't pay much attention to being offered 'alternatives' that I have thoroughly researched, tested, and found to be much worse than what I use. Also, the 69 steps were funny four years ago, but they became more of an arbitrary limitation as time marched on.īefore you go any further, know that I have selected all of my mods very meticulously. While I won't quite rebuild the guide from the ground up, there are definitely enough new additions and changes to warrant me officially discontinuing the old one.

My old modding guide for Oblivion may be found herebut this page is a new and improved version!
