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Morrowind Starter Pack Mod List
123 mods
A successor to the One Day Morrowind Modernization list, intended to be used as a base to which you can add any mods as you please.
The list includes basic fixes and patches for vanilla content including all official plugins, the Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel landmass mods, quality of life mods, and select graphical mods that preserve the game's original art style while making it look a bit more modern using OpenMW features such as normal mapping, built-in shader support, and distant land. On the other hand, the list doesn't include rebalance mods, city and landscape revamp mods, NPC mods, user interface mods, and any other additional content mods aside from the PTR landmasses.
The mods on the mod list have been chosen with compatibility in mind. As such, this list can be recommended both to new players that will be experiencing the game for the first time, but want the game to have a bit more flair than what I Heart Vanilla offers, and to experienced players and modders that want use the list as a base to build their own mod list upon.
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: 5 mods
- Modding Resources: 2 mods
- Land & Landmass Additions: 3 mods
- Meshes & Performance: 9 mods
- Texture Packs: 2 mods
- Architecture: 3 mods
- Nature: 4 mods
- Sky & Weather: 2 mods
- Lighting: 5 mods
- Clutter & Items: 1 mod
- Weaponry: 5 mods
- Bodies And Heads: 2 mods
- Creature Visuals: 4 mods
- VFX: 11 mods
- Animations: 3 mods
- Audio: 3 mods
- Music: 4 mods
- Groundcover: 5 mods
- Dialogue: 5 mods
- Quality of Life: 9 mods
- Quests: 2 mods
- Distant Details: 2 mods
- Mod Patches: 4 mods
- Post Processing Shaders: 1 mod
- User Interface: 5 mods
- Movies: 1 mod
- Settings Tweaks: 14 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: 5 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 | Unofficial Morrowind Official Plugins Patched | PikachunoTM | An attempt to fix the many issues present … |
| #8 | Expansion Delay | Half11 | This mod fixes Bethesda's overly enthusiastic expansion hooks … |
| #9 | Dubdilla Location Fix | Half11 | One of MW's quests has voiced dialogue that … |
| #10 | Greyed-out dialog | Mzalchanf | A simple mod to grey out the dialog … |
Modding Resources: 2 mods
View This SublistCommunity asset repositories, used by many other mods.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #11 | Tamriel Data | Cross-Project Coordination | Adds game data files required by mods such … |
| #12 | OAAB_Data | OAAB_Data Team | OAAB_Data is free-to-use asset repository for the Morrowind … |
Land & Landmass Additions: 3 mods
View This SublistAdd large amounts of extra land, including quests, to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #13 | Tamriel Rebuilt | Tamriel Rebuilt Team | This is the product of a project that … |
| #14 | Project Cyrodiil | Project Tamriel Team | Project Cyrodiil is a new lands mod from … |
| #15 | Skyrim: Home Of The Nords | Project Tamriel Team | A massive project that aims to bring the … |
Meshes & Performance: 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #16 | Mesh Fix v1.2 | Slartibartfast | Fixes positioning, UV maps, and more in the … |
| #17 | Correct Meshes | ZWolol | Fixes various issues with meshes. |
| #18 | Morrowind Optimization Patch | MOP Team | Greatly improves performance and fixes some mesh errors. |
| #19 | Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition | Stuporstar and Greatness7 | Automatically harvests herbs just like the old Graphic … |
| #20 | Correct UV Rocks | nich | This plugin corrects the UV mapping on the … |
| #21 | Properly Smoothed Meshes | Stuporstar | This graphic replacer covers tons of misc items, … |
| #22 | Project Atlas | Project Atlas Team | The goal of Project Atlas is to identify … |
| #23 | Fixed Bonelord Arms | Kynesifnar | Fixes the bonelord's left forearms so that they … |
| #24 | Jammings Off | HedgeHog12 | These files are an updated version of the … |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #25 | Morrowind Enhanced Textures | DassiD, PoodleSandwich, and Gigan | Upscales every in-game texture with the help of … |
| #26 | Normal Maps for Everything | cane1314 | Normal Maps for Everything is a mod for … |
Architecture: 3 mods
View This SublistNew meshes and textures for the general architecture.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #27 | Dwemer Mesh Improvement | Champion of Hircine | Replaces models in the Dwemer set. All meshes … |
| #28 | Dwemer Mesh Improvements Revamped | darkfri | Revamping of some meshes of Dwemer Mesh Improvement … |
| #29 | Necrom - Arkitektora of Morrowind | Tyddy | Only for using with Tamriel Rebuilt Project. New, … |
Nature: 4 mods
View This SublistUpdate the look of nature via improved meshes.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #30 | Perfect Scum | Phoenix Rime | Changes the location of the scum models to … |
| #31 | Subtle Smoke | wazabear | Makes it so many smoke effects are much … |
| #32 | Better Waterfalls | Melchior Dahrk | New effects and textures for TES3 Morrowind waterfalls. |
| #33 | OpenMW More Dynamic Water Meshes | taitechnic | Adds distortion effects to the water meshes from … |
Sky & Weather: 2 mods
View This SublistAlter the looks and behavior of the sky, clouds, and weather.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #34 | Skies .IV | Markel | Comprehensive Overhaul for the weather in Morrowind, Solsthiem, … |
| #35 | Oh God Snow for Skies.iv and OpenMW | ward | The blizzard textures are blinding when using skies … |
Lighting: 5 mods
View This SublistUpdate the behavior and look of lighting in the game, going for a more accurate look overall.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #36 | Glow in the Dahrk | Melchior Dahrk | This is a modern, pluginless replacement of the … |
| #37 | Nords shut your windows | Vegetto88 | Nord's windows have a wooden shutter, open in … |
| #38 | Improved Lights for All Shaders | Hemaris | Adjusts every vanilla light mesh to enhance the … |
| #39 | OpenMW vanilla candles patched with Enlightened Flames and ILFAS | taitechnic | A basic drop in replacer of the vanilla … |
| #40 | Harvest Lights | johnnyhostile | Disables lights around harvestable objects and re-enables them … |
Clutter & Items: 1 mod
View This SublistUpdated assets for select items in the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #41 | OpenMW Containers Animated | akortunov and CemKey | Based on MW Containers Animated by qqqbbb. This … |
Weaponry: 5 mods
View This SublistAn update treatment for weapons.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #42 | Correct Iron Warhammer | Reizeron | This is how in-game dialogues describe iron warhammers: … |
| #43 | Oriental Mesh Improvements | Psymoniser | This replaces the meshes of the oriental styled … |
| #44 | Weapon Sheathing | TES3 Community | Makes unreadied weapons appear on the character's hip … |
| #45 | Improved Thrown Weapon Projectiles | Reizeron | Makes thrown weapon projectiles fly pointy end forward … |
| #46 | Animated Staff of Magnus | PikachunoTM | Animates the Staff of Magnus. Bonus, a similar … |
Bodies And Heads: 2 mods
View This SublistReplace the vanilla bodies and heads, and their textures, for all races and genders.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #47 | Familiar Faces by Caleb | Caleb C | An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up … |
| #48 | Facelift for Tamriel Data | Kartoffels | Some texture edits + mesh edits. |
Creature Visuals: 4 mods
View This SublistGive the various creatures of the game new life with updated assets.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #49 | Silt Strider Animation Restored | Reizeron | Restores previously unused Silt Strider animation. |
| #50 | Blighted Animals Retextured | Catherine, Darknut, and PeterBitt | This mod adds unique textures to all blighted … |
| #51 | Old Blue Fin | Leyawynn | This mod gives Old Blue Fin a blue … |
| #52 | On the Blink | Svergy | Base Morrowind guars of all varieties (regular, pack, … |
VFX: 11 mods
View This SublistUpdated visual effects. Greatly enhance many scenes with subtle but beautiful additions.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #53 | Mistify | Melchior Dahrk | This mod enhances the ambiance of the Bitter … |
| #54 | The Dream is the Door | Melchior Dahrk | To align with what the in game dialogue … |
| #55 | Parasol Particles | Melchior Dahrk | Adds falling spores particle effects to the iconic … |
| #56 | No Shield Sparkle | Jiopsi | Removes sparkle effects from Shield. This makes the … |
| #57 | Diverse Blood | OffworldDevil | 8 new blood textures for NPCs and creatures. … |
| #58 | Diverse Blood for Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel | jonado1 | Expansion of the mod "Diverse Blood" to cover … |
| #59 | Pluginless NoGlow | Plangkye | Replaces textures for the enchanted item "plastic wrap"effect … |
| #60 | OpenMW (0.49) Distortion Effects | EpochWon | Adds distortion effects to all particles and spells … |
| #61 | OpenMW Distortion Effects Patches | EpochWon | Patches for other mods to use distortion effects. |
| #62 | OpenMW Impact Effects | taitechnic | Adds visual effects and sounds when you hit … |
| #63 | OpenMW Dynamic Ambient Visual Effects | taitechnic | This mod adds ambient visuals: Smoking candles, lightning … |
Animations: 3 mods
View This SublistUpdate the game's dated animations with improved assets.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #64 | Simply Walking (Remastered) | Dirane and PurplePrankster101 | Replaces only the walking animation. |
| #65 | Just a little bit better animations for the mage build (first-person) | MiroslavXO | Wield powerful spells and magical forces like a … |
| #66 | openmw-animated-levitation | fallchildren, with sounds by Settyness | A new animation for levitation with its own … |
Audio: 3 mods
View This SublistMods that add or change sounds.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #67 | Same Low Price Fix | ClockworkAngels | A small edit to fix the male Dunmer … |
| #68 | Character Sound Overhaul | Anumaril21 | CSO is a dynamic, customizable sound overhaul of … |
| #69 | openmw-footsteps | fallchildren | This is a try at implementing partial support … |
Music: 4 mods
View This SublistMods that add new music.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #70 | Dynamic Music (OpenMW Only) | eMOElein | A configurable framework that provides support for situation … |
| #71 | Tamriel Rebuilt - Original Soundtrack | Rytelier and ASKII | Adds whole new soundtrack for Tamriel Rebuilt areas, … |
| #72 | Songbook of the North - A music mod for Skyrim Home of the Nords | imsobadatnicknames | Songbook of the North is a MUSE plugin … |
| #73 | Project Cyrodiil Music - Anvil and Sutch | Matt Andrews - Astrid - Ronik | Original music inspired by the Project Cyrodiil mod, … |
Groundcover: 5 mods
View This SublistAdd grass, reeds, small mushrooms, stones, and other groundcover to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #74 | Remiros' Groundcover | Remiros, Vtastek, Hrnchamd | This mod adds high quality grass and groundcover … |
| #75 | Remiros Groundcover Textures Improvement | borok | Fix of jagged Remiros grass textures without increasing … |
| #76 | OAAB Saplings | Melchior Dahrk, MassiveJuice, and Sophie | This mod places saplings from OAAB_Data in most … |
| #77 | Lush Synthesis | acidzebra | A modular remix of popular grass mods with … |
| #78 | Project Cyrodiil Grass | Ronik | Adds groundcover to the lands added by the … |
Dialogue: 5 mods
View This SublistTweaks and enhances the NPC dialogue in various ways.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #79 | Voice Overhaul | Phoenix Rime | New voice line system made from scratch with … |
| #80 | No More Stage Diving - Desele's Dancing Girls | Pherim | Keeps the girls in Desele's from dancing off … |
| #81 | Greetings for No Lore | Caeris | Replaces the three standard No Lore greetings with … |
| #82 | FMBP - Greet Service | PoodleSandwich | Makes it so service NPCs will greet you … |
| #83 | LDM - Context Matters | Lucevar | Edits, re-filters, or adds on to vanilla dialogue … |
Quality of Life: 9 mods
View This SublistSmall, but appreciable quality of life updates.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #84 | Attend Me | urm | Attend me features a follower HUD and automatic … |
| #85 | Smart Ammo for OpenMW-Lua | johnnyhostile | Requires OpenMW 0.48.0 or newer! Ammo autoequip while … |
| #86 | TimeScale Change - OpenMW | HunterSpark | This is simply a TimeScale Change mod, which … |
| #87 | Zack's Lua Multimark Mod | ZackHasACat | OpenMW 0.48 or newer required. Allows the player … |
| #88 | Light Hotkey | Pharis | Equip your light with a hotkey and automatically … |
| #89 | Convenient Thief Tools | Pharis | Quickly equip and cycle through thief tools (lockpicks/probes) … |
| #90 | Perfect Placement | Hrnchamd | Adds interactive placement and rotation. |
| #91 | Quicktrain | ZackHasACat | Adds a note that saves known trainer locations, … |
| #92 | Friendly Autosave | johnnyhostile | Saves the game at regular intervals with configurable … |
Quests: 2 mods
View This SublistTo help integrate the changes from other mods from the mod list a little bit more.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #93 | Early Transport to Mournhold | Necrolesian | This mod allows travel to Mournhold before the … |
| #94 | 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
View This SublistMods that affect object and visuals in the distance.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #95 | Distant Fixes: Lua Edition | johnnyhostile | A Lua framework for handling updates to distant … |
| #96 | Distant Ebon Tower for OpenMW | GrumblingVomit | Makes the mesh underneath Ebon Tower larger so … |
Mod Patches: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #97 | MOMW Patches | MOMW Team + OpenMW Modding Community | Patches made by the Modding-OpenMW.com and OpenMW modding … |
| #98 | Sophie's Skooma Sweetshoppe | Sophie | Sophie's repository of textures, meshes, upscales and normal … |
| #99 | Mono's Minor Moddities | MonoAccipiter | Various minor mods patched together mostly as small … |
| #100 | Various tweaks and fixes | borok | Small mods, tweaks and fixes. |
Post Processing Shaders: 1 mod
View This SublistPost processing shaders add a variety of nice visual effects.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #101 | MOMW Post Processing Pack | Dexter, zesterer, wazabear, akortunov, wareya, various | A collection of post-processing shaders for OpenMW. Includes: … |
User Interface: 5 mods
View This SublistGive the game UI a needed facelift in various ways.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #102 | Alternative TrueType Fonts | Isaskar and Georgd | Fonts to replace the default fonts used by … |
| #103 | Big Icons | JaceyS | Replaces the small 16x16 spell effect icons with … |
| #104 | Vanilla Style HD Icons for Attributes and Skills | kotbaioun | New vanilla-looking HD icons for all attributes and … |
| #105 | Cantons on the Global Map | Hemaris | Vivec and Molag Mar no longer look like … |
| #106 | Loading Screens Diversified | Melchior Dahrk | Replaces all vanilla splash art for the loading … |
Movies: 1 mod
View This SublistHigher quality in-game cinematics.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #107 | HD Intro Cinematic - English | Chesko | An HD recreation of the original Intro Cinematic. |
Settings Tweaks: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #108 | Distant Land And Objects | OpenMW Authors | These settings will affect how the engine renders … |
| #109 | Shadows | OpenMW Authors | Realtime shadow maps for (optionally) all game objects. |
| #110 | Water | OpenMW Authors | OpenMW has a configurable water shader, with several … |
| #111 | Increase Max Navmeshdb File Size | OpenMW Authors | This setting will raise the maximum size for … |
| #112 | Can Loot During Death Animation | OpenMW Authors | This is commonly seen as an exploit; setting … |
| #113 | NPCs Avoid Collisions | OpenMW Authors | If enabled NPCs apply evasion maneuver to avoid … |
| #114 | Smooth Movement | OpenMW Authors | Makes NPCs and player movement more smooth. |
| #115 | Swim Upward Correction | OpenMW Authors | Makes player swim a bit upward from the … |
| #116 | Turn To Movement Direction | OpenMW Authors | If enabled then the character turns lower body … |
| #117 | Color Topic Enable | OpenMW Authors | This setting controls whether the topics available in … |
| #118 | Animation Blending | OpenMW Authors | Animation blending introduces smooth animation transitions between essentially … |
| #119 | Camera Listener | OpenMW Authors | When true, uses the camera position and direction … |
| #120 | MOMW Camera | johnnyhostile | Autoconfigure camera and headbobbing settings to recommended values! |
| #121 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #122 | Delta Plugin and Groundcoverify | Benjamin Winger | Transcoder for managing a form of markup-based minimal … |
| #123 | S3LightFixes | S3ctor | S3LightFixes is a descendant of Waza-lightfixes, which itself … |
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