The jewel in the crown is the Morrowind Graphics Extender. These fix things I don't realistically expect to ever notice, but hey, they sound important.
The unofficial Morrowind patch and the unofficial Morrowind code patch. Surprisingly evocative, plus it meant I stabbed a duckling to death within my first five minutes of play. Where are all the birds going? and Water life - incidental wildlife for the skies and seas of Morrowind. Vality's Mods - add most of these and you'll end up with a frightening amount of vegetation (forests evolve from skeletal shrubs to towering glades) and a capital city that looks like it's part of the landscape it's set within, as opposed to a smidgen of aesthetic discordance from the out-of-the-box version. Means cloth bends to the new joints of Better Bodies, mostly.Įnhanced Sky - surprisingly, this actually renders realistic foreskins on all male Khajit. Slartibartfast's Texture fix - gets rid of the jarring seams between textures, making for a far more organic-looking world.īetter Beasts - doing for our four-legged friends what Better Bodies does for the bipeds of Vvardenfell.īetter Clothes - yeah, guess. Real Signposts - Crisp signpost textures get me hard. This means I'm probably going to get attacked by a tiger eventually.
The Wilderness Mod - Similar to the above, but with angry animals. It throws in a crapton of wandering NPCs into the world, so it's not the underpopulated robo-land it is out of the box. Morrowind Comes Alive - This is a good'un. Also applies to the player models, not that you get to see your own face outside of the tutorial (I don't think?) I've gone for the latter, because I'm afraid of sex.īetter Heads - Those blurry porridge-faces get a bit of sprucing up. There's a choice of whether to leave them totally nude or with some tasteful underwear. Without a doubt, the goodly men'n'well-let's-be-honest-it's-pretty-much-all-men of the Morrowind modding community have done jawdropping things to this olden RPG.įrom the first attempt at this, the following remain:īetter Bodies - which, primarily, adds joints to the game's otherwise rigid torsos, and some nicer textures for people whose clothes you've nicked. Beneath the cut, a more or less complete list of the frightening number of mods I'm now running, and a fairly stunning before and after comparison. After a hard day of farting about with ESM files, I've finally got what - I hope - is the ideal Morrowind build for my planned journey of cheerful incompetence. Number two, I'd totally overlooked the vitally important (in the beauty stakes, at least) Morrowind Graphics Extender. Number one, the Giants mod is a really, really bad idea. Upon my first introduction to my impending Morrowind diary series, the resulting slew of comments threw up two important mistakes on my part.