The Phoenix Flavour - Release 3.2

What's new?

Disclaimer: Release 3.2 is fairly substantial so I am bound to have missed some changes and not everything is fully documented. Installing the guide from scratch is required.

• Added many new screenshots and replaced outdated ones.
• Many instructions were similarly added or updated.
• Links now directly lead to the mod page's file section.
• Vanilla artifacts overhauled with a combination of three different mods.
• Fully integrated the highly requested Interesting NPCs.
• Expanded the Customisation section with multiple new categories.
• Removed Cutting Room Floor. It is not worth the gazillion patches it requires.
• Added an automated patcher to fix bugs in the XPMSSE scripts.
• Replaced Container and Levelled List Fixes with our own, custom loot overhaul.
• Major new additions:
  • Adamant - A Perk Overhaul
  • AI Overhaul SSE
  • Morrowloot Miscellania - Hybrid Loot
  • Reliquary of Myth - Artifact Overhaul
  • Interesting NPCs (3DNPC)
  • All Geared Up Derivative

Setup

• 3.6: Split up instructions into two parts.
• 3.6.1: Changed instructions, we are now unpacking the Vanilla scripts as we will need them later.
• 4.2.1: Added Mod Order Fix section (correcting DLC mod order).
• 4.2.2: Added instructions for three small changes in the MO2 settings.
• 4.5.1: Added instructions to set the Default profile to use vanilla INIs and save games.
• 4.6.1: Updated instructions for the latest version of Deorder's MO2 plugins.
• 4.6.1: Re-added instructions to install Deorder's Sync Mod Order plugin since it appears to have been fixed.
• 4.6.2: Added instructions to change the hide type for Deorder's Hide Merged Plugins.
• 6.3.4: Removed Shadow Bias INI tweak.
• 6.3.6: Contrast can now be tweaked in the Visuals tab, instructions were changed accordingly.
• 7.1.3: Added instructions for the -DontCache argument to fix a bug.
• 8.4: Added section with instructions to revert the deletion of a navmesh in Update ESM.
• Moved the Mod Installation Instructions to Setup, Step 10.
• Moved "Step 5 - Skyrim Realistic Overhaul" from the Mod Installation section to the Setup as Step 9.

Mod Installation

• Removed Havok Fix (replaced with SSE Display Tweaks).
• Removed Cutting Room Floor.
• Removed Multiple Floors Sandboxing (it can be toggled in the NFF MCM).
• Removed Sovngarde - Mist's Font Replacer (it was added to the new Interface Customisation section).
• Removed SkyUI - Flashing Savegame Fix (included in Remove QuickSave Button from SkyUI Systems Menu).
• Removed Extended UI. People constantly missed instructions to delete the BSA plus it seems a little buggy at times.
• Removed Cutting Room Floor - Lighting Overhaul.
• Removed Enhanced Landscapes - Solstheim 3D Trees (moved to the 3D Tree LOD Customisation section)
• Removed MD's Alternate Farmhouse Textures (replaced by newer version).
• Removed Trifle from Hiro - Solitude Gate (moved to Retextures Customisation section).
• Removed Real 3D Walls (doesn't blend well with other retextures).
• Removed Smithing Perk Overhaul (replaced by Adamant).
• Removed Spider Webs and Particles for ENB.
• Removed ElSopa HD - Meridia's Beacon (replaced with Meridia's Luxon Beacon Replacer).
• Removed HD Sabre Cat Tooth Mesh and Texture (included in HD Meshes and Textures for Animal and Creature Drops).
• Removed The Divine Amulets Retexture - Dragonborn Amulets (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed Better Looking Amulets (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed ElSopa HD - Akatosh Amulet (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed ElSopa HD - Bonehawk Amulet (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed Fangs and Eyes - A Vampire Appearance Mod (replaced with standalone version of the TRI files we need).
• Removed Encounter Zones Reborn (replaced with Arena - An Encounter Zone Overhaul).
• Removed College of Winterhold - Missing Apprentices Fix (requires Cutting Room Floor which was removed).
• Removed Container and Levelled List Fixes - Complete Loot Overhaul.
• Removed Lock Related Loot.
• Removed Helarchen Creek (moved to Customisation).
• Removed Telengard (moved to Customisation).
• Removed Keld-Nar (moved to Customisation).
• Removed Oakwood (moved to Customisation).
• Removed The Fall of Granite Hill (moved to Customisation).
• Removed Immersive Patrols - Plugin Replacer (replaced with Immersive Patrols Simplified).
• Removed Beast Skeletons (Bitter Edition) (replaced with custom replacer plugin).
• Removed AMB Content Addon Fixes (replaced with a scratch-made replacer plugin of our own).
• Removed Cloaks of Skyrim (they just look ugly).
• Removed Cloaks of Skyrim - MLU-Friendly Fixes.
• Removed Cloaks of the Nords.
• Removed Rally's Five Cities Cloaks.
• Removed Morrowloot Miscellania - Ancient Nord Hero Weapons (similar functionality included in Hybrid Loot).
• Moved Step 5 - Skyrim Realistic Overhaul to Setup. Now the separator numbers align with the Steps.
• Moved Quality of Life Improvements below Immersion.
• Moved Reduced Glow FX from Step 7 to Step 8.
• Moved Fire Halo Remover from Step 7 to Step 8.
• Moved Subtle Wind FX from Step 7 to Step 8.
• Moved Ruins Clutter Improved from Step 15 to Step 5.
• Moved Ruins Clutter Improved - Fixes from Step 15 to Step 5.
• Moved Karstaag - The Frost King Reborn from Step 21 to Step 30.
• Moved Bring Meeko To Lod from Step 27 to Step 30.
• Moved Keeper Carcette Survives from Step 27 to Step 30.
• Step 7: Renamed from "Lighting & Visual FX" to "Lighting"
• Step 8: Renamed from "Combat & Spell FX" to "Visual FX"
• Step 8: Updated order of mods to reflect recent changes.
• Step 9: Updated order of mods for better overwrite order.
• Step 10: Renamed from "Trees & Plants" to "Flora"
• Step 18: Renamed from "Clothes & Jewelry" to "Clothes & Jewellery" (because apparently that's the British spelling).
• Swapped Steps 9 and 10 around (now: Step 9 Landscape, Step 10 Flora).
• Removed the entirety of the ENB Particle Lights step (all added to the ENBSeries Customisation section now).
• 1.4: Added SSE Display Tweaks.
• 1.6: Updated download instructions for Performance Optimised Textures.
• 2.6: Updated FOMOD instructions for Skyrim Landscape and Water Fixes.
• 2.7: Updated FOMOD instructions for Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods - Patches for Arthmoor's Mods.
• 2.8: Updated download instructions for NARC Remade (file update).
• 2.8: Added instructions to select The Forgotten City patch in the NARC FOMOD.
• 2.23: Added Bug Fixes (the mod, by meh321).
• 3.2: Changed FOMOD instructions for Dwemer Gates Don't Reset (using the Dwemer Only USSEP version now).
• 3.3: Added Andrealphus' Gameplay Tweaks.
• 3.5: Added Helgen Keep Bandit Chief Executioner.
• 3.10: Re-added No NPC Greetings (to replace the previously removed To Your Face which is suspected of causing crashes).
• 3.12: Added note to Random Encounter Tweaks about which parts of the mod are actually used.
• 3.16: Updated instructions for Simply Smaller Wolves (removed CRF related instructions, added screenshots).
• 4.3: Added Remove QuickSave Button from SkyUI Systems Menu.
• 4.5: Added Favorite Things - Extended Favorites Menu for SkyUI.
• 4.10: Updated FOMOD instructions for Undiscovered Means Unknown.
• 4.11: Updated Download Instructions and added Additional Instructions for moreHUD (file update).
• 4.12: Now downloading the regular (BSA-packed) version of moreHUD Inventory Edition.
• 4.14: Added my personal preset for A Matter of Time.
• 5.5: Updated FOMOD instructions for Ruins Clutter Improved (no longer installing two options).
• 5.5: Removed additional instructions to delete files (no longer necessary).
• 5.8: Added instructions for the new FOMOD for High Poly Project, and removed now obsolete Additional Instructions.
• 5.9: Updated FOMOD instructions for aMidianBorn - Dragonborn DLC.
• 5.10: Updated download instructions for CBBE.
• 7.6: Changed FOMOD instructions for STAC to use the "Optimized" option for candles and prevent FPS drops.
• 8.1: Updated download instructions and removed CTD warning for Frozen Electrocuted Combustion.
• 8.3: Now using the full version of Enhanced Blood Textures.
• 8.13: Added Glow Be Gone - Updated.
• 9.1: Updated instructions for Majestic Mountains.
• 9.2: Updated additional instructions for Cathedral Landscapes (deleting the entire textures\plants folder for Cath Plants).
• 9.3: Added The Elder Scrolls - Veydosebrom.
• 9.4: Added Cathedral Landscapes - Veydosebrom Swamp Grass Addon.
• 9.5: Added Pfuscher's Rapid Rocks.
• 9.6: Updated FOMOD instructions for Majestic Mountains - Northside (now selecting the Rapid Rocks option).
• 9.7: Added instructions to Realistic Water Two to delete one mesh that should not be overwriting Rapid Rocks.
• 9.19: Updated FOMOD instructions for Lanterns of Skyrim II (no longer selecting patches for some removed mods).
• 10.1: Slightly changed FOMOD instructions for Enhanced Vanilla Trees (now using Lush Trees (small) and SFO Branches v4).
• 10.3: Added Tree Bark in High Definition.
• 10.8: Added Cathedral Plants.
• 10.9: Added Realistic HD Mushrooms Remastered.
• 11.1: Added MD's Farmhouses.
• 11.6: Removed CAO processing instructions from RUSTIC MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES (optimisation not required).
• 11.7: Added instructions to download the new, optional Blue Palace Floor file for HQ Solitude.
• 11.7: Fixed file paths for files to be deleted from HQ Solitude.
• 11.19: Updated download instructions for Soul Cairn HD (file update).
• 13.13: Updated FOMOD instructions for Obscure's College of Winterhold and moved them here.
• 14.2: Added Hall of the Dead - Stained Glass Windows.
• 15.1: Updated Undergr...

The Phoenix Flavour - Release 3.2 Beta 7

Notes

This is the final 3.2 Beta update. Hype!

Beta 7 Changes

• Removed Extended UI (can be buggy plus people constantly forget to delete the BSA).
• Added the CCOR JS Circlet Replacer Patch.
• Updated AMB Content Addon instructions.
• Updated CCOR MCM instructions.

The Phoenix Flavour - Release 3.2 Beta 6

Notes

This should be the penultimate 3.2 update with the final Beta 7 releasing once the aMidianBorn Content Addon is available on SSE and can be integrated. With Beta 6, we are replacing CLLF with Umgak's heavily tweaked Hybrid Loot. I also added a bunch of recently released mods and removed some that were replaced. Cloaks of Skyrim got the boot for being fairly ugly.

Beta 6 Changes

Only 02-mod-installation.md is affected.

• Removed Unofficial Performance Optimised Textures.
• Removed Merchants and Citizens Have No Lockpicks (similar tweaks included in upcoming loot tweaks).
• Removed ElSopa HD - Meridia's Beacon (replaced with Meridia's Luxon Beacon Replacer).
• Removed HD Sabre Cat Tooth Mesh and Texture (included in HD Meshes and Textures for Animal and Creature Drops).
• Removed The Divine Amulets Retexture - Dragonborn Amulets (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed Better Looking Amulets (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed ElSopa HD - Akatosh Amulet (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed ElSopa HD - Bonehawk Amulet (in favour of RUSTIC AMULETS).
• Removed Container and Levelled List Fixes - Complete Loot Overhaul.
• Removed Lock Related Loot.
• Removed Cloaks of Skyrim (they just look ugly).
• Removed Cloaks of Skyrim - MLU-Friendly Fixes.
• Removed Cloaks of the Nords.
• Removed Rally's Five Cities Cloaks.
• Removed Morrowloot Miscellania - Ancient Nord Hero Weapons (similar functionality included in Hybrid Loot).
• 3.3: Added Andrealphus' Gameplay Tweaks.
• 3.5: Added Helgen Keep Bandit Chief Executioner.
• 3.12: Added note to Random Encounter Tweaks about which parts of the mod are actually used.
• 7.6: Changed FOMOD instructions for STAC to use the "Optimized" option for candles and prevent FPS drops.
• 7.11: Added Medieval Torch.
• 16.16: Added instructions to merge main and optional files.
• 16.17: Added instructions to merge main and optional files.
• 16.19: Added Meridia's Luxon Beacon Replacer.
• 17.5: Added True Homecooked Meal.
• 17.6: Added HD Meshes and Textures for Animal and Creature Drops.
• 17.7: Removed instructions to download Hagraven Claw file (included in previous mod).
• 17.8: Added Improved Dragonfly.
• 18.5: Added RUSTIC AMULETS.
• 26.9: Added Hunters Not Bandits.
• 27.5: Added instructions to delete the modgroups file from Save The Icerunner.
• 29.1: Added Hybrid Loot.
• 29.3: Added Morrowloot Miscellania - Dremora Bound Weapons.
• 33.8: Updated instructions for the MLU Inigo Patch (different file name).
• 35.4: Updated instructions to prevent further confusion over where to download the AMB Content Addon SSE Patch.

The Phoenix Flavour - Release 3.2 Beta 5

Notes

This is the first Github release.

All steps were compacted into six files that you can find in the The-Phoenix-Flavour-3-2 folder. There is a Beta Changelog as well as a general 3.2 changelog (README.md) that includes all 3.2 changes so far. I do not intend to publish a Beta 6 before the official release (but plans change all the time).

Here's to hoping I didn't forgot to add anything important to the Beta 5 changelog...

Beta 5 Changes

Setup

• Moved the Mod Installation Instructions here (Step 10).

Mod Installation

• Removed Havok Fix (replaced with SSE Display Tweaks).
• Removed Real 3D Walls (doesn't blend well with other retextures).
• 1.4: Added SSE Display Tweaks.
• 2.4: Fixed broken link to Quests Are In Skyrim.
• 2.23: Added Bug Fixes (the mod, by meh321).
• 3.15: Updated instructions for Simply Smaller Wolves (removed CRF related instructions, added screenshots).
• 4.10: Fixed and updated FOMOD instructions for Undiscovered Means Unknown.
• 5.10: Updated instructions for CBBE (file update).
• 9.3: Added The Elder Scrolls - Veydosebrom.
• 9.4: Added Cathedral Landscapes - Veydosebrom Swamp Grass Addon.
• 11.7: Fixed file paths for files to be deleted from HQ Solitude.
• 11.19: Updated download instructions for Soul Cairn HD (file update).
• 13.13: Updated FOMOD instructions for Obscure's College of Winterhold and moved them here.
• 24.10: Added instructions to delete a normal map from Natural Eyes that overwrote Eye Normal Map Fix.
• 26.4: Clarified instructions for RDO - USSEP and CRF Patch.
• 26.6: Fixed customisation instructions (console command syntax) for Guard Dialogue Overhaul.
• 29.10: Updated FOMOD instructions for Reliquary of Myth.
• 31.10: Added additional instructions to Copy and Paste in Console.
• 39.3: Moved XPMSSE Fixes - Automated Patcher here.

Finalisation

• Removed manual instructions for fixing XPMSSE. Moved the automated patcher to the Mod Installation.
• 1.1: Moved FOMOD instructions for Obscure's College of Winterhold to the mod's instructions.

New Game

• Updated MCM recommendations for multiple mods:
  • All Geared Up Derivative
  • moreHUD
  • Realistic Water Two
  • Relationship Dialogue Overhaul
• Added more screenshots.
• Removed recommended change for the Lanterns of Skyrim II MCM.
  • We previously changed the script to check only every 60s instead of every 5s whether the lanterns are on and what time of day it is but with the Always On option, the script shouldn't check in the first place (since lanterns aren't disabled during the day.)