Faction Map Icon Overhaul - Changes faction-related icons on the Pip-Boy map, for example Camp McCarran and the Mojave Outpost’s icons are the two-headed bear, the Fort and Cottonwood Cove are the bull, etc.

The Living Desert - Adds hundreds of NPCs and several scripted events people patrolling the roads, travelling between towns, occupying locations.

Mojave Arsenal - Adds ammo variants, reloading parts, and weapon mods as loot fixes item naming conventions improves recipes and adds options for configuring GRA.

Mojave Wildlife - Adds hundreds more levelled, vanilla-friendly creature spawn points throughout the whole Mojave, based off unused vanilla levelled lists.

Mojave Raiders - Adds more raiders to fight and balances their loot.

Recommended using along with JSawyer Ultimate.

Starting Gear Overhaul - Adjusts the gear you start with to be more sensible and catered to your tagged skills.

Water Overhaul - Overhauls various aspects of water, making radiation-free water more scarce and allowing you to refill bottles anywhere with a water source.

If this happens, the fix that worked for me is at the bottom of this post) (NOTE: This may make some characters have white faces.

New Vegas Character Expansions (NVCE) - Probably the only character overhaul that just makes everyone look a little less potato without making them look hollow inside.

Throwable Weapon Fixes - A collection of fixes for throwable weapons and projectiles.

FNV 4GB Patch - Simple patcher to make Fallout New Vegas 4GB Aware.

JohnnyGuitar NVSE - Another NVSE extender.

JIP LN NVSE Plugin - An extension of NVSE that restores broken features and supplies bug fixes read through this one before toggling anything.

New Vegas Anti Crash (NVAC) - Says it right there in the name.

Includes improved versions of popular NVSE bug fixes.

Unofficial Patch Plus - A collection of supplementary bug fixes to be used alongside YUP.

Yukichigai Unofficial Patch (YUP) - A compilation of vital bug fixes with no further additions.

New Vegas Script Extender (NVSE) - You’ll need this for most of these to work at all.

Most of these are necessary for a stable game and for the rest of the mods listed here. You’re gonna wanna start with this mod configuration menu, which helps to manage mods in-game. This is a long one, so I’m putting it under a readmore. Keep in mind my preferences for mods tend to be smaller-scale, quality of life and immersive mods, and I’m not super into big story mods. These are both for my own reference and for anyone who’s looking for mod recommendations. I decided to remake the list, both in this post and also in this doc for the sake of documentation. Over the past few months, I’ve tried many more mods since, and have even removed several mods from the original list. Some months ago, I answered an ask regarding FNV mods I’d recommend.

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