How to Make Your Own "Remaster"

This Guide is using the GOTY/Both Expansions version of the game and the actual game not OpenMW

Morrowind released in 2002 and because of that certain quality of life features that future titles got are not there, and, in today's standards, texture and model quality is pretty low (as well as render distance.) However there are multiple mods that can make Morrowind look and play better.

For this guide you will need a Nexus account. Usage of a Mod Manager is highly recommended, especially if you are going to be downloading a lot of mods. For Morrowind, the best Mod Managers are either Wyre Mash or Mod Organizer 2 (MO2.)

Wyre Mash Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45439
Pros: Best for mods that have multiple options in the files, compared to MO2 it's less likely to run into issues with mods
Cons: Harder to use
MO2 Download Link : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6194
Pros: Is best for texture mods, easy to use, can customize mod load order easily (useful for Texture Mods) doesn't change the "actual game files" (so launching the game outside of the mod manager will give you the vanilla version)
Cons: May run into issues with mods not working with it

The reason this mod gets its own section is because I 100% recommend it no matter how many changes you want to make, as it let's you play in higher resolution + widescreen, improve the render distance, and more. " Also when downloading MGE you will need to download Morrowind Code Patch first, which fixes multiple bugs and glitches as well as other improvements (the default settings in MCP are vanilla friendly.) Follow the install directions from their Nexus pages. MGE also includes Morrowind Script Extender.

MCP Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/19510

MGE Ex Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/41102

This section is focused on Mods I highly recommend you download as they are nice QOL improvements that don't completely change the original balance, with a few other additions.

• Official Plugins, Collections of the mods made by Bethesda (included in the GOG version)
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/3882?tab=description
  
  
• Patch for Purists, Fixes bugs MCP doesn't fix
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45096
  
  
• Alchemical Knowledge, Lets you learn ingredient effects like in Skyrim (can be changed to vanilla style) and sort by effect in the alchemy menu
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/49036#
  
  
• Expansion Delay, Delays when the Expansion "start," this is technically a big change, but it fixes a big exploit and plot holes from certain Expansion elements starting too early
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47588
  
  
• MWSE Character Creation Name Generator, Lets you generate a name instead on thinking of one
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46189
  
  
• What Are My Attributes, Lets you see the Race and Gender stats in race selection
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/49912?tab=description
  
  
• Right Click Menu Exit, Can Right Click to exit almost every menu
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/48458
  
  
• Been There Done That, Marks dungeons and other areas as "cleared" after, well clearing them.
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52807?tab=description

In this Section all mods will be in 2 different lists separated by how much of a graphical overhaul you want, Vanilla Plus and Major Overhaul. There will be overlap between the different groups so you will need to only look at one of them. If there is a mod you think should be in one of the groups but isn't, post it in the comments and I may add it where it belongs. Also I don't 100% know how Steam will react to Body mods (as almost all of them have NSFW versions) so I won't be linking them.

This Group's focus is being close to Vanilla but adding in minor graphical improvements.

MGE EX Settings: Resolution doesn't matter so choose what ever setting you like unless you want to keep the original 4:3 then choose 1024 x 768, Shaders Disabled, Distant Land set off to get the Vanilla Render Distance, but 4 is a good balance between keeping the original vibe and intent of the low Render Distance and quality of life improvement of being able to see farther (using Distance Land changes the Water but there is a mod that makes it look like the original which is in the list)

• Better Dialogue Font, increases the Font Resolution
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/36873?tab=description
  
  
• Playable Uncompressed Vanilla and Expansion Textures, Vanilla textures at same resolution, but uncompressed for increased quality
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52182
  
  
• Pixel Shader Style Water for MGE XE, makes the water when using Distance land look like the original game's water
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/50044
  
  
• Correct Meshes, fixes different meshes
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/39348?tab=description
  
  
• Correct UV Rocks, fixes rock meshes
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46104
  
  
• Facelift, improves meshes of head models (Download the meshes only)
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47617?tab=description

This Group's focus is making the game look way better, but still look like Morrowind.

MGE EX Settings: Resolution whatever you want to use, Enable Shaders, feel free to enable or disable them based off personal preference or performance reasons, Distant Land enabled and set to 5 to 10 (Morrowind isn't optimized for high render distances so super high render distances make the game lag even on modern high spec machines.) Also enable the Water Reflections and Dynamic solar shadows and Per-pixel lighting shader.

• Morrowind Enhanced Textures, upscales every texture to a higher resolution (Download this one last to make sure objects will use it's textures)
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46221
  
  
• Morrowind Optimization Patch, Improves performance and fixes meshes
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45384?tab=description
  
  
• Project Atlas, Improves performance by changing meshes
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45399?tab=description
  
  
• Better Dialogue Font, Increases the Font Resolution
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/36873?tab=description
  
  
• Graphic Herbalism, Changes the appearance of plants you picked to look like you picked them
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46599?tab=description
  
  
• RR Mod Series - Better Meshes, Improves different meshes by increasing poly count
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/43266
  
  
• Glow in the Dahrk, Makes windows give off light at night
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45886?tab=description
  
  
• Familiar Faces by Caleb, Improves face models
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/50093?tab=files
  
  
• Krokantor's Enhanced Water Shader Updated, Changes the water shader and adds new water effects
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/49964?tab=description
  
  
• Footprints, Makes character leave footprints in different surfaces.
  Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52284

Hopefully you are happy with the mods I chose, if not you can leave a comment. If you are happy with the mods you can now (re)play Morrowind with multiple quality of life and graphical improvements. Make sure to watch your Fatigue, Outlander.

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2836753578
  
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886838886