

Mators Merge Plugins provides very capable mod merging tools that can be used across all the Bethesda games that are much more capable than any older merging tools. Until recently the only tools that could provided automatic merging of mods for Bethesda games were TES4Gecko which automatically merges Oblivion plugins, and FNVPlugin which merges Fallout New Vegas plugins. With the exception of the Wrye Bash methods below, all the techniques described here require a good understanding of TES5Edit (or equivalents for other games including TES3Edit for Morrowind, TES4Edit for Oblivion, FO3Edit for Fallout 3, FNVEdit for Fallout New Vegas, FO4Edit for Fallout 4), and the record structures of plugins. The techniques below are listed in order of increasing complexity. Some of these methods create or merge compatibility patches for multiple mods using a single esp plugin, thus reducing the need for multiple esp plugins to provide compatibility patches for various pairs of mods.

There are multiple methods that can be used to merge all or portions of esp plugin files to allow large collections of plugins to fit inside the plugin limit of Bethesda games. This small guide outlines the primary methods for merging existing plugins and for creating plugins that merge conflict resolutions and content for multiple mods. While this may seem like a lot, most heavily modded games need more plugins than allowed with this limit.

