Index
Introduction
Essential Mods
Near-Essential
Almosts
Updates
Credits
Introduction
►If you are looking for the original version of my modlist, it can be found here.
►Welcome to Version 2 of my modlist! The quality of the mods in my list are
drastically improved, because I got rid of the lesser mods, I’ve tracked down
more of the highest quality ones out there, there are more awesome mods out
there for me to choose from, and the quality of many of the mods that were on
my list have improved.
►I now have mods for Shivering Isles and the official DLCs.
►If you wish to comment on my list, please do so on the
official forums here.
►If you are seeking any information about Oblivion mods whatsoever, I suggest
starting with the Oblivion Mods FAQ by dev_akm. Anything information that it
lacks it provides links to, so make sure you at least skim it!
►For other lists, check out the list of
lists.
►If you want Oblivion to run better on your computer with or
without mods, check out The Oblivion Performance Project (TOPP).
►I’d also like to mention that mod “conflicts” are often mod “overlaps:” what
is listed as conflicts is often not a problem at all, it is just two mods doing
the same thing or different things to the same object. Thus, manipulating load
order can avoid most compatibility problems, and Wrye Bash can handle most of
the rest. Check out this Load
Order Guide.
►I highly recommend adding mods to your game a little at a time so that if any
issues arise, you will know where they are coming from.
►Check the Updates section near the bottom of the page if
you want to find updates without reading through the whole list each time.
►Please feel free to ignore the Install Early and Start With tags – they are reminders for install
order based on my preferences.
►The criteria for this list are simple. These are all the mods that I consider, in my humble opinion, to be worth downloading and installing. If they are barely worth the effort, they are here. If they are barely not worth it, they aren’t. All of these mods should be compatible with each other, although I should note that I have not had the opportunity to test this version of my modlist as extensively as I have in the past because my old low-end laptop is on the fritz, nor have I had the opportunity to test using all of these mods at the same time, and I may have overlooked something. If I have overlooked any significant compatibility issues, please point them out to me. Also, if any links do not work or if I made any mistakes, please let me know. It should also be noted that this list is particularly useful for making the most out of FCOM.
Essential
(These are mods that improve the game an incredible amount, so much so that it would drive me absolutely crazy to play without them)
• Root
►Unofficial Oblivion Patch: Fixes thousands of glitches that the official patches don’t.
►Unofficial Official Mods Patch: Fixes glitches in the official mods that the official patches don’t.
►Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch: Fixes glitches in Shivering Isles that the official patches don’t.
• Library
• Cosmetic
►DarkUId DarN: Makes the User Interface far more efficient and aesthetically appealing. Also makes it dark so you aren’t blinded by menus, especially with HDR on.
►Dark Wood UI: Dark wood and gold themed texture replacer for DarkUI DarN.
►Open Better Cities: Puts cities in the Tamriel worldspace without loading doors, and beautifies the cities.
►Qarl’s Texture Pack 3 Redimized: Reduced and optimized version of the best hi-res texture pack.
• Clothing
• Weapon
• Tweak
►All Natural: Combines Natural Interiors, Natural Environments, Enhanced Weather, and Real Lights for tons of lighting and weather improvements.
►CreeperJones:
Adds a creature with 25,000 gold who buys anything for the maximum your
attributes allow.
►nGCD: Better leveling system that makes leveling
and advancement occur automatically in the background so you don’t have to
worry about multipliers and level up screens.
Extremely compatible and optionally configurable.
►Quest Award Leveler and Quest Award Leveler Patcher: Makes quest awards upgrade as you level, so you aren’t punished for completing a quest at a low level by getting a permanently weaker version of the award. Don’t confuse with Quest Award Leveling.
►Quest Award Leveller for SI: Same as above but for SI.
►Reneer's Guard Overhaul: Improves guard behavior to be more realistic, most notably making them no longer instantly appear when you commit a crime. NPCs can be arrested. Each city has its own crime gold. Tons more features.
►Running Revised: Improves the running system, including making running actually reduce fatigue and allowing for balanced sprinting. Be careful not to specify that you have Frans running installed if you don’t have that .esp activated, or it causes crashes.
►SM Plugin Refurbish: Makes official mod quests work more like normal quests instead of popping up when you install them or create a new character.
• Overhaul
►Deadly
Reflex: Adds new combat moves that both the player and NPCs use,
including shield bashing, punching (with the hilt of the weapon), dodging,
flipping, mounted combat, elemental effects, even balanced decapitation, skull
crushing, lung piercing, and slicing in half, and more.
►FCOM
(Francesco's + WarCry + OOO + MMM): Allows the best and largest
four overhaul mods to work with each other any many other otherwise
incompatible mods. It combines the best
aspects of each, creating a balanced, integrated, and vastly improves
gameworld.
►Francesco’s Leveled Creatures/Items: Rebalances
the game to be more static and adds items and creatures.
►Martigen’s Monster Mod: Adds new creatures and
NPCs, advanced AI, wounding effects, and more.
►Oblivion Warcry and Warcry Patch: Rebalances the game to make it
more static and adds items and creatures.
►Oscuro’s
Oblivion Overhaul: Drastically rebalances pretty much everything in the game
to create a complete, consistent, balanced, static, and totally awesome
gameworld. Adds so much stuff and
changes things so much for the better that I’ll just leave it at that instead
of attempting to summarize it all.
►Race
Balancing Project: Rebalances races and birthsigns to make each
race and birthsign extremely different from each other. Adds new races, makes NPCs better looking, and
makes various changes including rebalancing magic through changes to magicka
and armor penalties.
• Misc
►Purse of
Wonders: Adds a purse to your inventory, which when activated
allows you to open one of three separate containers (junk box, purse, and
alchemy stuff), gives an option to move all your alchemy items automatically,
and retrieve alchemy ingredients by effect.
►Streamline: Increases performance by clearing
memory buffers intelligently and safely. Also allows you to specify your
desired FPS and graphics, and it constantly makes adjustments to graphical
settings to accommodate them. Also includes many more incredible features you
should check out.
• Magic
►Less
Annoying Magicka Experience (L.A.M.E.): Rebalances spells, adds
tons of awesome new spells, and makes some other changes.
►Midas
Magic Spells of Aurum and Midas
Magic for OOO: Adds a ridiculous amount of new spells that are
attained in new ways.
►Supreme
Magicka: Improves the magic system to be more balanced, diverse,
and fun. Adds new effects and spells.
• NPC
• Home
• Place
►Unique Landscapes: Modular, greatly improves upon the look of different exterior areas while maximizing compatability.
• Quest
• Utilities
►BOSS:
Orders your plugins so you don’t have to worry about load order anymore, and
makes installing FCOM much easier.
►Oblivion
Mod Manager: Makes installing and uninstalling mods easier. Let’s you clean mods, check conflicts,
registers new bsa files (makes new graphics work properly), and does other
things. I never install a mod without
it.
►Oblivion Script Extender:
Makes new things possible in modding, so it is necessary for some of the
greatest mods out there. No performance
loss from using it.
►Wrye
Bash: Essential for making mods compatible, making various
tweaks, and keeping your game running smoothly.
Use the bashed patch in place of no lights flicker and spell renamer
mods.
Near-essential
(These are mods that significantly improve the game and are definitely worth installing, but aren’t absolutely essential to an excellent gaming experience and improve the game in more minor ways)
• Root
►Oblivion Script Optimization: Optimizes in-game scripts to improve performance.
►Install Early Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch MOBS: Replaces the Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch and adds MOBS balance to the items.
►Wisdom Earle’s Oblivion
Crash Prevention System: This OBSE mod prevents many crashes and tries to
fix invalid data.
• Library
• Cosmetic
►Ambient Dungeons: Uses various visual effects for different interiors.
►Animated Window Lighting System: Lights up building windows at different times of day.
►Ayleid
Coin Addon: Makes platinum coins look better and solves CTD
issues with them.
►Beaming Sunglare: Makes the sun look unbelievably
better.
►Install Early Bomret’s SI Texture Pack: Replaces SI textures with hi-res ones.
►Book Jackets: Gives book covers much better textures.
►Elven
Map Redux: Makes the map colored with differently colored icons.
►Facial
Textures by Enayla: Greatly improves facial textures.
►Fiery Oblivion Video Map Loop Replacement: Replaces the looping map video with a much prettier one.
►Improved Facial Textures: Improves NPC facial
textures.
►Improved
Water: Makes water prettier in Oblivion and optionally in SI,
while making it clear enough that swimming isn’t a chore.
►Loading
Screens Themed AddOn for Dark UI: Adds
new loading screens with new captions that fit them. Goes with the Dark UI theme.
►Loading Screens Themed Replacer for Dark UI: Replaces the old loading screens with new ones with new captions that fit them. Goes with the Dark UI theme.
►Loading
Screens Themed Replacer SI for Dark UI:
Replaces the old SI loading screens with new ones with new captions that
fit them. Goes with the Dark UI theme.
►Loading Screens Themed Replacer - OOO Compatibility: Makes Loading Screens Themed compatible with OOO.
►nONatees
colored Shivering Isles map: Makes the Shivering Isles map colored.
►Oblivion
Soundscaper: Changes sounds depending on where you are, such as making
caves echo.
►Oblivion Sound Sets: Adds a voice to your character.
►Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul: Changes many sounds in game for more realism and immersion.
►OVEP:
Various mods that improve the graphics and eventually the performance.
►Personality Idles: Changes NPC and player reaction animations.
►Visually Realistic Lava: Gives lava a better texture.
►Screen Effects:
Allows various visual effects to be used by mods. Needed for Ambient Dungeons.
►Symphony of Violence: Combines the best combat sound mods to use the best sounds and add variation to them.
►Vality's Shivering Isles Map: Replaces the default Shivering Isles map with a pretty colored one.
• Clothing
►Start With JQ - Fighters Guild United and FCOM Patch: Makes Fighter’s Guild members have matching outfits.
►Start With Unofficial Francescos Mod Armor AddOn: Adds new armor to Franscescos.
►Start With Unofficial Lv30 Francescos Leveled Item: Adds new weapons to Francescos.
►You Are Here: Allows mods to tell where you are. Needed for Ambient Dungeons.
• Weapon
►Start With FineWeapons and RustyItems for OOO: Gives some weapons new textures and meshes.
►Start With Loth's Blunt Weapons for NPCs: Adds new blunt weapons to NPCs and vendors.
• Tweak
►Adrenaline-Fueled Combat: Adds combat moves, locational damage, and more.
►Install Early Arena Alive 24Hr: Rebalances arena awards in such a way that they are more appropriate for OOO/FCOM and makes various other improvements to the Arena.
►Install Early DLC_MOBS: Adds MOBS balance to the official
mods.
►Install Early Enhanced
Mercantile Progress: Makes your mercantile skill increase based
on the value of items bought and sold instead of on the number of transactions.
►Initial
Glow: Makes enchanted items only glow when you first equip them.
►Legendary Abilities:
Makes use of attributes and skills above 100 that aren’t included in Oblivion
–Elys- Uncapper.
►Less Messages: Removes annoying messages in the game.
►Maintained
Spells: Makes buff spells last for as long as you have mana to
maintain them or until you cancel them.
►Message
Remover Pack: Removes annoying messages.
►Musical
Immersion: Makes music not play constantly and makes combat
music play when you realize you are in combat instead of when the enemy enters
combat mode.
►No
Merchant Barter Chatter: Removes merchant comments when buying and
selling. Optionally included in Living Economy.
►Oblivion
-Elys- Uncapper: Increases caps for attributes and skills from 100 to 200
and makes use of many of these higher values for the PC and NPCs.
►Oblivion Polygon Overhaul: Reduces the polygons used in rocks to a reasonable amount for a performance boost without visual loss.
►Operation Optimization: Greatly improves performance by optimizing meshes, with no quality loss.
►Install Early Persuasion Overhaul: Role-playing persuasion
system to replace the minigame.
►Quiet
Feet Max: Fixes performance issues caused by footsteps.
►Install Early Realistic Physics and Force: Makes the physics more realistic and makes moving bodies easier and more realistic.
►Toggleable Quantity Prompt - Updated: Lets you move either one item or an entire stack of items with one click. Disables the confirmation screen.
►Willful Resistance: Makes willpower actually give you magic resistance like the game says it does.
• Overhaul
►Start With Bob’s Armory: Adds new weapons, shields, and
helms to leveled lists. Works with other overhaul mods if you use FCOM.
►Start With Enhanced
Daedric Invasion: Makes the war against Oblivion feel like a
real war by adding daedra, adding NPCs who fight them, makes daedra attack
cities, adds quests, and more.
►Start With FCOM Optional Plugins: Tweak various things, not all of which require FCOM. Especially useful are the plugins that apply MOBS balance to quest mods.
►Install Early StarX Vanilla Vampires Revised: Improves vampire appearances and difficulty, overhauls vampire dungeon difficulty, adds factions, and more.
►Install Early Stealth Overhaul: Makes stealth more realistic
and balanced.
►Start With TIE Integration
Revised: Makes much of TIE compatible with FCOM, making the game more
difficult and realistic.
• Misc
►Coloured
Enemy Health Bars: Colors enemy health bars based on the
proportion of their health remaining.
►Deadly Reflex –
Breathing Motion Head Bobbing and Bow Sway: I only recommend the
bow sway part, which makes your crosshair sway depending on your marksman and
agility.
►Duke Patricks Bob and Weave Dodge OBSE Edition: Lets you dodge enemy attacks by bobbing and weaving.
►Duke Patricks NPCs Now Bob Under Your Shots Siliver Edition: Makes NPCs bob under your attacks.
►Fame Indicator:
Lets you know when your fame, infamy, or bounty changes.
►Guild
Map Markers Fixed: Adds map markers for the guilds that let you
fast travel to them.
►Hotkey
Casting updated: Lets you cast spells using hotkeys.
►Install Early Immersive
Health Indication: Blurs your vision more the less health you
have.
►Kythrius' Mod: Huge
mod that adds new attacks and more.
►Landmarks
With Wells: Marks wayshrines, doomstones, etc. on your world
map.
►Install Early Mages
Equipment and Patch: Adds tons of mage equipment to make using
robes and staves viable options for mages.
►Motion Blur: Adds a motion blur effect.
►Install Early Proximity
Based Sneak Penalties: Makes it easier for enemies to detect you
when you are closer to them.
►Start With RuneSkulls:
Adds skulls that can be added to items to enchant them. Use with the FCOM plugin that rebalances it.
►Sudden
Violence - Combat Moves: Adds new combat moves like sprinting,
charging, and pushing, and adds new effects to spells.
►Install Early Zumb’s
Lockpicking: Replaces the lockpicking minigame with Morrowind’s
chance lockpicking system.
• Magic
►Weapon Magic: Allows you to cast spells to temporarily
enchant your weapon.
• NPC
• Home
• Place
• Quest
►Install Early Frostcrag Reborn: Overhauls the official mod
(and replaces it, so back it up!!!), adds new quests, and new items.
►Install Early Mannimarco
Resurrection: Let’s you choose to join Mannimarco or the
Imperial Battlemages and do quests that flesh out the story involving the
necromancers.
►Install Early Mannimarco
Revisited: Enhances Mannimarco and his lair.
Almosts
(These are mods that I do not feel comfortable recommending because I decided not to use them for whatever reason (incompatibilities, bugs, unexpected complications, redundancies, etc.), but that I want to keep track of due to showing potential of some sort. I cannot vouch for their compatibility with the rest of my list)
► Install Early The Elder Council and The Elder Council Temple of the One: Revamps the palace, lets you join the Imperial Legion, adds new quests, and expands lore.
►Progress: Customizable leveling speed modifier.
►Bomrets Detailed Normal Maps for Vanilla: Improves upon
the vanilla textures, making them look better without hurting performance
whatsoever.
►Blip-Blops
Shadow Mod: Gives city buildings shadows.
►Harvest Flora for Shivering Isles
►Shivering Isles Quest Popup Remover
►Luchaires HGEC Body Seam Reducer
►OBSE -Elys- Universal Silent Voice
►Q-Core -
Multi-featured Interface, and Hotkey Mod
►The Daggerfall Music Project - Home
►Progress:
Intelligent Skill Progression
►ICEXPAND - Imperial City Expanded
►BloodandMud DirtDeluxeAnglais- included in Better Cities
►Kyoma's
Check Ability and Diseases
►Let the People Drink: Adds fountains, an aqueduct, and a quest.
►Install Early Fighter’s Guild Contracts: Adds repeatable quests to the fighter’s guild.
►Install
►Install Early Kvatch Aftermath overwritten by Kvatch Aftermath Clean and Fixed: Adds quests to rebuild Kvatch, take control of the city, and defend it. Also adds new NPCs, new locations, and more.
►Install Early Origin of the Mages Guild: Adds quests to restore the mages guild to its former glory, other quests, NPCs, and lots of lore-compliant goodies.
►Install Early The Necromancer: Expands upon necromancer lore by adding new
necromancers, quests, items, and towers.
►Attack
and Hide v2.0 bundle pack: Makes hiding after NPCs have been
alerted to your presence more realistic.
►Atmospheric
Dark UI Loading Screens: Gives the loading screens beautiful scenic
pictures with a Dark UI texture, with optional random quotes. OBMM had trouble
installing this for me; on the off chance that you also have this problem, try
doing it manually after activating the OMOD, so it is installed properly but
can still be uninstalled with ease.
►T.I.E. (TNR
IMMERSION EXPERIENCE)
►Actors in Charge: Lets you assign animations to the PC or NPCs for them to perform immediately. Great for taking screenshots.
►At Home Alchemy: Lets you use alchemy equipment while it is
sitting down so you can leave it at home and use it without having to pick all
back up again.
►Char-gen With Numbers: Adds numbers to the CharGen screen; makes remaking characters easy.
►Chase Camera Mod: Makes the third-person camera less
annoying.
►Denock
Arrow: Allows you to denock arrows after drawing your bow by pressing a
hotkey.
►Enchantments
Restore Over Time: Enchantments slowly restore based on your Mysticism
skill.
►Encyclopaedia Cyrodilica: Adds reference books with info on
Alchemy, spellmaking, trainers, codes, etc..
►Expanded Hotkeys and Spell Delete: Allows you to delete
spells and adds 20 new hotkeys.
►Hear-Me-Not:
Quiets sounds that you make when you are sneaking for more immersion.
►House
Map Markers: Adds map markers for each house so you can fast travel to
them.
►Khajiit
Nighteye Toggle: Makes Khajiit's "Eye of Night" toggleable
instead of a duration spell.
►Less
NPC Conversations: Makes NPCs initiate conversations less often.
►Map
Markers: Lets you mark locations on your map with 5 tags to choose from.
►Menu
escape: Does more than the name suggests- this mod lets you press either
the right mouse button or the space bar to simulate the button presses
necessary to quit menus and dialogue, as well as accomplishing other common
tasks with one button, like saving in a new slot and quitting when on the save
game screen.
►No
More Annoying Comments About Your Skills: Removes NPC comments about your
skills.
►Reusable
Oblivion Gate: Adds a reusable Oblivion gate to an Ayleid ruin in case you
closed them all already and want to revisit Oblivion.
►Stat
Restore: Gives the option to restore attributes, skills, health, magicka,
fatigue, and encumbrance. Mods can sometimes get them stuck partway restored,
so you may find yourself needing this.
►Vampirismless
Vampires: Removes the ugly aging effect from ALL vampires, but makes you
have to equip an amulet to feed. An adequate temporary fix until a better one
is developed.
►Quick
Wardrobe: Use hotkeys to equip sets of equipment instantly.
►AF
Leveling Mod: New intuitive and far more fun leveling system that takes
place largely in the background so you don’t have to worry about the game
mechanics.
►Chameleon
Rebalance: Makes chameleon no longer overpowered by reducing the power of
chameleon spells, replacing chameleon enchantments with sneak enchantments, and
no longer allowing items to be enchanted with chameleon.
►Living
Economy: Gives Cyrodill a realistic economy. Very impressive mod, but it
sacrifices fun for realism in my opinion. I only use it to increase the barter
gold of all merchants. Comes packaged with OOO.
►Stealth
Entrances: Adds alternative ways in and out of cities for stealthy
characters so you don’t have to sprint from guards every time you enter a city
if you are wanted.
►Cyrodiil
Terrain Map: Extremely detailed and attractive map that accurately shows
the geography.
►Female
EyeCandy - Body Replacer (underwear): Improves female bodies. There is also
a nude version. Also grab Stock
oblivion Clothing Replacer for Exnem Female Body.
►Immersive
Caves: Makes cave entrances look like pretty cave entrances instead of
doors.
►Life
Detect: Makes Life Detection look better by giving NPCs and creatures a red
blurring light effect.
►New
NightEye and Light Look: Improves the look of Nighteye and Light.
►No
Glow Grass: Gets rid of the glow effect on grass that some people get.
►Natural Faces: Improves NPC facial textures. Use this OR
Improved Facial Textures.
►De-Parallaxer:
Removes the parallax effect from many objects, increasing performance but
making objects look flatter. Use if desperate for FPS.
►Thievery in the Imperial City: Adds a fence to the Imperial
city, adds 11 thief quests, and adds 2 miscellaneous quests. Fully voiced.
►All Original Music Score for Oblivion: Includes 30 new
songs for Oblivion, mostly classical and cinematic.
►Diverse
Voices: Modifies original voices to give each race a more unique voice.
►Nehrim Soundtrack: These songs are meant for a total
conversion being made called Nehrim, but can be downloaded and put in the
proper music folders to give Oblivion an incredible soundtrack.
►Oblivion
Symphonic Variations Music Suite: Adds four new orchestral songs meant to
blend in with the original.
►Robert Hood's
Silgrad Music: Music meant for the Silgrad tower project.
►The
Daggerfall Music Project: Not exactly a mod, but you can download these
beautiful arrangements of Daggerfall songs into your Oblivion music folders.
►Phinix's
Immersive Dark UI: Combines Immersive Interface, BTMod and Dark UI to make
an appealing, non-distracting, and convenient interface. If you use SI or OOO
then get Phinix's Immersive Dark UI OOO and SI Compatibility Fix.
►Fake HDR Lighting: Approximates the HDR lighting effect for
people who can’t use HDR or want to also use Anti-aliasing. Causes a FPS loss,
but is easily turned on and off in-game. My computer couldn't handle it, and I
got sick of deactivating it every time I loaded a game, so I deactivated it.
►Get
Level Spell: Gives you a spell that can be cast on NPCs to tell you their
level. Sounds great for not getting in over your head with FCOM, but I've never
actually bothered to use it.
►Keychain:
Adds a keychain to your inventory that stores all your keys to reduce clutter.
►MD
Saddle Bags: Adds functional saddle bags to horses, gives Lesser Powers
that allow you to call your horse, and speeds their turning speeds. I don’t use
simply because I don’t know if it is compatible with my other mods and the gain
isn’t quite worth investigating it.
►Menu
Video Scenery: Plays a video of beautiful scenery at the main menu when you
first start up the game. Great little mod, but slightly too minor to make it on
my list.
►Nords
with Beards: Adds various beards to all Nords. Does so by making new races,
and there is a better-looking mod that does something similar by making even
MORE races, so I am hesitant to attempt these with the amount of mods I have
because that is just asking for trouble.
►No
Wind: Stops trees and plants from swaying to improve performance. Doesn't
seem to work on many games, including my own.
►Oblivion
Face Exchange Lite: Allows you to change your character’s face without
starting a new game. I haven’t tried it yet as I haven’t needed it yet.
►On-Hit
Shader Replacement: Adds visual effects when you get hit. Sounds good in
theory, but I found it a little annoying.
►Qarl and
Timeslips Depth of Field: Blurs far away objects. Great for disguising bad
LOD textures. I couldn’t get it to work properly, and given that it causes a
FPS decrease I didn’t quite find it worth trying to fix.
►Spell
Icon Replacer: Vastly improves spell icons. Comes with Sudden Violence.
►Thieves Arsenal Mission Zero: Adds new thieving tools and
greatly improves AI relating to stealthy activity. This can be unbalancing with
mods such as FCOM, so as intriguing as it is I choose not to use it.
►TTHudRecticle:
Adds a third-person crosshair with activation icons. I don’t use third person,
but for those who do it seems useful.
►WHOOSH:
Lets you manipulate the game speed, thus allowing you to slow down the speed to
stop stuttering and make gameplay smoother. I had it installed for a long time
without using it, but then it got glitchy on me so I just deactivated it.
►wz_Inventory: Makes the inventory into a grid with
collapsible categories. I stopped using it because it doesn’t work properly
with Phinix’s Dark UI.
►Zeladin's
Hairfix: A hair fix for graphic cards that don't have Shader Model 3.0. It
made people bald on my computer.
►Move
Quest Items - OBSE
►Tears
of the Fiend
►Ruined
Tails Tale requires Easy
Companion Share
►Keychain
- requires Inventory Tracker
►The
Art of Speedy Depositing
►Quest
Stacks
►Clocks
of Cyrodiil
►Ambient
Town Sounds Edited
►Mighty
Magick: Reborn
►Guard Diversity Overhaul and its Missing Textures and required Town
Ceremonial Armor
►New
Oblivion Soundtrack
►Immersive
Music
►Save
Skill Books For Later OBSE
►Bow Sway
►EyeCandy Compilation and RC1 Patch
►KOTN
female Armor for Exnems mesh by madmole
►OOO
Armours for Exnem
►Some
Exnemised Armours for OOO
►Some
Exnemised Armours for OOO pack 2
►Martigens
Armors Exnemised
►Francesco
Armors Exnemised
►Galerion
Unarmored Acrobatics
►Enchanting
Skill
►Robert's Oblivion Male Body
►Vaults
of Cyrodill
►Oblivion
Pose Pack
►Auto_recharge
►Posing Mods Thread
►No
Lights Flicker: Removes the flicker from every light source in the game to
improve performance. There is a Real Lights compatability version, but it
caused me major problems so I don’t recommend it.
►Hashshashin
Armor
►Bag of Holding: Adds a bag that can hold infinite items
without increasing in weight. Purse of
Wonders is a better alternative, but I use both to reduce delay in opening
both.
►Best Archery Mods Thread
►Real Lights Darker Dungeons-Denizens Edition WIP Thread
(when complete)
►Cursed!
►Choices
and Consequences
►Plugin
Order Rulers
►Actors In Emotions
►Oblivion Pose Mods
►Enchant
Ripper
►Cobl
►The Epic Soundtrack
►Music
►1st
extra mp3 music pack Battle music
►3rd
extra mp3 music pack Explore music
►4th
extra mp3 music pack Public music
►Enhanced
Magic System
►Disenchant
Spell
►Real-time Morrowind-style Lockpicking
►Talk
with your hands
►Enhanced Daggerfall Music Part 1
►Enhanced Daggerfall Music Part 2
►What Releases have there been over the Holidays
►Daedra
Overran Tamriel
►Is
It Safe
►Auto_recharge
►Enchantment
Restore Over Time OBSE
►Hovs
Hotkeys
►Smarter
Mercantile Leveling: Reworks the horrid mercantile leveling system to
instead level mercantile based on the value of transactions.
►Sheepherder's Vampirism Fix - OBSE
►SM's Misc Mod Collection
►Quick Key Display
►Archery in Oblivion thread
►Atmospheric
Weather System: Adds more than five times the weather types of standard
Oblivion. Adds a seasonal weather system and improves night and water
appearances.
►Harvest
Flora
►Quiet Feet: Removes the sound of footsteps from animals to
reduce stuttering on some systems.
►LowLowPoly Grass - LowPoly Grass - LowLowPoly Grass for SI -
LowPoly Grass for SI - LowPoly Grass for UL: The Dark Forest: Reduces the
ridiculous amount of polygons in grass.
►Necromancy
Unleashed
►Armamentarium for Npcs
►Keychain
►Tweaked Generic Faces: Resets all the FaceGen sliders to 0, making the default for each race look more attractive so it is easier to make a better-looking character.
►No Psychic Guards: Makes guard behavior more realistic. If
you use the hard version, get the No
Psychic Guards Harder Fix.
►Loading Screens Themed Replacer
►Duke Patricks So you think you are a war god MARK II
►TNR (Tamriel NPCs Revamped): Improves the faces of all NPCs
and makes the races’ faces look more distinctive. Now includes every single
playable race.
►Realistic
Leveling
►A's Tweak Collection: Random tweaks, I only recommend the
one that makes unconscious NPCs remain unconscious for longer.
►Legendary
Mastery: Makes fortify attributes and fortify skills useful late game by
making them actually do something when above 100. Gives the option of allowing
base attributes and skills to go above 100.
►Luminars Better Enchantment Effects
►Original
Colour Darker Nights: This mod makes nights much darker than the pathetic
excuse for "darkness" that is vanilla nights.
►Koldorn’s LOD Noise Replacer: Improves the noise effect on
LOD textures. ???
►Robe
Mesh Replacer
►Robe
Mesh Replacer v2
►Robes
over Armor Plus
►Darker
Dungeons: This mod makes dungeons/sewers/ruins etc. be pitch black, as they
should be.
►Fast
Shortcuts for clean saves and screenshots
►Enhanced
Magic System
►Better
Cities of BananaSplit
►Real Lava: Improves the texture and flow of the lava.
►Start With Real Injury - Alternative Damage System: Makes health represent combat stamina, and adds injuries that damage skills and attributes.
►Duke Patricks Fresh Kills Now Alert The NPCs:
►Atmospheric Dark UI Re-texture
►RPG-BlackDragons ATI3.0Shader
►OBSE -Elys-
Universal Silent Voice
►TES4LODGen:
Creates more accurate distant graphics that properly show things added by mods.
►Magic
Effect Dim: Decreases all mesh style magic effects by 50%.
►No Refraction Gates: Removes refraction from Oblivion gates.
►No Refraction Spells:
Removes refraction from spells.
►Optimized Distant
Land MAX: Optimizes distant land by decreasing the polygon count
to a reasonable amount.
►RPG-BlackDragons LowPolyTrees: Improves performance by reducing the polygon count of trees.
►Oscar's Nicer Grass: Lowers grass length and density for better performance.
►ANB
Item Switchers: Lets you cycle through items with hotkeys.
►Drop
Lit Torches OBSE: Let’s you drop torches with a hotkey or when
you draw a weapon.
►Duke
Patricks Momentum Damage Bonus Platinum Edition: Lets you do extra
damage by running into or falling onto enemies when you attack.
►Multitude
of Magecraft: Adds new spells to the game.
►PJs
Spell Compendium: Also adds new spells to the game.
►Telekinetic Mastery: Adds tons of telekinetic spells, items with telekinetic effects, and scrolls to enchant items with telekinetic effects.
►The
Lost Telvanni Codex: Adds tons of new spells that didn’t carry
over from Morrowind.
Updates
April 12, 2009
►Wisdom Earle’s
Oblivion Crash Prevention System: This OBSE mod prevents many crashes and
tries to fix invalid data.
Credits
►Thanks to
►Thanks to the modders who made these wonderful mods and the metamodders who
made these great utilities.
►Thanks to Aelius whose modlist served as a model of what a good modlist can
be, and who helped me with editing and taking the time to make my links
functionable on the TES forums.
►Thanks to dev_akm for his work on the FAQ and his other lists.
►Thanks to everyone else who I linked to and who made other mod and utility
databases.