[#modding] _feature request (moddability):_ add a `RequiresMods` field to `manifest.json` t...

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<kernelmethod> feature request (moddability): add a RequiresMods field to manifest.json that adds a comma-separated list of mods that must be enabled in order for a given mod to be enabled. For example:
"RequiresMods": ["SnapjawMages", "MyMod"]
would be used to specify that mods with IDs SnapjawMages and MyMod must be enabled to run this mod.

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[kernelmethod]

this is orthogonal to the problems solved by using LoadOrder because, for example, you could have an XML-only mod that depends on a scripting mod (which is the use case I’m hitting); the former will be enabled by default but not the latter

[Ray]

Ideally there would be a way to force loading regardless (for instance, in the case of a fork of a base mod)