One Day Morrowind Modernization Mod List

117 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.

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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

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These 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

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Alter 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

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Community 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

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Mesh 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

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Add large amounts of extra land, including quests, to the game.

Step Name Author Description
#16 Tamriel Rebuilt Project Tamriel Team This is the product of a project that …

Texture Packs: 2 mods

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These 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

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High 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

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These 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

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Update 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

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Alter 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

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Update 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

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Updated 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

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Replace 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

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Give 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

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Updated 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

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Update 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

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Give 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

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Add 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

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Add 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

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These 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

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Update 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

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Mods 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

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Modify 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

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Collections 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

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Mods 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

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Post 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

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Give 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: 7 mods

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Mods that require the latest OpenMW Developer Build.

Step Name Author Description
#97 Remove Negative Lights for OpenMW DeathDaisy69 and Pharis With per-pixel lighting so called 'negative lights' in …
#98 Harvest Lights johnnyhostile Disables lights around harvestable objects and re-enables them …
#99 Signpost Fast Travel johnnyhostile Fast travel from signposts to their locations if …
#100 Weather Particle Occlusion OpenMW Authors Enables particle occlusion for rain and snow particle …
#101 Audiobooks of Tamriel Rebuilt frogstat Audiobooks of Morrowind, but for Tamriel Rebuilt!
#102 Animation Blending OpenMW Authors Animation blending introduces smooth animation transitions between essentially …
#103 Camera Listener OpenMW Authors When true, uses the camera position and direction …

Settings Tweaks: 12 mods

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Not 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
#104 True Nights and Darkness PoodleSandwich Darker night-time settings for OpenMW.
#105 Distant Land And Objects OpenMW Authors These settings will affect how the engine renders …
#106 Shadows OpenMW Authors Realtime shadow maps for (optionally) all game objects.
#107 Water OpenMW Authors OpenMW has a configurable water shader, with several …
#108 Antialias Alpha Test OpenMW Authors Convert the alpha test (cutout/punchthrough alpha) to alpha-to-coverage …
#109 NPCs Avoid Collisions OpenMW Authors If enabled NPCs apply evasion maneuver to avoid …
#110 Smooth Movement OpenMW Authors Makes NPCs and player movement more smooth.
#111 Swim Upward Correction OpenMW Authors Makes player swim a bit upward from the …
#112 Turn To Movement Direction OpenMW Authors If enabled then the character turns lower body …
#113 Color Topic Enable OpenMW Authors This setting controls whether the topics available in …
#114 MOMW Camera johnnyhostile Autoconfigure camera and headbobbing settings to recommended values!
#115 MOMW Gameplay johnnyhostile Automatically configure various mods to suit the modded …

Merging: 2 mods

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The final bits of work, to ensure long-term smooth sailing.

Step Name Author Description
#116 Delta Plugin and Groundcoverify Benjamin Winger Transcoder for managing a form of markup-based minimal …
#117 waza_lightfixes wazabear This is a tool which generates a plugin …

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