One Day Morrowind Modernization Mod List
116 mods
Modernize Morrowind with a reasonably short but effective list that not only ups the visual ante but also adds a fair amount of gameplay content. The primary goal of this list is to be less time-consuming than other lists while also offering a highly rewarding end result.
This list has an accompanying video walkthrough that covers the entire list (see above), featuring Rob of Rob's Red Hot Spot and your neighborhood friendly website creator, johnnyhostile!
This list could also be used as a basis to upgrade to the Total Overhaul modlist for those folks who want to take a bit of a deeper dive. You can reuse the vast majority of the mods you'll download for this modlist in your Total Overhaul installation.
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: 4 mods
- Modding Resources: 1 mod
- Meshes / Performance: 5 mods
- Land & Landmass Additions: 1 mod
- Texture Packs: 2 mods
- Landscapes: 3 mods
- Architecture: 13 mods
- Flora & Nature: 9 mods
- Sky: 3 mods
- Lighting: 1 mod
- Clutter And Items: 1 mod
- Bodies And Heads: 8 mods
- Creature Visuals: 1 mod
- VFX: 4 mods
- Animations: 2 mods
- Audio: 4 mods
- Groundcover: 5 mods
- NPCs: 1 mod
- Balance And Nerfing: 3 mods
- Gameplay: 4 mods
- Distant Details: 1 mod
- Water: 1 mod
- Mod Patches: 5 mods
- Camera: 1 mod
- Post Processing Shaders: 1 mod
- User Interface: 7 mods
- Dev Build Only: 6 mods
- Settings Tweaks: 12 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: 4 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 | Expansion Resource Conflicts | hardek | Fixes a number of texture conflicts with the … |
Modding Resources: 1 mod
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 … |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #11 | Morrowind Optimization Patch | MOP Team | Greatly improves performance and fixes some mesh errors. |
| #12 | Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition | Stuporstar and Greatness7 | Automatically harvests herbs just like the old Graphic … |
| #13 | Properly Smoothed Meshes | Stuporstar | This graphic replacer covers tons of misc items, … |
| #14 | Project Atlas | Project Atlas Team | The goal of Project Atlas is to identify … |
| #15 | RR Mod Series - Better Meshes | Resdayn Revival Team | Properly smoothed vanilla meshes. |
Land & Landmass Additions: 1 mod
View This SublistAdd large amounts of extra land, including quests, to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #16 | Tamriel Rebuilt | Tamriel Rebuilt Team | This is the product of a project that … |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #17 | Morrowind Enhanced Textures | DassiD, PoodleSandwich, and Gigan | Upscales every in-game texture with the help of … |
| #18 | Normal Maps for Morrowind | DassiD | Vanilla-friendly normal maps for Morrowind. |
Landscapes: 3 mods
View This SublistHigh quality texture replacements for large amounts of the games landscapes.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19 | Tyddy's Landscape Retexture | Tyddy | Retexture Vvardenfell and Solstheim in the original style |
| #20 | Landscape Retexture | Lougian | This mod retextures the ground of all regions, … |
| #21 | Apel's Asura Coast and Sheogorath Region Retexture | Apel | This mode is retexture and mesh replacer for … |
Architecture: 13 mods
View This SublistThese provide new meshes and textures for general architecture.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #22 | Daedric Ruins - Arkitektora of Vvardenfell | Tyddy | Vanilla gamma and style HQ textures for Daedric … |
| #23 | Imperial Towns Normal Mapped for OpenMW | Lysol | A high resolution retexture of the Imperial town … |
| #24 | Imperial Forts Normal Mapped for OpenMW | Lysol | A high resolution (2K) retexture of the Imperial … |
| #25 | Shacks Docks and Ships - Arkitektora of Vvardenfell | Tyddy | This retexture contains new textures for wooden shacks, … |
| #26 | Ghastly Glowyfence | wazabear | Parallax mapped and animated ghost fence. |
| #27 | Vivec and Velothi - Arkitektora Vol.2 | Tyddy | New. Better. Detailed. Richer. Closer to vanilla. Textures … |
| #28 | Hlaalu - Arkitektora Vol.2 | Tyddy | New. Better. Detailed. Richer. Closer to vanilla. Textures … |
| #29 | Redoran - Arkitektora Vol.2 | Tyddy | New. Better. Detailed. Richer. Closer to vanilla. Textures … |
| #30 | Telvanni - Arkitektora of Vvardenfell | Tyddy | Vanilla gamma and style HQ Telvanni and mushrooms … |
| #31 | Necrom - Arkitektora of Morrowind | Tyddy | Only for using with Tamriel Rebuilt Project. New, … |
| #32 | Vivec and Velothi - Arkitektora Vol.2 Normal Maps | DaggerfallTeam | Provides Normal Maps for Vivec and Velothi - … |
| #33 | Hlaalu - Arkitektora Vol.2 Normal Maps | DaggerfallTeam | Provides Normal Maps for Hlaalu - Arkitektora Vol.2 |
| #34 | Redoran - Arkitektora Vol.2 Normal Maps | DaggerfallTeam | Adds Normal Maps to Redoran - Arkitektora Vol.2 |
Flora & Nature: 9 mods
View This SublistUpdate the look of various flora and other natural objects via improved meshes and high quality textures.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #35 | Epic Plants | Articus, QwertyQuit, and Pherim | Replaces textures and models of various flora with … |
| #36 | Caverns Bump Mapped | Lougian | Bump mapped cave textures by Lougian -- do … |
| #37 | Caverns Bump Mapped Fix | Necrolesian and Lougian | Fixed versions of two meshes in Lougian's Caverns … |
| #38 | Apel's Fire Retexture Patched for OpenMW and Morrowind Rebirth | JaceX | This patch fixes alpha issues that occur with … |
| #39 | Pimp my Lava | Melchior Dahrk, Lougian, and siliciusk | Lava texture and mesh replacer. |
| #40 | Subtle Smoke | wazabear | Makes it so many smoke effects are much … |
| #41 | Better Waterfalls | Melchior Dahrk | New effects and textures for TES3 Morrowind waterfalls. |
| #42 | Comberry Bush and Ingredient Replacer | Pherim | High quality texture and model replacer. |
| #43 | Pherim's Fire Fern - Plant and Ingredient | Pherim | High quality texture and model replacer for the … |
Sky: 3 mods
View This SublistAlter the looks and behavior of the sky, clouds, and weather.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #44 | Skies .IV | Markel | Comprehensive Overhaul for the weather in Morrowind, Solsthiem, … |
| #45 | Oh God Snow for Skies.iv and OpenMW | ward | The blizzard textures are blinding when using skies … |
| #46 | New Starfields | Melchior Dahrk | This is just a simple, high-definition replacer for … |
Lighting: 1 mod
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #47 | Glow in the Dahrk | Melchior Dahrk | This is a modern, pluginless replacement of the … |
Clutter And Items: 1 mod
View This SublistUpdated assets for the very large number of clutter objects and items in the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #48 | OpenMW Containers Animated | akortunov and CemKey | Based on MW Containers Animated by qqqbbb. This … |
Bodies And Heads: 8 mods
View This SublistReplace the vanilla bodies and heads, and their textures, for all races and genders.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #49 | Westly's Pluginless Head Replacer Complete | Westly and many, many more | Changes the heads of all races in the … |
| #50 | Westly's Head and Hair Replacer - Hair Fix | Kartoffels | Fixes normals issues in the meshes of Westly's … |
| #51 | Westly's Faces Refurbished | MerchLis | An HD head and hair replacer aiming for … |
| #52 | Facelift for Tamriel Data | Kartoffels | Some texture edits + mesh edits. |
| #53 | Khajiit Head Pack | ashiraniir | Khajiit head replacer pack. |
| #54 | Whiskers Patch for MMH Version - All NPCs and Base Replace | ashiraniir | Patch to add whiskers to all the MMH … |
| #55 | New Beast Bodies - Clean Version | LizTail | Body replacers for the beast races. |
| #56 | Better Bodies 3.2 (Better Beasts) | OverCellus | This is an update of Better Bodies ZW … |
Creature Visuals: 1 mod
View This SublistGive the various creatures of the game new life with updated assets and more.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #57 | 4thUnknowns Creatures Morrowind Edition | 4thUnknown converted by Bahamut | 4thUnknowns creatures for Morrowind. A Conversion of creatures … |
VFX: 4 mods
View This SublistUpdated visual effects. Greatly enhance many scenes with subtle but beautiful additions.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #58 | Mistify | Melchior Dahrk | This mod enhances the ambiance of the Bitter … |
| #59 | Remiros' Minor Retextures - Mist Retexture | Remiros | Improves the mist used in Ancestral Tombs. |
| #60 | The Dream is the Door | Melchior Dahrk | To align with what the in game dialogue … |
| #61 | Magic VFX Retexture by Articus | Articus | This mod adds High Quality (512) animated textures … |
Animations: 2 mods
View This SublistUpdate the game's dated animations with improved assets.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #62 | Simply Walking (Remastered) | Dirane and PurplePrankster101 | Replaces only the walking animation. |
| #63 | Weapon Sheathing | TES3 Community | Makes unreadied weapons appear on the character's hip … |
Audio: 4 mods
View This SublistGive new sound to almost everything in the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #64 | Quest Voice Greetings | Von Djangos | ElevenAI generated voices for quest-giving NPCs in Morrowind. … |
| #65 | Same Low Price Fix | ClockworkAngels | A small edit to fix the male Dunmer … |
| #66 | MAO Spell Sounds | Publicola and PeterBitt | This mod provides sound effects for each of … |
| #67 | Audiobooks of Morrowind | frogstat | Turn the books in Morrowind into listenable audiobooks! |
Groundcover: 5 mods
View This SublistAdd grass, reeds, small mushrooms, stones, and other groundcover to the game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #68 | Lush Synthesis | acidzebra | A modular remix of popular grass mods with … |
| #69 | Vurt's Groundcover for OpenMW | x79 and Vurt | This is Vurts Groundcover patched to work with … |
| #70 | Remiros' Groundcover | Remiros, Vtastek, Hrnchamd | This mod adds high quality grass and groundcover … |
| #71 | Remiros Groundcover Textures Improvement | borok | Fix of jagged Remiros grass textures without increasing … |
| #72 | Grass for Tamriel Rebuilt v23.1 | Shaord | A groundcover plugin to place grass onto the … |
NPCs: 1 mod
View This SublistAdd more variety and (hopefully) immersion by updating the rather limited NPC scope of the base game.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #73 | Repopulated Morrowind | GrumblingVomit | Adds named NPCs to all cities using leveled … |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #74 | Speechcraft Rebalance (OpenMW) | Aphain | This mod changes several game modifiers to make … |
| #75 | Fatigue and Speed and Carryweight Rebalance (OpenMW) | MisterFlames | Carefully tweaked values to increase speed and carry … |
| #76 | Pickpocket Rebalance (OpenMW) | Aphain | Makes pickpocketing useful by setting the maximum success … |
Gameplay: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #77 | NCGDMW Lua Edition | Greywander, EvilEye, johnnyhostile, Mehdi Yousfi-Monod | A "Natural Grow" leveling mod, where your attributes … |
| #78 | Smart Ammo for OpenMW-Lua | johnnyhostile | Requires OpenMW 0.48.0 or newer! Ammo autoequip while … |
| #79 | Zack's Lua Multimark Mod | ZackHasACat | OpenMW 0.48 or newer required. Allows the player … |
| #80 | Early Transport to Mournhold | Necrolesian | This mod allows travel to Mournhold before the … |
Distant Details: 1 mod
View This SublistMods that affect object and visuals in the distance.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #81 | Dynamic Distant Buildings for OpenMW | Hemaris | Makes distant land more responsive to quest progress. … |
Water: 1 mod
View This SublistModify the water or sea in some shape or form.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #82 | Distant Seafloor for OpenMW | Hemaris | Extends the seafloor around Vvardenfell to hide the … |
Mod Patches: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #83 | MOMW Patches | MOMW Team + OpenMW Modding Community | Patches made by the Modding-OpenMW.com and OpenMW modding … |
| #84 | Sophie's Skooma Sweetshoppe | Sophie | Sophie's repository of textures, meshes, upscales and normal … |
| #85 | Khajiit Has Patches If You Have Coin | Pharis | Come get your patches. Coin not actually required. … |
| #86 | Mono's Minor Moddities | MonoAccipiter | Various minor mods patched together mostly as small … |
| #87 | Animated Morrowind and Weapon Sheathing patch for OpenMW | Katya Karrel | Fixes invisible objects in the hands of Animated … |
Camera: 1 mod
View This SublistMods that affect the camera in one way or another.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #88 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #89 | MOMW Post Processing Pack | Dexter, zesterer, wazabear, akortunov, wareya, various | A collection of post-processing shaders for OpenMW. Includes: … |
User Interface: 7 mods
View This SublistGive the game UI a needed facelift in various ways.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #90 | Monochrome User Interface | Dedaenc | Removes all menu borders, giving a sleeker more … |
| #91 | Enchanting icons as you wish | AnrohaNexus | Epic retexture of enchant icons in 9 different … |
| #92 | Gonzo's Splash Screens | Gonzo | This pack contains 71 splash screens in a … |
| #93 | Alternative TrueType Fonts | Isaskar and Georgd | Fonts to replace the default fonts used by … |
| #94 | Big Icons | JaceyS | Replaces the small 16x16 spell effect icons with … |
| #95 | Simple HUD for OpenMW (with compass or minimap) | MisterFlames | A better HUD for OpenMW with many different … |
| #96 | Small Skyrim Crosshair (OpenMW compatible) | CibrHusK | Adds small skyrim-a-like crosshair with ownership mod compatibility. |
Dev Build Only: 6 mods
View This SublistMods that require the latest OpenMW Developer Build.
| Step | Name | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #97 | Harvest Lights | johnnyhostile | Disables lights around harvestable objects and re-enables them … |
| #98 | Signpost Fast Travel | johnnyhostile | Fast travel from signposts to their locations if … |
| #99 | Weather Particle Occlusion | OpenMW Authors | Enables particle occlusion for rain and snow particle … |
| #100 | Audiobooks of Tamriel Rebuilt | frogstat | Audiobooks of Morrowind, but for Tamriel Rebuilt! |
| #101 | Animation Blending | OpenMW Authors | Animation blending introduces smooth animation transitions between essentially … |
| #102 | Camera Listener | OpenMW Authors | When true, uses the camera position and direction … |
Settings Tweaks: 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #103 | True Nights and Darkness | PoodleSandwich | Darker night-time settings for OpenMW. |
| #104 | Distant Land And Objects | OpenMW Authors | These settings will affect how the engine renders … |
| #105 | Shadows | OpenMW Authors | Realtime shadow maps for (optionally) all game objects. |
| #106 | Water | OpenMW Authors | OpenMW has a configurable water shader, with several … |
| #107 | Antialias Alpha Test | OpenMW Authors | Convert the alpha test (cutout/punchthrough alpha) to alpha-to-coverage … |
| #108 | NPCs Avoid Collisions | OpenMW Authors | If enabled NPCs apply evasion maneuver to avoid … |
| #109 | Smooth Movement | OpenMW Authors | Makes NPCs and player movement more smooth. |
| #110 | Swim Upward Correction | OpenMW Authors | Makes player swim a bit upward from the … |
| #111 | Turn To Movement Direction | OpenMW Authors | If enabled then the character turns lower body … |
| #112 | Color Topic Enable | OpenMW Authors | This setting controls whether the topics available in … |
| #113 | MOMW Camera | johnnyhostile | Autoconfigure camera and headbobbing settings to recommended values! |
| #114 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #115 | Delta Plugin and Groundcoverify | Benjamin Winger | Transcoder for managing a form of markup-based minimal … |
| #116 | S3LightFixes | S3ctor | S3LightFixes is a descendant of Waza-lightfixes, which itself … |
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