Top Ten Morrowind Mods of 2020 - The 2022 Anniversary Edition 

heart of the velothi guy here - west gash halted production around late 2020-early 2021 after my computer shit its guts out. i didn't structure our team too well to account for my absence, and i'm also regrettably a bit of a micromanager, so i put the project in limbo for a year as i went through a rigorous re-organizing and re-imagining of what the mod would be. i returned december 2021 and got to work on a heightmap overhaul with the help of wolli & greatness7, where it sees active & swift development today despite me being the only guy working on it at the moment. you can play an in-dev version on our server (links available on the tamriel rebuilt & project tamriel servers). when this is finished, heart of the velothi will pick back up development building off of this heightmap overhaul with a much clearer design initiative and learn from a lot of its past mistakes. if you want to play the mod today, i recommend playing randompal's version (packaged in his beautiful cities of morrowind mod) which not only includes bugfixes & tweaks but also some better integration of T_D content. thanks for covering my mod a third time, and i'm super stoked to be featured among so many household names in the community as well as talented new modders!

“Morrowind May Modathon month modding competition” That’s some alliteration for you.

"A pattern of continued growth that's been going on for the past seven years in the Morrowind modding community". I wonder if something started around that time which has constantly drawn attention to Morrowind modding and encouraged the creation of new mods. Some sort of video series maybe. I'm not exactly sure.

Glad to see my mod on a top ten list. Especially since it was my first mod and initially meant as a personal merger and patch for different Sheogorad mods. But then things snowballed out of control and then it became a major landscape overhaul :D

All great works by some top end modders who put in the consistent quality. Thanks particularly for pointing out “Pimp My Shrine”. That’s definitely going into my next playthrough.

For convenience's sake, here's a list of download links and modding guides: Top Ten Mods of Morrowind 2020 - Download Links, Requirements, and Compatibility Information - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OF8bs9Sa9KGGe1ZH74Ie7j9U8RudlSWH8-QoLOb_9Xk/edit?usp=sharing Recommended Modding and Graphics Guide - Morrowind Sharp (Updated for 2022) - github.com/Sigourn/morrowind-sharp For OpenMW Users - OpenMW Total Overhaul Modding Guide (Updated for 2022) - modding-openmw.com/lists/total-overhaul/ Darkelfguy's Graphics Mod List (used in this video - NOTE: This is NOT a modding guide. Recommended to be used in conjunction with an actual proper modding guide!) - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yMM5rkyQ1Y6TVS5BQfraFvwW9m9Lv7oBk-pQAz_o4go/edit?usp=sharing Finally, if you'd like to support the channel, you can check out our Patreon page here: www.patreon.com/MorrowindModding

2020 was an amazing year for Morrowind modding, and the community has only grown stronger since then. Morrowind may be 20 years old, but I thinks its best years are still to come!

"Sheogorad - Groves of the North" is really impressive, your flyby showcases it gorgeously. Thanks!

It makes perfect sense that the quality of mods would improve from the early days even if the modders are equally ambitious and skilled. We simply know more now, and that gives us a better starting point. All these mods are clearly very interesting and worthwhile, and I very much appreciate what you're doing here, DEG. But I can't just leave it there; I like to think about these things deeper, and provide my further thoughts. What follows is some musings on specific mods, your commentary on them, what I think makes them work well, and where I think your commentary might actually be a little misguided as to the strengths of the mods in question. I would say that Skyrim's dungeons are no better than Morrowind's, but for different reasons. The Ancestral Tombs have very little to make them worth exploring (though that does in fact fit in with the lore around them well enough if you ask me), but they're short and sweet, while Skyrim's are often more scenic, but outstay their welcome, and the existence of something novel and interesting is no more common than in Morrowind's. Particularly in terms of loot -- unique loot in Skyrim is much rarer than in Morrowind, so your reward for doing generic overlong dungeon number 361 is some generic stuff that may not even be worth the carry weight to cart out of there. Combine that with Skyrim's quests railroading you into generic dungeons constantly, and dungeon delving in Skyrim can be a miserable experience in tedium. Not to say that upgrading dungeons isn't a good goal, but Skyrim's aren't some incredible thing either. I love Remiros's dungeon upgrades, for the most part, but that's because they play off of and build on Morrowind's existing strengths, not because they emulate a different game which is merely bad in different ways. I will also say, what makes magic worthwhile isn't its flashiness. I appreciate flashiness well enough myself, but things like the ball of light following you, rather than you emitting light, or long, drawn out animations for picking things up with telekinesis, are not what I'd call obvious improvements. They're pretty, yes, but the speedy functionality of the original versions have, in my view, distinct advantages in terms of gameplay. The detection and miscast changes, on the other hand, are great. They improve actual functionality in a clear way, and deepen immersion in the process, without slowing down gameplay or simply being flashy for the sake of flashiness -- their flashiness has a purpose beyond itself. Maybe this is just that I always play mages in any game that lets me, so the value of "ooh, shiny" wore off a long time ago for me, but Morrowind's magic was always appealing to me for its versatility and variety of uses. Its flashiness or lack thereof is tertiary at best, and when flashiness gets in the way of the spells doing what I want quickly and easily, the lack of flashiness of the vanilla versions is a feature, not a bug to be fixed. Ashfall is a good mod, but honestly, in my view, the best thing about needs mods like Necessities of Morrowind is adding the food shops and cooking recipes that flesh out the world. NOM is very limited, yes, but it does some things that Ashfall just doesn't, and those things are most of the reason I'd want a needs mod in the first place. Those, and an early-game money sink that slows down how fast your character snowballs into being unreasonably wealthy, which NOM once again does more effectively than Ashfall. Ashfall is by no means a straight upgrade on NOM, and for me in particular it will never replace NOM, though it _is_ a very impressive mod in its own right. They're two different mods with very different priorities on what makes a needs mod worth having, and while some of that from the NOM side of things may have been related to the limitations of MWScript, I think they have value even as those limitations are removed. Ashfall certainly deserves its place here, regardless, mind. This is just, once again, me musing on the nature of needs mods driven by how your commentary went. Also, for the record, for a skilled programmer, building a second crafting system would be incomparably easier than the first, because you already have all the background generic work done, and primarily need to adjust the front-end to the new variation. Not a knock against Merlord at all, mind -- if anything, it would indicate that he's a very skilled programmer even more than if he had needed to do an enormous amount of work both times. It's just a misconception about the nature of the work that is all too common due to the absurd, and somehow positive, weight capitalist culture puts on exhausting yourself working. To be able to do something like this increasingly easily indicates skill. If it's similarly hard every time, you're probably just brute-forcing it repeatedly. I think Merlord is skilled enough to not need to brute force the implementation of working code repeatedly. I think he understands how it all works quite well, and thus that the second implementation would have been much more straightforward for him than the first. And that skill is what makes him an invaluable member of the modding community.

Thanks! Intelligent textures are very beautiful, a bit cartoony but in a good way, it mixes well with the low res meshes :) I liked them a lot. Good job with the video.

youre a legend for this one, dalk-elf-guy

I would like MxR & Juicehead (Skyrim & Fallout 4) to do the links and timestamps and requirements as you, they are extremely useful!

I combined Operator Jack's mods with my existing setup which includes a mod that makes character powers constant effect instead of cast once a day. Made a character with Tower birthsign. Can see everything always! A super thief! Based her on a custom court assassin class I made years ago in Oblivion. It's wonderful so far. Edit, turns out I've been using nearly all of these except Starwind. Ashfall is great.. Strongly recommended. My roommate will love Starwind though, thanks dude!

Wow, great mods in this video. Finding good mods for morrowind is really hard on Nexus for some reason, I'm not sure if the sorting is messed up or what, but jesus, some of these mods should have been easy to find, but I've never even heard of them! Great work, cheers man.

Good job for categorizing playlists, quite handy.

Yes! Appreciate your consistent work and passion to make these videos. Thank you.

this video is making me so hyped to get back in game. Wow. I appreciate all you incredible nerds making these magnificent masterpieces. Now I just want to see a good melee combat overhaul that doesnt break the game balance but can bring it up to modern standard and morrowind will literally be ready for re-release as morrowind "again" for 40$ per copy haha.

I binge this channel. It's always good. Even if you've watched it already.

The Morrowind modding community continues to amaze me! It’s great to see a mix of familiar and newer misdeed represented here.

Holy shit @ number 8!

Just started playing again with graphics and sound overhaul. I love ash fall it’s really brings the whole game together

I just finished moding my morrowind for a week including fixing bugs I spent more time moding the game than playing it 😢 And now I am here

I am very normal about Morrowind modding thankyou for your wonderful uploads

There excellent updated graphic mods for other old classic pc game too, it's called *State of Decay 1* nexusmod have even 4K textures mods as well.

my guy my dude, i love your videos please keep making them, i know that we every opinion is good and all but "skyrim's dungeons were far better cause they had more loot to them and things to do" is not a good opinion, ancestral tombs were not supposed to be dungeons with sick magic sword of awesomeness for pro gamers they were design to be worldbuilding atmospheric landmarks that you can explore if you want.

Let's not dilly-dally! hehe

The reason why i like Morrowind dungeons is precisely the reason why i hate skyrim's. That is, because most of them are short and sweet and don't overstay their welcome with 100 enemies to kill and 100 containers to go through. The precise reason why i straight up stop playing Skyrim is because i was tired of the game sending me to long and boring dungeons every single quest. More is not always better.

Does anyone know what mod is in the intro at 20s? I thought i seen a link to it somewhere but cant find it :( looks super cool

Just because it's facts doesn't mean it's not heresy

I simply don't like dungeon crawling in Elder Scrolls games, so I would take Morrowind's bite-sized dungeons over the ones in Skyrim any time.

Now we need to bring morrowind to KOTOR😂

Since when are Ancestral Tombs dungeons? Last I checked they were tombs with some lore and world building.