At least Tribunal is finished though, now I must conquer Solstheim. If I have time between shopping trips, that is.

As impressed as I am about getting the technical aspects of a mod like this to work, I’m still horrified by the idea of riding around in a giant bug and wouldn’t download this for a million dollars. (Okay, maybe for a million. ) After playing Morrowind for six years, I still want to get a giant shoe and smash the silt striders.

And that’s why I use Improved Teleportation.

I’ve actually never used either the vanilla version of Calvus or any other upgrades, but her version convinced me it was time to try him out. There have been so many great companion mods, that paying a mercenary wasn’t high on my list. Instead of just improving his scripting though, Princess had given him quite a bit of dialogue and an nicely filled-out backstory. He’s only been “hired” for about two in-game days, so I’ll see what continuing to use him brings, but so far he’s a nice surprise. But the same can be said for all of Princess’ mods.

Installation:

1. Install Morrowind -> Tribunal -> Bloodmoon. If you aren’t up to the 1.6.1820 version (check the bottom left corner of the loading screen) then download and install the official Bloodmoon patch.
2. Once you’re sure the game is up-to-date, download and install the Morrowind Code Patch and the Morrowind Patch Project.
3. Install MCP, tick MPP in the load screen, and then make sure the game launches without trouble. Everything after this is basically just aesthetics.
4. Download and install Morrowind Graphics Extender. This is not recommended for low-end machines, and is not recommended for computer novices. It can be used to increase graphics settings as well as extend the view distance significantly.

Graphics and landscape improvements:

1. Animated grasses are wonderful. Download Vality’s Grass Mod and Liztail’s modified grass meshes. Follow the instructions on this page to get fantastically real animated grass.
2. After this the best way to update the look is using Slartibartfast’s Texture Fix for Morrowind and Bloodmoon, and then installing texture packs. There are a lot of texture replacers availables, so I recommend looking at screenshots where you can and choosing how you want your game to look. I cherry-pick from quite a few texture packs. Here’s a list of what I use:

Texture packs:

1. Vibrant Morrowind
2. Darker Morrowind
3. Vivid Morrowind Repaint
4. Dwemer Texture Replacer
5. Hlaalu Yellow Marble
6. Hlaalu Darker Doors Patch
7. Sandstone Balmora
8. Magically Vibrant Mournhold
9. Stronghold Texture Replacer
10. Redoran Wood Replacer
11. Sewers the Humid Realm
12. Swampy Swamps
13. Shacky Shacks
14. Telvanni Texture Replacer
15. Vivec Texture Replacer
16. Rainforest of the Bitter Coast
17. Shadows and Light (for the Imperial Textures)
18. Vality’s Grass Mod
19. Vality’s Ascadian Isles Trees

Bodies and Clothing

1. Better Bodies
2. Better Clothes
3. New Beast Bodies
4. Westly’s High Res Body Textures
5. Vvardenfell Visages
6. CanadianIce’s Robe Replacer – If you use Better Bodies, you’ll want the link using NioLiv’s meshes.

Statics and Misc Items:

1. Key Replacer
2. Potion Upgrade
3. Scroll Upgrade
4. Souly Soulgems