I Heart Vanilla: Director's Cut Mod List

34 mods

This is an extension of the I Heart Vanilla list that includes Tamriel Rebuilt and related mods, and unofficial mods with content from original Morrowind creators.

Vanilla, but with a little bit more! The sheer amount of content that's added with just a few extra mods is indeed staggering. The list also features new quests from one of the writers of the original Morrowind!

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Table of Contents

This mod list is divided into sublists, the table of contents below has a link to each one.

First Steps: 5 mods

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These are all the steps you need to follow before installing a mod list

Step Name Author Description
#1 Buy and Install Morrowind OpenMW Authors An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you …
#2 Install OpenMW OpenMW Authors OpenMW is a free, open source, and modern …
#3 Set your Site Settings OpenMW Authors Your Site Settings contain some customizable options to …
#4 Folder Deploy Script OpenMW Authors Creating folders for your mod lists is a …
#5 How to Install Mods OpenMW Authors Great question. The process is a little different …

Patches: 2 mods

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Alter some aspect of the game in order to fix a bug, or to be more consistent with the game itself. Patches usually work via a plugin.

Step Name Author Description
#6 Patch for Purists Half11 Patch for Purists strives to be an all-in-one …
#7 Unofficial Morrowind Official Plugins Patched PikachunoTM An attempt to fix the many issues present …

Modding Resources: 1 mod

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Community asset repositories, used by many other mods.

Step Name Author Description
#8 Tamriel Data Cross-Project Coordination Adds game data files required by mods such …

Meshes / Performance: 4 mods

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Mesh replacers. Most of these correct mistakes in the originals, often resulting in performance increases, others will affect gameplay (Graphic Herbalism).

Step Name Author Description
#9 Morrowind Optimization Patch MOP Team Greatly improves performance and fixes some mesh errors.
#10 Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition Stuporstar and Greatness7 Automatically harvests herbs just like the old Graphic …
#11 Project Atlas Project Atlas Team The goal of Project Atlas is to identify …
#12 Jammings Off HedgeHog12 These files are an updated version of the …

Land & Landmass Additions: 2 mods

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Add large amounts of extra land, including quests, to the game.

Step Name Author Description
#13 Tamriel Rebuilt Project Tamriel Team This is the product of a project that …
#14 Skyrim: Home Of The Nords Project Tamriel Team A massive project that aims to bring the …

Texture Packs: 3 mods

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These provide large amounts of textures, covering all assets in the game or close to it.

Step Name Author Description
#15 Morrowind Enhanced Textures DassiD, PoodleSandwich, and Gigan Upscales every in-game texture with the help of …
#16 Necrom - Arkitektora of Morrowind Tyddy Only for using with Tamriel Rebuilt Project. New, …
#17 Facelift for Tamriel Data Kartoffels Some texture edits + mesh edits.

Interiors: 2 mods

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Updates of existing interior cells in order to make them feel more lived in and expansive.

Step Name Author Description
#18 Morrowind Interiors Project GrumblingVomit Adds exteriors to all interior cells with windows. …
#19 Kirel's Interior Weather Kirel Plays weather sound effects in interior cells, but …

Lighting: 2 mods

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Update the behavior and look of lighting in the game, going for a darker and more accurate look overall.

Step Name Author Description
#20 Glow in the Dahrk Melchior Dahrk This is a modern, pluginless replacement of the …
#21 Nords shut your windows Vegetto88 Nord's windows have a wooden shutter, open in …

Animations: 2 mods

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Update the game's dated animations with improved assets.

Step Name Author Description
#22 OpenMW Containers Animated akortunov and CemKey Based on MW Containers Animated by qqqbbb. This …
#23 Weapon Sheathing TES3 Community Makes unreadied weapons appear on the character's hip …

Quests: 2 mods

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Add new quests, alter existing areas, get new rewards. Includes new content from some of the developers of the original Morrowind!

Step Name Author Description
#24 AFFresh AFFA This mod adds about 30 quests to NPCs …
#25 Tamriel Rebuilt Introduction Quest - Help a Khajiit reach the City of Good People Denis418 Rescue a slave from Addamasartus and help him …

Distant Details: 2 mods

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Mods that affect object and visuals in the distance.

Step Name Author Description
#26 Dynamic Distant Buildings for OpenMW Hemaris Makes distant land more responsive to quest progress. …
#27 Distant Seafloor for OpenMW Hemaris Extends the seafloor around Vvardenfell to hide the …

NPCs: 1 mod

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Add more variety and (hopefully) immersion by updating the rather limited NPC scope of the base game.

Step Name Author Description
#28 Familiar Faces by Caleb Caleb C An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up …

User Interface: 3 mods

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Give the game UI a needed facelift in various ways.

Step Name Author Description
#29 Alternative TrueType Fonts Isaskar and Georgd Fonts to replace the default fonts used by …
#30 Big Icons JaceyS Replaces the small 16x16 spell effect icons with …
#31 Cantons on the Global Map Hemaris Vivec and Molag Mar no longer look like …

Settings Tweaks: 2 mods

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Not actually mods, but changes to settings that are built into the OpenMW engine. Enhance performance and visual quality, as well as enable or disable many gameplay options (including things provided by MCP for vanilla Morrowind).

Step Name Author Description
#32 Antialias Alpha Test OpenMW Authors Convert the alpha test (cutout/punchthrough alpha) to alpha-to-coverage …
#33 Color Topic Enable OpenMW Authors This setting controls whether the topics available in …

Merging: 1 mod

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The final bits of work, to ensure long-term smooth sailing.

Step Name Author Description
#34 waza_lightfixes wazabear This is a tool which generates a plugin …

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