Modified Save Guide

Please understand that there is no guarantee here that everything will work. By heavily modifying Genesis, you are stepping into dangerous territory and will often run into issues. I’m talking about people that added like 50 extra mods on top of Genesis. If you just installed standalone armor mods to use, you’re generally safe and don’t have anything to worry about.

When you update using Wabbajack, it will automatically delete any additional mods. You can tell Wabbajack to NOT delete a specific additional mod by renaming the mod inside Mod Organizer and adding [NoDelete] to the front. An example is shown below. Spacing matters.

  • [NoDelete] Star Wars Dildo Overhaul

If you choose to NOT add [NoDelete] to the front of an additional mod you installed, you are making it worse. Wabbajack deleting the additional mods doesn’t delete the mods from your save. If you try loading a save that had a bunch of additional mods deleted, it is probably going to instantly crash or have tons of issues. That’s on you.

Understand that additional mods are a commitment. Either you add [NoDelete] to the front of each one and pray it works each update, or you just let Wabbajack delete all your additional mods and start a new save.

Please make sure to use the Modified-Install channel in the Discord rather than the Help or Bug Reports channels for any ingame issues you encounter on modified saves, unless you are absolutely sure that the issue is a Genesis issue and not a mod conflict caused by you. Failure to do so multiple times will result in you eventually getting a role that locks you to only the Modified-Install channel

Valid Use of Help/Bug Report Channels

  • Installation issues with Wabbajack or Mod Organizer 2
  • Locational issues when you only have additional standalone armor mods from Bonepunk, Crozzbow, or Radiclown
  • NPC issues when you only have additional standalone armor mods from Bonepunk, Crozzbow, or Radiclown

Invalid Use of Help/Bug Report Channels

  • The new armor mod you installed looks different or is broken
  • The 50 gameplay-altering mods you installed cause crashing or bugs while you’re playing
  • The 50 ship customization/standalone ship mods you installed cause crashing or bugs while you’re playing
  • The NPC overhaul mod you installed broke an NPC like ND-5 and turned them back into Vasco
  • Etc