Great Guide! I'm not professional modder but here are tips I've come across: 1. When view errors in ssedit, ctrl + double left click will take you to the record in question. 2. For those decencies files that won't go away after following your tut, just open CK -> click on esp in question -> click on dependency that you don't need anymore and ctrl + delete
I'd be very careful about deleting dependencies through CK. What it does is it brute forces to delete all the dependency files without rearranging other master files records. Which means your whole mod might end corrupted, for example NPC's will no longer have the correct eyes or hair.
Thank you so much for posting this! All of the instructions for this I found online were either vague, poorly worded or didn't explain what each step was doing. I followed your instructions and, not only did it do exactly what I needed, but thanks to your informative commentary, I understood what I was doing with every step, which, for me, was just as important as getting the job done. I don't want to follow guides aimlessly to get my mods working. I actually want to learn as I go so this video was amazing. Thanks again!
So helpful! The number of times I downloaded a mod and it doesn't work because it's missing masters, but then you look at the master and it has no requirements from it drives me nuts. Like the mod author attached an unnecessary master to the mod. So finding this guide and being able to remove the stuff and fix it myself is so great. Thank you so much.
This is insanely helpful since I accidentally loaded my mod with some random other mods (to study magic effects, I didn't end up using them). Only posts I could find aside from this as gatekeeping redditors saying "Nooo, you're not allowed to do this!!! It's too hard!!!" Very helpful to find someone who actually gave a proper solution instead of saying not to.
5 years later and after some grey hairs more i finally found a quick solution for this problem. Thanks alot for that well done tutorial. It saved me alot of work! 👍
Thanks for this ♥ !! Also, thank you for speaking clearly! I have encountered several "tutorials" in the past year where the narrator mumbles, or rambles incoherently, so it was a real treat to be able to hear and understand every word you said, diorect and to the point. As info, you don't have to make a dummy Master in WB- I sorted my plugins by size and made a copy of the smallest one (3kb), renaming it to the name of the actual Master that xEdit was citing as the "surprise" master to my little modlet. The only thing to be careful of is to make sure the renamed plugin has absolutelky no possible relationship to the plutgin that has the Mystery Master- because if it finds the records it's looking for in the copied Master, it won't throw the error and you won't do yourself any good with it. After reloading my mod's plugin into xEdit, it went just as you showed: I hit "Check for errors" and it showed them to me, I deleted the offending records (they were Keywords, which is why I didn't find them during the 2 hours I wasted triple-checking every FormID in my %^&*ing mod), then Clean Masters and done!
Just a little bump for your video, but you info in this guide just helped me resolve an issue I've been fighting with for days!! Thanks so much for the clear and concise way you walked through using SEEdit to remove a master reference! 😎
You are the best dude, thank you so much! I was following through the Lexy's guide and there were some mods that I didn't want to install so I was wondering how to do this for some of his patches, truly, you're a god's send.
This is a god sent, I was having a lot of fun with the completed Lexy's guide until I got absolutely swarmed with bandits in every outpost thanks to OMEGA populated. Now I can remove it and replace it by the standard OMEGA thanks to your guide.
you sir are an absolute god for this video, following things online to try and find out how to remove missing masters for an AE updated patch for a non AE skryim SE installation, and this was the only thing I found that had the information I needed to get the job done, THANK YOU.
Thanks. I really needed it because Touring Carriages mod creator made unused master file requirement for Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp (because "If you're not running all the appropriate Unofficial Patches, you are not supported") and I use USP ofcourse, but Legendary Edition. Great tutorial. Simple and straight to the point.
Wow, this helped a ton, got really tired of having to rebuild patches, create empty plugins that take up space, or deal with a plugin that I didn't want.
This helped me to remove all references to Schlongs of Skyrim from the YASHed Guide's YASHed Megapatch. Now I can continue with the guide and this will also help me in the future where I make a test profile to switch AOS out for Sounds of Skyrim to remove AOS from the Megapatch so I use HRTF and compare the audio. Thanks!
If you have the original plugin you can skip creating a dummy ESP by going into xEdit and deleting all of its records. Then you can continue with the steps shown in the video, but do not save changes to the master ESP we deleted records for (uncheck it when exiting xEdit to avoid saving the changes). Boom.
Thank you so very much for this video...I had the same problem with a mod guide needing a weather mod as a master and I wanted to use the weather that I wanted to use....and now I can. Peace to you sir.
So I'm trying to remove the 4 creation club masters from the unofficial Skyrim special edition patch and I did everything you said and when I went to check for errors there was 170. I'm not wanting to go though 1 by 1 to remove the errors if there's an easier way. So is there a remove all error's option somewhere? thanks in advance.
If I understand it correctly, this method removes any master independencies by removing any references to the master plugin, correct? ... what if I don't want to remove any records? What if I want to keep every master record, but still make the plugin independent from it? Here's the thing: there's this cape mod in skyrim, and another user created a replaced mod that gives physics to the capes, making them react to movement realistically. So far so good, except for one thing: the second modder removed any NPC distribution, meaning that only the player will have these capes. So, everything that the original modder had that has to do with NPC distirbution, the second modder removed, but added the physics to the capes. To get the best of both worlds (NPC distribution + physics), I copied everything that the second modder had removed back into the mod, but because of this, the second mod is not dependent on the first mod. How do I remove this dependency?
This is an incredibly helpful video and I've saved it to my mods playlist for future reference. But , what do I do after I've created a dummy patch, hit "check for errors" in xEdit and no errors show up? Cleaning master doesn't remove the problem file without any errors to delete. I'm at a loss
I installed Player Voicesets from Skyrim nexus (Which reqiures Dawnguard DLC, since it can't be installed to Enderal i had to delete master.) to Enderal forgotten stories and i only did Wyre Bash method and despite hundreds of errors it works so far :3
please help me i am trying to play skyrim and it said it was missing masters for plugins so i went to nexus downloaded a lot of patches, and then my missing masters list even got bigger
Thanks, this video was great. I used it to remove the Royal Armory from the LOTD Patches Merged esp in Lexy's mod list, as Royal Armory has a game breaking bug in the Season Unending main quest line. One thing to note - I had to remove all the references, exit xEdit (saving the plugin), then reload the plugin again in xEdit before I could clean the master. I'm not sure why that was necessary.
i downloaded an empty esp cause my wrye bash don't have the option to create a dummy master. when i press clean master in xedit it doesn't remove the master i want to remove. i double ckeck the empty esp on xedit and it's empty.
I can't use Wrye bash cuz it can't work with my MO2 setup. I can't just delete the master's record to remove the master I don't want from my mod. It just doesn't do anything, I removed all the records in different ways in SSEedit and cleaned the masters, it just won't remove the master. I don't know what else to do.
I'm trying to just add the references from the Master File to a particular Mod. I don't want to remove the references because this would break the mod. I just want to dump the Master file into the trash because it's just taking up unnecessary space in my load order. How do I do this?
Everything went fine, no more errors but When I clean it still has the undesired masters. I tried using the autoclean plugin too, the master is still there. I have confirmed 0 errors multiple times.
This would come in handy for two mods I want to use with regular Skyrim. The Amazing World of Bikini Armor and Bad End Executions. Both depend on the Dawnguard DLC but Bad End Executions also depend on Dragonborn DLC. Remove those dependents and I’ll be able to use them.
Sometimes if a vanilla record is being modified it won't show as an error. Following the first method in troubleshooting section will find those wiki.step-project.com/User:DarkladyLexy/Lexys_LOTD_Troubleshooting#Cleaning_Masters_From_A_Plugin
You could just open Creation Kit load everything then clicked the plugin in data section and on the right you will see the masters so just press ctrl-delete and it removes the master file from the plugin.
Got my hopes up while watching this, but even after I removed all errors, it still wont remove the master when I go to clean masters. I checked and there are no other errors showing up, it just wont remove the master
Right click the esp in xedit, apply script, choose report masters from the drop down box. This will help you find what you need to delete because sometimes they won't show as errors
Not sure if your still reading these. I tried it and since its a weather mod TES5Edit is totally different and there is nothing like what you show to delete. Would love to know how to do this if you have the time. Peace.
How would I just delete a file? For example I'm making a custom race and it says there is an empty file or an extra file or something similar so I want to delete the original file (custom race file) and make a new one from Hispanic for example
I tried this for a patch for AOS2 with WACCF and LOTD to remove LOTD. Everything worked well except it would not remove LOTD as a master. Nazenn mentions elsewhere that it only works for the last master listed. Since LOTD is an esm, it is before AOS2 (esp). Any idea on how to get around it?
Followed the tutorial exactly and the master file reference I'm trying to remove won't go away even though there are no errors and the dummy file it's pointing to is empty. :(
Okay, I'm an idiot, and I understood like none of this lmao. I just want the stupid Better Fish mod but It requires the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, and doesn't work with Legendary Edition. The Unofficial Patch is a master file and I need to get rid of it so I can have this mod. If someone sees this, please help me! I'm dumb as hell and I just want more fishies :((
A bit confused here. Both Skyrim Special Edition and Skyrim Legendary Edition both have a respective "unofficial" patch so removing a master isn't really what you'd want to do here.
@@xTiNxxTiNx The mod that I'm trying to use requires the oldrim unofficial patch, which has been deleted from Nexus. Therefore, I cannot use this mod unless I get rid of the unofficial patch as a master file
4 years later and after searching for hours you have helped me immensely more than that I have been trying for who knows how many hours. Thank you
It's been 5 years and this is the only video that actually helped me
Great Guide! I'm not professional modder but here are tips I've come across: 1. When view errors in ssedit, ctrl + double left click will take you to the record in question. 2. For those decencies files that won't go away after following your tut, just open CK -> click on esp in question -> click on dependency that you don't need anymore and ctrl + delete
Thnx for the ctrl + double left click on record tip that makes life alot easier!
Came here to confirm that 1st tip (which I've needed) is true!
I'd be very careful about deleting dependencies through CK. What it does is it brute forces to delete all the dependency files without rearranging other master files records. Which means your whole mod might end corrupted, for example NPC's will no longer have the correct eyes or hair.
Thank you so much for posting this! All of the instructions for this I found online were either vague, poorly worded or didn't explain what each step was doing. I followed your instructions and, not only did it do exactly what I needed, but thanks to your informative commentary, I understood what I was doing with every step, which, for me, was just as important as getting the job done. I don't want to follow guides aimlessly to get my mods working. I actually want to learn as I go so this video was amazing. Thanks again!
So helpful!
The number of times I downloaded a mod and it doesn't work because it's missing masters, but then you look at the master and it has no requirements from it drives me nuts. Like the mod author attached an unnecessary master to the mod. So finding this guide and being able to remove the stuff and fix it myself is so great. Thank you so much.
This is insanely helpful since I accidentally loaded my mod with some random other mods (to study magic effects, I didn't end up using them). Only posts I could find aside from this as gatekeeping redditors saying "Nooo, you're not allowed to do this!!! It's too hard!!!"
Very helpful to find someone who actually gave a proper solution instead of saying not to.
5 years later and after some grey hairs more i finally found a quick solution for this problem. Thanks alot for that well done tutorial. It saved me alot of work! 👍
Thanks for this ♥ !! Also, thank you for speaking clearly! I have encountered several "tutorials" in the past year where the narrator mumbles, or rambles incoherently, so it was a real treat to be able to hear and understand every word you said, diorect and to the point.
As info, you don't have to make a dummy Master in WB- I sorted my plugins by size and made a copy of the smallest one (3kb), renaming it to the name of the actual Master that xEdit was citing as the "surprise" master to my little modlet. The only thing to be careful of is to make sure the renamed plugin has absolutelky no possible relationship to the plutgin that has the Mystery Master- because if it finds the records it's looking for in the copied Master, it won't throw the error and you won't do yourself any good with it.
After reloading my mod's plugin into xEdit, it went just as you showed: I hit "Check for errors" and it showed them to me, I deleted the offending records (they were Keywords, which is why I didn't find them during the 2 hours I wasted triple-checking every FormID in my %^&*ing mod), then Clean Masters and done!
Thank you so much this helped me a ton. The dummy ESP trick is amazing!
Just a little bump for your video, but you info in this guide just helped me resolve an issue I've been fighting with for days!! Thanks so much for the clear and concise way you walked through using SEEdit to remove a master reference! 😎
2.5 years later you made my day!!!!!! TY Tin Tin
You are the best dude, thank you so much! I was following through the Lexy's guide and there were some mods that I didn't want to install so I was wondering how to do this for some of his patches, truly, you're a god's send.
This is a god sent, I was having a lot of fun with the completed Lexy's guide until I got absolutely swarmed with bandits in every outpost thanks to OMEGA populated. Now I can remove it and replace it by the standard OMEGA thanks to your guide.
you sir are an absolute god for this video, following things online to try and find out how to remove missing masters for an AE updated patch for a non AE skryim SE installation, and this was the only thing I found that had the information I needed to get the job done, THANK YOU.
I think you dropped this 👑
This game me a good laugh and smile this morning, thank you for this haha
I don't see the option to create a dummy master.
Same here. Has it been removed? :l
Unbelievably helpful guide!! HUGE thank you!
THANK YOU!!! Saved my day. I wish there was a button called "Remove this esp as master, and delete all edits". have a lovely day too!
Thanks. I really needed it because Touring Carriages mod creator made unused master file requirement for Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp (because "If you're not running all the appropriate Unofficial Patches, you are not supported") and I use USP ofcourse, but Legendary Edition. Great tutorial. Simple and straight to the point.
Wow, this helped a ton, got really tired of having to rebuild patches, create empty plugins that take up space, or deal with a plugin that I didn't want.
This helped me to remove all references to Schlongs of Skyrim from the YASHed Guide's YASHed Megapatch. Now I can continue with the guide and this will also help me in the future where I make a test profile to switch AOS out for Sounds of Skyrim to remove AOS from the Megapatch so I use HRTF and compare the audio. Thanks!
Thanks man, makes it so much easier and faster to clean merges after I remove a mod I no longer want.
Had to figure some other things out for myself that were more specific, but this was very helpful.
This is a top shelf tutorial!
Very helpful and it fixed a problem with a Warehouse mod I am making!
If I could like it more than once I would!
your videos about subscribing to your channel xd ?😆 LMAO
Incredibly helpful, thank you!
Helped a lot with cleaning CC dependencies. Thanks!
Short. Sweet. And to the point love to see it. Muchos Gracias, Amigo.
Leaving a quick comment to say THANK YOU!! 👍✨ Very simple, very easy to follow.
I'm trying to figure out why I don't have the option to create a dummy master...
Thank you, this helped a lot for mods they are no longer being updated.
This really helped me, friend. Thank you for taking the time.
You sir are a scholar and a gentleman.
wonderful and straight forward video, you've earned my sub brother :)
If you have the original plugin you can skip creating a dummy ESP by going into xEdit and deleting all of its records. Then you can continue with the steps shown in the video, but do not save changes to the master ESP we deleted records for (uncheck it when exiting xEdit to avoid saving the changes). Boom.
Thank you for explaining this so clearly!
I can't do this bc there's no "create dummy masters" option
just had this kind of problem ... again. BUT this time I found your very good tutorial. Thanks
Thank you so very much for this video...I had the same problem with a mod guide needing a weather mod as a master and I wanted to use the weather that I wanted to use....and now I can. Peace to you sir.
So I'm trying to remove the 4 creation club masters from the unofficial Skyrim special edition patch and I did everything you said and when I went to check for errors there was 170. I'm not wanting to go though 1 by 1 to remove the errors if there's an easier way. So is there a remove all error's option somewhere? thanks in advance.
Thank you SO much for this tutorial! It was exactly what I needed!
Thank you for this video! Congratulation for your channel
Hmm, this was very concise and easy to follow. Thanks!!
Saved me from hours of headaches. Thanks a bunch.
If I understand it correctly, this method removes any master independencies by removing any references to the master plugin, correct?
... what if I don't want to remove any records? What if I want to keep every master record, but still make the plugin independent from it?
Here's the thing: there's this cape mod in skyrim, and another user created a replaced mod that gives physics to the capes, making them react to movement realistically. So far so good, except for one thing: the second modder removed any NPC distribution, meaning that only the player will have these capes. So, everything that the original modder had that has to do with NPC distirbution, the second modder removed, but added the physics to the capes.
To get the best of both worlds (NPC distribution + physics), I copied everything that the second modder had removed back into the mod, but because of this, the second mod is not dependent on the first mod.
How do I remove this dependency?
Thanks very much for this tutorial!
Really useful tutorial. Thanks you.
Many thanks. You are a legend.
oddly when I check for errors it returns nothing. And cleaning masters still doesnt remove the one I want to.
Thank you for this guide! Has not anyone released a script to do the manual part (deleting unresolved records) for us?
Subbed and upvoted because this helped me a great deal. Thanks so much.
This is an incredibly helpful video and I've saved it to my mods playlist for future reference. But , what do I do after I've created a dummy patch, hit "check for errors" in xEdit and no errors show up? Cleaning master doesn't remove the problem file without any errors to delete. I'm at a loss
I installed Player Voicesets from Skyrim nexus (Which reqiures Dawnguard DLC, since it can't be installed to Enderal i had to delete master.) to Enderal forgotten stories and i only did Wyre Bash method and despite hundreds of errors it works so far :3
please help me i am trying to play skyrim and it said it was missing masters for plugins so i went to nexus downloaded a lot of patches, and then my missing masters list even got bigger
Thanks, this video was great. I used it to remove the Royal Armory from the LOTD Patches Merged esp in Lexy's mod list, as Royal Armory has a game breaking bug in the Season Unending main quest line. One thing to note - I had to remove all the references, exit xEdit (saving the plugin), then reload the plugin again in xEdit before I could clean the master. I'm not sure why that was necessary.
That was helpful. Thank you)
i downloaded an empty esp cause my wrye bash don't have the option to create a dummy master. when i press clean master in xedit it doesn't remove the master i want to remove. i double ckeck the empty esp on xedit and it's empty.
I can't use Wrye bash cuz it can't work with my MO2 setup. I can't just delete the master's record to remove the master I don't want from my mod. It just doesn't do anything, I removed all the records in different ways in SSEedit and cleaned the masters, it just won't remove the master. I don't know what else to do.
I'm trying to just add the references from the Master File to a particular Mod. I don't want to remove the references because this would break the mod.
I just want to dump the Master file into the trash because it's just taking up unnecessary space in my load order.
How do I do this?
Great instructional video, thanks!
Everything went fine, no more errors but When I clean it still has the undesired masters. I tried using the autoclean plugin too, the master is still there. I have confirmed 0 errors multiple times.
The option create dummy masters does not show up in wrye bash :(
This would come in handy for two mods I want to use with regular Skyrim. The Amazing World of Bikini Armor and Bad End Executions. Both depend on the Dawnguard DLC but Bad End Executions also depend on Dragonborn DLC. Remove those dependents and I’ll be able to use them.
excellent video, very helpful! Thanks!
Didn’t work when trying to remove a master from Lexys Smash Override, but worked on everything else. No idea what happened
Sometimes if a vanilla record is being modified it won't show as an error. Following the first method in troubleshooting section will find those wiki.step-project.com/User:DarkladyLexy/Lexys_LOTD_Troubleshooting#Cleaning_Masters_From_A_Plugin
You could just open Creation Kit load everything then clicked the plugin in data section and on the right you will see the masters so just press ctrl-delete and it removes the master file from the plugin.
Yes but you need to actually delete all the references to the master in the patch, which is what he's doing on xEdit.
Criminally underliked - This helped me so much, was fast and super clear. Straight to the point and solved my issue - thank you :)
Very helpful! Thank you!
Got my hopes up while watching this, but even after I removed all errors, it still wont remove the master when I go to clean masters. I checked and there are no other errors showing up, it just wont remove the master
Right click the esp in xedit, apply script, choose report masters from the drop down box. This will help you find what you need to delete because sometimes they won't show as errors
@@xTiNxxTiNx Thanks!
@@xTiNxxTiNx I have same problem too and I can not locate the script "report master" on apply script drop down menu. Can you help me?
@@xTiNxxTiNx nevermind I can delete directly the master from file header using the old version of TES5Edit..a bit strange tho
Not sure if your still reading these. I tried it and since its a weather mod TES5Edit is totally different and there is nothing like what you show to delete. Would love to know how to do this if you have the time. Peace.
Thanks for a good tutorial but what should I do if I have 3967 errors? I think there's another way like script that deletes all errors or something..
This is great and all, but how the fak do you convert an esm to esp so i can edit it with the creation kit.
How would I just delete a file? For example I'm making a custom race and it says there is an empty file or an extra file or something similar so I want to delete the original file (custom race file) and make a new one from Hispanic for example
Brilliant, thank you
I tried this for a patch for AOS2 with WACCF and LOTD to remove LOTD. Everything worked well except it would not remove LOTD as a master. Nazenn mentions elsewhere that it only works for the last master listed. Since LOTD is an esm, it is before AOS2 (esp). Any idea on how to get around it?
Excellent advice.
How do you do the opposite , how do you add masters to a mod?
You are a wizard
Followed the tutorial exactly and the master file reference I'm trying to remove won't go away even though there are no errors and the dummy file it's pointing to is empty. :(
Read description. "If you've done what was done in the video and you still can't remove the master, ..."
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, nice tutorial, help me so much!
Any chanse for an updated tutorial?
No reason for one, everything in the video is still valid as far as I'm aware.
I tried removing imp_helm_legend.esp from the MLU Consistency Patch and did not succeed. any suggestion?
The question is, Can i remove Oblivion ESM. master file to use a mod in Skyrim.
No... mods for oblivion don't work for skyrim... or any other game for that matter
Thank you for your help
MY GUY, I feel like the russian cat (toni) when the flower was placed upon his head 🤯.
I've reached unity.
Replay the main quest?
Skip main quest?
So simple man. Why people on reddit make a monster of it? Jesus
Sweet. Thanks.
can you make a version for fallout 4 pls
Many thanks.
Bless you for this.
thanks alot!
thank you very much.
thanks so muchg dude
Okay, I'm an idiot, and I understood like none of this lmao. I just want the stupid Better Fish mod but It requires the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, and doesn't work with Legendary Edition. The Unofficial Patch is a master file and I need to get rid of it so I can have this mod. If someone sees this, please help me! I'm dumb as hell and I just want more fishies :((
A bit confused here. Both Skyrim Special Edition and Skyrim Legendary Edition both have a respective "unofficial" patch so removing a master isn't really what you'd want to do here.
@@xTiNxxTiNx The mod that I'm trying to use requires the oldrim unofficial patch, which has been deleted from Nexus. Therefore, I cannot use this mod unless I get rid of the unofficial patch as a master file
@@crvptfaerie www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214?tab=files
It's still up... maybe the mod pointed to an old page or something
thank you
Thaank you. I wanted this trans vampire waifu mod, that had sun affects vampire npcs as a master because the mod author is annoying
Thanks
thanks king
Thanks