My New Vegas modlist + recommended ini edits

NV_Modlist/
Updated as of: 2018-12-10

At the very minimum, install section 0 and you're good to go.
After section 0, it's personal preference. Just get what seems interesting.
If this will be your first playthrough, consider skipping section 6 (Gameplay stuff) partially or entirely.

Apply section by section and test the game to see if everything works well.
I run this list on Linux with Wine. Obviously, it should also run on Windows.

Be sure to check out some recommended INI edits at the bottom of this list!
(*) <- this means one of those ini edits below is required for the mod to work

│
├── 0. Essential
│   If you're going to play New Vegas, you want these installed.
│
│   ├── a. NVSE - New Vegas Script Extender
│   ├── b. 4GB Patch
│   ├── c. LOOT Installer
│   ├── d. FOMM / Mod Organizer 2 [PICK ONE] (apply everything below through it, sort w/LOOT)
│   ├── e. NVAC - New Vegas Anti Crash
│   ├── f. NVSR - New Vegas Stutter Remover (ini is configurable)
│   ├── g. YUP - Yukichigai Unofficial Patch
│   └── h. UPP - Unofficial Patch Plus
│
│   If you just want to play the game, YOU CAN STOP MODDING HERE and go have a grand old vanilla time.
│   For some more goodies, continue onward.
│
├── 1. Quality of Life
│   These are always nice to have, but not mandatory.
│
│   ├── 0. JIP LN NVSE Plugin (Required after this point)
│   ├── 2 Hotkey Restored (*)
│   ├── Casino Exchange All
│   ├── CASM with MCM - Cipscis' Automatic Save Manager with MCM support
│   ├── Console Paste
│   ├── JIP Improved Recipe Menu
│   ├── KeyBoy - UI Hotkeys Manager (M for Map)
│   ├── MCM - Mod Configuration Menu
│   ├── OGG Vorbis Libraries (better performance)
|   ├── OneTweak for FNV (Allows alt-tabbing without crashing! Not needed if on Linux though)
│   ├── Simple DLC Delay
│   ├── Universal Item Sorter
│   └── Using the console doesn't disable achievements
│
│   Just make sure you disable the game's autosave from the main menu. CASM will handle that from now on.
│
│   If you have no issues with the vanilla interface, then you can stop here and go have fun.
│   If you find it clunky, then continue to the next section.
│
├── 2. HUD & Camera
│   Making the interface nicer to use and being able to see yourself in first person.
│
│   ├── 0. UIO - User Interface Organizer (Required after this point)
│   ├── Centered 3rd Person Camera
│   ├── DUINV - DarNified UI (*)
│   ├── DUINV - DT and DR
│   ├── Enhanced Camera (visible body in first person)
│   ├── Enhanced Item Info
│   ├── FOV Slider
│   ├── HCU - HUD Color Unified
│   ├── IFO4HUD - Immersion Fallout4 HUD
│   ├── Loot Menu <- Complete game changer, imo. Makes it so that you don't have to go to separate windows to loot
│   ├── One HUD
│   ├── Pipboy2500
│   ├── PipBoy2500 Counters
    ├── Traits Menu DarNified
│   ├── Weapon Mod Menu
│   └── YARF - Yet Another Readable Font - For Darnified UI
│
|   From now on, check (7. Compatibility Patches) to see if any of those apply to you (example: OneHUD DarNified Patch)
│   Since you're already in this deep, you might as well keep going. Good stuff ahead.
│
├── 3. Restored Content
│   Content that was cut due to time constraints or console limitations.
│
    ├── Marilyn Restored
│   ├── Outside Bets
    ├── Strip Wall Billboards
│   ├── The Moon Comes Over The Tower - Restored
│   └── Uncut Wasteland
    ├── Welcome to New Vegas Sniper
│
├── 4. Miscellaneous Fixes
│   Tweaks and fixes to New Vegas that are common sense and/or convenient.
│
    ├── Barton Thorn Acts Normally
│   ├── Beyond The Beef Tweaks
    ├── Burning Campfire REDONE + HonestHearts patch
    ├── Burning Campfire REDONE Fix
│   ├── Caravan Card Control
│   ├── Collision Meshes
│   ├── Convenient Fast Travel Markers
    ├── Corpse Equip
│   ├── Diagonal Movement
│   ├── Faster Access to Lucky 38
│   ├── Faster Sleep Wait
│   ├── Glowing Star Bottle Cap
│   ├── HeroinZero Weapon Fixes (let WeaponMeshImprovementMod overwrite this)
    ├── Honest Hearts Letter
│   ├── Improved LOD Noise Texture
│   ├── Lucky 38 Reloading and Cooking
    ├── Misc Item Icons - New Vegas
│   ├── Nipton Fires Extinguished
    ├── No scanlines or distort on Pipboy
        Quicker Pipboy Light
│   ├── Reactivated Hit Topics
│   ├── Simple Street Lights + Simple Fix
│   ├── Simple Fix for Simple Street Lights
│   └── TmT - Open Broken Doors
    ├── Ulysses Bark Fix
    ├── Water Extinguisher
    ├── Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod (let asurah overwrite this, if you install it next)
│
├── 5. Better Visuals & Sound
│   Animations, music, sounds, textures, and weather.
│
│   ├── NMCs Textures NV SMALL (should be overwritten by all others, we use it as base)
    ├── EXE - Effect Textures Enhanced (should overwrite NMC)
    ├── Enhanced Blood Textures (should overwrite EXE)
│   ├── IMPACT + DLC support (should overwrite EXE)
│   ├── AWSO - All Weapon Sounds Overhaul
│   ├── B42 Inertia
|   ├── Clarity
│   ├── Mojave Music Radio Extended
        Mojave Nights
│   ├── NVCE - New Vegas Character Expansions (*)
│   ├── Ammo & Condition Checking Beta 3 + Ammo Check Sound Fix for GUN
│   ├── Asurah Reanimation Pack (Very well done, but minor bugs in some 3rd person strafing anims)
│   ├── Asurah Reanimation Pack - No Headbob Fix
│
│   If you're playing for the first time or just want vanilla, you might want to skip the coming section.
│
│   HOWEVER,
│
|   some features from Solid Project may still be appealing to you, such as the sprinting that costs AP to use.
|   Just make sure Asurah overwrites Solid Project, as it improves its animations too.
│
│   These gameplay changes add features and difficulty to the game. I base mine around JSawyer Ultimate Edition
│   All of these go very well with the in-built Hardcore mode which you can turn on before exiting Doc's house.
│   My preferred setting is Hard difficulty + Hardcore mode + the following:
│
├── 6. Gameplay & New Stuff
│   Changes to New Vegas, more suited to subsequent playthroughs.
│
│   ├── BLEED
│   ├── Character Creation Streamlined
│   ├── Combat Enhancer
    ├── Complete Respec
│   ├── Economy Overhaul
│   ├── Enemy AI - Tactics - NPC Healing (Enemy AI v2)
│   ├── Enhanced NPC Awareness
│   ├── Immersive Minigames
│   ├── Immersive Recoil 2.0
│   ├── JIP Companions Command and Control
│   ├── JSawyer Ultimate Edition
│   ├── Lucky Authority Glasses - NCR
    ├── Lucky Outfit
│   ├── Mojave Arsenal
│   ├── Mojave Raiders
        Mojave Travel (fast travel requires a motorcycle you get in Primm)
│   ├── Mojave Wildlife - Vanilla Version
│   ├── No Combat Music
│   ├── No Skill Tags (NVSE) (redone) <- Removes tags from dialogue, so you roleplay and not just auto pick [SPEECH]
│   ├── NPCs Can Miss (also affects their accuracy based on stance)
│   ├── Pickpocket Overhaul XP Edition
        Return To Sierra Madre (letgo)
│   ├── Quick Grenade Hotkey
│   ├── Simple Reputation and Disguises
│   ├── Solid Project (very configurable from the MCM. Disable stuff you don't like)
│   ├── The Living Desert
│   ├── VATS Alternative - A Comprehensive Bullet Time Mod
│   └── Water Overhaul
│
├── 7. Compatibility Patches
│   Apply the ones you need.
│
│   ├── Asurah Reanimation Pack-AWSO Patch
│   ├── JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Mojave Arsenal Patch
│   ├── JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Water Overhaul Patch
│   ├── KeyBoy - JIP Improved Recipe - Compability Patch
│   ├── Mojave Raiders - .22LR Varmint Rifle Patch
│   ├── NVCE - JSawyer Ultimate all-in-one patch
│   ├── One HUD DarNified Patch
│   ├── UPP-AWSO Patch
│   ├── YUP-AWSO Standalone Patch
│   └── YUP+IMPACT+BLEED Compatibility patch
│
└── 8. Currently Unused
    I've used and liked these, but I don't include them in the current list. Do check them out though!

    ├── A Koch and Bohr Story
    ├── A Thorny Situation
    ├── Audible Pass Through Bushes Sounds
    ├── BLIND (Use if you want floating health bars)
    ├── Enslaving Arcade fix
    ├── EVE (I found it kind of overkill, I prefer EXE)
    ├── Fiend Dialogue Enabled
    ├── Freeside Open + its cut music (Use in new games only! Warning - may cause instability)
    ├── Gun Runners Actually Run Guns
    ├── Harvestable Cave Fungus
    ├── If It Wasnt For Betsy
    ├── Interface Mod - Revelation (Classic Fallout UI)
    ├── Interior Lighting Overhaul
    ├── JIP Selective-Fire
    ├── Legion Quests Expanded
    ├── No Blur Menus and UI
    ├── Pipboy Nightvision 300ms delay (Unnecessary without RWL)
    ├── POCO BUENO Texture Pack
    ├── Populated Casinos Light
    ├── Ride of the ValkED-E
    ├── RWL - Realistic Wasteland Lighting (I prefer Clarity now)
    ├── The Fiends And Me
    ├── The Strip Open (Use in new games only! Warning - may cause instability)
    ├── Tops Casino Neon Restored
    ├── Tutorial Killer - Scripted version
    ├── Vanilla UI Plus (I prefer DarnUI + YARF)
    └── Weapon Animation Replacer (alternative to Asurah)
    └── World Map with Borders (Invisible walls)

NV_iniEdits/

Make sure you make a BACKUP of your current INI files!

Fallout_default.ini creates Fallout.ini and FalloutPrefs.ini if they don't exist at launch
If they already exist, then (as far as I understand it) editing the default.ini will do nothing

All of the following lines can go either in Fallout.ini or Fallout_default.ini if the former doesn't exist

SMainMenuMovieIntro = 0         (Skip the intro logos)

fForegroundMouseMult = 0        (Disable Mouse Acceleration)
fForegroundMouseAccelBase = 0
fForegroundMouseAccelTop = 0
fForegroundMouseBase = 0
bBackground Mouse = 1

bUseThreadedAI = 1              (Performance Gainz)
iNumHWThreads = 2
bUseThreadedBlood = 1
bUseThreadedMorpher = 1
bUseThreadedTempEffects = 1
bUseThreadedParticleSystem = 1
bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen = 1
bUseMultiThreadedTrees = 1
iPreloadSizeLimit = 104857600
bFull Screen = 1

If using NVCE, add this

bLoadFaceGenHeadEGTFiles = 1

If using DarN, go to the [Fonts] section of Fallout.ini, replace with this:

sFontFile_1=Textures\Fonts\DarN_FranKleinBold_14.fnt
sFontFile_2=Textures\Fonts\DarN_FranKleinBold_16.fnt
sFontFile_3=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Medium.fnt
sFontFile_4=Textures\Fonts\DarN_Sui_Generis_Otl_10.fnt
sFontFile_5=Textures\Fonts\Fixedsys_Comp_uniform_width.fnt
sFontFile_6=Textures\Fonts\DarN_Sui_Generis_Otl_13.fnt
sFontFile_7=Textures\Fonts\DarN_Libel_Suit_Otl_24.fnt
sFontFile_8=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Futura_Caps_Large.fnt
sFontFile_9=Textures\Fonts\NVFont_Test.fnt

If using "2 Hotkey Restored", edit your [Controls] in FalloutPrefs.ini to:

Hotkey1=0002FFFF
Ammo Swap=0026FF01
Hotkey3=0003FFFF
Hotkey4=0004FFFF
Hotkey5=0005FFFF
Hotkey6=0006FFFF
Hotkey7=0007FFFF
Hotkey8=0008FFFF

Then go into the in-game settings to change Ammo Swap to whatever you want (I chose L)