Are one click mod collections safe to install?

Put a big collection on a clean profile, not on top of the mods you already have. Most of the "collection broke my game" posts are someone mixing their own mods into a load order the curator never tested.

From the big mod sites, mostly yes, in the sense that the files are the same ones you'd download by hand. The bigger risk is that a collection breaks your setup, not malware. What I'd check first: - how many people have downloaded it and when it was last updated. One that hasn't been touched since a game patch is the one that won't launch - whether it wants a specific game version - install it on a clean game with no other mods, so you know what's causing a crash And stay away from collections or installers posted outside the main mod sites, especially anything that comes as an .exe.