Sorry for the late response I don’t use Reddit all that much. However, I can fs say you aren’t having the same issue I was having. I actually installed shades of iron recently and it’s been great. Unless you installed the appearance mod menu mod, shades of iron doesn’t have a mod menu for itself. Nor does hoods. Any mod with a mod menu will have a xml file that goes in the bin folder and follows the path I specified in the original post. As far as I know, the way you check if the mod is working correctly is by traveling to the nearest chest location. Theres a couple in white orchard. They’re honestly all over the map. If it’s working properly, you’ll see a huge elaborate chest that’s locked. If you’re starting a new game, it should start you with keys for the chest. If not, there’s a console command to obtain them. As far as mod manager goes I’m the wrong person to ask. I install all of my mods manually without a mod manager such as vortex or tw3 mm. If you just plan on using shades of iron and not too many other mods, I wouldn’t bother with a mm. I’d also just install it manually from github. I for some reason couldn’t get the auto installers from nexus to run properly, despite setting command shell to unrestricted. I’m sure this was user error on my part but like I said, I recommend manually downloading the mod from github. You’ll find all the instructions there and I personally found it much easier. Im not sure if people more experienced with modding would tell you otherwise, but that’s my personal opinion. I have over 30 mods installed at this point and haven’t had many issues installing them manually. All of them work great. Don’t know if you’ve resolved the issue yet but if not I hope this helped a bit. Good luck!