#Simply what number of mods for Skyrim are there? – Destructoid

What number of Skyrim mods are there? A couple of bajillion.

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No, however severely. There are lots. Barely just a few days go by with out me speaking about among the mods which can be on the market for The Elder Scrolls 5. On condition that the sport has been out since November 2011 – and given how tenacious the modding group is – it’s hardly shocking there’s a lot content material accessible, and has been since day one.

They vary in scope as properly, from humorous ones to unofficial expansions to ones that try and undo the various, many bugs the sport is plagued with. There are a bunch of extremely advisable Skyrim mods to select from. Personally, my favourite is the one which renames all of the Frost Trolls to Tim Allen. Nope. I do not know, both.

So, I feel it’s time I make an try and tally up what number of mods there are for Skyrim. So far as I can inform, we’ve by no means achieved this at Destructoid. There could also be a motive for that, however we’ll see.

A couple of issues to contemplate earlier than we transfer on:

1. This might be a roundabout determine. Mods are being made and uploaded at an alarming charge, and by the point I end writing this text (not to mention it being revealed), the quantity will nearly definitely have gone up.
2. I’ll be utilizing a bunch of sources to attempt to get as correct a quantity as I can. Nevertheless, I settle for there might be some mods that exist on extra obscure or much less apparent web sites, that are tougher to take note of.
3. There’s additionally the query of sure mods having multiple model, akin to one for the Particular Version or Anniversary Version. To not point out, creators could properly have uploaded their content material to multiple web site.
4. Simply assume it’s a big quantity, and we’ll all be lots happier.

Now that we’ve sorted out that little little bit of housekeeping, let’s crack on with making an attempt to establish what number of Skyrim mods there are.

Nexus Mods

A couple of 12 months in the past, we did an article about Nexus Mods celebrating 10 billion downloads, which, in line with a submit on the positioning itself, would take an estimated 317 years to obtain. However why would you? Anyway…

Of those, a big variety of them have been for Skyrim. On the time, Bethesda’s epic RPG was listed as each the primary and quantity two video games that had essentially the most downloads, totaling 5.7 billion downloads. Trying on Nexus Mods as we speak, that determine has unsurprisingly gone up over the course of 11 or 12 months.

On the time of writing, the web site is host to 102,366 customized mods for Skyrim. Now, it’s potential your mileage could range. I’ve achieved my greatest to verify the positioning exhibits as many mods as potential, so that you may see a barely totally different quantity, relying on what choices you could have checked.

Additionally, this quantity is particularly for the Particular Version of the sport. If we transfer over to the vanilla launch of Skyrim, we see this quantity is a decrease 72,471. Once more, on the time of writing. Why are there much less for the unique 2011 model? Greatest guess is most gamers have made the change to the newer releases, so modders could also be extra inclined to add for the Particular Version as a substitute.

Additionally, this doesn’t take note of that some mods will exist on each variations concurrently. Add onto that the truth that some customized content material has a number of uploads for various language translations. As such, it appears fairly tough to rely all of the distinctive mods Nexus has. However we do our greatest.

ModDB, Bethesda.internet, and Steam

After Nexus, ModDB might be the second-most used modding web site on the web. A minimum of from my perspective, that’s. It’s the place I’m going for all my fan-made Doom content material.

Very similar to above, there’s a part for the usual model of Skyrim and one for the Particular Version launch. Nevertheless, one factor that turns into instantly obvious is the numbers are considerably smaller.

Vanilla Skyrim lists simply 196 mods and 38 add-ons (I’m not even 100% certain what the distinction is between the 2), whereas the Particular Version has even much less, with 39 mods and simply 4 add-ons. Once more, you’ll notice that there are some crossovers.

Why there are much less isn’t clear to me. It might merely be that Nexus Mods has carved out one thing of a big nook of the TES5 modding market, in order that’s simply the place most individuals go.

Then we flip to “official” mods that Bethesda deems worthy to host by itself web site. The developer and writer really refers to those as “Creations” for some motive, however they’re principally simply regular mods. One factor that does set them other than these on, say, Nexus is that they have been made appropriate with console variations of Skyrim, so non-PC gamers get to get pleasure from them.

Primarily, it appears Bethesda wished to have a say in among the customized content material that will get bandied round for its sport. On this regard, most of the Creations may very well be thought of of a sure commonplace, usually fairly prime quality or making essential modifications to Skyrim. One instance is the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, which fixes a shitload of bugs and glitches.

As of proper now, Bethesda.internet lists 49,149 fan-made mods on its web site. Of those, 8,424 are for PC, 9,283 are for PlayStation, whereas Xbox takes the lion’s share, with a meaty 33,212 recordsdata.

As for Steam Workshop, the quantity continues to be fairly spectacular. As of proper now, it’s displaying 27,559 mods in its database. And for some motive, the primary one which’s displaying for me is one which makes it so Nords emit hen noises. I didn’t say each mod can be a game-changer.

What’s the overall?

Even once you take note of that some mods could have a number of translated variations, recordsdata for the vanilla and Particular Version releases of the sport, and could also be accessible on multiple web site, it’s nonetheless a fairly big variety of mods that Skyrim has.

If you happen to take the numbers above at face worth – and keep in mind: that is as correct as might be on the time of writing – we get a grand whole of 251,822 general mods and add-ons. That’s greater than 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 methods you may improve your Elder Scrolls 5 expertise.

For comparability, CurseForge is displaying 197,691 mods for Minecraft, which got here out across the identical time as Skyrim. And other people could surprise why Bethesda’s sport continues to hold round after greater than 13 years.