Morrowind Tips
Here are some quick tips for playing The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Free House in Balmora
If you are playing a warrior, it is very easy to get a free house in Balmora very early in the game. Join the Fighters Guild and start taking missions from Eydis Fire-Eye. After 5 relatively straightforward quests you will get one named Orc Dura gra-Bol Bounty. Dura gra-Bol lives in a big, multi lever house on the other side of the river. The easiest way to find it is to start at the Stilt Strider and head towards the river and take the first bridge. The house is the last one on your right.
Once you find it you simply need to kill the Orc and collect the bounty. There is no way to pass this quest without killing him so don’t worry about it. Just do your thing, and dispose of the body. The house is now vacant.
Sure the house is not technically yours, but you can squat in it as long as you please (ie. until you get your mansion constructed). You can legally sleep in the bed, and use the chests to store your loot.
The Creeper
The Creeper is a non hostile Scamp which has 5,000 gold, and will buy booze, weapons and armor for their full listed price. You can’t even haggle with him - he always gives you the exact price that is on the label - unless the item is damaged. He is also very easy to find, as opposed to the Talking Mudcrab Merchant.
Take the guild teleport to Caledra. Exit the guild house, and head straight till the small intersection. The house in front and to the right of you of you should have a small balcony. That’s the Ghorak Manor. Find the door, go inside. He is on the second floor.
Creepers cash regenerates every 24 hours. So if you have bunch of items to sell, just sleep for a day, and trade with him again.
The Talking Mudcrab Merchant
This little critter is another easter egg just like the Creeper. He looks like an ordinary Mudcrab, but he will talk to you, and he has 10,000 gold. He also buys items at their full price and doesn’t haggle.
Finding him however is notoriously difficult. The best guide I found is probably here. The way I find him is this:
- Start in Suran
- Head South/South East until you reach Mzahnch - some Dwemer ruins located on an island (see the linked map)
- Mudcrab is on the smaller island East of Mzahnch. You can see it’s location here.
Dirty Teleportation
If you have been wandering around for ages to find some stinking cave, or tomb that is not on the map, you will appreciate this. Note that this trick uses the developer console which makes it a “cheat” of sorts. Purists, stay away.
I will use Shallit as an example here because I remember spending countless hours looking for that stupid cave. At some point this stops being fun, and starts being frustrating. Shallit’s entrance is purposefully hidden, at the water level so it’s almost impossible to find unless you accidentally fall off a cliff and land right in front of it. Fortunately some helpful walkthroughs list these locations via coordinates. For example Shallit is at (68000, 157900, 230). How do you transport yourself to that location?
Hit ~ (tilde) to open the console, and then type:
player->Position 68000, 157900, 230, North
This will send you directly to the door facing North.
Here is some more information about the Position command.
August 25th, 2007 at 12:07 am (5921) [Quote]
Free beginner loot.
Go into the Redoran compound in Vivec and enter the large mansion. At the top of the stairs is a room. In the room is a Dunmer woman. Wait for her to leave, close the door and grab the key from the dresser. Exit the mansion and cross the street to the Redoran treasury, go all the way downstairs to the last vault. Open the vault door using the key, wait till the guard leaves, close the door, and loot to your heart’s content. Ideally get a spell to open lev 100 locks for the chests, but you only need 50.
Bonzohazard - I’m on xbox live.
Posted usingAugust 25th, 2007 at 12:34 am (5922) [Quote]
Nice! I actually didn’t know about that one. Thanks for the tip.
Posted usingSeptember 24th, 2007 at 3:12 pm (6281) [Quote]
Hey Lukasz,
This is Marinos (from Cyprus)
You guys still playing Morrowind? i finished already Oblivion *with all main quests completed and most subquests done 70%*
Now i just started Gothic 3, (which is similar in graphics quality as oblivion) but not much time recently to finish it off.
Posted usingSeptember 24th, 2007 at 4:19 pm (6283) [Quote]
Hey, how is it going? I haven’t talked to you in ages!
Yeah. You know, some people claim that Morrowing is better, deeper and more involved than Oblivion in many aspects. I cant say for sure because I haven’t played Oblivion. It just won’t run on my computer. ;P It’s on my list of games to buy when I get a new gaming rig - and so is Gothic.
Morrowind is pretty awesome, especially if you mod it to get rid of the ugly shit. If you apply all the mods I listed on the linked post, you will get a very pretty RPG with elves that are actually attractive instead of scarry, Redguards that actually look like actual black people, and lot’s of new faces for all the other races, plus new textures for almost everything.
Oh, and I recently lost all my saved Morrowing games in an unexpected HD death, combined with some very nicely corrupted backups. So yeah - I haven’t finished it yet, and now it seems like I’m going to have to start over. Sigh…
Posted usingSeptember 24th, 2007 at 4:30 pm (6284) [Quote]
You are right on how good Morrowind was and is. Oblivion can be heavily modded as well, there are thousands of mods out there and around 100 of them are really top notch, One of the most famous ones is the one that changes the difficulty and levelling Rules of the game to make it more traditional rather than the silly Default settings. So in other words Oblivion cannot be Reviewed today with the same score as it had at the day of its launch. By the time you start playing Oblivion its gonna be even better!
i dont believe that you lost the saves for Morrowind, i think i still keep mine somewhere in one of my Pcs! i hope you didnt lost many hours of gameplay!!
Posted usingSeptember 24th, 2007 at 4:34 pm (6285) [Quote]
Ah you can try playing Gothic 2 and Gothic 1 as well, very interesting games and have graphics card requirements that are between Morrowind and Oblivion *GOthic 2 runs perfectly with all settings to high using a an old ATI 9700 PRO* i finished GOthic 2 only didnt try gothic 1 but its similar in graphics.
Posted usingSeptember 24th, 2007 at 5:27 pm (6287) [Quote]
My character was actually pretty kick ass. I think I finished all the quests for the Legion, the Fighters Guild and was in the process of getting a mansion built.
I will have to check the hardware requirements on Gothic games. Perhaps they will run on my machine.
Posted usingNovember 17th, 2007 at 2:01 am (7011) [Quote]
okay guys, were the heck do i get a mansion? I have only gotten to level 12 and i don’t know much but i always read about building a mansion and i have no idea were how or what i do. im sure if i had help it will get built.
omg i love my guy!!!! he has like 50 acrobatics, 50 shortblade and marksman and destruction. i just need to get like axe or something really high then ill be unbeatable.
Posted usingNovember 17th, 2007 at 2:30 am (7012) [Quote]
Go and do some quests for one of the great houses. For example House Hulalu manor is located in Balamora - it’s close to the Alchemist shop. It’s a huge building so you can easily find it. There are other ones out there - just look for them. Go inside, and talk to people. If you do some missions for them, and get appropriate rank, they will give you the “land deed” quest. Just keep doing quests for them and eventually you will get the mansion.
Each house has a mansion building quest, but you can only build one mansion (unfortunately).
Posted usingNovember 17th, 2007 at 10:38 am (7013) [Quote]
Hey Luke whats up, i just finished GOTHIC 3, it took me ages to finish it. For the following year i plan not to play any games (Although i doubt if i can succesfully do this
Instead i will concentrate to make better my new Site that is dealing with Synthesizers. My mission (not a game mission!) is to post Reviews, News from the synthesizer world, and Hint’s and Tips for various synths. There are lots of things pending so far. Like the Forum, Download Section, and a way to Alphabetize the reviews. If you wanna contribute to the reviews section just le me know (or if anybody from your readers are musically inclined), ill post their review and they get the credit for it.
You can check it out at www.synthworld.org and let me know what you think about it.
Peace
Posted usingNovember 17th, 2007 at 11:34 pm (7023) [Quote]
okay i have grown to like house cousin in the hlaal or whatever its called and still no land deed quests. i will continue to work on it but are you positive about this house having a manson for me?
Posted usingNovember 17th, 2007 at 11:41 pm (7024) [Quote]
@seklumsedath - yeah, you just need to join the house, and do some quests to get your rank up. Check this site for very detailed walkthrough.
Actually, there is a bug in the game that could potentially let you build two strongholds. Check that site I linked for more details.
@Marinos - site looks nice. It’s Joomla based, no?
Btw, no one says you can’t do both: play games and maintain the site.
Unfortunately I know next to nothing about synthesizers.
Posted usingNovember 18th, 2007 at 9:34 am (7027) [Quote]
Yes indeed its Joomla Based (of course it could have been MAMBO based as well)
Not much time since i work too much lately (over 10 hours per day) so i have to choose between playing a bit of games or update a bit the website. if i try to do both then in the end ill do only a liiiiiitle bit of each and in the end is gonna take forever to finish a game post quality content on the site!
Posted usingNovember 27th, 2007 at 12:03 am (7146) [Quote]
Morrowind? If you want hardcore, try and beat the snot out of Vivec and Amalexia without any cheats. You better have some mighty levels! The expansions were cool btw.
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