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.
Animated Morrowind - Danae's Edits by Arcimaestro Antares et al.
Needs to be blacklisted in Weapon Sheathing
Improved Lights for All Shaders by Hemaris
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Apel's Fire Retexture by Apel
Just a way better fire.
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.
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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
Enlightened Flames by R-zero
Flames remain vertical even when holding a candle.
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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.
Download "Glowbugs auto"
Immersive Travel - MWSE byzfuzzo
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.
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/downloadsfolder. 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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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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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.
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
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.
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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)
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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.
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Parasol Particles by Melchior Dahrk
Adds falling spores particle effects to the iconic emperor parasol mushrooms.
Choose a replacer: None
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
Animated Morrowind
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.
places corprus meat models with animated, twitching ones.
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Data Files,select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.
Salts by Nwahs and Mushrooms Team
Fire, Frost and Void Salts replacer.
Shattered Stones - An Earthquake Mod by Greatness7 and R-Zero, and Vtastek
Adds earthquakes to Morrowind.
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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.
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Data Files,select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.
Smoking Yurts by Leyawynn
Yurts with fire indoors now have smoke outdoors.
> QUARANTINED ROBE'N'HOOD BY JUIDIUs AND SPAMMER
Septim Gold and Dwemer Dumacs by StaticNation
Click on Morrowind, Right-click
Data Files,select "set as <data Files> directory, click OK.
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.
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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.
> Quarantined Traveling Guar Riders
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.
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.
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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.
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