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Release notes, deep-dives, and the occasional coffee-fuelled ramble on where the modlists are heading.
Cinnamon Swirl
May 16, 2025And now for something totally different: Cinnamon Swirl is a Vanilla+ Minecraft modpack inspired by such packs as Crucial 2, Vanilla Perfected, and many more. Every single one of the ~160 mods has been carefully curated and vetted to provid
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April 4, 2025Good morning. It's been a while, huh? Let's talk about some modlists. Living Skyrim 4 At the moment, Living Skyrim 4 is set to receive a bug fix update here in the next week or two. Pawler has been working on fixing up a bunch of bugs and l
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Announcement Living Skyrim 5 Announcement
December 27, 2024A couple of days ago, I teased the logo of Living Skyrim 5. It's time to give some details to go along with that logo. In case you missed it, here's the logo: Pretty neat, huh? I'll let you figure out the symbolism of it all. I want to deta
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November 27, 2023Howdy. Let’s talk about Masterstroke v1.10.0. So, first things first, it’s turning out to be a much bigger update than we anticipated. Miss Corruption has put in a ton of work adding a feature that I think will appeal to a lot of people, an
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September 18, 2023It’s been a while, huh? Let’s talk modlists. Living Skyrim v4.2.0 is under heavy development right now. We’re working on an absolutely huge slate of changes, some of which I’ll talk about now and some of which will be a surprise. The bigges
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December 22, 2022Can you believe we’ve done twenty of these now? That seems absurd. Oh well. Pull up a chair. Coffee? Tea? Milk? OJ? Very good. Let’s talk about some modlists. Living Skyrim 4 is coming along nicely. We’re well into working on Beta 5 and sho
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October 12, 2022First Things First Before we talk about LS4, I want to talk a bit about Living Skyrim 3. Living Skyrim 3 has been a great list. Thousands of people have installed, played, and enjoyed it. Its success really can’t be understated. That said,
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August 19, 2022Overall Progress We’re officially into Alpha for Living Skyrim 4. This means we’re in the process of patching and testing things to get ready for the Beta. With progress going as smoothly and quickly as it is right now, I’m feeling confiden
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August 10, 2022Requirements & Info You Need To Know Before we dive in, there are some basic things you should be aware of. First, this guide assumes you have completed your modlist. All the mods are installed, patches have been made, and so on. It als
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Article Compiling a Modlist with Wabbajack
August 10, 2022So you want to create a Wabbajack modlist installer, either to keep as a personal backup or to share with your friends, or heck, maybe even to get onto the Wabbajack UI? The process may seem intimidating at first, but I assure you, it’s muc
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August 6, 2022Overall Progress Before we jump into today’s focus, I want to talk about the state of Living Skyrim 4. It’s done. Okay, okay, not completely, but it’s getting extremely close. I still need to pick out a few easter eggs, but otherwise the mo
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July 22, 2022Combat and Enemies Perhaps one of the most exciting sections of the modlist is the combat and enemies section. It’s the one section that probably has the most immediate impact on overall gameplay and can make or break the list. Before I tal
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July 6, 2022Status Update I just wanted to hammer out a quick update to keep people appraised of the progress I’m making on Living Skyrim 4. Overall Status In general, the list is coming along nicely. I’m happy with the mods we’ve included so far. As o
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June 10, 2022In April, I talked about Masterstroke coming back in about two months. Well, we’re at two months. Unfortunately, the list isn’t ready, but we’re close. Yesterday I passed Beta 5 Release Candidate 1 (0.5.0) to my staff to try out and report
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Dev Diary Living Skyrim 4: Dev Diary 4
June 4, 2022NPC Visual Overhaul I’ve put off writing this for a while because I had to think about what I wanted to say pretty hard. The NPC Visual Overhaul is one of the, if not the , most subjective part of the modlist. NPCs Let’s talk about NPCs in
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Dev Diary Living Skyrim 4: Dev Diary 3
May 20, 2022UI, Sounds, and Music Once graphics are taken care of, it’s time to move onto the UI, HUD, sound, and music. I’m extremely picky in this area, as you’ll soon see. HUD and UI When I’m playing a game, I want the HUD and UI to be there to help
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Dev Diary Living Skyrim 4: Dev Diary 2
May 9, 2022Graphics When I’m building a modlist, I tend to start with the graphics. Living Skyrim 4 is no different. The Why Before we talk about the how, let’s talk about the why. There’s a couple of big reasons I start here. First, it’s easy. Graphi
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Dev Diary Living Skyrim 4: Dev Diary 1
May 5, 2022I feel the need to chronicle the adventure that is building Living Skyrim 4 and this seems like the best way to do it. A series of Dev Diaries, keeping people posted on my progress, struggles, and thought process. I’ll also try to share som
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April 13, 2022On March 24th I woke up to a very disappointing notification. Despite the rules I had laid out regarding reaching out to mod authors, people had done so. If it were just one person, I might have overlooked it. Five people did so. Some might
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February 27, 2022Hi. Long time no chat. Living Skyrim 3.8.0 is coming at the end of February. It’s gonna be a big one. 3.8.0 is “phase one” of a comprehensive update to the list, where I’ll be revising a great number of things - graphics, gameplay, etc. Thi
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December 15, 2021In case you haven’t seen, D&DDC has been discontinued. I feel I owe it to explain, at least in part, my reasoning for this. The current state of Wabbajack’s interactions with Lovers Lab are less than desirable. It used to be that Wabbaj
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November 23, 2021Have you tried peppermint mocha creamer? It’s delicious, highly recommended. Weirdly enough, LS is the list that I feel doesn’t really need an update at the moment. There are probably some bugs we could fix but I don’t think there’s any rea
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October 30, 2021I swear I don’t mean to go this long between posts. It just kinda happens. Anyway, Living Skyrim 3.6.0 is coming on November 6th. It’s going to be a bug fix update. All the bugs. Every last one. Internally we’ve been calling it The Extermin
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September 14, 2021Hi. Living Skyrim 3.5.0 is under active development, I’ve got it in the hands of the devs, and most notably, JaxomofRuatha. If you’re not familiar with Jaxom, they’re the CEO of Hotel Rule 11. The last time Jaxom helped me put together an u
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August 24, 2021Sip. Let’s talk modlists. LS3 is doing very well. There’s some minor bugs that need to be addressed, but I feel like overall the list is in a good spot. I’m going to hold off updating it for a little while - now’s a good time to start a lon
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August 11, 2021This past weekend I brought home my first child, and she is every bit as precious as you can imagine. That said, it’s been a pretty exciting month so far and we’re only about halfway through. LS 3.4.0 has been awesome so far and we’re keepi
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July 19, 2021Coffee’s good today, thanks for asking. How’s yours? LS 3.3.1 is coming soon, fixing most of the bugs that got introduced with 3.3.0 or had to be pushed back because 3.3.0 was so huge. Maybe this week, possibly early next week at the latest
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Coffee With FG Coffee With FG 13
June 26, 2021I’ve mostly been trying to keep my head down, but there’s a lot happening in the Wabbajack and related modding communities at the moment. It’s nearly impossible to not get involved. That said, I have nothing to say about what’s happening. I
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