You should of course add other mods as well, but this guide should get you started and pointed in the right direction. So instead, I’ll give you my super short version of all the most important mods that you need to achieve something similar. It took me weeks of modding the game to get to that point, resolving all the conflicts, patching things up etc.
However, since my full build has well over 600 plugins, writing a guide covering all of that would be tremendously time consuming, and as much as I’d like to do it, it’s just too much. Basically everything has been re-touched with the help of mods. Improved combat, crafting, weapons & armor, magic system, completely overhauled perk trees etc. This means high difficulty, graphical fidelity and all the little details that go along with it. My main goal when modding Skyrim has always been to turn it into a hardcore RPG.
