Its owner, Ashal, created a mod template for the game known as SexLabs that enabled the creation of adult-themed mods by providing a 'foundation of thousands of animations and basic game functions'. Skyrim is noted to have an active adult modding scene centered around the website LoversLab, a 1.5 million member 'massive sex mod community'. It contains a darker story than Skyrim, and was positively received by fans. Enderal, a sequel to the Oblivion mod Nehrim: At Fate's Edge, goes further and remakes the entire game as a total conversion. The Falskaar mod contains a DLC-length adventure with 26 new quests in a new continent, and was created as a job application its creator was later hired by Bungie. Many Skyrim mods add new content to the game. Other 'essential' mods include A Quality World Map, which makes the game's map screen higher-resolution or enables replacement with a paper map, and Realistic Humanoid Movement Speed, which adjusts the player's movement speed to make walking faster and running slower. SkyUI, which completely redesigns the game's menu screen to make it easier to use, as well as providing menu systems for other mods, is also a popular and highly recommended mod.

One exists for both the main game and the official High Resolution textures patch. Some of the most basic and commonly used mods are the Unofficial Skyrim Patches, which simply address 'a huge amount of bugs the official patches don't'. Fans were also able to create an unofficial modding scene for the Nintendo Switch. These mods made their way to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with the release of Skyrim Special Edition. Valve Corporation walked back its attempts to add paid mods to Skyrim, after backlash from fans. Skyrim mods are largely free to download. As the vanilla game has a reputation for outdated mechanics, it is common for players to mod Skyrim before their first playthrough. Other mods add new quests and characters, or update the game's graphics and animations.

Many of these mods were created for utility, patching numerous bugs left in the game by Bethesda Softworks, while also improving the game's usability and character movement. As one of the most modded games, it has over 60,000 mod submissions on Nexus Mods and 28,000 in the Steam Workshop. Skyrim modding refers to the community-made modifications for the 2011 fantasy role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

User-generated creations for the 2011 video game Skyrim

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