Suggested Mod List?

[C0rg1]

What Mods do you consider a must-have to improve game immersion.
I'm trying to avoid visual and audio mods but some such as "dynamic combat music" really make the grade.

An example would be a mod such as "Useable starting equipment" which ensures you can use the equipment you are given at the beginning. Instead of starting with armor your class forbids, etc.

Just curious what you guys have on your mod list. Corgi-out!

[Sappho20]

Ok, this was a lot harder than I thought! I use lots of mods and when I created a list of the most important non-audio/visual I had a list of 25. I have reduced it down to the 14 mods that are the most essential for me. So in no particular order:

Climate and Calories
Realistic Wagon
Roleplay and Realism + Items
Distant Terrain (I know it’s really buggy but I love the views in the wilderness)
Repair Items
Quest Pack 1
Temples Cure Poison
Viewable Skills Progress
SIGIL
Unlevelled Loot
Basic Roads
Travel Options
Basic Magic Regen
Readied Spellcasting Hands

[C0rg1]

My Current List.
I provided everything just in case someone notices some blatant conflicting or redundant mods. One thing I've obviously noticed is how many mods affect rain and snow and wonder which are the best for lower resolutions.

(updated on 3/5 with load order accurate and non dfmods at bottom)

3D Enemies
Actions
Animator
Aquatic Sprites
Archaeologist
Basic Roads
Better Ambience
Birds in Daggerfall
RoleplayRealism (no variant npc's. I dislike the old chunky npcs it uses)
TravelOptions
RoleplayRealism Items
Daggerfalle expanded Textures
Distant Terrain (Never worked untill i put dynamic skies after and unchecked terrain & fade)
Dynamic Skies
convenient Clock
DREAM - Commoners
DREAM - Handheld
DREAM - Hud & Menu
DREAM - Mobs
DREAM - Npc's
DREAM - Paperdoll
DREAM - Portraits
DREAM - Sound
Dynamic Music
DREAM - Sprites
DREAM - Textures
DREAM - Transpraent Windows
Dungeon Loot
Faithful 3d Animals
UBLAMF - Map blocks fixes
Unoffical Block, locations, fixes
* Finding My Religion (often not loaded)
Fixed Desert Architecture
Faithful 3d People
Fixed Dungeon Exteriors
Handpainted Models - Buildings 3d
Handpainted Models - Main 3d
Handpainted Models - Treasure 3d
Harvestable Crop
Improved Interior Lighting
Lively Cities
Loading screen
Meaner Monsters
Physical combat And Armor Overhaul
Meaner PCO
Mountains And Hills
NPC Health Indicators
Race Height
Races Redone
Readied Spellcaster hand
Real Grass
Low Polly Trees
Soldier's Luxury
Taverns redone DREAM patch
Taverns redone
Third Person Camera
Usable Starting Equipment
Vibrant Wind
Wilderness Overhaul
Windmills of Daggerfall
Alternative HD NPC sprites

AUD Orchestra & Acoustic Remaster
Background Question Fixes
Detailed City Walls
No rush main quest
DFU Questpack 1
Dream UI & Convient Clock compat patches
Dynamic Music
Dynamic skies
Oblivion spell icons
Oblivion screens
pixelated grass
Temples orders
Town Graveyards
Warm-Ashes

I've often wondered about SIGIL, Unleveled mobs & Quests, Vanilla Enhanced seems more compatible with many things but Dream seems to have beat them too it.

[Sappho20]

I enjoy SIGIL and Warm Ashes, they make the wilderness more interesting and have enough quests to make them nt too repetative. I also enjoy world of Daggerfall, I like the bandit camps you can stumble accross.
I use Vanilla enhanced (my laptop is far too old to run DREAM, it's good and conpatible with most mods)

One mod I would recommed you try is Airships! if you use it with distant terrain it is amazing to fly across the Iliac Bay and it really shows you how big the world is!

further 'you can pet the cat' is a small and fun mod.

[Cliffworms]

Finding my Religion (it really slows things down when in temples)

If you are using mods that affect performance, such as Dream and Handpainted models, you will indeed get a FPS hit inside temples. Same thing if you have Transparent Windows.

So the culprit for a FPS hit is not Finding My Religion, but a combination of performance-hit mods.

[C0rg1]

I noticed Saphoo20 that you had realistic wagon but not lousy lycanthropy. Also are the 'shield' and 'kick' modules for combat defunct? What about unleveled monsters?
What sound sets do you use. I use the orchestra overhaul though I would love to see more "Jeremy Soul" ish remakes of Daggerfalls soundtrack. There are a few on youtube but its not the whole soundset.
I tried the special effects remake but many of the effects are overly loud compared to music and other sounds. Good samples, but loud even when turned down. Sounded like a raging bonfire inside a tavern.