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Morrowind Starter Pack Mod List
107 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.
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: 20 steps
- Modding Resources: 2 steps
- Landmasses: 3 steps
- Performance: 2 steps
- Texture Packs: 5 steps
- Architecture: 4 steps
- Flora: 2 steps
- Water: 2 steps
- Environment: 3 steps
- Skies and Weather: 1 step
- Lighting: 1 step
- Furniture and Clutter: 4 steps
- Weapons: 8 steps
- VFX: 5 steps
- Animation: 4 steps
- Audio: 3 steps
- Music: 3 steps
- Landscape: 1 step
- Groundcover: 5 steps
- NPCs: 5 steps
- Creatures: 3 steps
- Gameplay: 11 steps
- Magic & Spells: 1 step
- Quests: 2 steps
- Post Processing Shaders: 1 step
- User Interface: 5 steps
- Fonts: 1 step
- Settings Tweaks: 13 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: 20 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 | 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 … |
| #11 | Mesh Fix v1.2 | Slartibartfast | Fixes positioning, UV maps, and more in the … |
| #12 | Correct Meshes | ZWolol | Fixes various issues with meshes. |
| #13 | Correct UV Rocks | nich | This plugin corrects the UV mapping on the … |
| #14 | Fixed Bonelord Arms | Kynesifnar | Fixes the bonelord's left forearms so that they … |
| #15 | Jammings Off | HedgeHog12 | These files are an updated version of the … |
| #16 | Oh God Snow for Skies.iv and OpenMW | ward | The blizzard textures are blinding when using skies … |
| #17 | Pluginless NoGlow | Plangkye | Replaces textures for the enchanted item "plastic wrap"effect … |
| #18 | Same Low Price Fix | ClockworkAngels | A small edit to fix the male Dunmer … |
| #19 | No More Stage Diving - Desele's Dancing Girls | Pherim | Keeps the girls in Desele's from dancing off … |
| #20 | Distant Fixes: Lua Edition | johnnyhostile | A Lua framework for handling updates to distant … |
| #21 | Distant Ebon Tower for OpenMW | GrumblingVomit | Makes the mesh underneath Ebon Tower larger so … |
| #22 | MOMW Patches | MOMW Team + OpenMW Modding Community | Patches made by the Modding-OpenMW.com and OpenMW modding … |
| #23 | Mono's Minor Moddities | MonoAccipiter | Various minor mods patched together mostly as small … |
| #24 | Various tweaks and fixes | borok | Small mods, tweaks and fixes. |
| #25 | Various Mods and Patches | borok | Small mods and patches. |
Modding Resources: 2 steps
View This SublistCommunity asset repositories and frameworks, used by many other mods.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #26 | Tamriel Data | Cross-Project Coordination | Adds game data files required by mods such … |
| #27 | OAAB_Data | OAAB_Data Team | OAAB_Data is free-to-use asset repository for the Morrowind … |
Landmasses: 3 steps
View This SublistAdd large amounts of extra land, including quests, to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #28 | Tamriel Rebuilt | Tamriel Rebuilt Team | This is the product of a project that … |
| #29 | Project Cyrodiil | Project Tamriel Team | Project Cyrodiil is a new lands mod from … |
| #30 | Skyrim: Home Of The Nords | Project Tamriel Team | A massive project that aims to bring the … |
Performance: 2 steps
View This SublistAsset changes intended to yield a performance boost.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #31 | Morrowind Optimization Patch | MOP Team | Greatly improves performance and fixes some mesh errors. |
| #32 | Project Atlas | Project Atlas Team | The goal of Project Atlas is to identify … |
Texture Packs: 5 steps
View This SublistThese provide large amounts of textures, covering all assets in the game or close to it.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #33 | Morrowind Enhanced Textures | DassiD, PoodleSandwich, and Gigan | Upscales every in-game texture with the help of … |
| #34 | Normal Maps for Everything | cane1314 | Normal Maps for Everything is a mod for … |
| #35 | Necrom - Arkitektora of Morrowind | Tyddy | Only for using with Tamriel Rebuilt Project. New, … |
| #36 | Glow in the Dahrk - Normal Specular PBR Maps | Leaposter | Normal and specular (or PBR) maps for the … |
| #37 | Sophie's Skooma Sweetshoppe | Sophie | Sophie's repository of textures, meshes, upscales and normal … |
Architecture: 4 steps
View This SublistNew meshes and textures for general architecture.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #38 | Dwemer Mesh Improvement | Champion of Hircine | Replaces models in the Dwemer set. All meshes … |
| #39 | Dwemer Mesh Improvements Revamped | darkfri | Revamping of some meshes of Dwemer Mesh Improvement … |
| #40 | Glow in the Dahrk | Melchior Dahrk | This is a modern, pluginless replacement of the … |
| #41 | Nords shut your windows | Vegetto88 | Nord's windows have a wooden shutter, open in … |
Flora: 2 steps
View This SublistUpdate the look of various flora via improved meshes and high quality textures.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #42 | Perfect Scum | Phoenix Rime | Changes the location of the scum models to … |
| #43 | Parasol Particles | Melchior Dahrk | Adds falling spores particle effects to the iconic … |
Water: 2 steps
View This SublistMods that modify water, be it standing pools, waterfalls, or anything else.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #44 | Better Waterfalls | Melchior Dahrk | New effects and textures for TES3 Morrowind waterfalls. |
| #45 | OpenMW More Dynamic Water Meshes | taitechnic | Adds distortion effects to the water meshes from … |
Environment: 3 steps
View This SublistUpdate the visuals of stock objects in the environment.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #46 | I Lava Good Mesh Replacer | Melchior Dahrk | This mod replaces all the lava meshes in … |
| #47 | Subtle Smoke | wazabear | Makes it so many smoke effects are much … |
| #48 | Harvest Lights | johnnyhostile | Disables lights around harvestable objects and re-enables them … |
Skies and Weather: 1 step
View This SublistAlter the looks and behavior of the sky, clouds, and weather.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #49 | Skies .IV | Markel | Comprehensive Overhaul for the weather in Morrowind, Solsthiem, … |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #50 | Improved Lights for All Shaders | Hemaris | Adjusts every vanilla light mesh to enhance the … |
Furniture and Clutter: 4 steps
View This SublistUpdated assets for select items in the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #51 | Properly Smoothed Meshes | Stuporstar | This graphic replacer covers tons of misc items, … |
| #52 | OpenMW vanilla candles patched with Enlightened Flames and ILFAS | taitechnic | A basic drop in replacer of the vanilla … |
| #53 | OpenMW Containers Animated | akortunov and CemKey | Based on MW Containers Animated by qqqbbb. This … |
| #54 | OpenMW Vanilla Friendly Animated Basket Edit | Sophie<3~ | Cute lil basket edit that also fixes seams. |
Weapons: 8 steps
View This SublistAn update treatment for weapons.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #55 | Correct Iron Warhammer | Reizeron | This is how in-game dialogues describe iron warhammers: … |
| #56 | Oriental Mesh Improvements | Psymoniser | This replaces the meshes of the oriental styled … |
| #57 | Weapon Sheathing | TES3 Community | Makes unreadied weapons appear on the character's hip … |
| #58 | Weapon Sheathing Additions | Remiros | Adds sheaths to weapons that previously didn't have … |
| #59 | SWJ's Weapon Sheathing Patches | swjones | Weapon Sheathing patches for various mods. |
| #60 | Improved Thrown Weapon Projectiles | Reizeron | Makes thrown weapon projectiles fly pointy end forward … |
| #61 | Animated Staff of Magnus | PikachunoTM | Animates the Staff of Magnus. Bonus, a similar … |
| #62 | Smart Ammo for OpenMW-Lua | johnnyhostile | Requires OpenMW 0.48.0 or newer! Ammo autoequip while … |
VFX: 5 steps
View This SublistUpdated visual effects. Greatly enhance many scenes with subtle but beautiful additions.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #63 | No Shield Sparkle | Jiopsi | Removes sparkle effects from Shield. This makes the … |
| #64 | Diverse Blood | OffworldDevil | 8 new blood textures for NPCs and creatures. … |
| #65 | Diverse Blood for Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel | jonado1 | Expansion of the mod "Diverse Blood" to cover … |
| #66 | OpenMW Impact Effects | taitechnic | Adds visual effects and sounds when you hit … |
| #67 | OpenMW Dynamic Ambient Visual Effects | taitechnic | This mod adds ambient visuals: Smoking candles, lightning … |
Animation: 4 steps
View This SublistUpdate the game's dated animations with improved assets.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #68 | On the Blink | Svergy | Base Morrowind guars of all varieties (regular, pack, … |
| #69 | Simply Walking (Remastered) | Dirane and PurplePrankster101 | Replaces only the walking animation. |
| #70 | Just a little bit better animations for the mage build (first-person) | MiroslavXO | Wield powerful spells and magical forces like a … |
| #71 | openmw-animated-levitation | fallchildren, with sounds by Settyness | A new animation for levitation with its own … |
Audio: 3 steps
View This SublistMods that add or change sounds.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #72 | Character Sound Overhaul | Anumaril21 | CSO is a dynamic, customizable sound overhaul of … |
| #73 | openmw-footsteps | fallchildren | This is a try at implementing partial support … |
| #74 | Voice Overhaul | Phoenix Rime | New voice line system made from scratch with … |
Music: 3 steps
View This SublistMods that add new music.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #75 | S3maphore - OpenMW Music Management from the Future | magicaldave | S3maphore is a replacement both for OpenMW's built-in … |
| #76 | Tamriel Rebuilt - Original Soundtrack | Rytelier and ASKII | Adds whole new soundtrack for Tamriel Rebuilt areas, … |
| #77 | Project Cyrodiil Music - Anvil and Sutch | Matt Andrews - Astrid - Ronik | Original music inspired by the Project Cyrodiil mod, … |
Landscape: 1 step
View This SublistUpdates of existing exterior locations, making them more varied by incoporating new assets and adding new points of interest.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #78 | Mistify | Melchior Dahrk | This mod enhances the ambiance of the Bitter … |
Groundcover: 5 steps
View This SublistAdd grass, reeds, small mushrooms, stones, and other groundcover to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #79 | Remiros' Groundcover | Remiros, Vtastek, Hrnchamd | This mod adds high quality grass and groundcover … |
| #80 | Remiros Groundcover Textures Improvement | borok | Fix of jagged Remiros grass textures without increasing … |
| #81 | OAAB Saplings | Melchior Dahrk, MassiveJuice, and Sophie | This mod places saplings from OAAB_Data in most … |
| #82 | Lush Synthesis | acidzebra | A modular remix of popular grass mods with … |
| #83 | Project Cyrodiil Grass | Ronik | Adds groundcover to the lands added by the … |
NPCs: 5 steps
View This SublistAdd more variety and (hopefully) immersion by updating the rather limited NPC scope of the base game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #84 | Familiar Faces by Caleb | Caleb C | An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up … |
| #85 | Facelift for Tamriel Data | Kartoffels | Some texture edits + mesh edits. |
| #86 | FMBP - Greet Service | PoodleSandwich | Makes it so service NPCs will greet you … |
| #87 | LDM - Context Matters | Lucevar | Edits, re-filters, or adds on to vanilla dialogue … |
| #88 | Attend Me | urm | Attend me features a follower HUD and automatic … |
Creatures: 3 steps
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #89 | Silt Strider Animation Restored | Reizeron | Restores previously unused Silt Strider animation. |
| #90 | Blighted Animals Retextured | Catherine, Darknut, and PeterBitt | This mod adds unique textures to all blighted … |
| #91 | Old Blue Fin | Leyawynn | This mod gives Old Blue Fin a blue … |
Gameplay: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #92 | Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition | Stuporstar and Greatness7 | Automatically harvests herbs just like the old Graphic … |
| #93 | The Dream is the Door | Melchior Dahrk | To align with what the in game dialogue … |
| #94 | Greetings for No Lore | Caeris | Replaces the three standard No Lore greetings with … |
| #95 | Follower Detection Util (OpenMW) | SosnoviyBor | Library for centralized and convenient follower tracking. |
| #96 | Friendlier Fire (OpenMW) | SosnoviyBor | Rebelling followers begone! Deals with companions and friendly … |
| #97 | TimeScale Change - OpenMW | HunterSpark | This is simply a TimeScale Change mod, which … |
| #98 | Light Hotkey | Pharis | Equip your light with a hotkey and automatically … |
| #99 | Convenient Thief Tools | Pharis | Quickly equip and cycle through thief tools (lockpicks/probes) … |
| #100 | Perfect Placement | Hrnchamd | Adds interactive placement and rotation. |
| #101 | Friendly Autosave | johnnyhostile | Saves the game at regular intervals with configurable … |
| #102 | MOMW Gameplay | johnnyhostile | Automatically configure various mods to suit the modded … |
Magic & Spells: 1 step
View This SublistMods that add or alter spells in various ways
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #103 | Daisy's Lua Multimark | DaisyHasaCat | OpenMW 0.48 or newer required. Allows the player … |
Quests: 2 steps
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #104 | Early Transport to Mournhold | Necrolesian | This mod allows travel to Mournhold before the … |
| #105 | Tamriel Rebuilt Introduction Quest - Help a Khajiit reach the City of Good People | Denis418 | Rescue a slave from Addamasartus and help him … |
Post Processing Shaders: 1 step
View This SublistPost processing shaders add a variety of nice visual effects.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #106 | MOMW Post Processing Pack | Dexter, zesterer, wazabear, akortunov, wareya, various | A collection of post-processing shaders for OpenMW. Includes: … |
User Interface: 5 steps
View This SublistGive the game UI a needed facelift in various ways.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #107 | Big Icons | JaceyS | Replaces the small 16x16 spell effect icons with … |
| #108 | Vanilla Style HD Icons for Attributes and Skills | kotbaioun | New vanilla-looking HD icons for all attributes and … |
| #109 | Cantons on the Global Map | Hemaris | Vivec and Molag Mar no longer look like … |
| #110 | Loading Screens Diversified | Melchior Dahrk | Replaces all vanilla splash art for the loading … |
| #111 | HD Intro Cinematic - English | Chesko | An HD recreation of the original Intro Cinematic. |
Fonts: 1 step
View This SublistReplacements for the default game font.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #112 | Alternative TrueType Fonts | Isaskar and Georgd | Fonts to replace the default fonts used by … |
Settings Tweaks: 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #113 | Distant Land And Objects | OpenMW Authors | These settings will affect how the engine renders … |
| #114 | Shadows | OpenMW Authors | Realtime shadow maps for (optionally) all game objects. |
| #115 | Water | OpenMW Authors | OpenMW has a configurable water shader, with several … |
| #116 | Increase Max Navmeshdb File Size | OpenMW Authors | This setting will raise the maximum size for … |
| #117 | Can Loot During Death Animation | OpenMW Authors | This is commonly seen as an exploit; setting … |
| #118 | NPCs Avoid Collisions | OpenMW Authors | If enabled NPCs apply evasion maneuver to avoid … |
| #119 | Smooth Movement | OpenMW Authors | Makes NPCs and player movement more smooth. |
| #120 | Swim Upward Correction | OpenMW Authors | Makes player swim a bit upward from the … |
| #121 | Turn To Movement Direction | OpenMW Authors | If enabled then the character turns lower body … |
| #122 | Color Topic Enable | OpenMW Authors | This setting controls whether the topics available in … |
| #123 | Animation Blending | OpenMW Authors | Animation blending introduces smooth animation transitions between essentially … |
| #124 | Camera Listener | OpenMW Authors | When true, uses the camera position and direction … |
| #125 | Trilinear Filtering | OpenMW Authors | Enable trilinear mipmap filtering by default for better … |
Tools: 1 step
View This SublistThe final bits of work, to ensure long-term smooth sailing.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #126 | MOMW Tools Pack | fallchildren, johnnyhostile, John Moonsugar, Benjamin Winger, … | All the tools you need to automatically install … |
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