Check the addons you actually have installed
Paste the contents of your Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\
folder — or your AddOnSettings.txt — and get one verdict per folder, plus the required
folders that are missing from what you pasted.
Anchors for every claim on this page: the live game runs API 101050 (Update 50, live 2026-06-08). Update 51 is on the public test server now and is scheduled to go live on PC/Mac on September 28, 2026. Feed retrieved 2026-08-22 · corpus snapshot 2026-08-22.
The five verdicts, and what each one is computed from
Every addon on this site carries one of these. They come from three inputs and nothing else: the last
release date in the ESOUI feed, the ## APIVersion line in the addon's own manifest, and a scan
of its published Lua source for symbols that no longer exist in the live API documentation.
| Verdict | Addons | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| current | 297 | Released on or after the live patch date and declaring an API version at least as high as the live one. Nothing to do. |
| released, declares an older API | 147 | The author shipped a release after the patch but left the ## APIVersion line behind, so the add-on list flags it. The game loads it anyway. |
| not updated since the patch | 2,437 | No release since the patch, and our scan of its actual source finds no function or constant the game has removed. It commonly still runs — an inference from its code, not a test. |
| calls removed API | 226 | Its source references API that no longer exists in the live game. A removed function errors; a removed constant reads as nil and a feature quietly stops. |
| unknown | 63 | We have no manifest for it, or no readable ## APIVersion. Unknown is not “fine” and not “broken”. |
Counts are over all 3,170 addons in the ESOUI feed as retrieved 2026-08-22; the scan is of our corpus snapshot 2026-08-22.
The “Out of date” flag is one line of text
“Only one line is used to check if 101031 is present in the mods text file.”
And there is nothing to switch on any more — the checkbox players remember was removed years ago:
“The checkbox “Allow out of date add-ons” (2, see 1st screenshot above) was removed with the update to Blackwood! The game will just put a notification into your ingame notifications once after an API version change, if you got addons which are considered to be "out of date".”
Our own count of the live API dump agrees with that: the setting still has a getter and no setter — “* GetLoadOutOfDateAddOns()” — our own measurement of the live API dump, read 2026-08-22 — which is exactly what a removed setting looks like from the API side. ESOUI's install FAQ, on the other hand, still tells people to enable the old option (“If any of the mods in the list that pops up say "out of date" or some such, choose the "Load Outdated AddOns" option.” — source, read 2026-08-22), so two pages on the same site disagree and the API measurement is what settles it.
“As you can see by the above points "Out of Date" is completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things.”
Missing required folders
A hard dependency is declared with ## DependsOn and a missing one stops the addon loading
completely — that is the red Dependency line in the add-on list.
“Must dependency: Another addon or library which must be installed and enabled in the in-game addon manager in order to enable the addon in question at all. The AddOn will not load in total in that case. The must dependency is defined via the ## DependsOn: tag in the txt files of addons.”
“If a dependency of an AddOn is missing you are able to see it directly in the in-game AddOn manager’s list, at the right column. The text "Dependency” is indicating it.” — source, read 2026-08-22
Step-by-step: fixing a red “Dependency” · addons out of date after an update.
FAQ
Where do I get the list to paste?
Open Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns and copy the folder names — one per line is all this needs. On Windows, `dir /b` in that folder prints exactly that. You can also paste AddOnSettings.txt from the live folder one level up; the parser pulls folder names out of it.
Does anything I paste get uploaded?
No. The index is a static JSON file your browser downloads once, and the whole comparison runs in the page. There is no request back to us carrying your list.
It says an addon is “not updated” but it works fine for me.
Both can be true, and that is the point of separating the states. "Not updated" is a date comparison; "calls removed API" is a scan of the addon's own code. An addon that has not been touched in two years but never called anything the game later deleted keeps working. ESOUI says the same thing about the out-of-date flag in its own words: "Out of Date" is completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things.