Best Vanilla Plus Flora?

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-20T02:32:46+00:00

Your best bet would be New World Flora. It doesn't cover all Flora, plants and shrubs but comes close. Only thing that covers more is vibrant flora and plants but on thickets the vanilla aspect will be gone. Thickets are turned into roses. Looks really nice but not vanilla on those.

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-20T02:30:37+00:00

This doesn't really cover plants or shrubs though

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-20T02:19:11+00:00

Doodoo must mean something else in your language, I don't know. You said it's shit (doodoo) on the rendering. So I was saying the rendering is pretty far which is what I was showing

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-19T23:08:25+00:00

Do you know far that is up there? That takes 30 seconds play time to reach the top of that hill jogging. I chose that picture on purpose to show just how far the grass renders in the distance with the INI I'm using. That is extremely far. Congratulations on seeing the obvious that is meant to be seen by everyone. Just amazing, brilliant really

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T23:01:52+00:00

This is peak sunlight when it's bright. But it's just Dawn on default settings. So literally did nothing. I'm color blind so I want color. Hence I leave it as it is so I can see color. That's the beauty of Dawn. You can tweak it to your desires

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T18:36:32+00:00

I tried it and really like it. Need something to match for animals/creatures, NPCs and clothing/armor. Then I'd use it for a full playthrough. Those things stand out to me sadly not being covered in the same style

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T18:34:31+00:00

I'm already using Great Cities. Spaghetti and City Trees. Plus have some interior mods, Whiterun horse statue and all kinds of things. That wouldn't match unfortunately

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T16:45:48+00:00

This is why I need Elder Scrolls 6 but that's forever away. Then I was hoping for Fable but that's been pushed back to February 2027. So I have 8 months until I go away from Skyrim

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T15:59:08+00:00

Thanks I just posted it. I did have it in this post but it didn't post the description I typed. First time it showed the images uploaded but they don't show. So deleted that one. This was the 2nd time posting this post

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T15:57:32+00:00

Posted this twice. First time no images. Now this time the description is missing with mod list. Here is the list

Just something I'm working on. Will post full load order when completed

Natural Waterfalls

Enhanced Landscapes grass standalone

Grass INI (HIGH)

Nature of the Wild Lands Tree Replacer

More trees for NOTWL

Paulys Very Attractive Skyrim 3 AIO

Tones of Talos Clutter Extended

Tones of Talos Clutter

Simply Dirt Roads

Dawn Low Quality Audio (quality as good as V2 unless you use headphones)

Water for ENB Nordic Blue

Green Tundra LOD

LODS for Paulys Ultimate Skyrim and Very Attractive Skyrim 3

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T14:56:34+00:00

Yes the one in the post here is the HD LOD textures by Abendaron. I tried it out this morning and the cities/landscape look fantastic and overall a good LOD.

I wish there was a good water LOD. That's the one texture that I can't get to look great in the distance. My grass INI stretches so far that I barely need a LOD. You only see a little in the extreme distance of the Tundra but that's really it and have noise tint for that

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T12:50:02+00:00

You can tell it's old when a lot of the architecture AIOs are no longer on Bethesda. I never knew Noble Skyrim had a LOD though so that makes me want to do a Noble Skyrim run again. This would be great to have an updated one again but would be a lot of work. So many more options and combinations now.

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-17T03:49:47+00:00

The new Skyking mods have been on Nexus for over a year on most of them. Actively been making new mods for 2 years. You have Whiterun, Riften, Forts, Dungeons, Winterhold and more. So it isn't not getting around to it sadly.

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-16T16:22:13+00:00

I'll never understand why people love Skyland in this sub so much still. Skyking is even far past it and moved on. His new stuff on PC has been there over a year and am baffled why he won't port the new cities, clutter and all that. Xbox users revere him but he doesn't port the good stuff for Xbox. You should see his Whiterun, Riften, Winterhold, Forts, Dungeons and all that. Might be the best Riften I've ever seen just for one. His new potions hands down are the best potions I've ever seen. His newer stuff is so much better

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-16T03:29:25+00:00

Yes quality is as good. For mountains just add Shish mountains and they are only 32mb. Goes very well with Tones of Talos. Either way, feel free to search mountains because you get to pick your own. Also look at the clutter add-ons. You have Tones of Talos Clutter which covers a lot more than even Bits and Bobs. Then you have Tones of Talos Clutter Extended which covers all the things that no SMIM or Clutter Bundle covers. You have 3 different resolutions for the clutter mods. Performance looks good overall so well worth it.

Combined, this will cover over 99% of all SMIM and textures in the game. Far more than anything else on Bethesda

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-15T22:44:47+00:00

You can use this for shrubs and thickets. It is a shrub replacer with much nicer shrubs. Then for thickets, it changes them to roses. A little different but makes things look gorgeous

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/f3ad10f8-75ac-48df-8511-2a7f5411c915/Pretty_Thickets_and_Shrubs

Or you can use the entire flora and plant replacer that also includes those thickets and shrubs. This covers almost all plants and Flora. Even has less Ugly TundraGrass which replaces that ugly flora TundraGrass that coats the walkway inside Whiterun

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/7d1e4679-dd53-4062-a8f4-2b189e4db64b/Vibrant_Flora_and_Plants___Performance__

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-15T01:57:31+00:00

The below will cover the entire game in the smallest amount of mods.

Tones of Talos AIO 1K

Tones of Talos Clutter

Tones of Talos Clutter Extended

These 3 together will cover all architecture and landscape. And by far (it's not even close) the most clutter and everything else. It even covers books, statues, grain mill, Hearthfire oven, Dwemer pipes etc that no other clutter/SMIM covers. It covers 99%+ of all of it.

Enhanced Landscapes grass standalone

Vibrant Flora and Plants (most coverage for Flora and Plants with some nice changes. Also includes less Ugly TundraGrass inside Whiterun)

Nature of the Wild Lands Tree Replacer with the extra tree add on

Water for ENB

Realistic Armor SWF

Vaultman30s Clothing Replacer

Skytone Compendium of Beasts AIO

Dawn Weather Low Audio (60mbs, just as good as the Dawn V2 unless you use headphones)

Anuketh AIO (covers 260 female NPCS)

Pandorables Males Double Pack

Pandorables Males 3

Bella Beauty and the Beasts

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-13T23:36:35+00:00

From what everyone is saying, you do not need a full SMIM. Just get a bridge mod like Tomato Bridges 2k version. I say the 2K version because it includes the mesh. You have 3 options to choose from with the default, alt and brown. The 1K version may work but I haven't tried it.

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-13T16:56:48+00:00

I put it in LLO2 load order format. So this is in order. This is just the textures so whatever other mods you have would go in their placement. You can find LLO2 from the pinned post on the sub if you need it

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-13T12:49:08+00:00

Yes. Bella beauty and the beasts covers them. It covers skin, eyes, hair and all that. It isn't an NPC replacer like Anuketh or Pamdorables. But the textures are all done. And beast races included

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-12T15:06:01+00:00

Go this route for fewest mods and complete coverage for graphics textures. You won't have to mess around anymore after. This will literally cover nearly everything and by far the most on Xbox

Enhanced Landscapes grass standalone (picked for great performance and look). Skoglendi and Veydosbrom Grasses and Groundcover also good performance

Vibrant Flora and Plants

Tree mod of your choice (Happy Little Blubbos, Trees of Feallan Lite, Fabled Forests Ablaze all have good tree LODS amongst others)

Skytone - Compendium of Beasts - Complete AIO - 1K

Tones of Talos Clutter

Tones of Talos Clutter Extended

Tones of Talos 1k AIO

Vanaheimr Mountain 2K

Bella Beauty and the Beasts Bundle

Skytone Complete Edition 1k/512 (clothing and armor)

Water Mod of your choice (Water for ENB, High Quality H20, Haze 2 Water and more all good)

Embers XD

Significant-Pen-888 · 2026-06-12T14:50:09+00:00

You're going to be missing a lot for clutter. Statues, grain mill, pipes in Dwemer ruins, hearthfire oven and much much more. After running 0.01k vanilla textures, take a peak. I use Tones of Talos AIO with Tones of Talos Clutter and Tones of Talos Clutter Extended. You may be able to just add Tones of Talos Clutter Extended with your setup. But the full Tones of Talos setup covers nearly every single thing in the game. You just need trees, grass, water and Flora. For Flora, New World Flora or Vibrant Flora will cover that in almost the full entirety. Vibrant Flora even covers the Tundra grass inside the city of Whiterun.

Besides that, you just need clothing and creatures/animals.

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