A Dynamic World

This next batch of mods makes Morrowind more dynamic. Skip any you don't like, especially if you are worried about fps.

Animation Blending by Greatness7

Adds animation blending to Morrowind, enabling smooth transitions between animations.

Animated Morrowind - Danae's Edits by Arcimaestro Antares et al.

Needs to be blacklisted in Weapon Sheathing

Improved Lights for All Shaders by Hemaris

Check the following option(s):

Apel's Fire Retexture by Apel

Just a way better fire.

Enlightened Flames by R-zero

Flames remain vertical even when holding a candle.

Check the following option(s):

Logs on Fire by MwGek

Changes the non-combustible vanilla logs to combustible ones. The new meshes are using a glowmap and some UV animation to give the illusion to be actually on fire.

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Animated Pickup by C3pa

Animates item pickup from the game world. This change adds more juice to the game and makes picking up items more satisfying. Inspired by a similar feature in Borderlands 2.

Better Waterfalls by Melchior Dahrk

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Bleeding Injuries - MWSE by Spammer

During combat, red splatters of blood appear where you are not protected by armour.

Spammer updated his mod to include Abot's Tweaks so you don't need to get those separately anymore.

Cave Drips by R-zero

Adds a visual effect to all vanilla cave drip sound emitters.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Creature VFX restoration by Rot

Restores visual vanilla effects on creatures.

Crystal Soul Gems by SVNR and SpaceDevo

glowing soul gems.

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Decomposition of a Taxman by DisQualia

This causes the body of Seyda Neen's lost taxman, Processus Vitellius, to decompose from a fresh corpse at the beginning of the game to a skeleton after a few days and cleans up the body when his murder is reported to the authorities.

Dwemer Lightning Rods by Melchior Dahrk

If you visit a dwemer ruin during a thunderstorm, you'll be greeted by blinding flashes as lightning strikes the steamstack lightning rod.

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Elemental Effects by Anumaril21 + Abot's Tweaks

Applies visual effects to both NPCs and the player when damaged by fire, frost, shock, poison, or sun spell effects.

Install the mod from Nexus, then Abot's tweak in the same folder (left pane)

When prompted, click "Merge"

Krokantor's Enhanced Water Shader Updated by Krokantor & Hrnchamd

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Gorgeous water shader. If it's too much for you, consider Hrnchamd's vanilla-friendly Pixel Shader Style Water for MGE XE

Flies MWSE by R-Zero and Spammer

Adds a visual effect (flies) to all vanilla fly sound emitters.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Footprints by Abot

Actors leave footprints on the ground

Glowbugs by Melchior Dahrk, Greatness7 & Tewlwolow

Adds firefly-like insects called glowbugs across the Bitter Coast region which come out on calm nights.

Also download and install "Glowbugs auto" . Merge when prompted.

Immersive Travel - MWSE

A mod that adds real-time travel with smooth movement on striders, boats, ships, gondolas and river striders (with TR). The mod also has many quality of life features.

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This mod is fairly new and will have updates. Stick to Abot's mods if that's an issue

Personally, I have kept Abot's mods as well because I love seeing the boats and gondolas move around the waters of Vvardenfell.

WARNING If you travel with companions and they are scripted to auto-move away from you, you might lose them. To fix this, disable the auto-move option on your companions (and use Abot's Move or Take My Place.)

Heat Haze by Vtastek and Tewlwolow

Adds a heat haze shader where it's hot

I Lava Good Mesh Replacer by Melchior Dahrk

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Improved Propylon Particles by Markel

Replaces the particles in Propylon chambers with cool magic starfield ones

This is the first mod we'll have to install manually because it is not on Nexus.

To install, follow these steps:

Download directly into your MO2/downloads folder. DONE!

Your mod appears in the download window of MO2. Install normally

The alternative method is:

Click on "file", then "install mod", navigate to your downloaded archive, click "open". MO2 immediately prompts you to install the mod but also you don't have a visual cue in the download window that you did add the mod.

Keg Drip by Melchior Dahrk

adds dripping drops to kegs.

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MCAR by SVNR

Replaces 1st person animation.

Download the "MCAR plus swim animation" file.

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Mist Retexture by Remiros

Download manually directly into MO2/downloads and install normally.

Morrowind Animated Hammocks (MAH) by Vegetto

Hammocks now swing gently.

Morrowind Containers Animated by qqqbbb

See chests, crates, barrels, and bags open.

mtrPermanentQuestCorpsesRandomizer by MTR

The corpses of a few quest-related NPCS will spawn at different locations with a new game.

Morag Tong Equipment Diversity by RuffinVangarr

New Morag Tong Helmets

MWSE - Morag Tong Helmets by Stripes

Gives all members of the Morag Tong a random helmet

Morag Tong Attacks by GrumblingVomit

Now the Morag Tong will hunt the player if certain conditions are met.

Select "Morag Tong Equipment Diveristy".

MWSE Blood Diversity by Anumaril21

Provides a variety of new configurable blood types for the creatures of Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon, the Official Plugins, and a variety of mods.

Check the following option(s):

We need to tweak Morrowind.ini:

  • click on the "tools" icon in MO2 and select ini editor

  • look for the [Blood] section and replace it with this:

[Blood]

Model 0=BloodSplat.nif

Model 1=BloodSplat2.nif

Model 2=BloodSplat3.nif

Texture 0=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood.dds

Texture 1=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Dust.dds

Texture 2=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Sparks.dds

Texture 3=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Ichor.dds

Texture4=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Ecto.dds

Texture5=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Blue.dds

Texture 6=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Insect.dds

Texture 7=Anu\Blood\Tx_Blood_Energy.dds

Texture Name 0=Red Blood

Texture Name 1=Dust

Texture Name 2=Metal Sparks

Texture Name 3=Ichor

Texture Name 4=Ectoplasm

Texture Name 5=Blue Blood

Texture Name 6=Orange Blood

Texture Name 7=Energy

Nocturnal Moths by R-Zero

Adds moths flying around some of the lanterns at night.

fps drop in towns, I notice 2 to 5 points in vanilla towns (town overhauls often add even more lanterns)

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Select Nocturnal Moths - Vanilla.esp

Nords shut your windows by Vegetto

Windows are closed at night for all Nordic and common houses.

Check the following option(s):

Parasol Particles by Melchior Dahrk

Adds falling spores particle effects to the iconic emperor parasol mushrooms.

Choose a replacer: None

Do you use Ashfall YES if you are continuing with this guide beyond Vanilla++

Patches: OAAB_Data

Repopulated Morrowind by GrumblingVomit

Adds npcs to the game, especially more animated ones.

BCOM: No

Bloodmoon Options: TOTSP

Plugins: Tamriel Rebuilt, Weapons Expansion Project, OAAB Data

Sounds : audible (personal choice)

Repopulated Morrowind comes with a lot of addons for gear mods, if you know you will install them, you can select the corresponding addons, though I recommend coming back to this once all your mods are installed.

Also download the optional file 2.6 MWSE Bugfix, merge when prompted

Riders by Rot

Adds guar riders

R-Zero's Throbbing Meat - a Corprus Meat Replacer by R-Zero

places corprus meat models with animated, twitching ones.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Salts by Nwahs and Mushrooms Team

Fire, Frost and Void Salts replacer.

Animated Ectoplasm and Daedra's Heart by RandomPal and The Symphony Team

Replaces the ectoplasm and daedra's heart ingredients with animated models from The Symphony, but using only vanilla textures.

Shattered Stones - An Earthquake Mod by Greatness7 and R-Zero, and Vtastek

Adds earthquakes to Morrowind.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Shattered Stones - Red Mountain by Publicola

Expands the earthquakes to the Red Mountain and reduces their frequency.

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Silt Strider Animation Restored by R-Zero

Restores previously unused Silt Strider animation.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Smoking Yurts by Leyawynn

Yurts with fire indoors now have smoke outdoors.

Septim Gold and Dwemer Dumacs by StaticNation

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Spells Reforged by Kurpulio Greatness7

Spell effect replacer for bound, drain and shield spells

You may pick and choose the spells you want replaced. I don't play without Bound spell effect and Elemental Shields, personally. The shield spell effect is neat but still to visisble for me so I made this small plugin to remove it entirely.

Install normally, when prompted, click "merge"

Swayland by wazabear

Vanilla-friendly pluginless rope bridge replacer with subtle swaying animation.

The Icarian Incident by Petethegoat

Removes Tarhiel from his vanilla location, so he will instead fall near the player at a configurable, but indeterminate time, wherever the player happens to be.

The Midnight Oil by Merlord

Toggle lights on and off. Town lights turn off during the day. Lights are no longer destroyed underwater. Lanterns aren't destroyed when they run out of fuel. Refill lanterns with candles and lamps with oil.

Thunders & Lightnings by Abot

During a storm, you'll see lightning, be sure to avoid them, the results are ... shocking.

Download directly into your MO2/downloads folder.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Town Criers by Danjb

Adds Town Criers to major towns and cities that call out the time of day.

Traveling Merchant by Cyrano (Luce edits)

Merchants and a few other npcs are travelling between towns.

Download directly into your MO2/downloads folder.

Unto Dust by Melchior Dahrk and Greatness7

This mod adds floating dust to areas where the dead are entombed.

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Vanity by Abot

Don't install this if you skipped Better Bodies.

Rings and amulets are now visible when equipped.

Vapourmist by Tewlwolow

3D clouds and mist.

Visually Filled Soul Gems by NullCascade

Soul gem filled with a soul look enchanted.

Wandering Umbra by Mort

Randomizes Umbra's location to ten different Vvardenfell locales.

Download directly into your MO2/downloads folder.

✨Weather Adjuster by Hrnchamd

Comes with a ready config that changes the weather presets per region. The next mods will include customs setting.

Watch the Skies by Tewlwolow

A weather overhaul with randomised cloud textures, weather changes in interiors, seasonal weather, latitude/season changes etc.

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Ctroost's Weather Adjuster Presets by Ctroost

Let this overwrite the Weather adjuster config.

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.

Where are all birds going by Abot

Adds a variety of birds to the skies of Vvardenfell

Right-click Data Files, select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK for the main file..

Also grab the "xfirefly fix" file, it does look better. When promted, click "merge".

Water Life by Abot

Same thing but for the waters.

Wonders of Water by Nullcascade

This mod attempts to make water react more to the world.

You Don't Seam Me by Wazabear

Removes vertex painting and reduces lighting seams in various tilesets. Check out the screenshots, some love it, some hate it.

In MO2 left pane, find You Don't Seam Me and move it just above Glow in the Darhk.

MWSE Dynamic Object Replacer by GOOGLEPOX

Framework for loading config files to dynamically replace objects at runtime. No lua knowledge is required!

Leveled Filled Soul Gems by JosephMcKean

Soul gems spawned from the levelled list now have a chance (default 5%) to be filled.

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