Skyrim Special Edition brought us back into the world we all enjoyed playing when the game first released, but as with everything it did come with a downside. Skyrim had grown quite the sizeable modding community, and with Special Edition being 64-bit a lot of mods that previously worked with the original Skyrim became incompatible.

While a lot of mods just changed cosmetics (everyone’s see the Thomas the Tank Engine dragon reskins right?), there were also a lot of mods that expanded and built upon what Bethesda had already made and just made the game even better than it already was, to the extent that a lot of people now find it very weird to play without those mods enabled. One of the biggest casualties was Skyrim Script Extender, which helped a great many more Skyrim mods run as it helped increase the amount of commands Skyrim could run and handle at once. One of those that used it was SkyUI, which tidied up menus and allowed players to easily customise and toggle other mods on and off simply. Mods don’t need SkyUI to run, but it makes them a lot easier to handle with it.

Because of this, the team who made Skyrim Script Extender are planning to release an update for their mod sometime in mid-March, making sure that it will work with Skyrim Special Edition now. The last update in late December suggests that they’re making good progress, but still have a long way to go before they finish which is why they estimate March is when it’ll be available – and then only a beta version. The completed one will take even longer.

Once it and SkyUI are back, maybe the Skyrim modding scene will go through a second upsurge in mods being created. And maybe we’ll get an even funnier widespread mod than the flying tank engine dragons.