Timestamps 0:00 - Where to download xEdit (and how to unpack it) 2:25 - Installing xEdit 3:34 - Getting started with xEdit 7:28 - Important warning (don't edit plugins while the program is loading you idiot.) 9:17 - Different plugins and edits 14:44 - How plug-ins work (and overrides) and their load orders 16:35 - ESP vs. ESM vs. ESL 23:10 - Adding a new file (and how to make edits) 31:32 - In game demonstration
I would really appreciate a full, in depth xedit series. I'm bummed there's only one episode of this and it didn't teach me anything I didn't already teach myself. But I can tell if I had known about this when I started I probably wouldn't ha e taken so long to figure out how to use xedit Please continue into the more advanced aspects of xedit. :)
Regarding that timer, you can disable the message completely by adding the -IKnowWhatImDoing argument to the Target field in the executable's properties.
Hey I just wanna point out that this is a really good tutorial. And I'm not just saying that -- I am a very visual/auditory learner for sure and while GamerPoets is great a lot of his tutorials will show you more "what" rather than "why." Just the fact that you're covering all the bases and explaining each of the common pitfalls as you go, awesome; going in depth on each step, awesome. It feels like I have all the information I need here with a visual example to really get my foot in the door. Just awesome, idk, thanks for this.
Hey! I am not here, to learn how to make plugins and become a mod ninja, I am just looking for a solution for a bug, caused by mod conflict in FO4. My radaways won't clear my radiation sickness. Anyone reading this and knowing how to solve it, and having the time and crayons to explain it to my dumb ass gonna be my personal hero! Thank you!
I have a similar desire. I have a bunch of Fallout 4 Profiles through Vortex. And about 7 months ago, very slowly, sometimes when loading an Exit Save my game would crash to desktop. With one Profile. Then it started progressing more often on 4 Profiles. About every 3 days, if I can play, it will CTD on loading an Exit Save. I started a Virtually Vanilla game, running about 25 mods, like No Twigs (because GAWD there are a lot of sticky-out twigs every-fecking-where), and Ballitic Weave as well as UCO and UF4P, and Start Me Up. Game runs fine. Ran for 10 days no issues. I tried a different, new Profile, enabled about 80 mods, instead of the usual 130. And she CTD after playing for 1 day. However, I have a character running 115~ mods, doesn't CTD on Exit Save. The 80 mods above are the same as the 115. Essentially it is a Mod Conflict type issue. And one of my friends said to load Fallout4xedit in order to find the conflict and resolve it. But no one seems to have a video explaining that in crayon for us newbs. I don't want to create mods, I just want to fix whatever issue is happening, and go back to playing my game using other artists mods. I hope he does an episode showing people like us just that. 😊🙏
Use buffout and check the logs for the CTD event. Prob look at the last couple things to happen and you'll likely find your culprit, sorry it's so late an answer
So when I change the damage of the weapon, it only changes the damage of the gun without any mods, but when I put mods on it the damage isn't added to the mods, so the upgrades remain unchanged, and end up doing less damage, can someone explain what I'm not doing?
Is there a way to edit more than 1 entery with a patch? Im trying to do my own True damage like overhaul manually but doing so would involve easily 50+ added plugins changing vanilla items alone.
I literally did everything you did in this video and it didn't work, I have tried working around it multiple times but my game seems completely unaffected by the changes i make in FO4edit
I'm trying to edit the wasteland energy shields mod to boost the recharge rate or something to prevent simple radiation storms in normal, non-glowing sea areas of the games from knocking them out like blowing out candles, but I can't for the life of me find the shield recharge effect.
Hello, I followed your tutorial verbatim; however, when I get to the step which in your video is 23:31, instead of it having all of the green highlighted values on the right side of the screen, it has nothing at all. I have been searching the internet all day but cannot figure out why no values are showing up under the "record header" section. I know you're busy and probably have a lot on your plate, but this is driving me crazy. If you could help out I would appreciate it. I just subscribed too.
Check to see if you have 'Hide no conflict and empty rows' clicked when you right-click on the header. If you have it checked, everything with no issues is completely hidden.
Overall this was an effective tutorial. But I felt like you had about 20 minutes or more of unnecessary content for a beginner and it actually caused me to spend about an hour to engage in the 10min of useful beginner info. Please remember us newbies are overwhelmed very quickly who are truly new to all this. All your commentary and let me call out or warn you just ensures overwhelmed unable to absorb. I would have said something like. You need to backup your entire base game and any mods you don't want to have to redownload if you mess this up. I am going to go walk you through the very basics. This tool is super powerful and if you deviate in anyway from my instruction you will likely have to restore/reinstall you entire game. This tutorial will likely leave you with a lot of what about this questions. Please see me 102 tutorial where I go into what to look out for, what is basically safe and what can be harmful if you are not careful. Now, this was effective ultimately, and you clearly are an expert in the use and this tool and getting amazing results from it. Thank you for proving you know how to get results and wanting to share your extensive knowledge of this powerful tool. Thank you.
Hey I know your vid was four years ago but I'm trying to edit what is said in subtitles, how do I do that? I want to add an NPC but I'm not sure how to give them lines? (Like dialogue) \
Hello I need help with one problem. I haven't noticed an increase in damage to this modded weapon I own and my main theory is that the patch isn't remaining active even though I checked the box
Edit: I did this and it didn't seem to cause any issues. I want to edit the caps value of an item that was added via a mod I downloaded. Do I have to use the "copy as override into...." option, or can I just edit the base .esp from the mod (instead of creating an entirely new .esp file for just that one change)? PS - Thanks for the video, it was very informative!
there is a good chance many people won't find this video through youtube / google search because it says "xEdit" and the majority of Fallout 4 players will only know "FO4Edit". I almost skipped this video because of this :)
@@kinggath Awesome! Another thing I'd like you to consider is to make your Sim Settlements discord channel free for everyone, so that people new to the mod could ask questions, report bugs and make suggestions. You can still have private channels on the server for patrons (I think patreon does it automatically by assigning a special role, at least I know for sure Twitch has this functionality for paid subs). This way you will get your mod more accessible for new people since I know for a fact many many people don't like registering on the forums to ask questions etc. Forums are good for in-depth discussions, but discrod is great for quick, small questions and general chat.
@@robosergTV its unfortunately not so simple, takes tons of moderators to manage a public Discord, and I just don't have the desire to organize something like that- my plate is plenty full already.
so im trying to change the name of the item ive found mods the do the same but they are always missing something how would one do that and no it isn't a weapon or armor its a misc
HELP I want to edit the Cannibal perk. (amount of HP gained eating corpses) There's some mods that rework this perk but the amount of HP gained still low for my personal preferences. *I'm still new using FO4edit, for now I only know how to change minor things such as weapon base damage and armor slot.
Do you know how to remove weapons from Combined Arms without altering the original mod? The weapons aren't found in Leveled Items so idk how he did to inject them into the game world
this may have been asked, but I really don't wanna dig through 3 years of comments x3x anyway, what do you do if FO4 edit shows "there are no modules in the data folder"?
What is the best way to create a VIS-G patch for a Weapon and Ammo types? For example, the RPG-7V2 by the Shiny Haxorus ; or M79 Grenade Launcher -- Standalone by Seanms1991. I use a combination of VIS-G, AWKCR, Better Locational Damage, Better Explosives Redux and Agony. To make my Survival game even more immersive and challenging, I use Greslin's Pack Attack [PA-NPC]. I've been begging for a larger toolkit of explosives (especially ones that I can field craft, or are lightweight enough to be practical). I don't wear Power Armor, and I don't use a HUD. Defeating my opponents requires tactical thinking. I cannot travel back to Settlements to create the best gear. I must make do in the field. I cannot carry a Rocket Launcher or Fat Man, for a single use. I love Remote Explosives, because I can take the Mini Nuke I found and field craft it into the weapon I need to drop bosses. When I started tinkering around in FO4Edit to get the right damages and proper tags, I somehow broke the game. I've logged a whole lot of information on Explosives, but the complexity is (for now) beyond my very basic modding skill. At minimum, I can learn to get the weapons properly tagged. Many Thanks, Great Tutorial, - Hank
Patching is not something I'm an expert at, but I'll add to my list to get that information and make a tutorial for it eventually. In the meantime, you might want to check the VIS-G articles tab, or the nexusmods.com forums, as I'm sure someone has done a write-up on this.
@@kinggath I looked and there was a VIS-G patcher script. I think I screwed it up when I didn't create an override file. I applied the script directly to the weapons. It didn't say that would be a mistake. When I had applied the BLD patcher in FO4Edit it worked beautifully. I'm missing something, and frankly, right after I rebuilt the game from Vanilla scratch, I'm too scared to try anything else before I watch someone else do it successfully. Call me a coward, it's true. Thanks kinggath, All of your Work is Appreciated. - Hank
the plugin list on startup only shows my vanilla files for some reason, is there any way to fix this? i need to edit a mod but i can't because it won't detect the mods
I need to figure out if there is a smarter way to replace vanilla weapons with modded ones other than manually typing all the info onto a new record of the weapon I wish to replace because that is extremely tedious.
Edit: Basically if you have conflicts--you're not getting all of your load order's content. I'm seeing as I clean how to turn all these things green and happy and what that entails--I didn't realize so many mobs were overlapping ea other and making my own patch to merge them all is brilliant. Is it safe to assume if you have ANY red conflicts there may inevitably be Crashes? Should I be reconciling all of these orange ones, too? Lol
Hey, not sure if you still look at the comments of videos this old but would there be any way you could do a firearms and a armor stat modding video? I'm having trouble with those concepts and am not finding what I'm looking for.... Mainly explaining what each component is and how they effect the item such as; what is "damage - secondary" on a firearm (I assume it is another type of damage, like energy or rad damage added on but how do you edit those?) and I understand how to edit the physical damage resistance on armor but cant find the energy resist... Thank you if you se this or anyone else who can help me out!! Hope yall are havin a great day! :)
I wonder if you can lend me a hand, lately there have been new shoes mods for FO4 but they dont have all the armor options upgrade avalable, like Rail road wave or add a legendary effect, can you give me some tips or point me to some tutorial to learn and do it myself?
Uh has it been 5 years? I forgot all these skills but cant live with the fact german officers outfit and a ll the other cool no skill added outfits in folondon add nothing and cant be used as under armour. So now i have to relearn fallout xedit to patch that.
Would definitely prefer a more meat and potatoes upload on installing FO4edit/ xedit, step-by-step, simple and straightforward. The amount of sidebar comments in this is unreal lol.
Then why did you click on a 35 minute video on what can be done with xedit? That's on you for wanting this video to something it's not. There are literally dozens of 5 to 10 minute videos on how to install xedit. Why you would click this video instead of one of those and then complain is unfathomably selfish.
@@Elwood288 I actually downloaded this video and edited all the sidebar stuff out and got it down to 12 minutes. That made it a lot easier for me, for ME, to learn what he was teaching.
Timestamps
0:00 - Where to download xEdit (and how to unpack it)
2:25 - Installing xEdit
3:34 - Getting started with xEdit
7:28 - Important warning (don't edit plugins while the program is loading you idiot.)
9:17 - Different plugins and edits
14:44 - How plug-ins work (and overrides) and their load orders
16:35 - ESP vs. ESM vs. ESL
23:10 - Adding a new file (and how to make edits)
31:32 - In game demonstration
I would really appreciate a full, in depth xedit series. I'm bummed there's only one episode of this and it didn't teach me anything I didn't already teach myself. But I can tell if I had known about this when I started I probably wouldn't ha e taken so long to figure out how to use xedit
Please continue into the more advanced aspects of xedit. :)
8 hours in and I'm already making an overhaul - this sh*t is so fun! Thanks for starting my modding career with an outhouse.. 😂
2:12 "Please don't be porn." aka the Internets prayer.
Regarding that timer, you can disable the message completely by adding the -IKnowWhatImDoing argument to the Target field in the executable's properties.
Very late but I have finally decided to get into the more technical side of modding with xEdit, thanks for these videos, they are very helpful !
Hey I just wanna point out that this is a really good tutorial. And I'm not just saying that -- I am a very visual/auditory learner for sure and while GamerPoets is great a lot of his tutorials will show you more "what" rather than "why." Just the fact that you're covering all the bases and explaining each of the common pitfalls as you go, awesome; going in depth on each step, awesome. It feels like I have all the information I need here with a visual example to really get my foot in the door. Just awesome, idk, thanks for this.
Couldn't figure out how to edit the submachine gun base damage to make it actually viable. Video actually helped. Good shit.
Thank you for this great tutorial! Now I can start making patches for other mods to work with better locational damage!
Thanks for the thorough explanation, just what I needed for xedit. Really curious about your other lessons!
Hey! I am not here, to learn how to make plugins and become a mod ninja, I am just looking for a solution for a bug, caused by mod conflict in FO4.
My radaways won't clear my radiation sickness. Anyone reading this and knowing how to solve it, and having the time and crayons to explain it to my dumb ass gonna be my personal hero! Thank you!
I have a similar desire.
I have a bunch of Fallout 4 Profiles through Vortex. And about 7 months ago, very slowly, sometimes when loading an Exit Save my game would crash to desktop. With one Profile.
Then it started progressing more often on 4 Profiles. About every 3 days, if I can play, it will CTD on loading an Exit Save.
I started a Virtually Vanilla game, running about 25 mods, like No Twigs (because GAWD there are a lot of sticky-out twigs every-fecking-where), and Ballitic Weave as well as UCO and UF4P, and Start Me Up.
Game runs fine. Ran for 10 days no issues.
I tried a different, new Profile, enabled about 80 mods, instead of the usual 130. And she CTD after playing for 1 day.
However, I have a character running 115~ mods, doesn't CTD on Exit Save. The 80 mods above are the same as the 115.
Essentially it is a Mod Conflict type issue. And one of my friends said to load Fallout4xedit in order to find the conflict and resolve it.
But no one seems to have a video explaining that in crayon for us newbs.
I don't want to create mods, I just want to fix whatever issue is happening, and go back to playing my game using other artists mods.
I hope he does an episode showing people like us just that. 😊🙏
Use buffout and check the logs for the CTD event. Prob look at the last couple things to happen and you'll likely find your culprit, sorry it's so late an answer
So when I change the damage of the weapon, it only changes the damage of the gun without any mods, but when I put mods on it the damage isn't added to the mods, so the upgrades remain unchanged, and end up doing less damage, can someone explain what I'm not doing?
Nvm, I found out that I just forgot to enable the plugin on vortex.
Is there a way to edit more than 1 entery with a patch? Im trying to do my own True damage like overhaul manually but doing so would involve easily 50+ added plugins changing vanilla items alone.
2:12 - 😂🤣 That one liner caught me off guard like a ninja
I literally did everything you did in this video and it didn't work, I have tried working around it multiple times but my game seems completely unaffected by the changes i make in FO4edit
same
I'm trying to edit the wasteland energy shields mod to boost the recharge rate or something to prevent simple radiation storms in normal, non-glowing sea areas of the games from knocking them out like blowing out candles, but I can't for the life of me find the shield recharge effect.
Prob just ask the author lol
I have to say, if you want to learn, gamer poets is the man...
Hello, I followed your tutorial verbatim; however, when I get to the step which in your video is 23:31, instead of it having all of the green highlighted values on the right side of the screen, it has nothing at all. I have been searching the internet all day but cannot figure out why no values are showing up under the "record header" section. I know you're busy and probably have a lot on your plate, but this is driving me crazy. If you could help out I would appreciate it. I just subscribed too.
Check to see if you have 'Hide no conflict and empty rows' clicked when you right-click on the header. If you have it checked, everything with no issues is completely hidden.
Overall this was an effective tutorial. But I felt like you had about 20 minutes or more of unnecessary content for a beginner and it actually caused me to spend about an hour to engage in the 10min of useful beginner info. Please remember us newbies are overwhelmed very quickly who are truly new to all this. All your commentary and let me call out or warn you just ensures overwhelmed unable to absorb. I would have said something like. You need to backup your entire base game and any mods you don't want to have to redownload if you mess this up. I am going to go walk you through the very basics. This tool is super powerful and if you deviate in anyway from my instruction you will likely have to restore/reinstall you entire game. This tutorial will likely leave you with a lot of what about this questions. Please see me 102 tutorial where I go into what to look out for, what is basically safe and what can be harmful if you are not careful. Now, this was effective ultimately, and you clearly are an expert in the use and this tool and getting amazing results from it. Thank you for proving you know how to get results and wanting to share your extensive knowledge of this powerful tool. Thank you.
Hey I know your vid was four years ago but I'm trying to edit what is said in subtitles, how do I do that? I want to add an NPC but I'm not sure how to give them lines? (Like dialogue)
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If I change weapon base damage for a weapon and an NPC has the same weapon, does it do the custom damage I made? 25 -> 150 dmg base
Hello I need help with one problem. I haven't noticed an increase in damage to this modded weapon I own and my main theory is that the patch isn't remaining active even though I checked the box
Nevermind you have to manually apply the patch in Nexus plugins
awesome tutorial very long and my game crashes now
Edit: I did this and it didn't seem to cause any issues.
I want to edit the caps value of an item that was added via a mod I downloaded. Do I have to use the "copy as override into...." option, or can I just edit the base .esp from the mod (instead of creating an entirely new .esp file for just that one change)?
PS - Thanks for the video, it was very informative!
there is a good chance many people won't find this video through youtube / google search because it says "xEdit" and the majority of Fallout 4 players will only know "FO4Edit". I almost skipped this video because of this :)
Good point I'll update the title and keywords to add that.
@@kinggath Awesome! Another thing I'd like you to consider is to make your Sim Settlements discord channel free for everyone, so that people new to the mod could ask questions, report bugs and make suggestions. You can still have private channels on the server for patrons (I think patreon does it automatically by assigning a special role, at least I know for sure Twitch has this functionality for paid subs). This way you will get your mod more accessible for new people since I know for a fact many many people don't like registering on the forums to ask questions etc. Forums are good for in-depth discussions, but discrod is great for quick, small questions and general chat.
@@robosergTV its unfortunately not so simple, takes tons of moderators to manage a public Discord, and I just don't have the desire to organize something like that- my plate is plenty full already.
how do i modify a reload speed? some reloads for mods are way too fast for me
how to edit weapon value, cost for selling weapon (weapon price) ?
so im trying to change the name of the item ive found mods the do the same but they are always missing something how would one do that and no it isn't a weapon or armor its a misc
HELP
I want to edit the Cannibal perk. (amount of HP gained eating corpses)
There's some mods that rework this perk but the amount of HP gained still low for my personal preferences.
*I'm still new using FO4edit, for now I only know how to change minor things such as weapon base damage and armor slot.
Do you know how to remove weapons from Combined Arms without altering the original mod? The weapons aren't found in Leveled Items so idk how he did to inject them into the game world
this may have been asked, but I really don't wanna dig through 3 years of comments x3x
anyway, what do you do if FO4 edit shows "there are no modules in the data folder"?
Click the "Videos" tab in xEdit for GamerPoet's tutorials.
What is the best way to create a VIS-G patch for a Weapon and Ammo types? For example, the RPG-7V2 by the Shiny Haxorus
; or M79 Grenade Launcher -- Standalone by Seanms1991. I use a combination of VIS-G, AWKCR, Better Locational Damage, Better Explosives Redux and Agony. To make my Survival game even more immersive and challenging, I use Greslin's Pack Attack [PA-NPC]. I've been begging for a larger toolkit of explosives (especially ones that I can field craft, or are lightweight enough to be practical).
I don't wear Power Armor, and I don't use a HUD.
Defeating my opponents requires tactical thinking. I cannot travel back to Settlements to create the best gear. I must make do in the field. I cannot carry a Rocket Launcher or Fat Man, for a single use. I love Remote Explosives, because I can take the Mini Nuke I found and field craft it into the weapon I need to drop bosses. When I started tinkering around in FO4Edit to get the right damages and proper tags, I somehow broke the game.
I've logged a whole lot of information on Explosives, but the complexity is (for now) beyond my very basic modding skill. At minimum, I can learn to get the weapons properly tagged.
Many Thanks, Great Tutorial,
- Hank
Patching is not something I'm an expert at, but I'll add to my list to get that information and make a tutorial for it eventually. In the meantime, you might want to check the VIS-G articles tab, or the nexusmods.com forums, as I'm sure someone has done a write-up on this.
@@kinggath I looked and there was a VIS-G patcher script. I think I screwed it up when I didn't create an override file. I applied the script directly to the weapons. It didn't say that would be a mistake. When I had applied the BLD patcher in FO4Edit it worked beautifully.
I'm missing something, and frankly, right after I rebuilt the game from Vanilla scratch, I'm too scared to try anything else before I watch someone else do it successfully. Call me a coward, it's true.
Thanks kinggath, All of your Work is Appreciated.
- Hank
the plugin list on startup only shows my vanilla files for some reason, is there any way to fix this? i need to edit a mod but i can't because it won't detect the mods
So can I use this to reduce the weight increase caused by ballistic weave? I use AWKCR.
I need to figure out if there is a smarter way to replace vanilla weapons with modded ones other than manually typing all the info onto a new record of the weapon I wish to replace because that is extremely tedious.
Edit: Basically if you have conflicts--you're not getting all of your load order's content. I'm seeing as I clean how to turn all these things green and happy and what that entails--I didn't realize so many mobs were overlapping ea other and making my own patch to merge them all is brilliant.
Is it safe to assume if you have ANY red conflicts there may inevitably be Crashes? Should I be reconciling all of these orange ones, too? Lol
Hey, not sure if you still look at the comments of videos this old but would there be any way you could do a firearms and a armor stat modding video? I'm having trouble with those concepts and am not finding what I'm looking for.... Mainly explaining what each component is and how they effect the item such as; what is "damage - secondary" on a firearm (I assume it is another type of damage, like energy or rad damage added on but how do you edit those?) and I understand how to edit the physical damage resistance on armor but cant find the energy resist... Thank you if you se this or anyone else who can help me out!! Hope yall are havin a great day! :)
I wonder if you can lend me a hand, lately there have been new shoes mods for FO4 but they dont have all the armor options upgrade avalable, like Rail road wave or add a legendary effect, can you give me some tips or point me to some tutorial to learn and do it myself?
anyone knows how can i delete the patches that i created?
So Fo4 edit is Xedit?
diddnt work for the damage edit...
Damn bro all i wanted to do was to darken the t-45x mod armor color😭
Uh has it been 5 years? I forgot all these skills but cant live with the fact german officers outfit and a ll the other cool no skill added outfits in folondon add nothing and cant be used as under armour. So now i have to relearn fallout xedit to patch that.
Would definitely prefer a more meat and potatoes upload on installing FO4edit/ xedit, step-by-step, simple and straightforward. The amount of sidebar comments in this is unreal lol.
Then why did you click on a 35 minute video on what can be done with xedit? That's on you for wanting this video to something it's not. There are literally dozens of 5 to 10 minute videos on how to install xedit. Why you would click this video instead of one of those and then complain is unfathomably selfish.
@@Elwood288 I actually downloaded this video and edited all the sidebar stuff out and got it down to 12 minutes. That made it a lot easier for me, for ME, to learn what he was teaching.
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It didn't work
nice
You waffle on too much! Stopped watching after 5 mins.