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This is a conversion and improvement of the original “Amazing Follower Tweaks” suite of mods made by Dheuster for (LE). Available for consoles.

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Amazing Follower Tweaks (SE AE) is a Follower management mod. AFT (SE AE) is a fully functional and stable conversion of the original (LE) suite of mods that were known as  “Amazing Follower Tweaks”.  


Requirements:  None, just Skyrim SE or AE  (Update, Dawnguard, HearthFires & Dragonborn) 








Important 
Amazing Follower Tweaks only works properly on a brand-new game with a brand new character. Please see the sticky note in the Comments section. AFT (SE AE) must be installed and enabled before you Start your game!  

Documentation! Most of the features in AFT are self explanatory and easily accessible. Watch the videos and during gameplay, reference the AFT book added to your inventory. There are several articles you may find helpful including a new version of the Users Manual for AFT (SE AE) which has detailed information on the features & functions of AFT. 

AFT manages the in-game follower system framework but it does not change it. Even though AFT has many functions, it is focused, fast and smooth. AFT is compatible with other clean, well-written and focused mods.  

AFT has many follower management functions and features. Easy to use, hard to mess up. AFT is driven by dialogue menu choices and gives you 2 new spell commands: "Tweak Commands" and "Tweak Make Follower". Please read the: Users Manual for AFT (SE AE). Take a look at the images of AFT in action. 

Almost all of the features in AFT can be toggled On or Off at anytime in game. 

Amazing Follower Tweaks.esp, main mod, the original with no functional changes. I converted it, patched it for SE & AE and made some fixes so that everything works properly. Manage 32 followers & have 5 NPC's actively following you.  

Amazing Follower Tweaks - UpgrayDD.esp, the main mod is required to use this file. UpgrayDD includes the rest of the original AFT functions that were in different add-on mods. "Managed Follower Boost" increases active followers to 7 and managed followers to 64; "No Follower Spell Damage" for base game spells. Other improvements: follower mecahnics & AI, more Friendly Fire mitigation, additional bug fixes, reinforcements & hardening, Horse tracking, etc. 


Installing AFT
Install AFT as you would any other mod but remember - AFT only works properly if installed before you start the game! 

Mod's that affect NPC AI or behavior should be placed After your Follower mods and Before AFT in your mod List. AFT should be palced low to middle in your mod List order, after all other Follower and NPC mods. AFT files will not conflict with other mods but other mods may change base game data that AFT needs.  

AFT must be very low in your Load order. The only mods that should be lower than AFT files should be mod compataibilty patches, load order patches and Modern Brawl Bug Fix. Using LOOT is a good place to start but check your load order and make sure that it adheres to the List & Load Ordering below. LOOT randomizes the placement of mods in your Load Order that it determines are not critical, so If LOOT or a mod manager sorting function places AFT in the middle or close to the top, manually move the AFT esp plugins very close to the bottom of your load order. 

Vortex users will have to manually edit their plugins.txt file to put AFT plugins at the bottom of the Load Order. 

If you make load order patches (WryeBash, xEdit, zEdit) make sure the patch or merge records do not override or confilct with any AFT files epsecially  "Amazing Follower Tweaks - UpgrayDD".   

Read this article for more tips on installing AFT or if you are having any issues. There are other great articles!  

List & Load Ordering: 
  • Base game & all the DLC 
  • AE CC content & CC Patches  
  • USSEP & CRF 
  • USMP 
  • Script Fixes & Navmesh
  • Mesh & Texture Fixes 
  • Enabling & Extending Mods  (SkyUI, DLL's, SPID, SKSE, HUD, MCM, Engine Fixes, QUI, Distributors, etc) 
  • Alternate Start mods 
  • Animations & Posers    (Idles, Poser Hotkeys, Flying, Animated Wings) 
  • NSFW 
  • Meshes & Textures   (SMIM, CSSET, Clarity) 
  • Player Homes, Buildings, New Cells, Cities  
  • Followers
  • NPC mods
  • Armor & Weapons 
  • NPC/ Follower AI & Dialogue Overhauls   (AI Overhaul, Wet & Cold, BUVARP, SchackenFM) 
  • Game play overhauls   (Crafting overhauls, your highly reliable Horse mod that never breaks anything...) 
  • Dragon, Dog, Pet & Creature mods 
  • Flora, Landscape, Snow, Lighting & Weather 
  • Amazing Follower Tweaks (SE AE) 
  • High-Poly NPC's 
  • NPC/ Follower Body & Face Replacers and Presets 
  • Appearance, Body & Physics mods 
  • FNIS 
  • Conditional Expressions & Expressive Facial Animations  
  • My Home Is Your Home 
  • Hearthfires Multiple Adoptions 
  • Mods that alter or change Quests 
  • Mod Compatability Patches 
  • Amazing Follower Tweaks - UpgrayDD 
  • AFT (SE AE) Compatibilty Patches 
  • UI Extensions, Papyrus & JSON  (and in that order, so that your 6 year old HUD & NSFW mods do not override up-to-date critical functions) 
  • Better Message Box Controls 
  • Better Dialogue Controls  
  • Data for SKSE, Bodyslide, FNIS, etc.   
  • Bashed Patch
  • Custom Patches    (xEdit overrides for your mod list) 
  • Modern Brawl Bug Fix 
  • LODGen & Parallax Gen  
 


Making Followers Great Again 

Amazing Follower Tweaks will probably always be the best Follower Manager. If you encounter any problems with this conversion, patch and UpgrayDD of AFT, with the base game and the official DLC, let me know. AFT (SE AE) is very stable for long games and does not use many resources. Not one reported issue of AFT (SE AE) causing any significant issues in three years of playing by very experienced modders that have used AFT since Skyrim LE days.  
 
The plethora of problems with the first port of AFT from LE to SE were not caused by the original AFT files or code.
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It was a bad port & conversion - then the folks that did the crappy conversion abandoned it! Additionally, there were some issues caused by game updates, conflicts with mods not as well-written as AFT and, because there was no good guidance for using AFT with SE or AE, lots of folks made mistakes installing AFT.

I've spent over a thousand hours converting, patching, making minor improvements and testing AFT (SE AE), if there was a better Follower Manager, I'd use it. AFT (SE AE) won't break your play-through like the other follower frameworks.
 
 
As long as Followers and NPC mods adhere to the in-game follower system and AI packages there wont be any issues. Most Follower mods just add a new basic NPC, have face & body files, modify traits, add armor, etc - none of this will cause issues with AFT. 

Custom AI & Custom Managed Followers will work alongside AFT. I've tried a few and they work in parallel with AFT; some can even be managed by AFT. If you want to know more about Followers, have questions about Custom followers, or want to know more about compatability, please read:  Follower Compatability, Unique Followers, and Dialogues

Horses: AFT can track your Horses and has a "Followers Can Ride" function. You must own enough of the base game horses for your followers to ride. It is very easy for other mods to interfere with with this aspect of the base game. If you use a Horse mod please read this article: Using Horse Mods with AFT.   

Spells: AFT UpgrayDD has records that affect base game spells cost and intensity while also adding in the necessary conditions for Followers to not damage each other via "No Friendly Spell Damage" and it will help to mitigate all friendly fire issues. There is a minor compatability patch for Mysticism in downloads. Details on Friendly Fire mitigation here. 

Compatible: (a short non-exhaustive list of popular mods that are compatible up to version 1170 & March 2025)
  • USSEP 
  • USMP 
  • CRF 
  • Wet & Cold 
  • ASLAL 
  • Run For Your Lives 
  • BUVARP 
  • Missing Follower Dialogue 
  • Auto Unequip Ammo   (but it can only track 25 of AFT's 64 followers) 
  • Most NPC, Guard & Bandit Overhauls (see incompatible below) 
  • Chatty NPC's
  • Relationship Dialogue Overhaul LITE 
  • Mysticism 
  • Race Compatibility 
  • AI Overhaul 
  • Flying Overhaul & Animated Wings
  • My Home is Your Home 2
  • Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions 
  • Simple Horse SE  (very compatible with other mods) 
  • NSFW mods   

See the Optional Files section for Patches that cover minor compatability issues with other mods. 

Not Compatible:
  • Older or Alternative versions of AFT   (AFT SE, AFT LE, iAFT, etc.) 
  • Other Follower Frameworks or Follower Managers  (NFF, UFO, MFF, EFF) 
  • Immersive Citizens  
  • Relationship Dialogue Overhaul SE   (use RDO Lite instead if playing on a PC) 
  • Convenient Horses 
  • Your Market Stall (apparently) 


Partially Compatible / Use at Your Own Risk: 
  • Interesting NPC's / iNPC / 3DNPC: compatibilty patch in Optional files. You must read the article on the patch HERE.
  • Wild Horses: if you use you it in game, you must not use any AFT horse funtions. Read the article HERE.
  • SDA (Serana Dialogue Add-On) v1.0, located HERE, is 100% compatible; Read the Follower Compatabilty article.  
  • NPC Party is untested by me but states that it works with AFT. 
  • Ride Sharing, it is a buggy and abandoned mod but when it does work, it works fine with AFT.  
  • Mods that alter Follower/NPC AI or Packages. (Likely no serious issues if mods change basic stuff). 
  • Mods that can dynamically change Follower gear. (Proteus, etc). Read this article. 
  • In-testing: FDE Followers; Stray Dog Improved; patch for AFT & Dog Followers are Huskies; 100 new followers including complex hybrids; Levelers Tower; Milandriel; White Lighthouse; Ambriel the Lost Princess updates; Return to Stables by wSkeever. 

  • I have 1100+ mods in my list, and I load 825+ mods, so this version of AFT is very compatible. 
  • Someone else will have to do the extensive testing that will be required for Unofficial DLC, i.e., Falskar, Legacy, Bruma, etc. 
  • Should work in VR, I have done limited testing. I can't wear that headset for very long. 
  • This version of AFT is Header 1.70 and Form 44, so it works fine with older mods and SE. 
  • Do not ESLify any AFT files. 
  • Do not Merge AFT files or patches. 
  • I'll make minor compatability patches for AFT and other mods by request. Generally, AFT will not have conflicts with other mods. 
  • If you make a patch for another mod and AFT, I will post it in Downloads. 
  • I will not do any additional patching for USSEP, CRF or ASLAL beyond what is already in the AFT files and patches. 
  • Do not change the default Timescale in Skyrim (Default: 20). 
  • The latest versions of the CK will change the header version in AFT and break the mod. Do not recomplie AFT. 

 
Uninstalling - Upgrading - Updating 
Please read this article for instructions on: Uninstalling AFT; Upgrading from AFT SE; and Updating AFT (SE AE). 


Mod Recommendations:

  • Bathing Beauties Luxury Suite - one of the best player homes you can find. Tons of space and beds for followers and, you can have followers live there without taking up a follower slot in AFT or MHIYH.
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     Eli placed her AE-CC Home right where BBLS is; to use BBLS in AE you have two options: this alternative which upgrades Tundra Homestead and moves it away from BBLS; or disable Homestead and make a dummy "cceejsse001-hstead" file. Read this Article on using AFT with Player Homes. Migal also has Housecarl replacers and female versions of all the Housecarls on his offsite page.
     

  • Ayleid Palace, Large popular player home, been around for a long time. Tons of space and beds for followers. There are two issues with AE CC content:
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    both the Umbra mod and The Cause mod put caves in the same spot! Ayleid works but you won't be able to access these other mods assets in the same spot easily. A Few Options: use tcl to access Red Star Cavern or Champion's Rest; Or use coc to teleport there: (Umbra: ccBGSSSE016Interior01, ccBGSSSE016Interior02), (Red Star: ccBGSSSE067MythicDawnCave01, ccBGSSSE067MythicDawnCave02); Or disable Umbra and The Cause mods and, if necessary, make dummy ccbgssse016-umbra.esm and ccbgssse067-daedinv.esm files.

 
  • Animated Wings Ultimate and the Flying Overhaul mod. Works with followers and AFT. Little bit of a learning curve but it's pretty awesome to have multiple followers flying around with you. I can help with install. 
 
  • My Home Is Your Home, compatible with AFT. Very useful tool for followers sleep and home location, work assignments and for teleporting followers.   

  • Race Compatibility, Mfg, Fuz Ro D-oh, Expressive Facial Animations, Conditional Expressions, XP32, FNIS, Smaller Women - all will help give you a better expereince with Followers & NPC's. 



To Do: Need volunteers to test with Unofficial DLC; make minor patches for other popular mods including SDA; make a faction correction spell/pre-import NPC spell; working on a FOMOD; new Bonus Outfit; improved Follower AI. There are many older translations out there for AFT, maybe someone could check them and we could add them to downloads or at least link to them. 


Amazing Follower Tweaks was authored by “Dheuster”. The original version of --->  Amazing Follower Tweaks (LE)


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