Morrowind's 20th anniversary is finally here! To celebrate, Danae, a prominent modder and streamer in the wider Morrowind modding community, has been working over the last few months to create a wonderful book of stories, screenshots and artwork from the community to share with us the experiences that make this game so special.

There are no ads, cookies, or paywalls -- just the book and links to related podcasts and interviews. So sit back, relax and enjoy the memories these last two decades of Morrowind have made. May there be many more to come!

Click here to access the Morrowind 20-year anniversary book.

Tamriel Rebuilt believes that the potential of Morrowind can be realized when we start with imagination, not limitations. No boundaries, no lead developers, just modders making cool plugins, together. In Tamriel Rebuilt, fans and players are owners and creators, and in the game of Morrowind, everyone can create and play together on one team.

Twenty years ago, Tamriel Rebuilt set out to change the world. We toiled, we were ridiculed, we collaborated, we innovated, and above all we prevailed. And through it all, we never lost sight of our vision: to keep our project simple, sleek, and modern. You've enjoyed our simplicity registering the Tamriel_Data BSAs and navigating the broad array of plugins that ship with our every release. You've enjoyed our sleekness by walking between our finished and unfinished areas without even noticing except for all the doors not leading anywhere all of a sudden. Now we want to show you our modernity with the next step in our evolution: we’re moving to web3, baby.

We were interested in the possibilities of web3 since we first heard of it, but were worried that, after working on the project for twenty years, we were too old and out of touch to understand what web3 could really do. But we wanted to provide you, the players, with a truly modern experience, so we pooled together our spare cash (originally a fund for hiring the original Morrowind voice actors, but we decided using it on this was better) to pay some crypto bros to explain it all to us in the most wanky-private-school language. It felt like we were on the receiving end of the opposite of one of those Nigerian prince scams, because they were using smart words and made us feel smart. So we knew we could trust them. They sold us on the possibilities of web3 immediately, and we hope we can sell you on its possibilities, too.

Over the next few years, you will see some exciting changes here at Tamriel Rebuilt. The first of these is NFTels: a collection of 10,000 unique digital collectibles living on the Dreamsleeve blockchain. Each NFTel is completely unique, and algorithmically generated from over half a dozen possible traits, including trunk thickness, fungal phyla, and magicka reserves. They’re all amazing, period. The NFTels are stored as Memospores in the Dreamsleeve. Purchasing an NFTel costs a mere 100 TR Points, but supply is limited! Once the initial batch of NFTels sells out, the only way to obtain one will be by buying them from their current owners.

Just look at these cute little Tels. Who wouldn't want to burn down a rainforest to own one?

Tamriel Rebuilt is a large, two-decades-in-the-making mod for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind that aims to add the mainland of the Morrowind province to the original game (which only took place on the island of Vvardenfell). Unlike many other large Elder Scrolls modding projects, Tamriel Rebuilt is already released – the mainland is divided into separate fully realized expansions that come complete with quests. Currently, players can enjoy expansions covering roughly half of the mainland, offering more than 360 quests and many dozens of hours of gameplay.

Last December, we revealed our development roadmap for the next few years, focusing on completing Morrowind’s southwestern Narsis district in four successive expansions. This February, we’d like to announce a modification to these future plans. Namely, Tamriel Rebuilt has decided to combine the previously separate Thirr Valley and Shipal-Shin expansions into one larger expansion tentatively called Tamriel Rebuilt: Narsis.

The Redoran twin towers of Ald Iuval and Ald Marak still stand watch over lake Coronati. Shipal-Shin and the city of Narsis can be seen on the background.

This change was done for a couple reasons. Namely, from a playability standpoint, the Thirr Valley expansion would have suffered from the lack of a center of gravity for quest givers, where the player could base themselves for voyages into the surrounding area. None of the settlements in the old expansion were large enough to play such a role without undermining their characterization. It also meant that, in order to provide enough content for the player in this expansion, quest makers would have felt the need to fit long questlines to relatively minor settlements, which would have hurt the overall balance of content in the mod.

Borders of the planned Narsis expansion overlaid on an overhead map of current exterior worldspace development progress. Serrated lines mark the edge of the Deshaan Plains; this area will be included depending on the availability of Deshaan textures and 3D models.

Welcome to a development retrospective for Tamriel Rebuilt – a massive mod for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind that adds the mainland of the Morrowind province outside the island of Vvardenfell, aiming to seamlessly fit in with the original game. The best part is that you can play the mod already! Currently, about half of the mainland area, together with roughly 360 quests, is fully completed and released to players.

Happy New Year! Though we were not able to release a content expansion this year, this was not due to a lack of progress on our part. This January, let’s revive an old Tamriel Rebuilt tradition and look back at some of the major developments and decisions, as well as a couple statistics, of 2021.

A view up the Pryai river towards the Velothi Mountains. Landscape work by Phenoix12 and Nemon.

• Out of 34 people who made a showcase to become a new Tamriel Rebuilt developer in 2021, 24 subsequently made a contribution to the mod itself or remain currently active. Our newbies have done a great job this year!
• In total, more than a hundred people made some sort of direct contribution to our mod in 2021. A massive thanks to all of you!
• The Hlaalu city of Andothren, the centerpiece of the Dominions of Dust expansion and its main bottleneck (except for quests, of course), was finalized in 2021. TR’s work on Andothren dated back to 2006 and though the core city layout was solid from the beginning, several rounds of half-finished redos had resulted in a true Gordian Knot. It took much painstaking effort – and more than one burned-out developer – to untangle it. Still, by Spring 2021, the city had received a full repolish of its exterior including many unique 3D architecture models. Even further, nearly all of its interiors were entirely remade and filled with a colorful array of NPCs. Andothren has become a jewel – all that is missing are the currently in-progress quests.

Andothren. The city has had far too many contributors to list.

This is a progress update for Tamriel Rebuilt, a major two-decades-old mod project for TES III: Morrowind, which aims to finish the development of the Morrowind province by adding the mainland to Bethesda’s island of Vvardenfell. Currently, roughly half of the mainland is complete and released to players, offering hundreds of quests and dozens of hours of gameplay.

For this month’s news post, we will keep things relatively simple and update you on what we have been working on since September. Although the school season has kicked in and slowed our progress compared to summer, Tamriel Rebuilt has not been sitting idle. We will take this tour in reverse order of our development pipeline, from quests to interiors, exteriors, assets and, finally, concept art.

This chap just can't catch a break.

It is tough to show off progress with quests and dialogue; most of the claims are large and intricate and necessarily require dozens of hours of work from individual developers. Still, in the past two months, numerous dialogue claims and miscellaneous quests have been finished or even reviewed (which is where an experienced quest developer will help fix lingering style or technical issues), all for our upcoming Dominions of Dust release:

• Lost in Transit -- a sad story about a lost son and an irresponsible adventurer in Bodrum.
• Continue the adventures of an old friend from Vvardenfell. This quest takes place in Teyn.
• The Statue -- decide the fate of a St. Felms statue in Omaynis.
• Certificate of Credibility -- get yourself welcome in Andothren.
• The Proud Redoran -- solve the problem of an impoverished old warrior in Bodrum.
• Brother Against Brother -- head to Almas Thirr to help (or destroy) a family.
• The Rivaling Alchemists -- a new take on a vanilla quest theme in Andothren.
• General dialogue has been added to the Dominions of Dust lands, while the town of Omaynis has received NPCs and targeted dialogue.
• Though none of these are yet complete, much progress has also been made on longer questlines for the Baluath Vampires, and the Temple, Fighters Guild and Thieves Guild in Andothren. Work has also been done on the Imperial Legion in Firewatch and a very special adventure in Necrom.

Everyone, no matter their skills, can help speed this work along by playtesting the completed or in-progress quests. If you are interested, come chat with us on our Discord.