Cloaks of Skyrim

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Cloaks of Skyrim injects over 100 lore-friendly cloak and hood variants into Skyrim's leveled lists, crafting stations, and static world loot. It adds new crafting recipes at tanning racks (requiring leather strips and animal pelts) and integrates with the vanilla enchanting system so cloaks can be enchanted with any weapon/armor enchantment. Players install it to give their character visual depth and roleplay flair, especially for cold-weather survival or faction-themed builds, without breaking immersion.

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💡 Notes

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🎯 Tips & Tricks

Force spawn a specific cloak via console

Open console (~) and type 'help cloak 4' to list all added item IDs (e.g., 'xx000D62' where xx is the mod's load order index). Use 'player.additem xx000D62 1' to get a specific cloak. For the rare 'Cloak of the Gray Fox' (ID: xx000D63), spawn it directly instead of farming loot.

Craft all cloaks at a tanning rack efficiently

Go to any tanning rack (e.g., in Riverwood or Whiterun). You need 2 leather strips and 1 animal pelt (wolf, bear, sabre cat, etc.) per cloak. For the 'Nightingale' cloak, you need 3 void salts and 2 nightingale leather strips—these only drop from Nightingale armor sets. Use 'player.additem 0003AD5E 10' for void salts if you're short.

Enable cloaks on NPCs without save bloat

After installing, open the mod's MCM (if using SkyUI) or console 'set CoS_GlobalNPCCloaks to 1' to make NPCs wear cloaks. For performance, set 'CoS_GlobalNPCCloakChance' to 20 (20% chance) to avoid every guard wearing one, which can cause FPS drops in cities with many NPCs.

🔧 Troubleshooting

Cloaks clip through armor like 'Immersive Armors' or 'Warmonger Armory' pauldrons and chest pieces.

Load Cloaks of Skyrim's ESP AFTER those armor mods in your load order (use LOOT). Also install 'Cloaks of Skyrim SSE - USSEP Patch' and 'Cloaks of Skyrim - CCOR Patch' if using Complete Crafting Overhaul. For severe clipping, use 'BodySlide and Outfit Studio' to adjust the cloak mesh's physics bones (set 'npc' bone weight to 0.5).

Cloaks don't appear on followers or NPCs after installing 'Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul' or 'AI Overhaul SSE'.

This happens because those mods overwrite NPC outfit lists. Run 'xEdit' to merge the 'Outfit' records from Cloaks of Skyrim into the AI Overhaul patches, or use the 'Cloaks of Skyrim - AI Overhaul Patch' from Nexus (search 'Cloaks of Skyrim AI Overhaul'). Ensure Cloaks ESP loads before AI Overhaul's ESP.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

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👍 Pros

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👎 Cons

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