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These files contain a variety of clean saves for Skyrim. All saves were created only with the Skyrim and Update files and specified DLC. No quests/quest lines were completed except those named, the bare minimum of prerequisites, and Way of the Voice where applicable. Random encounter quests are in the journal but no progress towards their completion has been made. Klimmek may have had his quest completed because... why not. PM or Comment with requests. You will most likely be over-encumbered when you load these saves. I picked up just about everything of value (most non-crafting supplies were sold). No skill books have been read on any of these saves due to the Dragonborn DLC ability which grants two skill points from every skill book. All saves contain only level 1 characters and will be compatible with the showracemenu command. See Support section for How To. Clean saves will only work with Skyrim and are not compatible with any DLC's except for the texture packs. Dawn saves will only work with Dawnguard and are not compatible with vanilla or any other DLC's except for the texture packs. Total saves will only work with all DLCs installed and active and are not compatible with vanilla or only partial DLCs except for the texture packs. The texture packs are only compatible with a 64-bit OS. Starter Packs - Files are separated into a Vampire or non-Vampire starter pack. Vampires become infected at the "Unbound" save. Standing stone choices may vary depending on the active DLC's. Lycanthropy - These saves were made immediately after the Way of the Voice was completed and only involve the Companions up to your induction as a member of the Circle. Arvak - These saves get you to the most important point in the game... ARVAK! No more lost horses, dying horses (he's already dead), stupid horses, buying horses, ect. Files are separated into Vampire or non-Vampire selections. Vampires are aligned with the Volkihar, non-Vampires are aligned with the Dawnguard. Vampire saves have two extra checkpoint quests. Civil War - Civil War quest line complete for both Imperial and Stormcloak. Stormcloak saves done as a vampire/Vampire Lord as appropriate. These saves were made after Arvak is acquired for Dawnguard and All DLCs. Main Quest - Main quest line complete after Reunifying/Liberating Skyrim. Imperial Skyrim will be non-vampire and Stormcloak Skyrim will be vampire/Vampire Lord as appropriate. Dawnguard - Dawnguard quest line complete after defeating Alduin. All Paragon Crystals have been obtained but not all portals have been visited. Your destination directory should be something along the lines of - C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves or C:\Users\<User Name>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves List of Saves Requested Dragon Rising completed Completed for Vanilla, Dawnguard, and All DLCs. War storyline completed for both Stormcloak and Imperial Completed for All DLCs. Battle for Whiterun Completed for Stormcloak and Imperial for All DLCs. A completionist save with little to no dungeon crawling. See Support section for how to make your own! Support How to Change your Race/Appearance at Level 1 (See the Face Sculptor in Riften for past level 1 changes) First Open Console with the tilde (~) key. Type showracemenu and hit enter. Close the console by hitting the tilde key again. Change your race, name, and any other settings like you would when normally starting a fresh game. Any saves where the character is still level 1 will be able to do this but bad things happen if done on saves if you are not level 1. ShowRaceMenu user WARNING Changing your race through this menu will RESET all your skills to the new race's default. If changing your race from the default Nord be sure to use Player.SetRace <race ID> console command to change it and DO NOT use the ShowRaceMenu to change it. The available races ID codes are actually very simple and you won't even have to look it up! You may use the ShowRaceMenu to alter your appearance before or after using the SetRace command with no adverse effects. If you use SetRace after, you will retain the facial features of the previous race/gender. There are actually whole web pages dedicated to making hybrids in Skyrim this way - especially in enabling male/female features on female/male models (Argonian males have all the cool colors/spikes SO LET'S STICK EM ON A GIRL!) If you are having trouble with this, see bugs section for solution. An example - Player.SetRace BretonRace You are now a Breton with all your skills unchanged and the proper racial bonuses. or if you are a vampire - Player.SetRace BretonRaceVampire There are two codes for setting your proper race - use the other one and unpleasantness will occur. How to reset entered/cleared cells (miscellaneous .bat file available) Do not be in the cell you wish to reset (recommend finding an interior cell to sit in) Using the console - type pcb (this purges the cell buffer in case you entered the cell) then enter ResetInterior <Cell ID> where the Cell ID is either the Editor or Form ID (eg WhiterunUnderforge or 165A6 will both work) To set a location cleared find the Form ID and enter (only 165A6 will work) SetLocationCleared <Form ID> into the console. The miscellaneous .bat file if ran as is may crash Skyrim. It contains a list of all interiors including test cells, player homes, inns, guild halls, cells never accessible by the player, cells only visited once, ect. If it's an interior, it is in the file - all 728 of them. Cells are listed with their Editor ID alphabetically for the name of the location, eg. the cell TestTony has an Editor ID of AAADeleteWhenDoneTestJeremy so it is on line 615, instead of 1. I suggest using it as a reference to locate the cells you wish to reset. Modder Information To create a clean save you must have no loose script files and no .esp/.bsa files loaded (unless specific to your mod such as the Dragonborn DLC for a Solstheim mod). Textures and meshes are not saved in the game data but are loaded on demand and so will not effect creating a clean save. Loose script files (and possibly .bsa files in the main Data folder) should be contained in the Data>Scripts folder in the form of .pex files (not the Source folder - .psc files contained therein should not effect gameplay and are for reference by the Creation Kit and Modders). If you do not wish to delete your .pex files simply get them out of the way while you create your clean save - hide them in another folder, move them to another folder outside the Data folder, compress them, make it so that the game won't see them when it loads a save. To restore a corrupted/modified/removed Scripts folder simply verify the game files for the Creation Kit (listed in Steam under Tools). Bugs Serana has no "Follow me" option when she should. This is not from save game corruption but rather an oversight in the DLC's follower AI for Serana. It is fixed by entering setpqv DLC1NPCMentalModel LockedIn_var False into the console and speaking to Serana again. There is a miscellaneous file that contains a .txt file for this if you so desire. This file also contains a .txt to reset Serana's desire (or lack thereof) to cure her vampirism. Extract the .txt files to your Skyrim folder (not your Saves folder like the Clean Saves or the Data folder like with other mods) To execute these fixes simply load the save game you desire that has Serana in it and enter bat Follow and/or bat Cure into the console. During the Stormcloak side of the Civil War quests when Galmar first speaks to you, you will not be able to respond as a Nord if you are a Nord who is also a vampire/Vampire Lord. Choosing the second option "Skyrim is home to more than just Nords." will advance the dialogue in the same direction as it would have had you been recognized as a Nord and been able to respond accordingly. Changing your race to Nord and back to a Nord vampire may work but has not been fully tested. It appears to work and does not seem to break any vampiric abilities, positive or negative. Stage 3 vampires/Vampire Lords will experience some health/magicka/stamina regeneration (25%) instead of none with Dawnguard installed. This was fixed for vanilla vampires in an official patch which Dawnguard reverted. Feed or wait a day to reduce your stage below 3 or increase it to stage 4. Also available on The Nexus and AFK Mods.

- Clean Save - For Skyrim version 1.8.151.0.7 What is a clean save?: It is usually referred to in a troubleshooting environment; it is a save that has never seen a mod(s) before. It is clean because it has not been "dirtied" by, or exposed to any information and/or data from any mod(s). It is for this reason it becomes an ideal (necessary) testing environment when troubleshooting mods. Unlike previous Bethesda games (recent Fallout's, Oblivion) a clean save can't simply be made by uninstalling mods and then making a fresh save. You will orphan a lot of data that way. See below for more information. Why use a clean save?: It ensures no remnant or persistent data is distorting your results, giving you feedback that is accurate. Teleporting from the Main Menu is a popular method, but it should not be relied upon for serious testing. A lot of things get initialised when going through the new game sequence, it is important to test mods in the environment to which they will be applied (how many people started their actual playthrough by teleporting from the main menu?). Furthermore, we're sick of asking. If you are having problems and tell people that you are testing with a certified clean save we are one step closer to a potential resolution. About: I think a lot of people could benefit from this. It saves you having to go through the tedium of the starting sequence (or a clean install of Skyrim) if you haven't got access to a save like this already. I also have hopes that this kind of thing can become a standard when troubleshooting. Eg. "Did you test with the latest Clean Save Resource?" Surely by now we're all sick of asking about, hearing about, and answering questions relating to clean saves and the testing of mods. Notes: The save has been made just outside Helgen Keep, right after having finished the Quest: Unbound. No mods installed, requires only Skyrim and Update.ESM. The file name of the save is: Save 3 - Prisoner Skyrim. Installation: Download the archive to your computer Extract the save to wherever your saves are located. (For Windows 7 it's usually - Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves) Test your mods Do not overwrite this save! Uninstallation: Really? Remove the save file manually or in-game Reel from your loss Permissions: No credit necessary. Just spread the word where you can, it would be excellent if this sort of procedure became standard for everyone who posts about issues that are potentially related to a dirty save. Availability: Currently limited to Dropbox and the Nexus. Reference Material: Save File Notes (Papyrus) - CK Wiki Article Clean Mod/Clean Save Thread - CK Forums Discussion. Of note are posts from a Bethesda Employee (#1, #2) Official Resource Thread - BethSoft Forums. If anyone else has good links please post them here! We need this information to get out there! (it would also be good to have a definitive thread discussing precisely what a clean save is somewhere so I can link to it)