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Wasteland Survival Guide

User Interface & HUD

First, create a "UI & HUD" separator in MO2.

As you install the mods from this section, organize them underneath this separator.

Core HUD/UI Mods

Mod Name Description Instructions
User Interface Organizer Automatically ensures that multiple HUD extensions work together. Required to use the following UI mods Main File - User Interface Organizer
The Mod Configuration Menu Adds a settings menu to configure mods in-game. Required for many mods
  • Main File - The Mod Configuration Menu
  • Update File - MCM Bugfix 2 (DO NOT SKIP THIS)
Vanilla UI Plus Modernized vanilla-style UI with many enhancements and bugfixes
  • Install from archive in MO2
  • Optional File - Classic Pip-Boy Font
    • If you don't know how to install a mod that isn't from Nexus, refer to the Mod Installation Advice at the end of the MO2 section of the guide
Clean Vanilla HUD Hand-made up-scaled/cleaned recreations of many vanilla HUD elements
Consistent Pip-Boy Icons High-quality icons that are used for perks, items, etc.
You may be wondering about the third main file, CPI - Mod Patches. We are in fact going to install it, but later on in the Visuals section of the guide. The VUI+ patch for this mod isn't needed either, even if you use VUI+. A functionally identical patch comes with the previous mod, Clean Vanilla HUD
  • Main File - 1. Consistent Pip-boy Icons
  • Main File - 2. Consistent Addon Icons
    • Enable all Addons and click
  • Main File - Pop-Up Message Icons
    • Enable all Extensions and click
yUI - User Ynterface NVSE plugin that aims to fix UI bugs and add new UI features
  • Main File - yUI
  • Guide File - yUI Fonfig
    • Install from archive and place under Fonfig separator

Add-on/Optional UI Mods

Mod Name Description Instructions
Tutorial Killer Removes message boxes that pop up during the tutorial, as well as those that occur once during a new game, and repeating corner-messages Main File - Tutorial Killer
AidUI Adds HUD widgets showing the duration of consumed Aid items
  • Main File - AidUI
  • Configure (later) in the MCM - I prefer the Bars mode over the Icons mode
FOV Slider Allows persistent field-of-view adjustments via the MCM
  • Main File - FOV Slider
  • Configure (later) in the MCM to your preference
Main Menu Redone - TTW A completely reworked re-imagining of the TTW main menu image, beginning with higher resolution base photos, AI upscaling to 4k, and then custom photo retouching and masking, resulting in a much higher quality version Main File - Main Menu Redone - TTW - 1080p
Obviously, you should use the 1440p or 2160p instead if one of those matches your game resolution
MAPMO - Main & Pause Menus Overhaul Adds a bunch of features to the Main and Pause menus. Fully customizable
With this mod installed, the Mod Configuration Menu button in the pause menu will be hidden! You will have to access the MCM by pressing the M key. Please do your best to keep this in mind & do not report this as a bug
  • Main File - Main And Pause Menus Overhaul
  • Press M from the pause menu to access the MCM
  • Press N from the pause menu to configure MAPMO's settings
Simplified FO4 HUD A mash-up of a few different HUD templates to create a sort of hybrid Fallout 4/New Vegas-style HUD Main File - Simplified FO4 HUD
Skill Book Checklist Adds an MCM checklist of the skill books in both wastelands & can optionally notify you when you enter a cell containing one Main File - Skill Book Checklist
ySI - Sorting Ycons
  • Sorting mod using features of yUI to make inventory management a better experience
  • Each item gets assigned one of the 140+ included custom icons, representing different categories of items
 Main File - ySI - Sorting Icons
Requires bSortingIcons = 1 in yUI.ini.
It has been enabled for you in the yUI Fonfig provided above
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