Just Good Morrowind WIP Mod List
61 mods
DUPE Limited but impactful graphical mods, performance optimizations, many gameplay mods, and no extra content or quests. Just Good Morrowind.
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 is not intended for a first time player – instead, check out I Heart Vanilla.
In order to prevent user error it is highly recommended to use the Automatic Installation Guide for Windows, Linux, or MacOS to install this mod list.
Table of Contents
This mod list is divided into sublists, the table of contents below has a link to each one.
- First Steps: 5 steps
- Patches, Fixes, and Consistency: 7 steps
- Modding Resources: 1 step
- Performance: 2 steps
- Texture Packs: 3 steps
- Architecture: 3 steps
- Environment: 1 step
- Skies and Weather: 4 steps
- Lighting: 1 step
- Furniture and Clutter: 1 step
- Weapons: 2 steps
- Animation: 1 step
- Groundcover: 2 steps
- NPCs: 2 steps
- Gameplay: 13 steps
- Combat: 1 step
- Magic & Spells: 1 step
- Leveling: 2 steps
- Chargen: 1 step
- Travel: 1 step
- Camera: 1 step
- Post Processing Shaders: 1 step
- User Interface: 9 steps
- Fonts: 1 step
- Settings Tweaks: 7 steps
- Tools: 1 step
First Steps: 5 steps
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, Fixes, and Consistency: 7 steps
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 … |
| #8 | Expansion Resource Conflicts | hardek | Fixes a number of texture conflicts with the … |
| #9 | Jammings Off | HedgeHog12 | These files are an updated version of the … |
| #10 | Fixed Bonelord Arms | Kynesifnar | Fixes the bonelord's left forearms so that they … |
| #11 | Oh God Snow for Skies.iv and OpenMW | ward | The blizzard textures are blinding when using skies … |
| #12 | Distant Fixes: Lua Edition | johnnyhostile | A Lua framework for handling updates to distant … |
Modding Resources: 1 step
View This SublistCommunity asset repositories and frameworks, used by many other mods.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #13 | Stats Window Extender (OpenMW) | Ralts | A replacement for the Stats window with built-in … |
Performance: 2 steps
View This SublistAsset changes intended to yield a performance boost.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #14 | Morrowind Optimization Patch | MOP Team | Greatly improves performance and fixes some mesh errors. |
| #15 | Project Atlas | Project Atlas Team | The goal of Project Atlas is to identify … |
Texture Packs: 3 steps
View This SublistThese provide large amounts of textures, covering all assets in the game or close to it.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #16 | Morrowind Enhanced Textures | DassiD, PoodleSandwich, and Gigan | Upscales every in-game texture with the help of … |
| #17 | Normal Maps for Everything | cane1314 | Normal Maps for Everything is a mod for … |
| #18 | Sophie's Skooma Sweetshoppe | Sophie | Sophie's repository of textures, meshes, upscales and normal … |
Architecture: 3 steps
View This SublistNew meshes and textures for general architecture.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19 | Morrowind Interiors Project | GrumblingVomit | Adds exteriors to all interior cells with windows. … |
| #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 … |
Environment: 1 step
View This SublistUpdate the visuals of stock objects in the environment.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #22 | Harvest Lights | johnnyhostile | Disables lights around harvestable objects and re-enables them … |
Skies and Weather: 4 steps
View This SublistAlter the looks and behavior of the sky, clouds, and weather.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #23 | Kirel's Interior Weather | Kirel | Plays weather sound effects in interior cells, but … |
| #24 | Skies .IV | Markel | Comprehensive Overhaul for the weather in Morrowind, Solsthiem, … |
| #25 | New Starfields | Melchior Dahrk | This is just a simple, high-definition replacer for … |
| #26 | Meteors | Shanjaq | Every night a random max time interval is … |
Lighting: 1 step
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #27 | Improved Lights for All Shaders | Hemaris | Adjusts every vanilla light mesh to enhance the … |
Furniture and Clutter: 1 step
View This SublistUpdated assets for select items in the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #28 | OpenMW Containers Animated | akortunov and CemKey | Based on MW Containers Animated by qqqbbb. This … |
Weapons: 2 steps
View This SublistAn update treatment for weapons.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #29 | Weapon Sheathing | TES3 Community | Makes unreadied weapons appear on the character's hip … |
| #30 | Smart Ammo for OpenMW-Lua | johnnyhostile | Requires OpenMW 0.48.0 or newer! Ammo autoequip while … |
Animation: 1 step
View This SublistUpdate the game's dated animations with improved assets.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #31 | Simply Walking (Remastered) | Dirane and PurplePrankster101 | Replaces only the walking animation. |
Groundcover: 2 steps
View This SublistAdd grass, reeds, small mushrooms, stones, and other groundcover to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #32 | Lush Synthesis | acidzebra | A modular remix of popular grass mods with … |
| #33 | Remiros' Groundcover | Remiros, Vtastek, Hrnchamd | This mod adds high quality grass and groundcover … |
NPCs: 2 steps
View This SublistAdd more variety and (hopefully) immersion by updating the rather limited NPC scope of the base game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #34 | Familiar Faces by Caleb | Caleb C | An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up … |
| #35 | Attend Me | urm | Attend me features a follower HUD and automatic … |
Gameplay: 13 steps
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #36 | Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition | Stuporstar and Greatness7 | Automatically harvests herbs just like the old Graphic … |
| #37 | Go Home! | johnnyhostile | Gives NPCs a schedule, and locks doors during … |
| #38 | Speechcraft Rebalance (OpenMW) | Aphain | This mod changes several game modifiers to make … |
| #39 | Fatigue and Speed and Carryweight Rebalance (OpenMW) | MisterFlames | Carefully tweaked values to increase speed and carry … |
| #40 | Pickpocket Rebalance (OpenMW) | Aphain | Makes pickpocketing useful by setting the maximum success … |
| #41 | Tabletop Alchemy | DaisyHasaCat | This mod allows you to enter the alchemy … |
| #42 | Pharis' Magicka Regeneration | Pharis | Magicka regeneration Lua mod for all actors based … |
| #43 | Light Hotkey | Pharis | Equip your light with a hotkey and automatically … |
| #44 | Shield Unequipper | johnnyhostile | Inspired by the MCP feature 'Two-handed weapon removes … |
| #45 | Convenient Thief Tools | Pharis | Quickly equip and cycle through thief tools (lockpicks/probes) … |
| #46 | Perfect Placement | Hrnchamd | Adds interactive placement and rotation. |
| #47 | Friendly Autosave | johnnyhostile | Saves the game at regular intervals with configurable … |
| #48 | MOMW Gameplay | johnnyhostile | Automatically configure various mods to suit the modded … |
Combat: 1 step
View This SublistMods that affect or change the combat mechanics.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #49 | Solthas Combat Pack (OpenMW Lua) | Solthas | Get all my combat mods in one place, … |
Magic & Spells: 1 step
View This SublistMods that add or alter spells in various ways
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #50 | Daisy's Lua Multimark | DaisyHasaCat | OpenMW 0.48 or newer required. Allows the player … |
Leveling: 2 steps
View This SublistThese mods affect the game's leveling systems, including but not limited to how stats are gained/increase (or decrease).
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #51 | Natural Character Growth | mym, Greywander, Evil Eye, johnnyhostile | A leveling mod where your attributes grow automatically … |
| #52 | Skill Evolution | mym | This mod overhauls skill progression by dynamically scaling … |
Chargen: 1 step
View This SublistMods that alter or affect the character generation portion of the game intro.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #53 | NoPopUp Chargen | johnnyhostile | Removes all tutorial pop-ups from chargen. Works with … |
Travel: 1 step
View This SublistMods related to modes of transport.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #54 | Signpost Fast Travel | johnnyhostile | Fast travel from signposts to their locations if … |
Camera: 1 step
View This SublistMods that affect the camera in one way or another.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #55 | Action Camera Swap | johnnyhostile | A camera mod for OpenMW that auto-swaps between … |
Post Processing Shaders: 1 step
View This SublistPost processing shaders add a variety of nice visual effects.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #56 | MOMW Post Processing Pack | Dexter, zesterer, wazabear, akortunov, wareya, various | A collection of post-processing shaders for OpenMW. Includes: … |
User Interface: 9 steps
View This SublistGive the game UI a needed facelift in various ways.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #57 | Big Icons | JaceyS | Replaces the small 16x16 spell effect icons with … |
| #58 | Vanilla Style HD Icons for Attributes and Skills | kotbaioun | New vanilla-looking HD icons for all attributes and … |
| #59 | Cantons on the Global Map | Hemaris | Vivec and Molag Mar no longer look like … |
| #60 | Pause Control | johnnyhostile, ptmikheev | Toggle pausing in various contexts and has special … |
| #61 | Chocolate UI | Innicin | Chocolate UI is an attempt to modernize the … |
| #62 | Enchanting icons as you wish | AnrohaNexus | Epic retexture of enchant icons in 9 different … |
| #63 | Simple HUD for OpenMW (with compass or minimap) | MisterFlames | A better HUD for OpenMW with many different … |
| #64 | Small Skyrim Crosshair (OpenMW compatible) | CibrHusK | Adds small skyrim-a-like crosshair with ownership mod compatibility. |
| #65 | Loading Screens Diversified | Melchior Dahrk | Replaces all vanilla splash art for the loading … |
Fonts: 1 step
View This SublistReplacements for the default game font.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #66 | Alternative TrueType Fonts | Isaskar and Georgd | Fonts to replace the default fonts used by … |
Settings Tweaks: 7 steps
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #67 | NPCs Avoid Collisions | OpenMW Authors | If enabled NPCs apply evasion maneuver to avoid … |
| #68 | Smooth Movement | OpenMW Authors | Makes NPCs and player movement more smooth. |
| #69 | Swim Upward Correction | OpenMW Authors | Makes player swim a bit upward from the … |
| #70 | Turn To Movement Direction | OpenMW Authors | If enabled then the character turns lower body … |
| #71 | Color Topic Enable | OpenMW Authors | This setting controls whether the topics available in … |
| #72 | Animation Blending | OpenMW Authors | Animation blending introduces smooth animation transitions between essentially … |
| #73 | Camera Listener | OpenMW Authors | When true, uses the camera position and direction … |
Tools: 1 step
View This SublistThe final bits of work, to ensure long-term smooth sailing.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #74 | MOMW Tools Pack | fallchildren, johnnyhostile, John Moonsugar, Benjamin Winger, … | All the tools you need to automatically install … |
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