Introduction

I want to go through modding Fallout 4 on Linux by the numbers. Mainly because I have tried to get any mod manager to work consistently on Linux and have failed miserably. Not sure why that is, as others seem to be able to get them working. Interestingly I have found once you get used to manual modding, and develop your own system, it can be surprisingly fast and much more intuitive in some cases.

Note the use of “Your own system!” I am going to give you the necessary steps to manual mod. However it will be up to you to develop your own system of maintenance. For example, I keep a mods folder where I have mods prepared to just copy into the fallout 4 data directory. So if I ever reinstall, it is a simple matter of dropping the contents of one folder to restore mods. I also ahve a few scripts I use for things like checking capitalization of folder names, not so important on windows, burt very important on Linux.

Also, even when on Windows, I always found those mod manager interfaces and requirements way more confusing than they need to be. Manual modding was just simpler and more practical for me.