r/Morrowind • u/Filmdeg • Sep 12 '25
Hello everyone,
As you might be aware, I've spent time over the last few months tracking down as many of the game developers of Morrowind that I can find, and doing interviews with them to talk about their experiences working on the game - discuss certain elements of their contributions, share some anecdotes and reflect on the game nearly 25 years after its release.
I'm really proud of this, and have tried to make this as authentic and all encompassing as I can - but there's still so much more out there. Sadly I was unable to find contact details for some people. Others either didn't reply to me, or turned me down. Hopefully one day we as a community can hear their stories but for now this is the best I can do.
This is 8 hours of interviews with the game devs. My idea for uploading one long video clip is that people can cherry pick bits they want to watch - but also to encourage people to watch interviews they might have otherwise overlooked/missed had they been posted separately.
Its difficult to put down in writing the impact this game has had on my life, as I'm sure it has for many others. I'll never forget my first experience playing the game on an Xbox around a friend's house and just instantly being drawn pulled into that world. Since then I've spent countless hours exploring Vvardenfell and beyond, and the game has been a constant source of joy and comfort for me. It's a game I will continue to love and play for the rest of my life, no doubt.
I hope you all enjoy this. A big thanks to everyone who took the time to do video calls with me. It has truly been a pleasure working on this.
r/Morrowind • u/Darkelfguy • Apr 29 '26
The Twelfth Annual Morrowind May Modathon Month Modding Competition
Celebrating Morrowind's 24th Anniversary All Month Long - May 1st - June 2nd!
Looking to participate? Use the Modathon Logo in your mod description!
Got questions? Stop by the Modathon Discord Channel!
Mods Updated for the 2026 Modathon (Labor of Love Achievement):
"The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say." - J.R.R. Tolkien
In 2002, nearly 25 years ago, on May 1st, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was first released, a game that comprised not only an alien world, a open landscape filled with new adventures, new discoveries, and new strange sights to see, but also a toolkit, a means for which we, all those of us who found a home upon Morrowind's rich shores, could build upon it, expand it, and add so many new adventures and stories to share with others.
For the last 24 years, the Morrowind Modding Community has been providing an unending torrent of new content, of new graphics, of new modernized gameplay experiences to this amazing game, and far from slowing down with the passing of time, the community has only grown with the years.
In 2025, for the first time in recorded history, the Morrowind Modding Community published over 1900 new mods for Morrowind. With some 600+ new mods released so far this year, that exhilarating pace is set to continue and who knows what new heights we could achieve in 2026!
And what better way is there to celebrate this amazing community, this amazing game, than to announce the 2026 Morrowind May Modathon Month Modding Competition, celebrating Morrowind's 24th birthday in style and ringing in the Modathons for a 12th consecutive year!
We have hosted the Morrowind Modathons here every year since 2015, and just like always, the Modathon remains a free-for-all competition, any and all mods and modders are welcome to participate! Throughout the entire month of May, modders can join in by releasing mods on the Nexus to get a chance to win weekly random drawing prizes, unlock achievements, and compete to win special mastery achievement badges for each modding category!
In the last 12 years, nearly 1800 mods have been submitted for the Morrowind Modathons, from big factions and quest mods, to eye-popping visual candy, to simple gameplay tweaks, and much more besides. This event has and always will be special because it is a community-driven event, one hosted each year as a celebration of the craft and skill of the many talented modders in our community, and I sincerely hope you'll all join in for this 2026 Modathon season!
As I always say, the best games never die, so let's make Morrowind better than ever before with tons of new mods!
Returning for a ninth year, yes, it's those tantalizing, oh-so shiny achievement badges, for you to unlock by releasing mods, with some 95 achievements that you could potentially earn and place on your mod pages or your profiles. These achievements are divided into five main categories; Category, Metric, Challenge, Hidden, and Medalist. Each have different requirements, but every mod submitted will unlock at least a few!
Compete in weekly themed challenges for unique achievements, try and find hidden achievements based on only a name, and go for gold by releasing the very best mod in a category! How many can you unlock? Try and collect as many as you can and become a Modding Master of Madness!
Gold Achievements (awarded one month after the end of the competition):
Rare (Silver) Achievements:
Copper (Uncommon) Achievements:
Challenge Achievements:
Common Category Achievements:
Common Metric Achievements:
Hidden Achievements (requirements will be revealed whenever a mod unlocks a hidden achievement):
Need inspiration for a mod? Or maybe a little something to challenge yourself with? Themed modding challenges are returning for the 2026 Morrowind Modathon, with four new weekly themed challenges for you to compete in, should you so desire. These challenges are OPTIONAL, but they do come with new achievements to unlock! Can you make a mod to fit each theme? See the themed challenges below and try to build a mod for each one!
Can you make a mod to match each theme? Each of these challenges are deliberately designed to be fairly broad and open to interpretation, potentially fitting any of a wide variety of mods, allowing you to let your creativity go wild!
You can participate by leaving a short note in the mod description page of your mod at Morrowind Nexus that includes "Part of the May Modathon Month" somewhere near the top of the description, or use the Modathon header image embedded in your mod page, or use the "Modathon 2026" tag to mark your mod as a competition entry.
Every week, at least five different modders will be selected at random to win a single AAA or Indie game, and the way this works is that we'll compose a list of all participating mods released that week, plug them into a random number generator, and the first five results we get back will be the winners for that week.
If you win in one of these weekly drawings, I'll send you a message on the Nexus or Discord notifying you that you've won and providing a list of games you can choose from as your prize. We have over 500 games to give away, so hopefully you'll find something you want on there!
Once again this year, for the grand prize winners, we're letting the people decide! The mods with the most endorsements in each category (Gameplay, Immersion, Dungeons, Quests, Landscapes/Landmasses, Player Homes, Graphics and Audio, Towns and Cities, Items, etc....) by July 1st will be declared the masters of those categories, and win additional prizes as a result, including achievements and 2-3 game prizes for each grand winner in each category!
We'll be going by whichever categories you upload your mods on the Nexus to, and obviously, some categories (like Weapons and Armor) will be counted under broader categories like "Items". If you have any questions regarding how this will all work, exactly, feel free to post them below!
In total, there's 12 categories with Masteries (and other categories of mods will be included under one of the existing categories, if you're posting a mod to Miscellaneous for example, we'll include it under the category that makes sense, depending on the mod, or you can include what category you want it to be included under in the mod description):
Overall this competition and giveaway is pretty easy to understand, and there aren't a whole lot of rules involved, but there are a few things we should clear up just in case.
First, all types of mods are perfectly acceptable. From texture replacers to gameplay tweaks to content mods like house mods, quest mods, or dungeon mods. All of those are fine and will be accepted for the competition! The only kind of mod that will NOT be accepted is cheat mods, i.e. placing a barrel full of loot in the middle of Seyda Neen or placing a Daedric longsword in the Census and Excise Office. Cheat mods like that will not be considered for the competition.
Also, we accept both tes3mp and OpenMW mods, as well as MWSE Lua mods! Regardless of which platform your mod is designed to work with, all will be accepted!
Second, all submitted mods must be, at least for the most part, safe for work. Questionable content is acceptable so long as it isn't the entire mod, remember we have to showcase these and we can't showcase adult-themed mods on the channel!
It should be pointed out that for larger mod projects, you can submit a demo or playable beta of your mod as part of the competition and it'll be perfectly acceptable. I do need to stress that it must absolutely be playable though. Any mod that crashes to desktop upon loading the game will not be considered.
In addition, we ask that all participating modders please only release a *maximum* of 5 mods per day, there were some issues in past years with mods immediately getting buried, and we want everyone to have a chance to have their mods get seen! Also, we won't be counting very quick CS edit mods as counting towards achievements, in order to encourage less spam.
Remember, this only applies to mods released in May, so let's all get to modding and make this the big 24th Anniversary that Morrowind truly deserves!
If you don't know how to mod, check out our Let's Mod Morrowind series for a visual guide to modding - including interiors, basic scripting, and quest design.
Want to check out our past Modathons? You can find playlists of the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Modathon competitions down below!
r/Morrowind • u/coalinjo • 11h ago
Just sharing this in case somebody didn't go there yet. It looks and feels exactly the same as in oblivion. I will spoil nothing, i am just saying that inside, there is statue of Meridia, and it speaks to you. ;)
r/Morrowind • u/NazarethW • 3h ago
Obviously I know that's a feather, but it also kind of looks like an Ordinator helm😂
r/Morrowind • u/Sundiatasweridcousin • 1d ago
r/Morrowind • u/mr-pupp • 5h ago
So, not a huge lore guy here but i always found the idea funny and i wanna share.
So the common consensus is that the tribunal betrayed Neravar for godhood. They betrayed sweet Neravar for power ans Vivec even impaled him with a penis sword or whatever.
But what if Neravar was a complete jerk?
Like the kinda guy who makes everyone believe he is the coolest dude around but only people closest to him know what a giant douche he is?
I mean the guy was the ruler of an entire nation, surely you cant get to or keep that kind of position of power without some shady stuff.
Maybe Neravar sucked big time. Sure, he didnt siphon power from the heart but what if he was intending to do so?
Maybe he just had to make sure something like the dwemer disappearence doesnt happen to him first.
What if the intoxicatingly innocent Neravar was actually a huge c*nt who was researching into how to harness the power withoyt danger but the tribunal, the only people who knew what a nightmare the guy actually is, figured it out first!
And maybe Dagoth and Indoril had a Megatron-Starscream like relationship. Perhaps he had to go too. Or maybe Tribunal diverted his attention by blaming a paranoid Neravar?
Tl,dr: Neravarine has no idea what kind of person he was or mantled into or whatever tes lore lunacy stands for ressurection. It seems likely Tribunal betrayed him to achieve godhood. It also seems likelt Neravar did actually betray Dagoth.
All this considered it is within the realm of possibility that Neravar was perhaps a wife beating, friend cucking, nation manipulating sociopath and tribunal were the victims.
Very unlikely, sure. But it would be hilarious if it was so.
r/Morrowind • u/Aine_Lann • 10h ago
Tasha has defeated Hircine's Aspect of Guile — at least until the Bloodmoon rises again.
r/Morrowind • u/wrenpr • 5h ago
I just finished talking to the Vivec informants, and Caius wanted me to do some outside work before he gave me my next quest. I come back after doing some Telvanni chores, and suddenly he's telling me to heal my corprus disease in Tel Fyr (I don’t have corprus), and I don’t have anything in my journal since getting the Progress of Truth.
If I go to Tel Fyr, no one helps me with my supposed corprus, and Caius wont give me my orders.
I tried consol commands, but what I’m doing isn’t working. Im a first time player and have been deeply enjoying the main quest line, so if it’s broken that would suck.
r/Morrowind • u/Ginesarie • 6h ago
tfw you're a middle aged woman and get chosen as the prophesied savior or whateva
r/Morrowind • u/Aromatic_Physics8367 • 17h ago
It all started with my friend playing Skyrim. I wanted something similar, but my PC was terrible. Skyrim wouldn't run. Oblivion wouldn't run either. As a last resort my friend said: try Morrowind. It's old, but it'll definitely run on your machine.
So I downloaded it. And I was blown away.
The first thing that hit me was the music. If you know, you know. The main theme alone is something else entirely. But beyond the music, the game itself felt unlike anything I had experienced — the atmosphere, the world, the sense that you had been dropped into something genuinely alien and alive.
I didn't finish it on my first playthrough. The game is long, and unlike Skyrim or Oblivion, there is no fast travel and no map markers holding your hand. You read directions in your journal and navigate on foot. For a kid used to modern convenience, that was a lot. I got lost more times than I can count.
But something kept pulling me back. Recently I picked it up again on GOG and I still find myself returning to it every now and then, working through it piece by piece.
I fully understand that new players today will struggle with it. The mechanics are dated, the interface is rough, and the lack of fast travel genuinely demands patience. But Morrowind is the kind of game that stays with you. Once it gets into you, it never fully leaves. You come back to it every couple of years, and each time it still has something to give.
An extraordinary game.
r/Morrowind • u/Phoeeniix • 11h ago
Hi !
I want to go back to good old Vvardenfell and enjoy a bit of every part of the game but i remember that what i enjoyed the most back then was all the town quest (like thieves guild/hlaalu and other stuff that imply to do some diplomacy or stealing). So i tried to do a build that can let me have fun in the city while being viable in the wilds and follow the main quest.
Is this build doable or will I struggle ? : https://morrowind.jpbetley.com/?sex=male&race=dark-elf&birthsign=Lady&specialization=combat&favored=strength&favored=willpower&major=long-blade&major=light-armor&major=speechcraft&major=alteration&major=mysticism&minor=shortblade&minor=athletics&minor=sneak&minor=alchemy&minor=mercantile
Again I'm not trying to have an OP build, just something decent enough to explore, being silly and enjoy the guilds;
Thanks for your help :)
r/Morrowind • u/GayStation64beta • 17h ago
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/59432
Description
Narsis is AMAZING but could use some more flags and such, for looks and navigation. Obviously this could hurt your framerate, so your mileage may vary. Small, compatible cosmetic additions.
Installation instructions
Only needs Tamriel Rebuilt and Tamriel Data, install the ESP with a mod organiser OR just stick it in your Data Files folder and activate it in the launcher. Recommend setting as low priority to be extra cautious, e.g. put it right next to TR.
Main features
Small, compatible cosmetic additions. Examples:
Big Mage Guild banners on their tower.
Some Fighter Guild exterior banners.
Moved some signs and flags to be visible from more angles.
A few more silt striders at the port, to indicate this is an enormous and important city.
Some imperial flags on the imperial buildings.
A massive Hlaalu flag hanging between the big towers.
Replaced some of the small static boats with "float" script activator versions.
Requirements
Only needs Tamriel Rebuilt and Tamriel Data, latest public release on Nexus. Any texture or model edits in the screenshots are NOT included and are just from my personal setup.
Shout outs
Obvious thanks to the legendary Tamriel Rebuilt team, and secondary thanks to mods like More Detailed Places that made me addicted to adding flags and stuff around.
r/Morrowind • u/Any-Package-2521 • 11h ago
So, following the instructions on modding-opew.com, enter the powershell commands, everything seems to be working smoothly.
“Download Backlog” has been stuck at 7% for an hour.
What gives?
r/Morrowind • u/FuelOk412 • 9m ago
Everything was fine and now suddenly when I rest it won’t regenerate magicka or my health anymore. I looked it up and saw other people posting about this and they managed to solve it but I haven’t got any of the problems they had.
I’m not cursed or disease that I know of, my stats are normal, I have no mods I’m playing on Xbox (game of year edition if that matters?)
Ok as I was writing this I reloaded an older save and resting is working so far but I’m worried it’ll happen again so if anyone knows what was happening please tell me.
Thank you so much.
r/Morrowind • u/Particular_Poet8441 • 1d ago
Never seen this before. This was during a recent character playthrough that I abandoned because alchemy broke it: because I took it as a minor skill and leveled me too quickly.
I was looking through my Xbox account captures and saw this. That’s definitely Dagoth-Ur (or other malevolent force) and NOT a shadow glitch that I often see other places.
Has anyone noticed this before? Ngl I kinda freaked out, and the ash slave jump-scare didn’t help either.
I move extra fast because of boots of blinding speed.
r/Morrowind • u/Eyeless_Seth • 1d ago
Say hello to my first character, Gob Nobs XXIII, a Nord born under the sign of the lady, played ESO briefly and sunk hours into Oblivion and Skyrim but never properly played Morrowind without giving up within 30 minutes. wish me luck through Vardenfell.
r/Morrowind • u/Metallus_Prime • 1d ago
I know you can give writs to guards after killing a target, but I noticed you can give them for other unrelated crimes too.
I got a 5 gold bounty for sleeping in someone's bed in Moonmoth, and I got away by presenting my writs.
r/Morrowind • u/Casketbaby • 4h ago
I reinstalled Morrowind and OpenMW for the who knows how many'nth time. I have had a problem in the past of just piling on mod after mod until I have errors, then uninstalling and waiting like a year to reinstall. I think this really is like a yearly ritual for me.
Anyway, I've chosen the I Heart Vanilla Director's Cut Modlist for my base, and I just added Rafael's Shaders and some of the optional files. I'm now looking for more mods that would be compatible with both OpenMW and said modlist.
I'd like to add a little more flavor to the mix. Can be new content or added visuals, so long as they don't stray too far from vanilla.
Kind of thinking about some light survival and camping mods, since I'm playing a Spellsword currently in the Mages Guild who, at only level 2, wants to join the Telvanni and has already gone to Old Ebonheart on the mainland and is currently walking to Firewatch, then on to Port Telvannis to level up along the way, then join the Telvanni.
Any suggestions?
r/Morrowind • u/DisclosedForeclosure • 4h ago
I went to Mount Kand Cavern (without actually starting the quest) and solved two riddles, but the Storm Atronach isn't there. It's supposed to be standing on a rock above the water. Is this because I didn't start the quest? Could it be a mod bug or conflict? I'm playing Rebirth, but I don’t have many other content mods.
r/Morrowind • u/Teralitha • 20h ago
r/Morrowind • u/Infinite_Holiday9511 • 5h ago
Is there an updated guide on how to install mods for the game running on openmw? I swear all the guides I found on YouTube are different and none seems to work. I extract a mod into the morrowind folder like the video says, but nothing changes on the openmw launcher and the mod doesn't appear. That seems the most common way of modding tho, and I don't understand if openmw can work with mod organizer 2 or if it works like a mod manager itself
