Frequently Asked Questions: Content and quests - Omni-guides/Tuxborn GitHub Wiki

Technically, yes. But be aware that several of our mods actively expect you to be the Dragonborn. And at minimum, to play through the main quest up through finishing The Way of The Voice. So if you don't launch the main quest, you'll be blocked out of some content, and other content may make much less narrative sense even if you can launch it.

Thus, playing without ever launching the main quest is not recommended. For some additional recommendations on when to start the main quest, consult that section of the Starting recommendations for character generation and main quest page.

Yes. Given that Tuxborn does raise the general difficulty level of the game, this might even be desirable. You might want to doublecheck what mods you're interested in require you to run through The Way of the Voice, and what their other requirements are, and take that into account as you plan your playthrough. See the Starting recommendations for character generation and main quest page for tips on levels for running Bleak Falls Barrow and fighting Mirmulnir, and also the How to start various quests in Tuxborn page, for further details.

We're running a few mods that have a lot of impact on various parts of the Anniversary Edition. The most significant one of these is Rebalancing Anniversary Edition, which changes the level requirements for a lot of the AE content, and in a couple of cases adds other requirements as well. Anything that the RAE mod impacts can generally be adjusted in its MCM, on the Mod Configuration menu in your game. The overall goal of this mod is to do exactly what it says on the tin: add a bit of balance to the AE content, and spread it out some so that you don't front-load your playthrough with a lot of high-level stuff.

In short, if something you're familiar with in Anniversary Edition content isn't behaving the way you expect it to, the RAE mod is probably responsible. There are exceptions to this, though, as noted below.

We hear you. It is shiny stuff. If you want to revert any part of RAE's changes back to original AE requirements, review its MCM and adjust settings accordingly.

Hendraheim's plot launch is delayed in our load order to level 25, due to RAE.

RAE changes the access to Myrwatch. In addition to having the Flames spell, the seal on the entrance also now checks how much Magicka you have. It won't let you in unless your Magicka is at least 350.

We're running the CC Farming mod which significantly changes the plot surrounding Goldenhills Plantation. See the Player homes available in Tuxborn page and the How to start various quests in Tuxborn page for additional details.

RAE makes two changes to this: it wants you to finish the Thieves Guild plotline first, and it sets a level requirement. Either or both of these can be adjusted in the MCM.

This is because of Legacy of the Dragonborn's patches. Legacy has its own version of the Bow of Shadows, so it swapped out the one given at the end of the AE plot for a renamed artifact. The Bow of Obfuscation will still function as per the AE version of the Bow of Shadows. But if you want the artifact actually named Bow of Shadows, you'll need to run LOTD and get fairly far into its plotline in order to get that version of the bow. Note also that LOTD's version of the Bow of Shadows does behave slightly differently than the AE bow, so even if you have both of them, they are not identical. Also, both should be displayable in the museum.

RAE makes it so that you have to be at least level 50, and have Dragon smithing unlocked, in order for the armor to actually spawn.

That quest is disabled in our load order by Legacy of the Dragonborn patches, and because we have the Tools of Kagrenac mod in our load order as well. So if you want Sunder and Wraithguard, you'll need to run the Tools of Kagrenac mod.

We have the 10th anniversary edition of the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal mod, and patches that make that version of the Gray Cowl take precedence over the one that appears at the end of the AE plot. Run the mod plot to get the Gray Cowl.

Tuxborn 1.0.1 has a different arrangement of profiles available for players to choose from. There are still two major groups, one for the BFCO combat system and the other that uses Blade and Blunt. However, inside each of those groups, the previous CS profiles have been removed. Instead of a separate CS profile, the two groups now include a Desktop, a Handheld, and a Deck profile.

All profiles have Community Shaders.

See the Save‐safe page for further information on which of these profiles are save compatible with each other.

Solving this issue was the big motivator for rearranging the profiles in MO2. Steam Deck playes should explicitly use the Deck profiles, as those have a somewhat reduced load order to improve performance on that device, particularly when visiting the museum in Legacy of the Dragonborn. Players that use other handheld devices such as the ROG Ally can use the Handheld profile, which has the same mod set as Desktop.

Steam Deck players should not try to run the Handheld profile unless they are specifically wanting to use the same save file on a Tuxborn setup on a computer. If you do plan to do that, we recommend that you save all museum activity for your computer. Anything outside of the LOTD museum, and probably also out of Solitude in general, should be safe to play on the Deck even with the Handheld profile. But prior museum/Solitude performance issues will probably still happen on the Deck with the Handheld profile.

The following new quest mods were added:

• Sleepwalking Into a Nightmare
• Final Farewell
• The Thrassian Scare
• 10th Anniversary edition of The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal

The following new followers were added:

• Katana, and her associated NPCs who can also follow you, Megara and Shale
• Melana
• Jesper the Whiterun guard

These followers were removed due to their mods being removed from Nexus:

• Eris
• Nessa

All previously existing mods that were in 0.5.2 and have carried over to 1.0 should be updated to most recent versions.

• Honed Metal was removed
• Deadly Dragon was replaced by Dragon War
• Nether's Follower Framework was swapped out for Underwhelming Multiple Followers (UMF)
• Vokrii was replaced by Adamant
• Skyrim is Luminous was dropped
• Amethyst, Amethyst Plus, and KreatE were replaced by Azurite Weather and Seasons

Since the ASLAL voice pack vanished off of Nexus, Tuxborn had to account for its absence in the release of a new test build. Alternate Start itself is still in place, it's just the additional voice pack that was missing.

The voice pack was adding voiced lines in two different situations:

1. If you talk to an innkeeper to get the pointer to go to Helgen to check out the Imperial activity there
2. If, after arriving in Helgen and seeing Alduin torch the place, you decide to go find Hadvar or Ralof in the cave

Without the voice pack, the NPC dialogue is silent, so you won't be able to see what the characters say unless you have subtitles turned on.

However, neither of these scenarios is actually critical, you can skip both of them and avoid the problem entirely. If you're playing Legacy of the Dragonborn and you do the Relic Hunter start, the initial fetch quest to bring Auryen some relics will give you an excuse to go to Helgen anyway. And, you also have the option of just going straight to Riverwood to warn them about the dragon attack, you don't actually have to go find Hadvar or Ralof.

(If you're playing LOTD and you do NOT do the Relic Hunter start, you'll still need to head to Helgen on your own to trigger Alduin's attack. Whether you bother to talk to an innkeeper to get the prompt about this is up to you.)

So basically you either a) need to have subtitles on, at least long enough to get through the bits without voiced lines, or b) just skip those bits. Do whichever you prefer.

Tuxborn 0.5.2 and the first of the two public 1.0 test builds had Wintersun. However, we swapped to Pilgrim for the final release. So we're swapping from Enarim's religions mod over to Simonrim's, instead.

Players familiar with Wintersun and not familiar with Pilgrim should now brush up on the latter.

The first main difference between Wintersun and Pilgrim is that Pilgrim doesn't require you to regularly pray in order to maintain favor with your god. Nor do you have to commit to following a specific god. Instead, blessings from shrines are powered by the Pilgrim perk in Restoration, or the Cultist perk in Conjuration. Choose wisely. Prayer does still exist, but instead of bumping favor with a specific god, it refreshes the blessing you got from the last shrine you prayed at.

And a second, very important difference is, Pilgrim removes the ability of shrines to cure diseases! You must seek out or make Potions of Cure Disease to handle your disease curing needs. The mod does, however, add additional priest vendors in the five major cities, to sell such items and other things useful for healing and restoration.

Anyone playing LOTD in this load order, take note that the switch to Pilgrim means we lose the displays added by Wintersun to the museum. There is apparently an equivalent patch for Pilgrim, but that's not currently in the Tuxborn load order.

1.0's load order includes a mod called QuickLoot, which lets you, as you might expect from the name, loot stuff more quickly. This includes chests and other containers, as well as corpses. If you roll your crosshair over something lootable, you should see a little popup appear showing you all the various things you can loot. Note that if a chest is locked, you won't see this popup until you unlock the chest.

Steam Deck players or PC players who use a controller, you can use your DPad buttons to navigate up and down the list in the popup if you don't want to just take everything.

QuickLoot has been mostly stable in the test build, but I've reported one instance of it causing a crash when trying to loot a chest I'd tried to unlock in the worldspace for Carved Brink. So anyone running the test build is advised to be on the lookout for any similar issues, and report them to the support channel if you see them.

We added an optional death mechanics mod to the Tuxborn load order, called Shades of Mortality. Since this is a significant change to how death works for the player, Shades of Mortality gets an entire page of its own. Refer to the Frequently Asked Questions: Shades of Mortality page for more info.

Shortly after 1.0 was officially released, we had to put out a hotfix to fix a crash in the BFCO profiles that could reproduce when the player was fighting Falmer.

Because of the Simonrim mods in our load order. The buffs granted by these powders have been patched to align with the removal of Smithing and Enchanting buffs from almost all sources. The patch just didn't happen to rename the powders in question.

It is disabled in the Tuxborn load order on the grounds that it actually lets the player change their character's race, which can have game-breaking consequences. There are other less dangerous ways to alter your character.

Please be aware that if you make any of your own changes to the modpack, our devs' policy is that this will void your access to official support from them if you run into any trouble. Players who wish to make any of their own changes to the Tuxborn modpack are therefore asked to direct any questions about that to the #modlist-modifications channel on our Discord.

If you're okay with this, then sure, add whatever you like. This is not recommended, however, for players new to modding in general, or new to using Wabbajack and Mod Organizer 2 in particular.

Quite a few. Legacy of the Dragonborn is our centerpiece, but we include several other quest mods both large and small. Our Load Order Library has not yet been fully updated to match our release version, but in terms of the large and small quest content mods, it is essentially accurate. Bookmark that page for later, so you'll see when it's updated to match our release build.

Moonpath is actually in our load order, but not as a standalone mod. It's included with Legacy of the Dragonborn, as noted above. You'll need to run LOTD if you want to run Moonpath.

This mod auto-starts, and there's no way around that. You'll be attacked out of the blue by an NPC named Isidor at level 5. He'll have a note on him from another NPC named Camilla (not the one in Riverwood, an NPC unique to this mod).

You'll get an objective to read that note. If you do, you'll get the objective to go find the ruins that will lead you to the Clockwork worldspace.

But if you don't want to play the mod, you should either just not read the note, or disregard the objective to go find the ruins if you forget and read the note anyway. Unfortunately we do not have a way for you to cancel or hide either of those objectives once you have them, sorry.

Some of our mods will not start automatically, and therefore they are easy to avoid if you don't want to run them. Mods known to be in this category are:

• Carved Brink
• Falskaar
• Project AHO
• The Wheel of Time

Others do have automatic starts (such as Clockwork, noted above). As with Clockwork, we do not have a way for you to avoid those starts. Our best recommendation for you at this time is to not play past the automatic start point. In some cases, this will simply mean ignoring a courier or other messenger that comes looking for you. In others, it may mean you'll have to play through an initial scene or confrontation.

Either way this will, unfortunately, mean you'd have a permanently unfinished objective in your journal, and we do not have a way for you to hide or remove an unfinished objective at this time.

Mods known to be in this category are:

• Beyond Reach
• Clockwork
• Glenmoril
• Legacy of the Dragonborn
• Meridia's Order
• Midwood Isle
• Moon and Star
• Vigilant
• Warden of the Coast
• Wheels of Lull
• Wyrmstooth

Have a look at the Armor and weapons available in Tuxborn page.

Not at this time.

No, unfortunately. The author of Katana's mod calls this out explicitly on the FAQ article for the mod page on Nexus.

The only other known gun-type projectile weapons in the modpack are related to the Glenmoril mod.

We have an overview of followers on the Followers available in Tuxborn page.

Our load order means that the marker for her pod will not be auto-discovered. For pointers as to how to find her, look at the Auri section of the Followers link given above.

We have a running list on the Player homes available in Tuxborn page.

These are removed by the Simonrim mods we're running.

Two known ways that you can still use to fortify crafting skills are:

• The Deck of Builders in Legacy of the Dragonborn, which will give you +10 to Smithing, Alchemy, and Enchanting
• The Forgemaster's Fingers, which in many circumstances you'll need to retrieve in order to become Blood-Kin to the Orcs, and which will still work to fortify your smithing

Additionally, there's an extra means available via Legacy of the Dragonborn, but this is a spoiler, so:

Thanks to the following users on #txbn-general for suggestions as to what to add to this page:

• TSP, for the info about LOTD performance
• Arlemy, for suggesting expanding the data on how to avoid running Clockwork