Modlist for Boss Miriam
About
Infobox
This is a minimal, vanilla-friendly Morrowind modlist for OpenMW I came up with for my friend who wanted to get into Morrowind but was put off by some of its ancient Bethesda jank. Its aim is to provide:
- Modest graphical improvement without going overboard, and keeping performance in mind
- Quality of life improvements and bug fixes
- Preserved vanilla gameplay and story experience
Modlist
| Mod | Description |
|---|---|
| Patch for Purists | A vanilla-friendly patch for Morrowind fixing over 9000 bugs still present as of Morrowind's last official update. |
| Unofficial Official Morrowind Plugins Patched | An attempt to fix the many issues present in Bethesda's original Official Plugins. |
| Bethesda Official Plugins Naturalized | Implementation of Bethesda's Official Plugins with some slightly improved implementation. |
| Expansion Delay | This mod fixes Bethesda's overly enthusiastic expansion hooks by delaying the Dark Brotherhood attacks (for Tribunal) and limiting intrustive dialogue topics to a few NPCs (Bloodmoon). |
| Beware the Sixth House (Sixth House Overhaul) | Makes the Sixth House the most difficult content in the game. |
| Tribunal Rebalance | This mod rebalances Tribunal as if it shipped with Morrowind. |
| Bloodmoon Rebalance | This mod rebalances Bloodmoon as if it shipped with Morrowind. |
| Morrowind Optimization Patch | Greatly improves performance and fixes tons of mesh errors. |
| Project Atlas | Reworks the most performance-heavy meshes in Morrowind to use more performance-friendly texture atlases. |
| Graphic Herbalism - (MWSE and OpenMW Edition) | Harvested plants now change their appearance to show they have been harvested. |
| Dynamic Distant Buildings for OpenMW | Fixes a bug in vanilla Morrowind where buildings which should appeat after certain quest stages are visible in the distance. |
| Glow in the Dahrk | Buildings' windows glow with candlelight whem outside at night; inside, sunlight shines though windows during the day. |
| Nords Shut Your Windows | Nord houses with window shutters now actially close the shutters at night. |
| OpenMW Containers Animated | Containers (e.g., crates and chests) play opening and closing animations when activated. |
| Weapon Sheathing | Makes unreadied weapons appear on the characters' hip or back for NPCs and the player. |
| Familiar Faces | An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up of every head and almost every hair for diehard vanilla purists and people just looking for a decent upgrade to the old heads. |
| Facelift | Some people have desired a simple enhancement of vanilla faces and hairs, so here you go. Facelift covers everything but beast races' heads (covered by Familiar Faces). |
| Vanilla-Flavoured Hair - a Hair Mesh Replacer Mod | Vanilla-friendly hair replacer. Hairstyles actually make sense now, and the original textures shine bright. If you prefer hair to random nonsense, this one's for ya. |
| Improved Lights for all Shaders | This mod makes comprehensive edits to every mesh used as a light source, so that light-fields are actually centered on the flames, smoke and sparks respond correctly to lighting, candlesticks are properly lit by their own flames, and stuff that should glow in the dark actually does so. |
| Attend Me | Adds a follower HUD and automatic teleportation of your followers. |
| Intelligent Textures | Replaces all textures in the vanilla game and its expansions with high resolution AI upscales. |
| Title Screen and Logo Video Intro Reworked | HD Title Screen and Logo Video. |
| Wide Screen Splash Replacer | Replaces the original vanilla splash screens, providing versions that are in 16:9 format for wide-screen monitors. |
| Better Dialogue Font | A high resolution replacer for the 'Magic Cards' font, used in most of the UI, providing improved readability without changing the font size. |
| AFFresh | A mod by Douglas Goodall (AKA 'Affa'), one of Morrowind's original developers, over 20 years after Morrowind's original release. It adds about 30 low-level guests, fleshing out things Affa was unable to during Morrowind's development. |
| Djangos Dialogue 1.4 | Hundreds of new lines of text dialogue for all NPCs, which helps to remedy the repetition and dialogue fatigue that came with the original game. |
| Great Service | Enables voiced dialogue for shopkeepers that were shipped with the original game but never used. |
| Idle Talk | Adds over 200 new voice entries for NPCs, mostly using edited original voice files. |
| Remiros' Groundcover | Adds groundcover to Morrowind – grass and shrubs that respond to the player moving through them and blow in the wind. |
| DeltaPlugin (recommended) | For object and levelled list merging of OMWAddon/ESP files. Strongly recommended you use this. |
Installation:
- Download the mod folder structure from Github. Unpack this zip file into the directory
C:\games\ - Download each mod individually and unpack their contents into their respective folder, per the 'Modlist Folder Structure - Demonstration' below.
- Copy and paste the CFG Settings into your
openmw.cfgandsettings.cfgfiles per the CFG Settings instructions. The default location of these files is within theDocuments\My Games\OpenMWdirectory on your computer.
How to install mods with OpenMW
See the OpenMW documentation: 'How to Install and Use Mods'
Modlist Folder Structure
Download from the mod folder structure from Github (click the download symbol 'Download raw file'). Unpack this zip file into the directory C:\games\, which will add a folder titled OpenMWMods. You can use the Folder Structure Guide below
Folder Structure Guide click to expand
| Mod | Parent Folder | Subfolders |
|---|---|---|
| AFFresh | 📂 Quests |
📂 AFFresh |
| Attend Me | 📂 NPCs |
📂 AttendMe├─📂 AttendMe_1.8 |
| Bethesda Official Plugins Naturalized | 📂 Patches |
📂 BethesdaOfficialPluginsNaturalized├─📂 Optional│ ├─📂 High Resolution Textures |
| Better Dialogue Font | 📂 Fonts |
📂 BetterDialogueFont |
| Beware the Sixth House (Sixth House Overhaul) | 📂 Patches |
📂 BewaretheSixthHouse |
| Bloodmoon Rebalance | 📂 Patches |
📂 BloodmoonRebalance |
| DeltaPlugin | 📂 Tools |
📂 DeltaPlugin |
| Djangos Dialogue 1.4 | 📂 NPCs |
📂 DjangosDialogue├─📂 Djangos Dialogue 1.43 |
| Dynamic Distant Buildings for OpenMW | 📂 Fixes |
📂 DynamicDistantBuildingsforOpenMW├─📂 Dynamic Distant Details |
| Expansion Delay | 📂 Patches |
📂 ExpansionDelay |
| Facelift | 📂 NPCs |
📂 Facelift |
| Familiar Faces | 📂 NPCs |
📂 FamiliarFaces |
| Glow in the Dahrk | 📂 Lighting |
📂 GlowintheDahrk├─📂 00 Core├─📂 01 Hi Res Window Texture Replacer├─📂 03 Telvanni Dormers on Vvardenfell├─📂 07 Telvanni Tower Interior Glow OpenMW |
| Graphic Herbalism - (MWSE and OpenMW Edition) | 📂 Gameplay |
📂 GraphicHerbalismMWSEandOpenMWEdition├─📂 00 Core + Vanilla Meshes |
| Great Service | 📂 VFX |
📂 GreatService├─📂 Great Service |
| Idle Talk | 📂 VFX |
📂 IdleTalk├─📂 Idle Talk |
| Improved Lights for all Shaders | 📂 Lighting |
📂 ImprovedLightsforallShaders├─📂 00 Core├─📂 01 Smoke and Steam Emitters |
| Intelligent Textures | 📂 TexturePacks |
📂 IntelligentTextures├─📂 00 Core├─📂 01 Atlas Textures |
| Morrowind Optimization Patch | 📂 Performance |
📂 MorrowindOptimizationPatch├─📂 00 Core ├─📂 01 Lake Fjalding Anti-Suck├─📂 02 Weapon Sheathing Patch├─📂 05 Graphic Herbalism Patch |
| Nords Shut Your Windows | 📂 Architecture |
📂 NordsShutYourWindows├─📂 00 Core├─📂 04 Purist├─📂 05 Purist Sunrays |
| OpenMW Containers Animated | 📂 ObjectsClutter |
📂 OpenMWContainersAnimated├─📂 Containers Animated├─📂 Optional│ ├─📂 kollops |
| Patch for Purists | 📂 Patches |
📂 PatchforPurists |
| Project Atlas | 📂 Performance |
📂 ProjectAtlas├─📂 00 Core├─📂 06 Glow in the Dahrk Patch├─📂 07 Graphic Herbalism Patch |
| Remiros' Groundcover | 📂 Groundcover |
📂 RemirosGroundcover├─📂 00 Core OpenMW |
| Title Screen and Logo Video Intro Reworked | 📂 UserInterface |
📂 TitleScreenandLogoVideoIntroReworked├─📂 Title Screen├─📂 Logo Video |
| Tribunal Rebalance | 📂 Patches |
📂 TribunalRebalance |
| Unofficial Official Morrowind Plugins Patched | 📂 Patches |
📂 UnofficialMorrowindOfficialPluginsPatched├─📂 02 bitter coast sounds├─📂 03 entertainers├─📂 05 lefemm armor├─📂 05 lefemm armor compatibility |
| Vanilla-Flavoured Hair - a Hair Mesh Replacer Mod | 📂 NPCs |
📂 VanillaFlavouredHair├─📂 Vanilla |
| Weapon Sheathing | 📂 Weapons |
📂 WeaponSheathing├─📂 Data Files |
| Wide Screen Splash Replacer | 📂 UserInterface |
📂 WideScreenSplashReplacer├─📂 NZdawghaus' Widescreen Splash Replacer |
CFG Settings
Locate your openmw.cfg file (default location: Documents\My Games\OpenMW). Search the text file for "data=", where you will find one entry: the location of your Morrowind install.
Add a newline below this, and paste the contents of Data Paths below.
Data Paths
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\PatchforPurists"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\UnofficialMorrowindOfficialPluginsPatched\02 bitter coast sounds"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\UnofficialMorrowindOfficialPluginsPatched\03 entertainers"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\UnofficialMorrowindOfficialPluginsPatched\05 lefemm armor"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\UnofficialMorrowindOfficialPluginsPatched\05 lefemm armor compatibility"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\BethesdaOfficialPluginsNaturalized"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\BethesdaOfficialPluginsNaturalized\Optional\High Resolution Textures"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\ExpansionDelay"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\BewareTheSixthHouse"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\TribunalRebalance"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Patches\BloodmoonRebalance"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\MorrowindOptimizationPatch\00 Core"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\MorrowindOptimizationPatch\01 Lake Fjalding Anti-Suck"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Gameplay\GraphicHerbalismMWSEandOpenMWEdition\00 Core + Vanilla Meshes"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\MorrowindOptimizationPatch\05 Graphic Herbalism Patch"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\ProjectAtlas\00 Core"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\ProjectAtlas\07 Graphic Herbalism Patch"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\TexturePacks\IntelligentTextures\00 Core"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\TexturePacks\IntelligentTextures\01 Atlas Textures"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\UserInterface\TitleScreenandLogoVideoIntroReworked\Title Screen"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\UserInterface\TitleScreenandLogoVideoIntroReworked\Logo Video"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\UserInterface\WideScreenSplashReplacer\NZdawghaus' Widescreen Splash Replacer"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Fonts\BetterDialogueFont"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\NPCs\FamiliarFaces"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\NPCs\Facelift"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\NPCs\VanillaFlavouredHair\Vanilla"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\ObjectsClutter\OpenMWContainersAnimated\Containers Animated"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\ObjectsClutter\OpenMWContainersAnimated\Optional\kollops"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\NPCs\AttendMe\AttendMe_1.8"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Weapons\WeaponSheathing\Data Files"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\MorrowindOptimizationPatch\02 Weapon Sheathing Patch"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Groundcover\RemirosGroundcover\00 Core OpenMW"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Quests\AFFresh"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Fixes\DynamicDistantBuildingsforOpenMW\Dynamic Distant Details"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Lighting\GlowintheDahrk\00 Core"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Lighting\GlowintheDahrk\01 Hi Res Window Texture Replacer"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Lighting\GlowintheDahrk\03 Telvanni Dormers on Vvardenfell"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Lighting\GlowintheDahrk\07 Telvanni Tower Interior Glow OpenMW"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Performance\ProjectAtlas\06 Glow in the Dahrk Patch"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Architecture\NordsShutYourWindows\00 Core"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Architecture\NordsShutYourWindows\04 Purist"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Architecture\NordsShutYourWindows\05 Purist Sunrays"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Lighting\ImprovedLightsforAllShaders\00 Core"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Lighting\ImprovedLightsforAllShaders\01 Smoke and Steam Emitters"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\NPCs\DjangosDialogue\Djangos Dialogue 1.43"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\VFX\GreatService\Great Service"
data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\VFX\IdleTalk\Idle Talk"
Again in your openmw.cfg file (default location: Documents\My Games\OpenMW), search the text file for "content=". Delete any entries here, then copy and paste the contents of Plugin Load Order below into it.
Plugin Load Order
content=Morrowind.esm
content=Tribunal.esm
content=Bloodmoon.esm
content=Patch for Purists.esm
content=Patch for Purists - Semi-Purist Fixes.ESP
content=Tribunal Rebalance.ESP
content=Bloodmoon Rebalance.esp
content=Patch for Purists - Book Typos.ESP
content=AFFresh.esp
content=Great Service.ESP
content=Djangos Dialogue.ESP
content=Expansion Delay.ESP
content=entertainers.esp
content=bcsounds.esp
content=LeFemmArmor.esp
content=Beware the Sixth House.ESP
content=GITD_Telvanni_Dormers_NoUvirith.ESP
content=Lake Fjalding Anti-Suck.ESP
content=Containers Animated.esp
content=Idle Talk.ESP
content=GITD_Telvanni_Dormers.ESP
content=Master Index Naturalized.esp
content=Area Effect Arrows Naturalized.esp
content=Adamantium Armor Naturalized.esp
content=Siege at Firemoth Naturalized.esp
content=Helm of Tohan Naturalized.esp
content=HM_DDD_Ghostfence_v1.0.esp
content=HM_DDD_Strongholds_H_v1.0.esp
content=HM_DDD_Strongholds_R_v1.0.esp
content=HM_DDD_Strongholds_T_v1.0.esp
content=AttendMe.omwscripts
## Groundcover
groundcover=Rem_AC.esp
groundcover=Rem_AI.esp
groundcover=Rem_AL.esp
groundcover=Rem_BC.esp
groundcover=Rem_GL.esp
groundcover=Rem_WG.esp
groundcover=Rem_Solstheim.esp
Now locate the settings.cfg file (default location: Documents\My Games\OpenMW). Insert the text below in Enabling Groundcover. This can be placed as a section anywhere within the settings file - the order of the various settings headings (e.g., [Groundcover] [Camera], [Game]) does not matter.
Enabling Groundcover
[Groundcover]
enabled = true
density = 1.0
min chunk size = 1.0
stomp mode = 2
stomp intensity = 0
rendering distance = 6144.0
Once all three steps are completed, run DeltaPlugin merge to generate the merged.omwaddon plugin. Then, in openmw.cfg add content=merged.omwaddon after content=AttendMe.omwscripts. Enjoy your vanilla+ Morrowind!
Credits
Modding-OpenMW.com
This modlist was based primarily on the 'I Heart Vanilla' and 'Just Good Morrowind' modlists curated by the MOMW team, with a number of my own personal preference tweaks. Its CFG Generator and the folder structure recommended by MOMW has also been the basis for the folder structure here.