[fo4] are there any Nature of the Wildlands / Happy little trees level quality forest mods for Fallout 4?

New to Fallout modding but spent a lot of time messing with Skyrim.

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u/fyl_bot — 1 day ago

I really like the Maerchenwald the Archwood lite but without lods the pop in is pretty horrendous. Anyone have any ideas on ways to fake or mask it?

Want to do a foliage heavy load order and this one seems perfect, except for the weird ferns that drive me nuts but I can live with that since nothing seems to overwrite them.

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u/fyl_bot — 8 days ago

Nature of the Wildlands based visual overhaul, covering as much as possible (which was honestly most major things surprisingly) as I can do in 2026 with 1 gb.

Since a few people asked, just sharing my mostly visual overhaul that attempts to cover as much as possible using Nature of the wildlands, and Vanaheimr among many other things, with animation and vfx added. Also tried to fix the npcs as much as I could. I tried to pick mods that aligned to the NOTWL aesthetic. I know this isn’t using the load order template but I’ve been doing long enough I know it works. Been tested etc.

Kind of a variation of other ones I posted in the past.

Weather preset: natural

Mod option swf: contrast 2, brightness 0, saturation 3

R3 g1 b2

Leveraged new animation mods to replace Elden Beast

More pics in comments

There are 161 mods with about 10 MBs left. tested on ps5 with no issues. Don’t know if it has issues on ps4 but use the ps4 versions of mods for that.

Still recommend using the llo2 template if you are new to modding.also remember to download the larger files first like all the notwl, Vanaheimr, northern roads, dragons, Riton, tomato’s so you have space for the others

What it do: based on notwl, replaces as many of the textures as I can fit. With some vfx, animations thrown in.

What it don’t: no high hrothgar. Everywhere else should mostly be covered (i think). Also doesn’t replace many amors unfortunately. Unfortunately only leather and iron as that seems to be the most common. Also would have loved to use the new draugr replacer by Xtudo bit no room…

Would also love to add things like ordiantor but sadly no room left. Only mild weather mods as I don’t really like overly intense ones

All the texture mods can be swapped out without crashing your game. Do not remove ussep though or TUDM or it will corrupt your save.

Notwl modlist:

Top loading mods (will auto load here but ussep must be first)

Ussep (required for some mods)

Simple workaround framework

Water for enb master file

Better animals

Animals a plenty

Common Furniture retexture

Obsidian mountain fogs .esl

Btpc v6a - better third person camera

City trees

Ui mods:

Nordic ui (skyui)

Font overhaul Futura book

Skyrim scenery wallpaper v

Dynamic display settings swf

Audio:

Louder nature - birds and insects

Sky/ weather:

Galaxy v2

Eternal sunshine (for when you don’t want it to rain- optional)

Sun rework

PS4 sun lense flare (works fine on ps5

Cloudy skies 512

Dvlass

Ambient clouds aio

Grass foliage and trees:

Veydosebrom Regions

Icfur dead shrub

Nature of the Wildlands

Notwl improved lod addon (Kovac version)

Icfur dead shrub

Valart fern remesh

Reimagined Mountain flowers

Flora additions water plants

Resource pack utilized without flora

Whiterun exterior full of life
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Multiple area edits:

Alt b farmhouse fences (pick version)

Immersive fallen trees

Unmarked locations aio

Lanterns of Skyrim -special edition (not version Ii as that is too big)

Ancient land - no Whiterun doom stones

Sky better roads aio

interesting roads ps4 (works on ps5)

Hold border banners

Master the summit

Kralyks trees mod bundle

Jks Skyrim version 2

Nature of the wildlands - Jks Skyrim patch

Dwemer ruins overhaul exterior

Nordic ruin overhaul - exteriors

Ryns farms

Ryan lumber mills

Single area edits:

Ryns western watchtower

Ryns halted stream camp

Ryns broken tower redoubt

Ryns robbers gorge

Ryns bleak wind basin

Pargran village ruins

Granite hill lore friendly village

Markarth reach environment

Jp steel environmental overhaul

Whiterun horse statues galore

Windhelm mighty statues

Yggdrasil world tree redux

An abstract Skyrim- Whiterun gates

An abstract white run palisades

Lush dragons reach pools

Lush dragons reach pools lower

Witcherun - a verdant Whiterun

Ivy gates of riverwood

Ivy gate of riverwood - Jks Skyrim patch

Markarth city of stone

Nordic Markarth pathway larger

Ryns bleak wind basin

Rysn broken tower redoubt

Ryns robbers gorge

Nordic dawn star entrance

Nordic fantasy pathway

Ruins over riverwood

Patch ruins over riverwood and notwl

Spaghettis towns-darkwater crossing

Spaghetti towns shors stone

Spaghettis town kynesgrove

Spaghettis town old Holdran

Vanilla plus Windhelm entrance

Landscape / Mountain textures:

Vanaheimr snow shader

Enhanced rocks and mountains

Enhances rocks and mountains - add on

Vanaheimr mountains grey 2k ( Kovac version)

Vanaheimr kovacs choice 512

Dirt cliffs enhancement

City texture + :

Riton aio 512

Riften floor clean up

Tomato’s Whiterun walls

Tomato’s Markarth 512

Tomato’s farmhouse v3 1k

Tomato’s nature stone wall

High Quality ivy replacer

Hanging moss to high quality ivy (Kovac version

Snow shader fix -aurl cool jay version

Green thumb vanilla farmhouse

Witcherun - green thumb patch

Witcherun - Jks Skyrim patch

Green thumb lush cities of Skyrim Jks Skyrim patch

Other textures / replacers:

Tomato’s caves and mines

Ncu Nordic ruins

Tomato’s wood

Ps5 ennead banners

Joy of ships

Forest bark 2k

Smim barrels retexture

Amon Talos statue

Small Nordic tent replacer

Textured Road signs weathered

Signage

Clevercharffs Photo realistic locks

Animal replacers:

HOTD vanilla dragon replacer

Bears of the north

Wolves of the wild

Cow replacer

Mihail pigeons

Mihail house cats

Misc textures and vfx:

Inferno 512

Kitty tails Vfx aio

Sekiro combat

dynamic impact and slash effects 512

NPC changes

Better dressed nocs

Dogs now huskies

Tailors measure (change npc clothes)

Skin, hair and body:

Vitruvia 1k (male skin, covers all male npcs)

Pure unp (female skin, covers all female npcs)

Head remesh

No more rough faces

Ks hairdos-wig of your choice (optional with different versions for your character only)

Ps5 vanilla hair - salt and wind (covers all npcs)

Koralina eyebrows

Freckles and rough skin

Koralina freckles

Even more make up

Simple teeth overhaul ( you notice this one more than you’d think)

Real eyes

Animation:

The ultimate dodge mod reborn (smaller mb version)

Xpmsse

Movement behaviour overhaul

Var

Vanargand animations 2

Sigma magic

Sigma sword animations first person animation

Player head tracking lite

Other:

Rustic weathers - presets

All map markers discovered (optional for testing all areas)

Insignificant object remover

Stuck effect cleaner

Remove interior fog v2

Disable eye adaption and bloom

Rich merchants of Skyrim

cheat room (naughty molly port)

Fast alternate start

Npc replacers:

Any pandorables I can fit (do last) - recommend shield sisters, warrior women, lovely lasses as you see this npcs a lot)

Lydia by koralina if you can fit do last

Weapons and armor:

Wearable elf ears

Shiny metal cube maps

Xavbio leather retexture

Massive iron replacer

(Any other armor mod you can fit)

Water:

Rainbows over waterfalls

Water for ENB shades of Skyrim 512

Lighting:

Relighting Skyrim - window shadows

Mods that must go last plus additional patches:

Northern roads Vanaheimr (53 mb version)

Northern roads ultimate grass fix

Northern road anniversary and cc patch

Northern roads ussep additions

Northern roads Jks Skyrim patch

Northern roads -Nordic ruins of Skyrim patch

Northern roads - floating plants fix

Northern roads ancient land patch

Northern road ancient land and interesting roads patch

Northern roads Ivy gates of riverwood patch

Patch between ruins over riverwood and northern roads

Northern roads- ryn bleak wind

Northern roads ryns farms

Northern roads ryns broken tower redoubt patch

Northern roads ryns halted stream patch

Northern roads ryns robbers gorge patch

Northern roads - Ryns western watchtower patch

Northern roads grass patch

Northern roads water for enb patch

u/fyl_bot — 22 days ago

Since I posted about this earlier, Varnagard 2 sprint animation has been updated. Looks great! Thanks Cego

I should probably actually do some work today…

u/fyl_bot — 24 days ago

I like the new vanargrand animations 2 but the sprint is a little goofy. Anyone have a good sprint replacer I can overlay?

Video to demonstrate goofy sprint

u/fyl_bot — 24 days ago

The most comprehensive visual overhaul for the Tomato’s mods I can do in 2026 (colorful aesthetic)

A mostly visual overhaul that attempts to cover as much as possible using the Tomato’s mods with animation and vfx added. Also tried to fix the npcs as much as I could. I tried to pick mods that aligned to that aesthetic. I know this isn’t using the load order template but I’ve been doing long enough I know it works. Been tested etc.

Weather preset: natural

Mod option swf: contrast 5, brightness 0, saturation 4

R4 g1 b0

For Elden beast lite, recommend going to egg conditional idles and turning off a bunch of animation like modesty, injured, cold. They can get a bit annoying. As well go to elden beast config and recommend turning off momentum stop.

More pics in comments

There are 180 mods with about 30 MBs left. tested on ps5 with no issues. Don’t know if it has issues on ps4 but use the ps4 versions of mods for that.

Still recommend using the llo2 template if you are new to modding.also remember to download the larger files first like all the tomato’s ones, northern roads, dragons, Riton so you have space for the others

What it do: replaces as many of the textures as I can fit, aligned to tomato’s mods. With some vfx, GDB animations thrown in.

What it don’t: no high hrothgar. Everywhere else should be covered (i think). Also doesn’t replace many amors unfortunately. Unfortunately only leather as that seems to be the most common.

Would also love to add things like ordiantor but sadly no room left. Also also only mild weather mods as I don’t really like overly intense ones

All the texture mods can be swapped out without crashing your game. Do not remove ussep though.

Ussep (required for some mods)

Simple workaround framework

Water for enb master file

Better animals

Animals a plenty

Common Furniture retexture

Obsidian mountain fogs .esl

Btpc v6a - better third person camera

Great forest of Whiterun hold

City trees

Nordic ui (skyui)

Font overhaul Futura book

Skyrim scenery wallpaper v

Dynamic display settings swf

Looser nature - birds and insects

Reverb and ambiance

Improved combat sounds

Elden ring misc sounds

NieR block sound

Galaxy v2

Eternal sunshine (for when you don’t want it to rain- optional)

Cloudy skies 512

PS4 sun lense flare (works fine on ps5)

Dvlass

Ambient clouds aio

Skoglendi 2mb version

Thesithlord shrub

Icfur dead shrub

Fabled forests new

Fabled forests lod

Aspens ablaze

Shrubbery symphony

Valart fern remesh

Valart juniper

Reimagined Mountain flowers o

Kovacs gildergreen

Flora additions water plants

Resource pack utilized without flora

Whiterun exterior full of life

HLT high quality ivy v1 4 mb Kovac version

Hanging moss to high quality ivy (Kovac version)

Hlt high quality ivy replacer add on

Alt b farmhouse fences (pick version)

Immersive fallen trees

Unmarked locations aio

Lanterns of Skyrim -special edition (not version Ii as that is too big)

Ancient land - no Whiterun doom stones

Sky better roads aio

interesting roads ps4 (works on ps5)

Hold border banners

Master the summit

Kralyks trees mod bundle

Jks interior collection

Jks Skyrim version 2

The great forest f white run hold - Jks Skyrim aio patch

Dwemer ruins overhaul exterior

Nordic ruin overhaul - exteriors

Ryns farms

Ryan lumber mills

Markarth reach environment

Jp steel environmental overhaul

Windhelm mighty statues

An abstract Skyrim- Whiterun gates

An abstract white run palisades

Lush dragons reach pools

Lush dragons reach pools lower

Witcherun - a verdant Whiterun

Ivy gates of riverwood

Ivy gate of riverwood - Jks Skyrim patch

Markarth city of stone

Nordic Markarth pathway larger

Ryns bleak wind basin

Rysn broken tower redoubt

Ryns robbers gorge

Nordic dawn star entrance

Nordic fantasy pathway

Ruins over riverwood

Whiterun horse statues galore

Fantasy cities - cross of lake illnata

Vanilla plus Windhelm entrance

Quirkyorcsbreezehome

Vanaheimr snow shader

Enhanced rocks and mountains

Enhances rocks and mountains - add on

Tomato’s mountains grey 2k ( Kovac version)

Tomato’s landscapes aio kovacs version 512

Dirt cliffs enhancement

Tomato’s aio 512

Riften floor clean up

Riton sky haven temple 512

Riton winterhold

Northern vanilla farmhouses

Tomato’s farmhouse v3 textures only

Tomato’s nature stone wall

Green thumb northern vanilla farmhouse

Witcherun - green thumb patch

Witcherun - Jks Skyrim patch

Green thumb lush cities of Skyrim Jks Skyrim patch

Tomato’s imperial forts (v1 not v2- the one in the aio doesn’t seem to work right now)

Tomato’s caves and mines

Ncu Nordic ruins

Tomato’s wood

Ps5 ennead banners

Joy of ships

Forest bark 2k

Smim barrels retexture

Amon Talos statue

Small Nordic tent replacer

Road signs weathered

Signage

Realistic Hawthorn reach tree

Clevercharffs Photo realistic locks

HOTD vanilla dragon replacer

Bears of the north

Wolves of the wild

Mihail chicken and chicks

Cow replacer

Mihail pigeons

Mihail house cats

Fire and ice overhaul redux 512

Inferno 512

Kitty tails Vfx aio

Sekiro combat

Kittytails vfx enb hands

dynamic impact and slash effects 512

Better dressed nocs

Dogs now huskies

Multiple followers

Tailors measure (change npc clothes)

Vitruvia 1k (male skin, covers all male npcs)

True male faces

Pure unp (female skin, covers all female npcs)

Head remesh

No more rough faces

Ks hairdos-wig of your choice (optional with different versions for your character only)

Ps5 vanilla hair - salt and wind (covers all npcs)

Koralina eyebrows

Freckles and rough skin

Koralina freckles

Even more make up

Winged eyeliner

Simple teeth overhaul ( you notice this one more than you’d think)

Real eyes

Xpmsse

Gdb Elden beast lite

Sigma magic

Sigma sword animations first person animation

Player head tracking lite

Obisidian weather presets

All map markers discovered (optional for testing all areas)

Insignificant object remover

Stuck effect cleaner

Remove interior fog v2

Disable eye adaption and bloom

Rich merchants of Skyrim

cheat room (naughty molly port)

Fast alternate start (must have an alt start mod for most mod lists. The intro don’t like mods)

Any pandorables I can fit (do last) - recommend shield sisters, warrior women, lovely lasses as you see this npcs a lot)

Lydia by koralina

Wearable elf ears

Shiny metal cube maps

Xavbio leather retexture

(Any other armor mod you can fit)

Rainbows over waterfalls

Water for ENB shades of Skyrim 512

Great forest of Whiterun hold -Jks Skyrim patch

Relighting Skyrim - window shadows

Northern roads Vanaheimr (53 mb version)

Northern roads ultimate grass fix

Northern road anniversary and cc patch

Northern load ussep additions

Northern roads Jks Skyrim patch

Northern roads ancient land patch

Northern roads Ivy gates of riverwood patch

Patch between ruins over riverwood and northern roads

Northern roads- ryn bleak wind

Northern roads ryns farms

Northern roads floating plants fix

Northern roads ryns broken tower redoubt patch

Northern roads ryns robbers gorge patch

Northern roads grass patch

Northern roads water for enb patch

u/fyl_bot — 30 days ago

Accidentally walked into the nicest evening I think I’ve seen in Riverwood…

u/fyl_bot — 1 month ago

I notice that Nat seems to make the grass more windy, are there mods that just do that and that alone?

Want to make as much wind as possible. FPS be damned.

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u/fyl_bot — 2 months ago

Looking for small sized mods that make a huge difference on world

Doing a high fantasy modlist and need to use up all the MBs

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u/fyl_bot — 2 months ago

We need a quest to teach Yann a lesson.

Yann: I got shitfaced and have to chop wood and fight 3 guys or something now!

Kliff: what are you up to now, Yann?

Yann: *runs off*

Kliff: Alright. *chops wood and fights 3 guys*

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u/fyl_bot — 3 months ago