Morrowind

OpenMW Cheatsheet

File Management

The Morrowind directory should be kept as clean as possible

With Mod Organizer's virtual file system there is no need to install mods here directly.

Mods can be stored anywhere

Mod Organizer and OpenMW can both be configured to load mods from any directory.

For OpenMW, each mod folder needs to be added to openmw.cfg, e.g.

data="C:/mw-mods/mod1"
data="C:/mw-mods/mod2"
data="C:/mw-mods/mod3"

Mod Organizer profiles can be easily copied around

Mod profiles can be backed up or copied between machines, as described here.

Install & Load Order

Install Order

The install order of mods is determined by their priority in Mod Organizer 2.

Load Order

Plugin files can be manually re-ordered in Mod Organizer ("Plugins" tab), or they can be sorted automatically by running mlox through Mod Organizer.

This load order is preserved when exporting to OpenMW. This is again stored in openmw.cfg:

content=Morrowind.esm
content=Tribunal.esm
content=Bloodmoon.esm
content=mod1.esp
content=mod2.esp
content=mod3.esp

Published 2022/04/18