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[Robsoie]

The project is about porting Daggerfall completely into the Unity version and enabling into the game all of what such a modern engine allows.
It's not a modification of Daggerfall the game by itself (though you'll see by default a lot of visual enhancement due to Unity).

But the brillance of Daggerfall Unity is that they have opened the code to modding and some modders have done rather impressive stuff with it, from terrain addition/modification to new quests, new locations, new guilds and events (and of course for graphic people, it allows new graphic thingies ).

I don't know if festivals or flowing water is modded in by now, there are some mods that add a lot of lively NPC stuff, Warmer Ashes about that had been awesome (NPC fighting each other, armies duking it out...) but in recent version it became less awesome as some features of old are missing as the dev was refactoring it in order to include even more great features, hopefully soon(tm)

[Iduno]

Is there a list of (preferably non-Nexus) mods that are recommended? The Daggerfall mods forum badly needs an index.

[Robsoie]

edit : reformatted better the post

Finding a non-Nexus mod is going to be hard as nearly all of the mods for DFU are hosted on Nexus nowadays.

Anyways, here are the mods i have always enabled for all my DFU characters
(links are all to the DFU forum, in their corresponding post there is usually a nexus link to download the mod)

Airships
Archeologists
Basic Magic Regen
Basic Roads
Better Ambience
Convenient Clock
DFU Quest Pack 1
Forgotten Questpack
Improved Interior Lighting
Mercenaries
Mountain&Hills
NPC Health Indicator
Pilgrimages
Readied Spellcasting Hands
Roleplay&Realism (modular)
Skyshards
Sneak and Crouch combined
Tavern Games
Tavern Redone
Warm Ashes
Windmills of Daggerfall

(for Better Ambience, i take care to disable the better snow and rain as it impacts performance in large cities)

Waiting for their updates to be back at being must-have , as i'm unsure they're working right in latest DFU
Villager Immersion Overhaul
(edit : warm ashes is now updated)

Some very interesting mod, but can change the gameplay a lot, so i'm not using them on all my characters
Climate&Calories
Random Starting Dungeon
Travel Options

(Travel Options is amazing, especially in combination with Basic Roads, but if you need to travel far, it can take a very lot of time)
(Climate&Calories is fantastic if you want Daggerfall to be a survival game, as temperature, hydration and nutrition become extremely important and will kill you a lot more than any monsters will do)

There are alternatives to Mountain&Hills (my preference still goes to Mountain&Hills, it play very well with Basic Road) :
Distant Terrain
Interesting Terrain
Eroded and Enhanced Terrain

I really like playing with the Retro Rendering Mode , so the high res mods aren't for me, but if you want HD , these should be the mods you're lookin for :
D.R.E.A.M.
Enhanced Sky
Handpainted Models
Trees of Daggerfall
Real Grass
Splat Terrain Texturing

[Iduno]

I wanted health regen to help with early dungeons, but it's expensive.

I did some looking, and it's 15 hp/hour (which is something like 1 hp/minute real time?). That's not really worth the 14 points (10 for in-dungeon only) when I could buy that many hp with the points.

Anyway, this is a fairly useful page for character creation: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:ClassMaker

[Iduno]

I found a "door" that was black and covered in stars. In the middle was a blue symbol that looked like a tooth.

Assuming it wasn't just a cosmic dentist, what was that thing supposed to be?

Edit:
I also feel like I should make a record of which farm, shrine, and graveyard are closest to the city of Daggerfall for that stupid mage guild quest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Looks like Coppersmith graveyard to Old Evelyssa's Farm is close, and Shrine of Ephen.

[Mech#4]

Do you have a screenshot of it?

Edit: Searching, I guess it was this? If you're playing with mods that is. https://i.redd.it/064xse8spse41.png

I believe it's replacing the base games brick wall. They're used as teleporters sometimes. It seems like a mod has changed it's appearance to make it stand out. The symbol is one that stands for Oblivion.

If it's a teleporter, running into it or using it may take you somewhere else in the dungeon. It might not, however, as the brickwalls are also used to block off corridors that don't lead anywhere. Or sometimes they just don't do anything.

[Robsoie]

I don't know if the hd mod you're using have different textures for the different type of teleporters (the one that work, the one that do nothing and the one that is a trap), but be carefull with them, sometime it's a damage trap that can kill your character if he doesn't have enough health.

edit : oh the developer of Warm Ashes updated it !!
https://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?p=51621#p51621

fantastic.

(edit : if you had a warm ashes.dfmod in your ...\DaggerfallUnity_Data\StreamingAssets\Mods\  from a previous beta, delete it, the Warm Ashes mod is back at using the quests and questpacks folders system instead)

[Iduno]

Do you have a screenshot of it?

Edit: Searching, I guess it was this? If you're playing with mods that is. https://i.redd.it/064xse8spse41.png

I believe it's replacing the base games brick wall. They're used as teleporters sometimes. It seems like a mod has changed it's appearance to make it stand out. The symbol is one that stands for Oblivion.

If it's a teleporter, running into it or using it may take you somewhere else in the dungeon. It might not, however, as the brickwalls are also used to block off corridors that don't lead anywhere. Or sometimes they just don't do anything.

Yeah, that looks like the one.

[Iduno]

Now NPCs aren't spawning and walking around when I'm a werewolf. I understand that they wouldn't go outside when there's a werewolf around, but not even guards?

Edit: Changing back into a human fixed that, and then I was forced back into being a werewolf. At least I can get my monthly kill.

[Iduno]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So glad I'm using the small dungeons setting.

Edit: Although making it easier to tell "unexplored hallway" from "that dead-end you've visited 4 times already" would be nice. Put a question mark at the end of unexplored bits or something so I can tell where I haven't been.

[Robsoie]

Daggerfall random dungeons had always been a thing of nightmares , i still remember when i finally gave up getting lost in them just to find a ridiculous item a dungeon random quest was targetting, and started to use the teleport to "item quests locations" cheats .

So glad Daggerfall Unity has this "smaller dungeon" settings (as they are still big enough) i have been having much more fun searching for the quests items without teleporting anymore.

But takes note that it is only for the random dungeons, the story dungeons are manually crafted (and why their geometry is so different than all the random dungeons) and aren't affected by the settings (fortunately as some have interesting designs).

[wobbly]

I don't know if the hd mod you're using have different textures for the different type of teleporters (the one that work, the one that do nothing and the one that is a trap), but be carefull with them, sometime it's a damage trap that can kill your character if he doesn't have enough health.

edit : oh the developer of Warm Ashes updated it !!
https://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?p=51621#p51621

fantastic.

(edit : if you had a warm ashes.dfmod in your ...\DaggerfallUnity_Data\StreamingAssets\Mods\  from a previous beta, delete it, the Warm Ashes mod is back at using the quests and questpacks folders system instead)

Hmm, so this mod doesn't happen to randomly spawn sabre-tooth tigers in the general store or anything? because that was kind of brutal. Perhaps it not this mod doing it but something is behaving fishy. Also had a bunch of grizzlies try and maul me at the inn.

[Robsoie]

I haven't yet played with the latest version the author released recently ( 3.0.6 at the time )  but there shouldn't be tigers and grizzly spawning in the shops, unless there's a quest that is involving monster in abuilding.

[Iduno]

I had some difficulty getting the price down (they had me turn someone into a harpy, who attacked me and then I killed them. Failed the quest), but I got some witches to summon a daedra to assist with my lycanthropy for "only" ~185k gold.

Hmm, so this mod doesn't happen to randomly spawn sabre-tooth tigers in the general store or anything? because that was kind of brutal. Perhaps it not this mod doing it but something is behaving fishy. Also had a bunch of grizzlies try and maul me at the inn.

That sounds like something related to a quest.

[wobbly]

I suspect it was something to do with this:

-Added measures to keep Wilderness Encounters from happening on loading a save.

Certainly both times it happened straight after I loaded a save. Anyway a massive slow down vanished when I disabled the mod, so I'll just play without.