
The STEP Guide and the additional or alternative packs give you an order that has proven to resolve conflicts among the installed mods as much as possible. Ordering mods and plugins is the basic step of conflict resolution. If two or more mods change the same file, the last one in the order is going to be loaded into the game. Installation and Load Order determine dominance of one file over another.

Which means, that they are not plugins and therefore ignored by LOOT or BOSS. This is the often mentioned Load Order (LO).Īs Tannin mentioned, not all mods include an esp or esm. The plugin-window on the right allows you to order the position of esps and esms. So, files within mods are usually just virtually overwritten, prevalence of one file over another can be changed any time (though it's generally not advisable to do so mid-game). Since no Mod physically overwrites files from another mod in MO (unless you specifically allow it to do so) you can switch the installation order any time by changing priority numbers - the lower the number the earlier the place of the mod within the installation order. Usually, installation order is set by the order in which you install mods, not so in MO.

You can also order mods by name or flags etc., but when you click on the column "Priority", you'll see the installation order. In its initial setting, the window on the left lists all the mods in the order in which they were installed. MO allows you to easily (re-)order installed mods in two ways: The confusion stems from the fact people are very inprecise when talking about mods.
