Just Beautiful Morrowind Mod List
110 mods
Just Beautiful Morrowind builds on Just Good Morrowind by adding Beautiful Cities of Morrowind, province mods, cut content mods, and select quest mods into the mix. The spirit is otherwise the same: limited but impactful graphical mods, performance optimizations, and many gameplay mods.
The vanilla Morrowind textures with normal maps look surprisingly nice for what they are. Combine that with the overwhelming beauty provided by various shaders and what you get is a simple yet enjoyable Morrowind experience, with gameplay changes and improvements to really spice things up. This mod list was optimized for maximum FPS on a Steam Deck.
This mod list is not a gameplay purist list, and it is not intended for a first time player – instead, check out I Heart Vanilla.
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
- Patches: 2 mods
- Consistency: 2 mods
- Modding Resources: 2 mods
- Meshes / Performance: 5 mods
- Cut Content: 2 mods
- Land & Landmass Additions: 4 mods
- Texture Packs: 2 mods
- Cities & Towns: 3 mods
- Interiors: 3 mods
- Sky & Weather: 4 mods
- Lighting: 4 mods
- Animations: 4 mods
- Music: 4 mods
- Groundcover: 3 mods
- NPCs: 3 mods
- Companions: 1 mod
- Dialogue: 2 mods
- Balance And Nerfing: 3 mods
- Creatures: 1 mod
- Gameplay: 16 mods
- Quests: 5 mods
- Factions: 1 mod
- The Player Home: 1 mod
- Distant Details: 2 mods
- Travel: 1 mod
- Mod Patches: 2 mods
- Camera: 2 mods
- Post Processing Shaders: 1 mod
- User Interface: 9 mods
- Settings Tweaks: 9 mods
- Merging: 2 mods
First Steps: 5 mods
View This SublistThese 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
View This SublistAlter 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 | Bethesda Official Plugins Naturalized | PikachunoTM | Implementation of Bethesda's Official Plugins with some slightly … |
Consistency: 2 mods
View This SublistMods that fix inconsistencies in the Morrowind game world.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | Expansion Resource Conflicts | hardek | Fixes a number of texture conflicts with the … |
| #9 | Vegtabills Threads of the Webspinner | vegtabill | In a nutshell, this mod aims to give … |
Modding Resources: 2 mods
View This SublistCommunity asset repositories, used by many other mods.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #10 | Tamriel Data | Cross-Project Coordination | Adds game data files required by mods such … |
| #11 | OAAB_Data | OAAB_Data Team | OAAB_Data is free-to-use asset repository for the Morrowind … |
Meshes / Performance: 5 mods
View This SublistMesh replacers. Most of these correct mistakes in the originals, often resulting in performance increases, others will affect gameplay (Graphic Herbalism).
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | Morrowind Optimization Patch | MOP Team | Greatly improves performance and fixes some mesh errors. |
| #13 | Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition | Stuporstar and Greatness7 | Automatically harvests herbs just like the old Graphic … |
| #14 | Project Atlas | Project Atlas Team | The goal of Project Atlas is to identify … |
| #15 | Jammings Off | HedgeHog12 | These files are an updated version of the … |
| #16 | Fixed Bonelord Arms | Kynesifnar | Fixes the bonelord's left forearms so that they … |
Cut Content: 2 mods
View This SublistContent that was promised by Todd, but never delivered, reimagined.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #17 | Cutting Room Floor | CiceroTR | This mod aims to be the one stop … |
| #18 | Artifacts Reinstated | CiceroTR | Necromancer's Amulet and the Bloodworm Helm now have … |
Land & Landmass Additions: 4 mods
View This SublistAdd large amounts of extra land, including quests, to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19 | Tamriel Rebuilt | Tamriel Rebuilt Team | This is the product of a project that … |
| #20 | Project Cyrodiil | Project Tamriel Team | Project Cyrodiil is a new lands mod from … |
| #21 | Skyrim: Home Of The Nords | Project Tamriel Team | A massive project that aims to bring the … |
| #22 | Solstheim Tomb of the Snow Prince | TOTSP Team | TOTSP goal is to improve the graphical fidelity, … |
Texture Packs: 2 mods
View This SublistThese provide large amounts of textures, covering all assets in the game or close to it.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #23 | Morrowind Enhanced Textures | DassiD, PoodleSandwich, and Gigan | Upscales every in-game texture with the help of … |
| #24 | Normal Maps for Everything | cane1314 | Normal Maps for Everything is a mod for … |
Cities & Towns: 3 mods
View This SublistThese make cities and settlements more beautiful by updating existing content or adding great new content of their own.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #25 | Beautiful Cities of Morrowind | RandomPal and the Morrowind Modding Community | Overhaul of almost every settlement of Morrowind, inspired … |
| #26 | Immersive Mournhold | Various | A Mournhold Overhaul based on the works of … |
| #27 | Tel Branora Expansion | RandomPal | Tel Branora is a fascinating town: a Telvanni … |
Interiors: 3 mods
View This SublistUpdates of existing interior cells in order to make them feel more lived in and expansive.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #28 | Morrowind Interiors Project | GrumblingVomit | Adds exteriors to all interior cells with windows. … |
| #29 | Simple Vivec Library Overhaul | RandomPal | Simple overhaul of the Library of Vivec, keeping … |
| #30 | Nordic Solstheim - Solstheim Interiors Overhaul | RandomPal | Reclutters nordic interiors on Sosltheim in true nordic … |
Sky & Weather: 4 mods
View This SublistAlter the looks and behavior of the sky, clouds, and weather.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #31 | Skies .IV | Markel | Comprehensive Overhaul for the weather in Morrowind, Solsthiem, … |
| #32 | Oh God Snow for Skies.iv and OpenMW | ward | The blizzard textures are blinding when using skies … |
| #33 | New Starfields | Melchior Dahrk | This is just a simple, high-definition replacer for … |
| #34 | Meteors | Shanjaq | Every night a random max time interval is … |
Lighting: 4 mods
View This SublistUpdate the behavior and look of lighting in the game, going for a darker and more accurate look overall.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #35 | Glow in the Dahrk | Melchior Dahrk | This is a modern, pluginless replacement of the … |
| #36 | Nords shut your windows | Vegetto88 | Nord's windows have a wooden shutter, open in … |
| #37 | Improved Lights for All Shaders | Hemaris | Adjusts every vanilla light mesh to enhance the … |
| #38 | Harvest Lights | johnnyhostile | Disables lights around harvestable objects and re-enables them … |
Animations: 4 mods
View This SublistUpdate the game's dated animations with improved assets.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #39 | OpenMW Containers Animated | akortunov and CemKey | Based on MW Containers Animated by qqqbbb. This … |
| #40 | Simply Walking (Remastered) | Dirane and PurplePrankster101 | Replaces only the walking animation. |
| #41 | Weapon Sheathing | TES3 Community | Makes unreadied weapons appear on the character's hip … |
| #42 | openmw-animated-levitation | fallchildren, with sounds by Settyness | A new animation for levitation with its own … |
Music: 4 mods
View This SublistMods that add new music.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #43 | Dynamic Music (OpenMW Only) | eMOElein | A configurable framework that provides support for situation … |
| #44 | Tamriel Rebuilt - Original Soundtrack | Rytelier and ASKII | Adds whole new soundtrack for Tamriel Rebuilt areas, … |
| #45 | Songbook of the North - A music mod for Skyrim Home of the Nords | imsobadatnicknames | Songbook of the North is a MUSE plugin … |
| #46 | Project Cyrodiil Music - Anvil and Sutch | Matt Andrews - Astrid - Ronik | Original music inspired by the Project Cyrodiil mod, … |
Groundcover: 3 mods
View This SublistAdd grass, reeds, small mushrooms, stones, and other groundcover to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #47 | Lush Synthesis | acidzebra | A modular remix of popular grass mods with … |
| #48 | Remiros' Groundcover | Remiros, Vtastek, Hrnchamd | This mod adds high quality grass and groundcover … |
| #49 | Project Cyrodiil Grass | Ronik | Adds groundcover to the lands added by the … |
NPCs: 3 mods
View This SublistAdd more variety and (hopefully) immersion by updating the rather limited NPC scope of the base game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #50 | Familiar Faces by Caleb | Caleb C | An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up … |
| #51 | Go Home! | johnnyhostile | Gives NPCs a schedule, and locks doors during … |
| #52 | Traveling Guar Riders (OpenMW) | GrumblingVomit | Adds traveling guar riders to a few locations … |
Companions: 1 mod
View This SublistAdds companions to join you on your adventures.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #53 | Attend Me | urm | Attend me features a follower HUD and automatic … |
Dialogue: 2 mods
View This SublistTweaks and enhances the NPC dialogue in various ways, and adds new voiced lines.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #54 | Quest Voice Greetings | Von Djangos | ElevenAI generated voices for quest-giving NPCs in Morrowind. … |
| #55 | Ashlander Voices | Von Djangos | Adds 130 new voice greetings to the Ashlanders, … |
Balance And Nerfing: 3 mods
View This SublistThese mods try to bring some balance through changes to the game mechanics and world.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #56 | Speechcraft Rebalance (OpenMW) | Aphain | This mod changes several game modifiers to make … |
| #57 | Fatigue and Speed and Carryweight Rebalance (OpenMW) | MisterFlames | Carefully tweaked values to increase speed and carry … |
| #58 | Pickpocket Rebalance (OpenMW) | Aphain | Makes pickpocketing useful by setting the maximum success … |
Creatures: 1 mod
View This SublistAdds a variety of new passive and hostile creatures to the game world, and rebalances the vanilla game critters.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #59 | Repopulated Creatures | GrumblingVomit | Distributes select Tamriel Data creatures, undead, and Daedra … |
Gameplay: 16 mods
View This SublistUpdate gameplay mechanics. From leveling to monster spawning, marksman to sneaking, this selection tries to update game mechanics to feel better or more enjoyable compared to the vanilla game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #60 | Tabletop Alchemy | ZackHasACat | This mod allows you to enter the alchemy … |
| #61 | NCGDMW Lua Edition | Greywander, EvilEye, johnnyhostile, Mehdi Yousfi-Monod | A "Natural Grow" leveling mod, where your attributes … |
| #62 | Solthas Combat Pack (OpenMW Lua) | Solthas | Get all my combat mods in one place, … |
| #63 | Smart Ammo for OpenMW-Lua | johnnyhostile | Requires OpenMW 0.48.0 or newer! Ammo autoequip while … |
| #64 | Zack's Lua Multimark Mod | ZackHasACat | OpenMW 0.48 or newer required. Allows the player … |
| #65 | Pharis' Magicka Regeneration | Pharis | Magicka regeneration Lua mod for all actors based … |
| #66 | Light Hotkey | Pharis | Equip your light with a hotkey and automatically … |
| #67 | Shield Unequipper | johnnyhostile | Inspired by the MCP feature 'Two-handed weapon removes … |
| #68 | NoPopUp Chargen | johnnyhostile | Removes all tutorial pop-ups from chargen. Works with … |
| #69 | Bound Balance | johnnyhostile | Balances bound items by adjusting them based on … |
| #70 | Fresh Loot (OpenMW) | mym | Fresh Loot dynamically improves random weapons, armors and … |
| #71 | Convenient Thief Tools | Pharis | Quickly equip and cycle through thief tools (lockpicks/probes) … |
| #72 | Perfect Placement | Hrnchamd | Adds interactive placement and rotation. |
| #73 | Friendly Autosave | johnnyhostile | Saves the game at regular intervals with configurable … |
| #74 | RUN! | johnnyhostile | A sprinting mod for OpenMW 0.49 or newer. … |
| #75 | Dynamic Timescale for OpenMW | DeathDaisy69 | Dynamic timescale for wilderness, towns, interiors and while … |
Quests: 5 mods
View This SublistAdd new quests, alter existing areas, get new rewards. Includes new content from some of the developers of the original Morrowind!
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #76 | AFFresh | AFFA | This mod adds about 30 quests to NPCs … |
| #77 | Fargoth Says Hello | AFFA | Adds two quests to Fargoth depending on whether … |
| #78 | The Mananaut's Message | Melchior Dahrk and AFFA | This mod adds Royal Imperial Mananaut Alberius outside … |
| #79 | Red Wisdom - An Ashlander Prophecy | AFFA, Greatness7, and Melchior Dahrk | Embark on a mystical journey as you unravel … |
| #80 | Tamriel Rebuilt Introduction Quest - Help a Khajiit reach the City of Good People | Denis418 | Rescue a slave from Addamasartus and help him … |
Factions: 1 mod
View This SublistAdds new content and quests for the original game's factions, and introduces a couple of never before seen factions with full questlines.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #81 | Wilhelm of the Aedra | AFFA | Frik is concerned about one Wilhelm Bear-Star who … |
The Player Home: 1 mod
View This SublistThe fabled Player Home genre of mod! Everybody loves a free mansion, right?
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #82 | The Popular Plague | AFFA, Greatness7, Melchior Dahrk, and seelof | A disease of an unusual nature has come … |
Distant Details: 2 mods
View This SublistMods that affect object and visuals in the distance.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #83 | Distant Fixes: Lua Edition | johnnyhostile | A Lua framework for handling updates to distant … |
| #84 | Distant Ebon Tower for OpenMW | GrumblingVomit | Makes the mesh underneath Ebon Tower larger so … |
Travel: 1 mod
View This SublistMods related to modes of transport.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #85 | Signpost Fast Travel | johnnyhostile | Fast travel from signposts to their locations if … |
Mod Patches: 2 mods
View This SublistCollections of small patches and other plugins for compatibility between various mods, or between various mods and OpenMW.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #86 | MOMW Patches | MOMW Team + OpenMW Modding Community | Patches made by the Modding-OpenMW.com and OpenMW modding … |
| #87 | Sophie's Skooma Sweetshoppe | Sophie | Sophie's repository of textures, meshes, upscales and normal … |
Camera: 2 mods
View This SublistMods that affect the camera in one way or another.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #88 | MOMW Camera | johnnyhostile | Autoconfigure camera and headbobbing settings to recommended values! |
| #89 | Action Camera Swap | johnnyhostile | A camera mod for OpenMW that auto-swaps between … |
Post Processing Shaders: 1 mod
View This SublistPost processing shaders add a variety of nice visual effects.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #90 | MOMW Post Processing Pack | Dexter, zesterer, wazabear, akortunov, wareya, various | A collection of post-processing shaders for OpenMW. Includes: … |
User Interface: 9 mods
View This SublistGive the game UI a needed facelift in various ways.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #91 | Alternative TrueType Fonts | Isaskar and Georgd | Fonts to replace the default fonts used by … |
| #92 | Big Icons | JaceyS | Replaces the small 16x16 spell effect icons with … |
| #93 | Vanilla Style HD Icons for Attributes and Skills | kotbaioun | New vanilla-looking HD icons for all attributes and … |
| #94 | Pause Control | johnnyhostile, ptmikheev | Toggle pausing in various contexts and has special … |
| #95 | Chocolate UI | Innicin | Chocolate UI is an attempt to modernize the … |
| #96 | Enchanting icons as you wish | AnrohaNexus | Epic retexture of enchant icons in 9 different … |
| #97 | Simple HUD for OpenMW (with compass or minimap) | MisterFlames | A better HUD for OpenMW with many different … |
| #98 | Small Skyrim Crosshair (OpenMW compatible) | CibrHusK | Adds small skyrim-a-like crosshair with ownership mod compatibility. |
| #99 | Loading Screens Diversified | Melchior Dahrk | Replaces all vanilla splash art for the loading … |
Settings Tweaks: 9 mods
View This SublistNot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #100 | Increase Max Navmeshdb File Size | OpenMW Authors | This setting will raise the maximum size for … |
| #101 | NPCs Avoid Collisions | OpenMW Authors | If enabled NPCs apply evasion maneuver to avoid … |
| #102 | Smooth Movement | OpenMW Authors | Makes NPCs and player movement more smooth. |
| #103 | Swim Upward Correction | OpenMW Authors | Makes player swim a bit upward from the … |
| #104 | Turn To Movement Direction | OpenMW Authors | If enabled then the character turns lower body … |
| #105 | Color Topic Enable | OpenMW Authors | This setting controls whether the topics available in … |
| #106 | Animation Blending | OpenMW Authors | Animation blending introduces smooth animation transitions between essentially … |
| #107 | Camera Listener | OpenMW Authors | When true, uses the camera position and direction … |
| #108 | MOMW Gameplay | johnnyhostile | Automatically configure various mods to suit the modded … |
Merging: 2 mods
View This SublistThe final bits of work, to ensure long-term smooth sailing.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #109 | Delta Plugin and Groundcoverify | Benjamin Winger | Transcoder for managing a form of markup-based minimal … |
| #110 | S3LightFixes | S3ctor | S3LightFixes is a descendant of Waza-lightfixes, which itself … |
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