Essential Follower Mods for Skyrim

[@CyberController-]

"If we get to the end of the dungeon and Delphine has swap the Elder Scroll with a note, I am going to hurt her" *Inigo The Brave 2018*

[@Anti-HyperLink]

What does that reference? Something else in the game or some other fiction?

[@ASavageSandwich]

“Get in line.” - The Dragonborn, Friend of Inigo, 2019.

[@rokkfel4999]

@@Anti-HyperLink she does that with a horn

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

Funniest mod ever, I love Inigo to death

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

Inigo to Delphine "I should crush your skull after what you've done to me"

[@deepblume6611]

Nazeem as a Follower?! - OHH BOETHIA I GOT SOMEONE FOR YOU!! >: )

[@anthonym840]

😂😂😂

[@lethalassassin1754]

He'll be going to the 'cloud district' 😂😂😂😂

[@CJ_F0x]

Earned your way to the top with that comment 😂😂😂

[@CJ_F0x]

Earned your way to the top with that comment 😂😂😂

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

Well if you install "Immersive citizens" mod, Nazeem actually starts spending his day at Dragonsreach

[@monkeyd6716]

“So, Delphine is a blade? She doesn’t seem so sharp to me” - inigo the brave

[@thelonelylump4015]

Inigo scared away Nazeem that’s good enough for me. Anyone who can mess with Nazeem is good in my book.

[@lsswappedcessna]

Inigo is the best cat ever.

[@bestopinion9257]

Inigo scares that racist Nord from Windhelm too

[@agentfrost7823]

most important mod: DON'T STAND IN FRONT OF THE FUCKIN DOOR ENTRANCE mod.

[@riseALK]

Shadow-Knight I think there is mod where running into an NPC will make them move several steps away.

[@MarkusHammond]

They're supposed to do that in Vanilla Skyrim but it's fidgety and doesn't always work properly. I think several of the follower mods make that "stepping out of the way" system more reliable.

[@PirateOfPlayTime]

There's one called "MOVE DAMMIT" that just increases the distance NPCs move back when you bump into them.

[@agentfrost7823]

PirateOfPlayTime The push mod from fallout 4 would be nice to have in Skyrim

[@fireidar]

You can make them move further back and faster!

[@ak-eq7jl]

Inigo is my favorite out of everyone

[@teabeenz6526]

Inigo singlehandedly turned my Skyrim experience from your standard Stoic Chosen One storyline into a buddy comedy about a socially awkward ranger and her blue Khajiit best friend traversing Skyrim and getting into trouble

[@thefairybug40]

Yup. The game is basically unplayable without him.

[@Koubitz]

Support my video making endeavors on Patreon: www.patreon.com/koubitz I noticed that once one person finds an error, suddenly everyone magically starts to pick up on it as well. So for my own sanity, congrats to Frisojongen for finding a typo "Eseential" at the title screen and "convinient" instead of convenient. No need for anyone else to let me know. :P Thanks again for watching everyone! I'll try to double check these little title cards more often, lol.

[@robbiegillespie1726]

Koubitz Great video anyway. Keep up the good work!

[@Koubitz]

Thank you!

[@johngrant4470]

checking npc status in the console I think I've typed "iseseential" or some other typo too many times to count.

[@vitlityprinceofrainwings9075]

Koubitz you can just use consule commands to do most of these

[@AzrielTheFallen]

Koubitz i just wanted to thank you for making these videos, i recently got skyrim on my computer (finally) and was slightly overwhelmed by all the mods and slightly annoyed that i couldn't find some of the ones I had liked from console. So thank you again for making this and keep up the good work

[@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar]

Inigo actually has more dialogue than any other mod on the nexus. He even has some for situations that are actually impossible to get him in without consoles or cheat mods. Like if hes invisible. Flying. In the cell that dead bodies go to. In sheogorath's realm. Why did you bother voicing this?

[@MrGamingPigeon]

Can't tell if actual true info or if your lieing.... Nah a tells true no?

[@jouille4524]

@@MrGamingPigeon its true. I remember once i disabled then enabled him and he commented on that

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

Because Inigo is a fucking legend

[@ideamaster3323]

what about Lucien. You know the mod follower that can interact with inigo but supposedly has more dialogue. I'm still new to modding on pc but i'm just wondering on that bit

[@Fatalitix3]

Im pretty sure you can summon him to Sheo or cast a spell to give him invisibility.

[@harrisoncarney9492]

Inigo has jokes if you have coin

[@Dobbinator817]

you did a good job explaining the mods like Aft, most youtubers will just list it and just assume that you know what it does

[@vulpesinculta3238]

If you use Inigo with another follower mod called Vilja, they will actually interact with one another. The Vilja mod itself is the marmite of follower mods: you either love it or hate it.

[@Koubitz]

I would have definitely included Vilja on this list since she has such an impressive amount of dialogue and a longish questline. However, the audio quality was just something I couldn't fully get past. That mod is definitely super impressive, and it is super cool how they interact yeah :)

[@johnmc7350]

Cerwiden is also a very good follower but like Vilja the voice can be difficult to get use to. Excellent healer with her own quest line. Need to make Cerwiden's clam chowder in food/cook menu.

[@SweetStarWhispers]

I love Inigo 😆 He actually interacts with tons of npc followers!

[@curiousgiraffe9172]

she sounds like she has a fucking muffin in her mouth

[@hufflepuffler2575]

Vilja was just a huuuge hate for me. while im sure she has an interesting backstory its her voice i just couldnt get past. She sounds muffled and like shes trying way too hard to force some kind of accent.

[@James--Parker]

Interesting NPC's has the best followers in my option. They feel more like people who are actually from Tamriel, and less like your friends commentary on the game.

[@bestopinion9257]

No way, they make pause after every word they say

[@zerosoldier5302]

What’s cool about Inigo is that he will actually talk to your other followers or random NPC’s.

[@cramoslo0423]

Finally a Mod Reviewer that doesn't focuses on sex and boobies mods *cough* *MxRmods* *cough* or somone that speaks like a pre-puberty 12 years old kid, you have Weekly Mods' charisma and Brodual's organisation. Like and new sub

[@jaden9624]

B0RD3R M4N u fuking gay?

[@cramoslo0423]

Why?

[@jennierubyjane6137]

hey, is this mod on xbox?

[@ahyes2921]

Hates MxR, people starts calling you gay, haha I love humanity

[@comicstrider4851]

MxR is doing it for comedic purposes though

[@silverpanda4982]

But...you forgot Dovahbear...

[@jochunk8631]

Pablo!

[@rokkfel4999]

And dovahbit...and tommy wiseu companions

[@smogre5143]

Dovahbear can go to Coldharbour, what about Lucien?

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

@Rokkfel : She did talk about Dovabit, and even her youtube avatar is Dovabit. ^-^

[@LordVader1094]

@@rokkfel4999 Dovahbit is literally in the video. Clearly you didn't watch all of it, lol.

[@Chargedolt]

If you take Inigo during the Peryite quest he actually gets sick and asks to go to a temple, until you do he keeps coughing

[@mr.monzoni9812]

you know me fall asleep watching skyrim mods then wake up to 12:21 i fucking thought i had some demons coming for me

[@daman1209]

Your comment made my day hahaha

[@dylanrader7015]

Ha! I laughed when I heard the Witcher 3 music, something about it being over a Skyrim video is funny. Love your mod vids; you have good organisation and a great charisma without being too much.

[@lsswappedcessna]

Yeah, the beginning sounded a little like a distorted and maybe sped up version of Skellige, and then just regular old Velen kicked in. That gave me a chuckle.

[@Frescko]

My posse: serana mrissi Sofia inigo Lucien lechance

[@RaisedFlipper6]

Gotta say, I prefer EFF to AFT and Immersive Horses over Convenient Horses.

[@terang5189]

i love CH's functions but it is very script heavy. it often gets buggy after hours of game play. IH on the other hand is a lot less heavy but brings most of CH's main functions.

[@limun9848]

I am finally happy with my skyrim. Thanks Koubitz

[@lizdevilz7271]

Inigo has become part of my Skyrim isekai life. I can't even enjoy it without him anymore! Kudos Smartbluecat!

[@itsclemtime2357]

I hope Inigo gets dialogue compatibility for Dawnguard with V3, I bet he’d love to see Auriel’s Bow.

[@Catcreeper_69]

I was thinking the exact same thing, let's pray that snartbluecat does that

[@idiotnostalgia5167]

god i love inigo

[@jennierubyjane6137]

is this on xbox

[@burnforburn]

Leixoo_ Yes.

[@KennethLyVideography]

Interesting NPCs super followers are the best followers imo. Better then all others. The key feature about them is how they have frequent conversations related to the quests you are doing. Not just an off hand comment but full dialogue interactions and if they are comments it's fairly long ones. It really makes it feel like they are people on an adventure with you. Combined with the fact that they have a bunch of quests that intertwine with each other, it just makes them even more interesting to have with you.

[@PlaguedByEarth]

Unfortunately, the cannibalism thing was a deal-breaker with me and Arissa.

[@ApollyonZKX]

Gotta get your protein

[@SW-hd4xq]

Great video, as always. Congratulations for the hard work you put into this. Good to see original followers like Arissa put into the light they deserve. Just a little thing, Arissa's quest has trouble triggering if you have a mod that affects patrols & guards spawns and AI. Something about her introduction scene using vanilla guards assets. Make sure to disable these before you hire her, these mods are usually script free, so disabling them for a moment won't leave any orphan script or corrupt your save. I'd also suggest "Acalypha" though. While she may use a pretty standard follower system (with the possibility of tweaking how strong her magic is though, which is a useful touch), I think she is interesting in terms of atmosphere, if you're looking for a more dark fantasy feeling (I basically pick mods that help me turn Skyrim into a more Nosgoth, Legacy of Kain atmosphere, but it's a matter of taste and nostalgia, really). Aurlyn Dawnstone is also brillantly written, a 1 gig follower with tons of interesting things to say.

[@TuberoseKisser]

My favorite follower mod is Miraak Follower+ Miraak Follower Reincarnation, he's the only human follower I use. For animal followers I have Skyrim Pets and I just download a mihail mod to tame them.

[@Saeiane777]

Koubitz, great video I love AFT but AFT is getting buggier in its old age, Immersive Follower Tweaks is the successor to it. Hope you look in to it!

[@Koubitz]

I will totally check it out. Thank you, by the way!

[@bfrobin446]

Unfortunately, for Special Edition, the old AFT is all we have. iAFT may be too dependent on the script extender to bring over.

[@ethanhutchinson7409]

If you use Inigo, I suggest using the Berserk Judeau Armor Mod on his. I feel that set fits him best.

[@goldedrag111]

Link?

[@burkhardstackelberg1203]

Some years in the past, I played Skyrim with Vilja added. She was very fun to be with, with a quite extensive own quest line and tons of environment awareness. It makes Skyrim nearly another game to some degree, as her story is well fleshed out. Though, it has worn of a bit for me, when meeting her in a third play-through. Though, it is fun to have her around after some time with others to hang out... One fun thing, though: Vilja and Inigo interact quite a lot with each other, if you have around both. It is fun having them talking - and cat-fighting ;-P

[@johnmc7350]

Realy enjoy your videos. I use your mod list for making my own. One important mod/tool i found to be highly usedull is LOOT(load order organization tool). It cleaned up a lot of problems I had with my game that NMM could not do.

[@shisteryeontan6]

Kaiden and Recorder will always be my go to follower mods. Along with Serana, who isn't a mod. But all three of them feel like friends to me. I've never tried Indigo before though. Mostly because I don't feel like starting a new game to get ALL of the dialogue from him. But maybe I will now.

[@2180storm]

Inigo is the best out there :D

[@InOtterSpace]

Inigo is my absolute favorite.

[@nivix5717]

that was a great mod compilation i found four mods that i liked and decided to add to my load order!

[@chaosurferth1361]

I really enjoyed this video and want to try all of these. The only one i Know is Interesting NPC and it's AMAZING. Espacially for someone who's tired of the vanilla content Thank you

[@happy_camper]

Your mod list videos are ESSENTIAL themselves.. Fantastic content on this channel!!

[@lordesquire8862]

I rock: Inigo with illidans swords (world of warcraft weapons) , Sofia quiet modded unlimited carry weight , lucien paladin armour Onean (heals everything just not lycanthropy) Serana with added dialogue it's worth it to watch her and Sofia or her and Inigo.

[@quadicsgaming4867]

I’ve watched a couple of your videos and I’ve gotta say I love them. You got yourself a new sub

[@AllyDarkWolf]

I just want to say that these mod list videos are very informative and helpful, thank you for putting so much work into them, they are incredibly useful for finding mods :)

[@ShmoodBrah]

Hi, love your videos. Can't wait to try these mods. You're my new favorite KZbinr.

[@Koubitz]

Awww thanks so much :) its an honor to be considered that by anyone!

[@5jones]

Was looking for this: Amazing Follower Tweaks SE, thanks.

[@jeremynicoletti9060]

kudos for suggesting interesting NPCs - it's my favorite NPC mod.

[@BadJujuOfficial]

The witcher 3 music though. I love it!

[@simongvs]

Seeing Dovahbit here and watching a Monty Python & the Holy Grail reaction video earlier today makes me wonder if there’s a mod to bring over the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog to Skyrim…

[@victorvilorn5964]

I recognize the music you use for the review, Skellige from The Witcher III. Good choice, the familiar music is comforting. Also, plenty of the mods you reviewed are definitely going to used for my next playthrough! Thanks for the information!

[@Replica2901]

Downloaded a mod to teach followers spells and commentary overhaul, made a spellsword, hired Belrand, Teldryn Sero and Eola, named ourselves The Spellsword gang. Not much, but most fun I had with followers I think.

[@andrewjohnson6716]

My adventuring party in vanilla unmodded Skyrim: Kharjo in my follower slot, the Dwemer Sphere from Kagrumez in my pet slot, Katria from an unfinished quest, and Barbas from an unfinished quest. The game still lets me have a fifth “follower” during quests like the Companions quest lines.

[@andrewjohnson6716]

6:00 Arissa, the Wandering Rogue, is wearing the Blackguard outfit from the Solstheim DLC which is why it looks so lore-friendly.

[@DarknessandSolace]

Faroe is a nice island. Nice ambient music as well.

[@dominiccampbell181]

Recorder and Sofia are the best ones I've used so far in the case of specific followers. Already have AFT, but I'll be checking out some of the others you mentioned.

[@majorgear1021]

Great choices! Those are two of my favorites as well.

[@dominiccampbell181]

@@majorgear1021 I've also heard good things about Aurlyn Dawnstone - The Reclusive Philosopher, but I haven't tried that one out yet.

[@dennisveatch8155]

For the longest time used AFT and it is a good mood. Lately have switched to Immersive AFT.

[@themerchant2990]

"One handed weapons suit me very much, they leave a free hand for rude gestures" - Inigo -

[@zerosoldier5302]

I wish I could have all my followers at my hearthfire home and make like a bar where they all chill out until I ask them to follow me.

[@angelocastronova9895]

Great video, love the detail! I just got like 4 mods from this video that I'm definitely going to use.

[@TiiaHallibel]

It would be so funny if the Dovabit could shout... Fus ra bit enemies off cliffs.. :D

[@mr.unethical2826]

TiiaHallibel ikr. Can you imagine? Him using Dragonrend on dragons while you come up to them and finish them off

[@no1ofconsequence936]

Never investigated the amazing follower tweaks before mostly (or entirely) because of the picture it has on the Bethesda workshop. Probably going to install it the next chance I get.

[@RooRoove]

Arissa is actually very good and she's my favorite so far.

[@The.Nasty.]

Hey... uh, the captions think your name is literally “stupid”

[@ASavageSandwich]

If Arissa ever comes to SE, I may cry tears of joy.

[@Razkoh]

You are such an underrated youtuber. Keep up the good work

[@davidgentry5971]

omg I love the bunny at the end, definitely getting that one lol

[@drac3650]

I had an amazing time with Arissa, because my character is a Bosmer Merchant/Adventurer, so I did sneak around and shoot bad people to help good people, but I also had to eat some of them (iNeed) and sometimes take down stormcloaks to sell their goods and sleep in their camps.

[@1Scimetar]

A cool feature of the Inigo mod is that if you want to invert his morality, just jam Cicero's hat on his head and bingo.

[@Nutshell2K]

I had never heard of Dovahbit before this video! Thanks yous 💖

[@heavymetalmusichead4969]

Amazing Follower Tweaks is amazing and you need it

[@maclunkey7275]

I like the Rogue follower but her dialogue kinda sounds like a robot and I can just notice the small details like where they stopped the dialogue recording. I'm just nitpicking I'm sorry 😂

[@thelrontankard9150]

this video is absolutely great, good job!

[@JaredTakesTime]

Nice commentary on Inigo!

awesome video!

[@keishikura]

Bruh just came here to see if Inigo was included and how much love he gets in the comments. I'm not disappointed.

[@majorgear1021]

Zora from Interesting NPC’s is my fav follower so far. Though I have Mirai, Mrissi, and Recorder loaded in my current game so that I can try them out.

[@ArmoredGamingZ]

Sofia is my absolute favorite companion mod, and a mod that's always in my mod list

[@thenotsofunnygamer1220]

ArmoredGaming I like Sophia but I prefer Inigo.

[@XvParagonvX]

She gets obnoxious after a while, for me

[@권민준-q2f]

Paragon None of your damned business same,she can get really annoying

[@XvParagonvX]

How so?

[@iputasmileonthatface]

Her and Inigo at the same time is the best for me I really wish they interacted because for me those are the two overall best follower mods out there and it's a shame they don't intertwine.

[@tamniall]

Ahhh.. Witcher 3 tunes as your bgm.

[@MrGamingPigeon]

Lucian flavous for the win!

[@awfas1]

love the witcher soundtrack in the background

[@lennyface6828]

THIS VIDEO WAS SIX FREAKING YEARS AGO???? OH MY GOD

[@xXXx__.__arthur__.__xXXx]

I came for the mods, I stayed for the Faore Isle Theme from The Witcher 3.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

What may be most impressive about Inigo is that the mod is the author's first shot. I really like Arissa, although I find her morality a bit confining. What she calls murder, I call a first strike in self-defense. Dovahbit looks fun, but have you tried Chinook? He is by far my favorite animal companion. What's more cute than raising a snow bear from a tiny cub into adulthood, watching his claws grow from tiny specks to small daggers on the ends of his paws? Be warned, if you don't have the patience to feed him regularly & consistently, he will grow at a slow rate. I find keeping extra venison on my horse to feed him (particularly with the yields from Hunterborn) makes this potential problem a non-issue.

[@Daehawk]

Wow a companion video with no mention of Sophia, Recorder, or M'rissi.

[@dantastic9621]

Daehawk it's because they all suck

[@Ieatpaste23]

I bet the voice actor absolutely murdered their voice doing Wak Wak.

[@Asterionfu]

That Witcher 3 music made me have goosebumps...

[@researchandbuild1751]

Didnt know about convenient horses! Time to install

[@johnwang9914]

When returning from Jophet's folly, where I had a few friendly fire issues at the end, Arissa immediately killed two Windhelm guards and became very disappointed in me for their murders. I only ended the battle by going to Solstheim, hopefully the guards won't immediately attack when I return.

[@dragonborn754]

Did I sence witcher music in Skyrim? LOVE IT.😂❤ Btw amazing video!😀

[@BZAKether]

Excellent list!

[@squallion777]

ATF is among my essential mod list, and out of all the years of using it, there is still one thing the mod author forgot to add, friendly fire for the followers themselves, he has it on for the dragonborn but if one follower damages an other through an AOE spell for example, they become hostile to each other, the only way I can resolve the fight without reloading a game save (because they will fight each other for eternity) is use "summon" so far thats my only grip, unless you know of a mod that has follower to follower friendly fire, I'll have to continue using "summon" to stop fights :-(

[@DanieljmWaters]

Now that I have Dovahbit my VR Skyrim is complete. I have no idea how I did not know about the little guy.

[@youtobanotoba]

Heeey, a new video! nice :)

[@MidnightDarkness666]

Glad you didn't include Sofia because shes uncomfortably sexual, or Recorder because shes unimmersive as all hell. Wasn't happy to read the comments and find people hating on Vilija, shes so sweet and it really feels like a naturally forming friendship the longer you spend with her. My most interesting experience was with Arissa and Ki. Ki isn't uniquely voiced or anything, I honestly got him because hes pretty and I wanted a follower I could marry who wasn't a muscle bound manly man. I also had RDO and Immersive Citizens installed. So, there I was having just recruited both of them in Falkreath. Arissa turns and says something along the lines of "I hear Falkreath has the biggest cemetery in all of Skyrim." then Ki responds with "I wouldn't believe those rumours." or words to that effect. My vanilla voiced follower interacted with my custom follower. My computer was talking to itself. Mind Blown

[@Obsidianoak]

Ran accross this accidentally while looking for a video on followers marked essential. I think these are good mods. I usually don't use any but I may just track these down I always want more carry space and alchemy ingredients and I was so pleased to have my shade dog and follower with me. Being able to ride around with up to 5 followers would be great. Anything to watch out for aside from with Inago and the amazing follower tweaks? I've heard the game can really struggle with too much in one place and I have had some lag in the bigger battles. Now all we need is a mod to fix the crashing dungeon ;) Thank you for sharing

[@terang5189]

Great content, Koubitz. You've got another subscriber here. in your future videos, could you do a little game play showing what the mod does? like the one that you showed with arissa but just a bit longer. cuz i got scared to try on new mods since i repeatedly ruin my saves by uninstalling mods. thanks!! btw, your voice sounds like arissa, she's one of my fav too. :)

[@Aethuviel]

I love Lucien, he's an absolutely amazing friend for my Snow Elf. I have Inigo and Arissa saved for my future Bosmer thief, but now I'm looking for a follower for an Altmer mage, and I can't really find anything.

[@aaronmicalowe]

The best method with the least conflicts (and chance to corrupt your saves) is to just set PlayerFollowerCount to 0 each time you get a new follower.

[@aratherdapperdevil7878]

My absolute favorite is Inigo

[@pjbarban]

I love the Vilja follower mod best!

[@RandomDude_tw_6]

In one character I have Vilja and Erik The Slayer, and when we are idle they start talking. It's so cool!!!

[@jessiehogue.]

Vilja also seems to be quite talkative around Lydia, I noticed.

[@LA_MALA_ORDINA]

Viljas audio quality is utter shit.

[@researchandbuild1751]

Arissa isnt so great..she really doesnt have that much dialogue

[@splattt8088]

if anyone is upset that some of these arent on SE you can port skyrim mods to SE, as long as they dont have animations, i was able to port arissa to my game , and everything is wworking perfectly fine, but be careful, it CAN break your game. There are multiple videos if you dont know how to port them.

[@ascended8174]

8:32 Sapphire is questioning your life choices

[@rokkfel4999]

I just love that inigo is made by someoneo and or people named smartbluecat