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Welcome to the S.T.E.P. Community Wiki

What STEP is about:

• Texture replacements, vanilla friendly and possibly scalable in quality and performance.
• Graphical mods (esps, plugins) which also can add new stuff that doesn't interfare with the vanilla feel (lanterns near bridges, for example).
• Gameplay mods that only enhance a vanilla aspect of Skyrim, bug-free and with minimal edits.
• Interface mods which improve the menus/UI both in utility and graphics.
• Sound mods which improve the game atmosphere.
• Fix mods, like "Unofficial Skyrim Patch" or the "Shadow Striping Fix".

What STEP isn't about:

• Content mods: new weapons, armors, spells, monsters, npcs, etc (aside from pure aesthetic mods which do not alter the vanilla feel, for example "Birds and Flocks").
• Gameplay content mods such as new plot lines, quests, races, factions, cities, dungeons, etc.
• Gameplay mods which add new game mechanincs/features, or that deeply change the vanilla gameworld/gameplay.
• Texture mods which differ too much from the vanilla feel, even if they're very well done.
• Music replacers.
• Overhauls.

This creates a stable STEP foundation. Multiple optional "STEP packs" designed with specific themes, for example a "Hardcore pack" can easily be added to this base. A pack will be a set of mods intended to work together with STEP (and possibly expanding on the what STEP is ideals). But STEP will remain a template, a base for a more complex modded Skyrim, or a safe and complete experience itself.

STEP-Community Citizenship (WIP)

Editing the Wiki (Reference)

S.T.E.P. Guides

Skyrim Installation

A fairly detailed and comprehensive installation and configuration guide to Skyrim and its dlcs, mods, extensions, and utilities. It is written as an overview and introduction and includes general information providing context to the guides recommendations. It is not a step by step walkthrough, links will be provided to such supplemental material if and when it is written. Graphics and video may follow as required.

Wrye Bash

A practical, hands-on introduction to Wrye Bash using STEP as a working example. Anxious to install STEP? Wish you knew how to use Wrye Bash as a mod organizer? Learn Wrye Bash while you accomplish the task you would otherwise find yourself doing anyway!

Hardware

This is a in depth hardware upgrade guide to help you decide what will give you the greatest performance boost per dollar.

Troubleshooting

Bran spanking new, just covers a few items at the moment.

DDSopt & Texture Overhauls

A simplified guide to using DDSopt to improve texture quality & performance, including an assessment of all of the big Skyrim texture overhauls.