The intention of this pictorial guide is to assist newcomers to modding skyrim in creating bashed patches using the wrye bash tool for skyrim. Of course i wanted to check things out midway during the installation, rather than wait till i had loaded all my mods. I noticed that if you are not going to mess with your mods further than a merged patch as you should, a bashed patch might help you, specially in things like the list of weapons that work with a certain perks cowboy, comando, etc. Prevents all the patch components except from the leveled lists and import inventory from even looking at the plugin. Bashed patches are for people who know what theyre doing or for mods that specifically need it.
I also think the bashed patch handles leveled lists better than a merged patch, unless you make the latter manually. If you want to use bashs lists the correct way is when you make the merged patch find the leveled lists section in tesedit and delete it. Click on your wrye bash shortcut, select fo4 as your game, if its a new installation highlight bashed patch, p on the bottom of the mods pane, and hit the delete button on your keyboard. If there is no patch in overwrite, it is probably due to past use of wrye bash outside mod organizer, which would have placed the bashed patch in the real skyrim data folder instead of in. Make a merged or bashed patch in fallout 4 walk through youtube. Once you have the bashed patch installed, the obvlivion mod manager will update the patch with each new mod you add to the game. A simple guide to creating a merge patch, and including it in your bash.
Wrye bash can create a bashed patch containing resolutions for some of the conflicts between plugins. A bashed patch is a configurable, custom built patch. Once youve built it you should hand edit it and removed the levelled list. What a merged patch does is generally, merge leveled lists, npc dialogue options, item placements, and other information that would otherwise get overwritten by the mods at the end of the load order. If you set them up correctly, and arent dying for plugin space theres no reason not to. When the bashed patch is rebuilt, 2 times, once for the bashed patch itself, once for the associated readme. Without a bashed patch, youd have to really merge the mods thus all compilations of a zillion hair and eyes mods etc. The patch can have multiple components, which you can choose and configure as you like. If no one else has posted avries guide by the time i get to a computer, i will. Consider the use of a merge patch, as described in the beginners guide to xedit merged patch wrye bash bashed patch used together thread on the nexus fallout new vegas mod troubleshooting forum to reduce the number of conflicts. Skyrim bashed patch pictorial guide at skyrim nexus mods.
The merged patch does basic merging and the bashed patch does advanced merging. The merge plugins does not include an automated feature to merge mergeable plugins. Sadly pretty much everyone working on wrye bash is mia and tes45nvedit is still constantly updated soon wrye bash might end up being fazed out if. Im setting up my skyrim installation with the step mods and some others i wanted to add. Is it necessary to retickreactivate the esps that wrye bash removed when creating the first bashed patch the first time it was run, to include them in the new merged patch, or can those deactivated mods that are in the next step going to be deactivated by wrye bash anyway. The files are not deleted, but moved to the game mods\bash installers\bash\data folder contents timestamp folder instead, where timestamp is the date and time the command was run. Glancing at your list, i think you would benefit from both a merged and a bashed patch. At the very least use the merged patch beginner step that is the minimum requirement after time and experience and to manage more mods then move to the bashed patch which does everything the merged patch does plus more. What a merged patch does is, generally, merge leveled lists, npc dialogue options, item placements and other things that would otherwise get overwritten by the mods at. So i propose that an official load order including all morroblivion mods the main. Since a smashed patch has a more indepth record conflict handling, it is better to use it over a bashed patch, however, a smashed patch does not merge plugins. The resulting patch is called a bashed patch and is created by following the instructions below.
So if youre merging plugins, leave them inactive before building, then select to merge them in the bashed patch build dialog. Merge patches, import names, import stats, tweak settings optional, and leveled lists. Wrye bash is a tool that can be used to install and manage mods, but for our purposes, it can be used to merge leveled lists and entire mods together. Here is a tutorial on how to create a merged and bashed patch for your mod list in mod organizer. A bashed patch cannot be better for a standard foip lo than a merged patch, no matter how much you try to argue that, simply because all files are designed in a way to a merged patch. So if wrye deactivates 30 mods because it merged them into the bashed patch then you save 30. Leave any boxes that are check as is, but ensure at least the following boxes are checked. Ok to create a bash patch after i create a merge patch. But remember that it will be a double edged sword, if you just use a merged patch, some items might be missing.
A tutorial on how to use bashed patch and smashed patch. On patch the sky mould seems to be at peace, if not with the world at large, at least in regards to the way he can best address it. This will automatically merge a bunch of your mods into the patch, and automatially deactivate the merged plugins in your load order. Prevents the records in the plugin from being merged into the bashed patch, apart from leveled list records, which are merged in. It also for complicated reasons wont patch gmst game setting records.
So if you make a bashed patch and then load a merged patch after it the merged patch will overwrite the leveled lists just like any other mod. I tried googling this, but inevitably the instructions for making a merged patch all referenced similarities to creating a bashed one, and bashed. Morroblivion v064 official load order morroblivion. Why isnt a change from a merged mod showing up in the bashed patch. Wrye bash mergebashed patch question posted in wrye bash support. Automatic merging by the skyrim executable wrye bash. Skyrim bashed patch pictorial guide size hello everyone.
After closing wrye bash and returning to mo, the bashed patch, p will be located in the overwrite folder. Oblivion and fallout you could merge your merged patch into your bashed patch making a super bashed patch. Being there are a bunch of great weapon, item and creature mods out now, the best way to take true advantage of them is to create a bashed patch which merges leveled lists from all these mods together so everything can spawn randomly in harmony with one another. Merged patch, bashed patch, smashed patch, merge plugins. When these plugins were saved in the appropriate creation kit for the intended game and merged into the bashed patch, the game started as normal. Creating a bashed patch using wyre bash to safely merge spawn points and levelled lists in skyrim the last thing we will look at with wyre bash is creating a bashed patch. Description this guide intends to allow bashed patch and smashed patch to be used together. Knowing when to create a merged andor bashed patch. This patch does three things all of which help your mods to work together better. Its just a couple of gmst tweaks, if you choose the second file as an option, it is fully mergeable in the bashed patch. Being there are a bunch of great weapon, item and creature mods out now, the best way to take true advantage of them is to create a bashed. The issue manifested when these plugins were found to be mergeable by bash and subsequently merged into the bashed patch. Merging mods in wrye bash skyrim technical support. But i already have a bashed patch you still need a tesedit merged patch.
No one way is better than the other, bashed patches usually are needed for when you have tons of raceanimation mods that need to be melded together. Is it necessary to add mods removed by wrye bash merged into leveled lists and deactivated esps to your merged patch. This report has also been copied into your clipboard. It can be updated as you add new mods so that you wont have to start a new character to play with the new mods installed. Installing, uninstalling, annealing, and other operations in the installers tab that require modification of the games data folder. There are two things here, with a merged patch you should select everything you want to merge, except your bashed patch. This is the current configuration of this bashed patch. You can also have multiple patches typically, you would have one patch per major set of load mods. Patch usage select a bashed patch probably bash has automatically created one for you.
As i understand it, the bashed patch allows better integration of your mods. In fact, trying to merge them in bash will 1 ask you to deactivate them before hand, and 2 deactivate them even if you refused that prompt after the bashed patch has been created. Bashed patches, created using wrye bash, ensure that items added to leveled lists by different mods do not conflict with each other by creating a single patch which includes all changes to the leveled list. Right click on bashed patch, p, and select rebuild patch. Wrye bash including the bashed patches and their corresponding docs in datadocs such as bashed patch, 0. Its ok well be recreating it, and it is part of the normal update procedure for the merged bash. There are quite a few similarities, and overlapping scopes, between a properly created merge patch, and a bash patch. Fo4 as your game, if its a new installation highlight bashed patch. When i made my first bashed patch, wrye bash said that 7 small, simple. Wrye bash mergebashed patch question wrye bash support. A merged patch doesnt merge your plugins, it only merges very small plugins that make very small changes. How to use wyre bash for skyrim mods to create a bashed patch. Wrye bashflash bashed patch guide elder scrolls iv. The mod contains records that the bashed patch doesnt handle.