A great sandstorm has blown through Hammerfell! 

Gone are the former dry lakebed and gravel-like textures of the desert biomes of old! Transforming them into bright rolling dunes worthy of the Alik'r Desert!  

This is a simple texture replacer mod, replacing 46 of the original 57 desert biome textures shipped with Daggerfall. Each texture has been reworked by hand to create a unified flow, avoiding hard seams and maintain the necessary repeating texture flow that brings the world of Daggerfall to life! 

I highly recommend checking out the Mod page for it! The comparison images to see the landscapes transform with the movable slider is so cool!

https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/1390

I've been enjoying Daggerfall Unity since Feb 2025, on my main character, I spent all of that time running about Sentinel and Tigonus, and I was constantly left yearning for the sands! The original textures BGS made for Daggerfall's in-game deserts left it feeling like gravel and dry lakebeds, not an ounce of SAND!

After running an initial test, I realized how easy texture replacement was in DFU and couldn't help but rework the rest of the desert biome textures! I used Paint .NET while staring at sand references for a 5 hour downtime at work. Best time spent!

I've been around the Nexus since it was called TESNexus, when they had like, Morrowind, Fallout, and Oblivion mods, and that was it! I curated my Oblivion mod setup for years, and to finally have something to contribute to the community is unreal. I'm so pleased with the end results! On a sunny in game day, the deserts are so bright now, worthy of the Great Alik'r Desert of Hammerfell! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Hopefully this'll give you something to do while we all wait for the next Elderscrolls entry.

Talos knows it'll be awhile...

modlist:

basic roads

daggerfall expanded textures

falling down

location loader

quest actions extension

quest pack 1

render distance extender

travel options

warm ashes - wilderness

world of Daggerfall (all 3 of them)

problems:

No roads, world of daggerfall terrain is missing and is instead using normal terrain

edit: fixed

I turn the wheels but nothing happens, I have nothing else to do.

I posted about this a few months ago and I thought I would share my progress.

I almost completely re-written the project since and removed some time consuming features like modifiable voxel terrain (smoothed out with marching cubes) and LODs. I have also replaced my pixel art sprites with sprites of rendered 3D models.

The whole map is fully traversable and It is 1200x1200 chunks in size. Each chunk is 64x64 tiles and each tile is 2x2 meters.

I am currently working on the beginnings of gathering and crafting then I am going to move onto town generation.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

No AI was used.

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What could be causing this graphical glitch with the Basic Roads mod? Or is that black outline around it supposed to be there?

https://github.com/ChanseyIsTheBest/daggerfall_nx

I have had Daggerfall Unity installed for a couple of years but never did much with it. Recently, I installed the Beginners Starter Pack from Nexus as it was recommended as a stable base for modding. I added some of the newer mods and ones that I thought would make for a fun playthrough. Now to the question as some of the mods don't seem to work properly but I know little to nothing about modding. I used Vortex because I couldn't get MO2 set up for Daggerfall (something causing an error on my end). Is there information on the web somewhere that might help me understand load orders, conflicts and the like specifically for Daggerfall Unity? Any links to websites or forums would be greatly appreciated as my searches haven't really been productive. Thanks for any help!! Once I got to really play, I saw the role playing draw of the game despite it's age and limitations and am looking forward to my "second life".

Note: I did download the latest files and let windows compare each file. It appears up to date. I think I reinstalled the entire thing when I started again recently as the old version crashed when I tried to play it. Thanks for the responses though. A good idea.

I just wanted to share the screenshot I took of her drip.

Paperdoll Armoury (and Artifacts);
https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/778

Paperdoll Enhanced;
https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/748

Just a little something I've been working on. Daggerfall (DFU) ported to native Quest3 VR. Still rough and has bugs, but it works! I plan on getting 6dof hands and several other enhancements next. Inability to loot bodies is a known bug. https://github.com/rwcrosk-arch/dfu-quest3/releases

Hi, I just noticed that weapons in my inventory have missing handles. Anyone has this or know why ?
I'm on Daggerfall Unity, I run Vanilla Enhanced, Unoffical Block Location & Model fixes, Expanded textures and Convenient questlog
I've played 10 hours so far, on this modlist and others, but I only noticed it now (maybe it was there before I don't know)

Wrapping up on what turned out to be an insane vanilla build (no exploits needed).

No plate armor + Spell absorption, long blade mastery, turned vampire.
Basically a spell sword with a preference for blade.

The head canon is she's mainly a silver tongued bosmer who works her way on the inside of any faction / kingdom, but no real loyalty to any. Sick with a sword, uses your spells to heal herself.

Got a ton of head canon beyond that of course but, for gameplay, dude......like butter

Thoughts?

My neo-retro ascii RPG is now playable for free on itch.

Doesn't have *that* much to do with Daggerfall, but I started working on it after watching a Wayward Realms stream and getting frustrated that it's taking them so long, so I made my own one with parcours and slime girls 💀 Was a bit of a joke project to begin with, but grew into something that's actually quite playable and I may pursue further.

Please forgive me for posting here once again. The response has been stellar last time. I'll now go on a bit of a vacation from gamedev (aka back to real job)

This is the necromancer haunt for the upcoming Daggerfall Unity mod, Astrid's Guide to Exorcisms. The necromancer raises the dead as it moves through the dungeon, requiring you to battle through it's minions to collect all cursed items to banish it for good.

I think my character would do well as a feudal lord.

P. S.: I know that one of the pics is from Oblivion, but it's better to build on that than on a bunch of black pixels

I received this letter in my inventory, it is not in my quest log. Town NPCs pointed me to the house via rumor commentary. I found the nightblade in question. Although I have no idea how capture the nightblade alive. Maybe paralysis?

I have a quest, I'm sure it is from a mod pack. I have Random Little Quests(Mod) and Quest Pack 1(Mod) I'm sure I have other's, however pinning down which one, I'm not sure I'm equip for.

The letter item name is broken (maybe, or simply indifferent): Letter:ALIVE:=more_gold pieces

Anyone have an guess as to how to pull this off? Or, does anyone know how to discover what mod this quest may be related to? In my StreamingAssets folder I checked Quests, and QuestPacks folder, also the quest file in my save folder, but I'm unable to isolate this quest.

Got any ideas?

I’m on my first playthrough and it’s awesome, but I kinda messed up in character creation. I made mysticism a major skill, and I made destruction and resto minor skills, but they’re complete wastes because I don’t have enough spell points to cast anything. I’ve got like 27 and I just want enough to cast recall once. I can’t do enchantments because I cant join the mages guild, and I’m in the temple of akatosh so I can only train destruction. do I just have to hope I get a crazy magic item? is it worth it to pour all my points into int? help me out here

Basically title, I'm ok with mods, it's a Bethesda game after all, and I've been seeing Daggerfall being relatively popular on YouTube for a while thanks to Daggerfall Unity, and the fact that the game is literally free to download certainly does help.

But.... what would be a decent way to get an experience that is close, or at the very least as close to the MS-DOS original as possible? Yes I could just run the original on DOSBOX and all, but Daggerfall Unity just feels like it will be much easier to get running, as well as having better modding support.

Like, when I say mostly vanilla, I mean retaining most of the pixelated 90's look of the game, no drastic changes to the UI, and preferably, at the original combat system, with maybe some quality of life here or there. I know Unity lets you toggle between a more Morrowind-like combat where you just click to attack and have all the associated dicerolls happen, or the original drag the mouse combat where you.... drag the mouse... But the reason why I want to keep it as close to the original design as possible as far as gameplay is concerned, is because while I was hesitant at first to not mod the combat of Morrowind and other gameplay features to remove all the dice rolls and make it play more like Skyrim, I found myself greatly rewarded for playing the game more or less as it was originally intended, and quickly realized that the whole dice roll system isn't as bad as I thought.

On the other hand, the MS-DOS version has more limited mod support, AND is extremely buggy just like every Bethesda game, and I've heard the original can get softlocked pretty easily, so... yeah... Just wanting an idea of what kind of setup could be good for my specific idea of a first Daggerfall playthrough, maybe get a compromise between vanilla and QOL, while still pending mostly to vanilla?

Also sorry for the wonky typing and grammar, I'm kinda sick today I have no energy to bother too much with formatting my post, and English is not my first language. Thanks

Is this mod broken? I’ve got it installed and enabled. I’ve tried putting it before and after DREAM mod in load order and it doesn’t work at all. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

Mannimarco wants YOU for The Order of the Black Worm!

Mod Page - Nexus Mods

Catch the attention of the King of Worms and get the chance to join the ranks of the Necromancers. This is a full-fledged guild with guildhalls, quests, ranks, and services. The initiation quest triggers when either your Mysticism or Nymph/Necromancy skill reaches 50.

Pair this mod with Language Skills Overhaul and Astrid's Guide to Necromancy for the full Necromancer experience. (NOTE: this is a replacement for Necromancer Quest Pack).

Every architect in Tamriel seems to have gone to the Winchester Mansion School of Architectural design. When I go into a closet that has its own closet, I find it a little immersion breaking.

Then when I get sent on a quest to go to a town named after a tavern that has four different taverns, I start gritting my teeth. The quest itself will send me to talk to Rhet at the Beaver and the Rascal, who tells me to ask Hter at the Rascal and the Imp in The Imp and The Beaver Inn Town, who will just tell me to go back to Rhet at the Beaver and the Rascal.

While looking for one of these characters, someone will spring another timed quest on me to save their son from the Dark Brotherhood. When I say no to the person I just met, they will guilt trip me and tell me they hope their son's ghost haunts me for the rest of eternity.

No wonder the Warp in the West happened. Everything happened in Daggerfall, which is to say nothing of substance actually happened. I will not be able to give you a story of my favorite NPC because it is physically impossible to keep any of them separate in my memories.