There are people who start adding salt to their food before they even taste it. If you are one of those people, (or a person like me) you can answer this question before you've even seen FO4. In my case my answer is obvious based on all the other FO games I have played, and my play style:

I need a mod that will increase my carry weight (way more than a perk) because I am such a packrat. I need to carry everything. If I clear out a den of raiders, as far as I am concerned, everything in that building belongs to me!

I justify the "cheat" in my head as non-unbalancing, but simply as saving my time. My character could have walked back and forth 20 times to carry all that crap to the store, but with the "weight mod" I only need to sit through one of those trips.

How about you? What are your must-have mods?

Equipable eyepatch, assuming Beth been silly about that again, otherwise I'm gonna be content mod wise for a long time.

I try not to do anything that alters gameplay until my second playthrough. After all, without playing the game, I can't tell what I might want to tweak.

Only thing I stuck into Skyrim during my first character (for ex) was the "Quality World Map" thing, that replaced the world map texture with a clearer one.

So yeah.... only things I might add early are graphical improvements. And given that the reqs are higher this time, and my computer is close to the minimum? Yeah, not likely to go heavy on those. (And it'll take awhile for someone to do a decent-quality body/face/hair replacer w/stock armor support.)

Multiple followers. They can carry it for me.

The Pretty Piper mod of course.

Well being that we won't have acess to the CK until early next year, I'm sure you'll be forced to play without mods for a bit. Unless you're going to wait past launch until mods are availible. That would be such a terrible wait lol but I'll agree on the weight thing. I do like to carry everything

If you are playing it on the computer, then you can just console cheat to solve your problem with player.forceav carryweight 9999.

Also there is the problem that certain mods won't operate on the consoles due to the necessity for certain programs like Script Extenders to make the mods work.

I have all sorts of things in mind but actually playing the game goes a long way towards answering what mod to build first.

NCR Veteran Ranger Armor for me

Tricorn hat for the Dog

The unofficial patch. The best mod ever.

I second this. Probably going to be the only mod I use for a while.

*disgusted noise*

You know I'm not sure yet. Us console folks getting mods for the first time so I really don't know. Maybe weapons and armor mods or.....ooooh a mod that enables to level up really fast. Maybe we'll get a mod that adds prewar building options for settlements if that's not in the vanilla game. Naturally we'll have more limitations than PC but there's so much possibility

Hmm, that reminds me. With all the Beth games I've played, and all the mods I've tried, I've somehow never gotten around to using any of the Unofficial Patches.

The first thing about Bethesda's games that I mod is always the timescale. If the timescale in Fallout 4 is as fast as their other games (20 or higher) I will mod that soon after getting the game.

A Pack Brahmin mod would be great!

Mod to use? Not sure. It depends so much on what I feel needs to be added, and what people come up with.

Mod to make? Drivable tracked vehicle. A bit like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbSTOdlOgo, but smaller and with a trailer for loot or trade goods. If I can... it might take a long while

I generally don't use these until the official patches are over, but after that I wouldn't play the game without them.

Come on people thats not really your first mod you wan't, thats your second.

Whats the most downloadable mod in every game people download on every beth game?

Ponnies!

i want to ride in my little pony thats my first mod I want.

What?

You was thinking I was talking about nvde mods? lol.

If I can not find a black trench coat or a robe in game, that will be my first mod. I want to look like a post apocalyptic warlord.

Edgy tryharding I know, but I like how it looks.

Probably not my very first mod, but if a mod that adds Traits to the game is put together well, I'll download it as soon as it's available.

An Animal Friend fix. Making friends with animals by pointing a gun at them just doesn't fit for the name. This could be solved by changing the name or making Animal Friend I and II the same as the old version.

My best work is with sandbox design, but I find it much less interesting to create or modify a singleplayer sandbox, so I'm probably just going to end up overhauling some visual effects. =]

To increase carry weight, you will likely be able to use a simple console command.

In my case...looking forward to some Survival/hardcoe Mode mods that may end up reducing carry weight when you are injured or infected, etc., or something similar to ASIS for Skyrim that enables you to customize increased enemy spawns.

hardcoe/realism mode