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Changelog (Month Day)

2025

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May 31

Safe Mid-game

Bug Fixes

  • Removed DEEJMASTER's Mini Mods Tweaks and Fixes, all of its fixes were merged in Skyrim Misc Bugfix Compilation >=1.2.

Gameplay

  • Added a new SMI SKSE - Skyrim Misc Bugfix Compilation Patch, made necessary by Skyrim Misc Bugfix Compilation >=1.2.

Animations

  • Removed Animated Interactions SKSE, it feels a bit out of the guide's scope. It also might be causing issues with NPCs opening doors.
  • Updated the DBF Pre-Generated Pandora Output to reflect the change above.
  • Removed the Pandora Skeleton and Draugr Hotfix, it's merged in Pandora >=2.7.0-beta.

May 25

Safe Mid-game

Tweaks

  • Added a missing mention of the To Your Face AE GOG file for GOG users.
  • Moved Immersive Equipment Displays and Simple Dual Sheath to the Animations section.

Animations

  • Added Weapon Styles - Draw-Sheathe animations for IED and its requirement, Open Animation Replacer - IED Conditions.
  • Updated the Pandora instructions to include enabling the new Weapon Styles (Extra Drawing Animations) patch during generation.
  • Updated the DBF Pre-Generated Pandora Output to reflect the change above.

Visuals

  • Removed the patches for DIAL, as it now uses SkyPatcher. The latter was added to the Extra Utilities section.

May 15

Safe Mid-game

Whole Guide

  • Added 2 new sections:
    • Extra Utilities, hosting all of the utilities you might need while following DBF Extended.
    • Animations, which also covers the use of Pandora (DBF users can just download the output).

Utilities

  • Added a step during the installation of Display Tweaks to block new loading screens from DynDOLOD.esp.

User Interface

  • Made MCM Helper part of the SkyUI instructions.
  • Added the missing requirement for Show Follower Carry Weight, Rogue's Gallery. This is now part of the new Extra Utilities section.

Tweaks

  • Added the missing XPMSSE Left Hand Sheath Rotation Fix when using Simple Dual Sheath.
  • Added the following mods:
    • Immersive Equipment Displays, which renders the file that was missing for SDS redundant (added a note about this for users who skip IED).
    • Nifty AI Tweaks AIO - SSE

Content

  • Added Skyrim Cut Content Restoration.

Visuals

  • Replaced Simple Lighting Overhaul with Dynamic Interior Ambient Lighting (DIAL), along with the 2 required patches:
    • DIAL - USSEP Patch
    • DIAL - Misc Bugfix Compilation Patch

Resources

  • Added a link to Darkfox127's series of tutorials.
  • Added a guide on grass cache and grass LOD.

May 12

NOT Safe Mid-game

Whole Guide

  • Added support for GOG.

Bug Fixes

  • Added the following mods:
    • DEEJMASTER's Mini Mods Tweaks and Fixes
    • Skyrim Misc Bugfix Compilation
    • Dragon Leveled List Fixes

User Interface

  • Added QuickLoot IE - A QuickLoot EE Fork and its requirement, PapyrusUtil SE. Also added the QuickLoot IE - Inventory style retexture for it.

Tweaks

  • Added Better Third Person Selection - BTPS and its requirement, JContainers.

Visuals

  • Added No Camera Attached Smoke or Fog for users of CS Particle Patch, improving performance.
  • Added a patch between Simple Lighting Overhaul and the newly added Skyrim Misc Bugfix Compilation.

Extended Finish

  • Documented the changes applied by the DBF CS configuration.
  • Added a note about switching to DLAA if you have an RTX GPU, improving performance.

LOD Guide

  • Updated the Whiterun comparison images and added one to showcase a child worldspace (from Dragonsreach).
  • Regenerated the DBF Pre-Generated Terrain LOD, it used LOD32 512 resolutions instead of 256. You don't need to do reinstall the file, as it changed almost nothing in practice (reason why we just use the 256 default).
  • Switched from DynDOLOD DLL SE to NG, and added steps to clean the base game plugins so that the large refs workaround bug in DynDOLOD can be used, as it was still present with the previous setup.
  • Updated DynDOLOD settings for greater detail.
  • Updated the DBF Pre-Generated Object LOD to reflect the 2 changes above.

May 10

Utilities

  • Added steps during the Display Tweaks configuration to switch FramerateLimitMode to 1 for VRR users, this gives better framepacing.

LOD Guide

  • Added a missing step to disable the Temp Snow Replacement after terrain LOD generation, don't forget this!

ESL Guide

  • Mentioned the 2 known bugs with ESL cells.

May 9

Whole Guide

  • Release.