Daggerfall Mods

Updated: 29 Dec 2023

Changelog

All mods are installed and managed through Vortex.

Daggerfall is played through Daggerfall Unity.

Remember to not just blindly copy somebody else’s mod list. Make sure each mod is one that you really want! Because of this, my installed dependencies are not listed.

Mods marked with a ♥ heart are my top 10 favourites.

Mod	Category	Description
Basic Roads ♥ Hazelnut	Gameplay	Adds roads and dirt tracks to the world of Daggerfall.
Climates and Calories ♥ Ralzar	Gameplay	Adds hunger, thirst, sleep, temperature, cooking, camping, and more.
Convenient Quest Log ♥ Macadaynu	User Interface	A revamped version of the active quest log. Groups each quest message by its parent quest, and displays the length of time left to complete the quest.
Drafty Secret Doors ♥ Kaedius	Gameplay	Dungeon scret doors emit a faint wind sound, making it easier to find them by listening without resorting to madly clicking on every wall.
Dynamic Skies ♥ BadLuckBurt and carademono	Visuals and Graphics	Adds procedural skies with dynamic clouds, sunsets, moons, and stars.
Low Poly Trees ♥ Kamer	Visuals and Graphics	Adds low poly trees to the wilderness.
Physical Combat and Armor Overhaul ♥ Kirk O	Overhauls	Armour reduces damage taken instead of increasing dodge chance, weapons have reduced Hit Bonus, combat racial bonuses are buffed, Critical Strike reworked completely, and more major combat changes.
Travel Options ♥ Hazelnut	Gameplay	Provides options for travelling around the Iliac Bay, allowing for either fast travel or time accelerated real travel.
Wilderness Overhaul ♥ Daniel87 and Macadaynu	Visuals and Graphics	Overhauls the wilderness nature layout by introducing abundant forets, open fields, dense rainforests, and barren deserts.
World of Daggerfall ♥ World of Daggerfall Team	Locations	Adds new locations and large-scale props to the world exterior. Find the landscape filled with enormous mountains, the roads with bandit settlements, and the wilds with ruins, shrines, and other points of interest.
Aquatic Sprites Cliffworms	Visuals and Graphics	Adds several of the unused underwater sprites in submerged cavern dungeons.
Archaeologists Hazelnut	Guilds	Adds the Archaeologists Guild and makes language skills more viable.
Arena's Adventures Cliffworms	Quests	Adds 9 side quests from The Elder Scrolls: Arena.
Daggerfall Autosave aches	Gameplay	Autosave functionality for Daggerfall.
Bards and Balladeers Harbinger451	Guilds	Allows you to play the bard and earn money performing ballads in taverns and elswhere. Also, join the Bards Guild and get involved in some epic adventures.
Beautiful Villages of Daggerfall carademono	Locations	Overhauls the villages of the Iliac Bay, aiming to give them a rural, vanilla-friendly character.
Betony Restored Cliffworms	Locations	Adds the 25 locations from Daggerfall's Betony Demo to the island of Betony.
Better Dungeon Exits ThatKidBobo	Visuals and Graphics	Dungeon exits now look like they lead outside.
Better Ambience Joshua Steinhauer	Visuals and Graphics	Adds several modular features: camera shaking, better footsteps, better weather, and dungeon reverb and fog.
Birds in Daggerfall Uncanny Valley	Creatures	Adds flying birds in the skies of Daggerfall.
Cities Overhauled - Orsinium dotWayton	Locations	Replaces Orsinium, making it more lore accurate, more vertical, and more fun to explore.
Climates Travel Map Sam the Salmon	User Interface	Adds colours to the kingdom maps to display the different climates.
Crossbows numidium3rd and realAKP	Weapons	Adds crossbows.
Daggerfall Enemy Expansion Kab and Kamer	Creatures	Adds tens of new monsters and human enemeis for use in dungeons, wilderness encounters, and quests.
Darker Dungeons Ralzar	Gameplay	Dungeon lights are off unless a humanoid spawned nearby. Douse and light all light sources in dungeons. Take torches, candles, and oil.
Daggerfall Unity Quest Pack 1 JayH2971	Quests	Offers 195 original new quests, mostly for the game's guilds.
Death Sentence Kamer	Gameplay	Restores execution to the court of Daggerfall. Increased prison time for certain crimes, and see random prison mates in your cell.
Decorator Kaedius	Miscellaneous	Place furniture, containers, lights, potion makers, spell makers, paintings, and more to decorate your player home and ship.
Detailed City Walls Cliffworms	Locations	Decorates the exteriors and otherwise empty interiors of the city walls. Also adds 3 quests taking place inside the city walls.
Dynamic Music numidium3rd	Audio	Adds combat music, fades, and custom playlists to Daggerfall.
Finding My Religion Cliffworms	Guilds	Overhauls Daggerfall's temples.
Fixed Desert Architecture Cliffworms	Locations	Replaces "High Rock style" buildings in desert cities with their flat-roof equivalents and other desert location-related changes.
Fixed Dungeon Exteriors Cliffworms	Locations	Changes the exterior of 1055 dungeons to fit the dungeon type and name.
Forts Overhauled - Llugwych dotWayton	Locations	A small exterior block replacer for Castle Llugwych, making it more than just a lone building in an empty field, adding some fortifications and minor details, plus a small village surrounding it.
Forts Overhauled - Woodborne Hall dotWayton	Locations	A simple exterior block replacer for Woodborne Hall, making it more lore accurate and vertical.
HUD Torch Indicator	User Interface	Adds a HUD icon to indicate when light source items are equipped and active.
Improved Interior Lighting Shortbeard	Overhauls	Improves how lights look in interiors and dungeons.
theJF Quest Pack theJF	Quests	Some custom quests for the Fighters, Knights, Mages, Temples, Nobles, Commoners, and Merchants.
JayH's Random Little Quests JayH2971	Quests	A series of little unrelated events to add some variety to the Daggerfall life.
Jobs of the Thieves Guild Cliffworms	Quests	Adds 12 new quests for the Theives Guild, exploring criminal ventures other than burglary.
Kleptomania Kirk O	Gameplay	Allows many previously purely decorative objects and items to be interacted with or taken.
Limited Gold Shops Kirk O	Gameplay	All shops that can normally have items sold to them now have a limited supply of gold, determined by many factors. Shops can also be invested in.
Lively Cities Cliffworms	Locations	Adds various static NPCs in the settlements' streets to make them more lively.
Logical Lootpiles Arneb	Miscellaneous	Set lootpile billboards to reflect what is contained within.
Lootable Villagers Kamer	Gameplay	Creates a lootable body after a villager dies.
Lousy Lycans Ralzar	Gameplay	Fleshes out and rebalances the lycanthropy effects of the game, making them more roleplaying flavoured and less overpowered.
Meaner Monsters Ralzar	Gameplay	Changes the damage, HP, level, and armour of some monsters in the game.
Open Cages Kamer	Gameplay	All dungeon cages can now be opened.
Persistent Dungeons LypyL	Gameplay	Prevents dungeons resetting immediately.
Quest Offer Locaions Macadaynu	User Interface	Displays the location of the quest when being offered, and shows how much time it will take to get there. Can be set to prefer nearby quest offers.
Quest Text Fixes Samantha Says	Quests	Fixes quest dialogue to fit the screen with the default font, and other minor bug and personal fixes.
Readied Spellcasting Hands jefetienne	Miscellaneous	Displays hands when ready to cast a spell.
Realistic Wagon Ralzar	Gameplay	Horses and wagons are physical objects to manage, name your horse, and wagon durability.
Rest Warning if Unwell Kirk O	Miscellaneous	Gives a warning message when opening the rest window if currently poisoned or diseased.
Roleplay and Realism Hazelnut	Gameplay	Gameplay enhancements supporting roleplay and realism aspects of Daggerfall.
Roleplay and Realism - Items Hazelnut and Ralzar	Gameplay	Contains optional modules to enhance roleplay and realism for Daggerfall's items and loot.
Rumors of the Iliac Bay Cliffworms	Gameplay	Adds around 130 new rumours that have a chance of showing up when asking NPCs about the recent news.
SIGIL - Wilderness Encounters azimovhaas8	Gameplay	A silent quest system providing numerous new random encounters and quests that can happen in the wilderness of the Iliac Bay.
Skulduggery - A Thief Overhaul Ralzar	Gameplay	Rebalances and improves mechanics for thief skills. Adds new thief items for sale at the Theives Guild.
Skyrim's Adventures Cliffworms	Quests	Adds 13 new quests based on Skyrim's radiant quests.
Soldier's Luxury azimovhaas8	Locations	Visual overhaul of all Knightly Orders and Fighters Guilds in Daggerfall.
Stealthy Thief Quests imsobadatnicknames	Quests	Makes your Stealth skill affect the outcome of certain Theives Guild quests.
Tavern Games imsobadatnicknames	Miscellaneous	Spawns NPCs in taverns that you can play games with.
Taverns Redone Uncanny	Locations	Adds more detail and visual variation to taverns in Daggerfall.
Taverns Renamed carademono	Locations	Renames all tavern locations to match the name of one of the tavern buildings.
Tempered Interiors DunnyOfPenwick	Models and Textures	Modifies building interiors to match building quality.
Temples and Templar Orders Quest Pack AzimovHaas8	Quests	Adds 35 quests for Temples and Knightly Orders.
Temples Cure Poison Kirk O	Miscellaneous	The Temple "cure disease" service now also cures poisoning.
The Penwick Papers DunnyOfPenwick	Gameplay	A hodgepodge of useful features, spells, and items.
Town Graveyard Dungeons Cecell	Locations	Converts the graveyard block in various cities to their "visitable" equivalents and adds a small generic dungeon to said blocks.
Unlevelled Spells kaboissonneault	Gameplay	Spells don't scale with character level, for stronger early spells and reasonable late game spells.
Unofficial Block Location and Model Fixes XJDHDR	Models and Textures	Fixes the numerous bugs that exist in Daggerfall's blocks, locations, and models.
Vampiric Options lonegamedev	Gameplay	Makes playing a vampire character arguably enjoyable, by providing vampire character portraits and options to improve Bloodlust.
Vanilla Friendly Crossbows Sam the Salmon	Models and Textures	Custom crossbow textures made to be closer to the style of the vanilla game's weapons.
Vanilla Quests Reranked JayH2971	Quests	Re-orders the vanilla quests so they're given in a much more reasonable order.
Varied Wealthy Homes Cliffworms	Locations	Changes the layouts of 723 Manor and Palace wealthy home locations with those previously unused for more layout variety.
Villager Reactions Kamer	Gameplay	Villagers and guards react to enemies, werewolves, and criminals.
Windmills of Daggerfall Kamer	Visuals and Graphics	Adds windmills back to the game with animated blades.
World Tooltips jefetienne	User Interface	First-person tooltips that display information about NPCs, buildings, doors, items, and other interactable objects.

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