LOOT

About LOOT

LOOT is a tool for automatically sorting plugins in the load order. Drawing on a masterlist maintained by the community, LOOT attempts to place plugins in a way that minimises unintentional conflicts.

LOOT cannot determine the ideal load order by itself. You must use SSEEdit and manually adjust.

LOOT & Wabbajack

If you are building a Wabbajack list and you wish to add optional mods that also have plugins, you may want to use Parapets’ LOOT Config Loader plugin (readme). It allows you to create a custom masterlist for a portable instance of Mod Organizer 2 so that your users only have to click Sort to update the load order.

Note that the LOOT Config Loader tool uses the version of LOOT integrated in Mod Organizer 2 which is quite outdated. To use Parapets’ plugin with the full version of LOOT, you need to grab version 0.17.0.

Installation

LOOT is available on the Nexus.

• Download the installer from the Nexus page and run it.
• As the installation location, you can pick your Tools folder if you care about keeping all tools in one place.
• Keep Download and install the latest masterlists checked.
• Uncheck Launch LOOT before clicking Finish.

MO2 Integration

LOOT requires access to the data folder and must therefore be launched through Mod Organizer 2.

• Open the executable settings in Mod Organizer 2.
• Click the small blue plus icon and select Add from file.
• Navigate to your LOOT folder and double-click LOOT.exe.
• Click OK to add the executable to Mod Organizer 2.

For improved integration into Mod Organizer 2, I recommend installing the LOOT Warning Checker plugin.

MO2 Sort Button

As mentioned in the “LOOT & Wabbajack” section, Mod Organizer 2 has its own, stripped-down version of LOOT integrated which can be run by clicking the Sort button above the load order in the right pane.

Do not use this button to sort your load order unless you have a (Wabbajack) setup with the above-mentioned LOOT Config Loader plugin and a custom masterlist.

The integrated version of LOOT is outdated and you should use the latest version installed during the previous step if you are planning to use the tool for plugin sorting.

Remove Sort Button

If the Sort button annoys you and/or you want to sure you never accidentally press it, you can remove it from the interface with a small CSS snippet.

Users of the default theme can do this by adding a new stylesheet:

• Navigate to \Mod Organizer 2\stylesheets\.
• Right-click anywhere and select New » Text Document.
• Rename the file to No Sort Button.qss.
  • Remember to change the file extension.
• Open the new file in a text editor such as Notepad++.
• Paste the following:

/* Sort button */
#bossButton {
    qproperty-iconSize:0px;
    min-width:0px;
    width:0px;
    padding: 0 0 0 -30;
}

• Save your change and close the file.

Afterwards, you need to select the new stylesheet in the Themes tab in the Mod Organizer 2 settings.

If you are using a different theme, you can modify its stylesheet file (.QSS). Open it in a text editor and use CTRL+F to see if it modifies anything about the #bossButton component. Add the snippet from above, replacing any other code for the button.