Septimus is an extensive modlist full of carefully chosen new gear, spells, quests, and personal touches, all designed to fit seamlessly into the game. It contains optional lightweight survival and full anniversary edition creation club integration. It's designed to look beautiful while maintaining a stable framerate on almost any machine.
You can browse the full list contents here if you want to know exactly what you're getting.
Users have reported running the list fine with as low as a Ryzen 1300x and a GTX960. You may need to adjust settings with systems this low but it should run fine and still look great!
Support is offered in The Lost Outpost Discord server in the appropriate channel. If you have any questions following the instructions or if you find a typo or any other mistake in the documentation, feel free to report in the server support channel.
This list requires anniversary edition and all creation club content. Make sure your game is fully up to date in Steam. It will automatically be patched by Wabbajack to work out of the box, but requires the latest game files. You must download all the creation club content before installing.
Installation is handled through Wabbajack with a one-click install of the modlist. There are some pre-installation steps which must be followed for first time users so please pay attention to those.
These steps are only needed if you install the Modlist for the first time.
I doubt you need to do this since you likely already have this installed. This package is required for MO2 and you can download it from Microsoft. Download the x64 version under "Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019". Direct link if you can't find it.
I highly recommend uninstalling the game through Steam, deleting the game folder, and reinstalling it. You should also clean up the Skyrim Special Edition folder in Documents/My Games/ by deleting the contents in it.
THIS is approximately what a clean Skyrim install should look like after shredding or cleaning it manually.
Start the game and exit once you're in the main menu. This will ensure any settings files needed by Wabbajack are created in the Skyrim directory.
Download the release to a working folder. This folder must not be in a common folder like your Desktop, Downloads or Program Files folder. It's best to create a Wabbajack folder near the root level of your drive like C:/Wabbajack.
Grab the latest release of Wabbajack from here and place the Wabbajack.exe file in the working folder.
The download and installation process can take a little while (an hour or more) depending on your system specs. Wabbajack will calculate the amount of threads it will use at the start of the installation. To have the highest amount of threads and thus the fastest speed, it is advised to have the working folder on an SSD.
- Create a folder for the List at the root of your drive (like the Wabbajack folder) called "Septimus"
- Go back to your drive, and create a new folder, called "Wabbajack Downloads Folder". This specific folder can be on a different drive if you wish
- Download the latest release of
Septimusfrom the Wabbajack Browse Modlists page - Select the created folder in step 1 as your installation folder
- Select the created folder in step 2 as your downloads folder
- Click the Go/Begin button and wait for Wabbajack to finish
There are a lot of different scenarios where Wabbajack will produce an error. I recommend re-running Wabbajack before posting anything. Wabbajack will continue where it left off so you lose no progress. Seriously, simply retrying the Wabbajack download fixes most problems. If you still cannot figure out the issue, please check in our support forum or the official Wabbajack discord.
If this Modlist receives an update, please check the changelog before doing anything. Always backup your saves or start a new game after updating.
Wabbajack will delete all files that are not part of the Modlist when updating!
This means that any additional mods you have installed on top of the Modlist will be deleted. Your saves will be kept, but please check each update changelog to see if the update is save compatible. Your downloads folder will not be touched!
Updating is like installing. You only have to make sure that you select the same path and tick the overwrite existing Modlist button.
Open the installation folder and double click on the program called ModOrganizer.exe.
Make sure the dropdown box on the right is set to Septimus and press the Run button.
For issues, you can provide details in the Septimus Github. Please provide as much info as you can (screenshots are great).
Finally, free feel to hop on the Septimus Discord support channel to have discussions with our knowledgeable community members. Support is offered in The Lost Outpost.