Morrowind May Modathon Month 2022 - Celebrating 20 Years of Morrowind!

darkelfguy · April 23, 2022

Morrowind May Modathon Month 2022 - A Modding Competition for the Community!

May 1st - June 2nd!

Looking to participate? Use the Modathon Logo in your mod description! Also, use the Achievement Banner! Stop by the Discord for regular updates!

Participating Mods:

Description:

"The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Twenty years, a generation ago, a lifetime ago, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was released in the early days of May 2002, bringing with it a strange new alien world, full of mystery and wonder, a world quite unlike anything we had seen before. Morrowind was a foreign shore, home to countless strange and unusual sights, from the very first silt strider, to the very last beat of a cliff racer's wings. It was full of danger but also beauty, giving us the freedom to explore and to build our own path in this wondrous alien land.

Now, twenty years later, the alien is far more familiar, and far from being foreign, Morrowind is home, a home that we come back to, again and again, each time discovering something new, or adding something that was missing before. For Morrowind was one of the first games to truly fully embrace modding, giving us, the players, the ability to craft whole new adventures, build whole new worlds, and to improve upon every aspect of what was there before. After 20 years, Morrowind is home to a growing, bustling modding community that not only continues to thrive, but which has grown remarkably over the past few years, with over a thousand new mods released each year!

So today, in order to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this truly remarkable and one-of-a-kind game that we all know and love, we're once again hosting a May Modathon Month, the 8th Annual Modding Competition for the community, which has become the largest annual modding competition in the entire TES modding scene! Throughout the entire month of May, participating modders on the Nexus who submit Morrowind mods could get a chance to win indie or AAA games each week. Likewise, all participating mods will be entered to win one of the Masteries, by becoming the most popular mod in a particular category!

Not only that, but all winners will get trailers, special showcases, and numerous video features on Morrowind Modding Showcases. And the winners of the category Masteries will naturally get featured in our Mod of the Month series, celebrating the best mods released for Morrowind each month. Not only that, but this year we're once again handing out achievements, little badges that you can unlock and plug into your mod download pages!

The 2021 Modathon was one of the biggest modding competitions held for an Elder Scrolls game, with about 230 new mods getting submitted by dozens of different modders, and with your help, we can make this year an even bigger success! The best games never die, so let's make Morrowind better than ever before with tons of new mods!

Achievements:

Once again this year, we're including achievements that you can earn and unlock by releasing mods! These are little badges that you can plug into your mod download pages, and we have over 70 achievements that you can unlock! Release a quest mod? Achievement Unlocked! Get over 100 downloads? Achievement Unlocked! See the full list of achievements down below. Some of these achievements are rare or unique, others are common, and still more are hidden and can only be unlocked by accident or chance. Try and collect as many as you can and become a Modding Master of Madness!

Full Achievement List:

Gold Achievements:

Champion of Legends - Release the most popular Quest or Guilds & Factions Mod
Champion of the World - Release the most popular Landscape or Landmass Mod
Champion of Life - Release the most popular Companion, Creature, or NPC Mod
Champion of Artistry - Release the most popular Graphics, Animations, or Audio Mod
Champion of Comfort - Release the most popular Player Home Mod
Champion of Clutter - Release the most popular Items Mod
Champion of Enhancement - Release the most popular Gameplay, Bug Fix, Patch, or UI Mod
Champion of Culture - Release the most popular Towns and Cities Mod
Champion of Dungeoneering - Release the most popular Dungeon Mod
Champion of Immersion - Release the most popular Immersion Mod
Champion of the Community - Release the most popular Modder's Resource or Utility
The People's Choice - Most Endorsed Mod
Numbers Matter - Most Downloaded Mod
Army of One - Most Prolific Modder
Emperor, King, and Justice, Citizen - Achieve the highest cumulative number of endorsements for all mods released for the Modathon
A Warrior's Legacy - Unlock all Silver and Copper Achievements
Master of Madness - Earn the highest number of unique achievements
Challenge Accepted - Unlock All Challenge-Based Achievements

Rare (Silver) Achievements:

A Show Of Power - Achieve at least 25 endorsements and 250 downloads with a Modathon Mod
You Are A Credit To Your House - Achieve at least 25 endorsements on a Modathon Mod
Cliff Racer Fly So High - Release at least 5 mods for the Modathon
The Nine Divines - Release at least 9 mods for the Modathon
Lesh Make A Deal - Achieve over 250 downloads on a Modathon Mod
Destined for Great Things - Achieve 500 combined downloads for all mods released for the Modathon
Cult of Personality - Achieve 50 combined endorsements for all mods released for the Modathon

Uncommon (Bronze) Achievements:

Let Me Tell You A Story - Achieve at least 10 endorsements on a Modathon Mod
Triple Threat - Release at least 3 mods for the Modathon
I'm Creeping! - Achieve over 100 downloads on a Modathon Mod
Jack-Of-All-Trades - Release a separate mod in at least 4 categories
Improve My Effectiveness - Release a mod which qualifies for at least 5 achievements upon initial release
Available For Hire - Cooperate with at least two different modders on two different mods

Challenge Achievements

Blood & Faith - Release a mod for the optional "Blood & Faith" modding challenge in Week 1.
Vanity & Alteration - Release a mod for the optional "Vanity & Alteration" modding challenge in Week 2.
Hunted & Chaos - Release a mod for the optional "Hunted & Chaos" modding challenge in Week 3.
Love & Crime - Release a mod for the optional "Love & Crime" modding challenge in Week 4.
Secret & Escape - Release a mod for the optional "Secret & Escape" modding challenge in Week 5.

Common Achievements:

Double Trouble - Release at least 2 mods for the Modathon
Back for Another Round - Release Two Mods in the Same Category
Backup Plan - Release two or more mods within 48 hours of each other.
No N'Wah Allowed - Release a mod using only vanilla assets
Tamriel Imports - Release a mod that requires either OAAB Data or Tamriel Data
Adventures Await - Release a Quest or Guild/Faction Mod for the Modathon
New Horizons - Release a Landscape or Landmass Mod for the Modathon
Im-Leet and Rolf the Uber - Release a Companion, Creature or NPC Mod for the Modathon
I Like the Way You Look - Release a Graphics, Animation or Audio Mod for the Modathon
Morrowind is Home - Release a House Mod for the Modathon
Cluttermonkey - Release an Items Mod for the Modathon
Let Me Tweak That - Release a Gameplay, Bug Fix, Patch or UI Mod for the Modathon
The Only Game In Town - Release a Town Mod for the Modathon
Better Take A Torch - Release a Dungeon Mod for the Modathon
Let Me Immerse You - Release an Immersion Mod for the Modathon
You and I Are About to Become Very Close - Cooperate with at least one other modder to release a Modathon Mod
Novice of Madness - Release a mod in your first Modathon
Veteran of Madness - Release a mod in two or more Modathons
CHIMming It - Release a mod in three or more Modathons
The Lusty Argonian Maid - Release a Resource for the Community
Ahh Yes, We've Been Expecting You - Release a Mod on May 1st
May The Fourth Be With You - Release a Mod on May 4th
May The Ides Be Ever In Your Favor - Release a Mod on May 15th
Cutting It Close - Release a Mod between June 1st and June 2nd.

Hidden Achievements:

The Hope of the Redoran
Ice And Chitin
Dreams And Visions
A Friend In Deed
AIIEEE
What's Mine is Mine
Exterminator
Dunmer Cooking Secrets
Nothing Left
Fundamental Attributes
The Good Daedra
The Stranger
Barbarian's Sad Tale
Meow
Strange Devices
Friend or Traitor
Blood Ties

Challenges:

New this year are weekly, optional, theme-based modding challenges that will be running throughout this month's competition, with new achievements to unlock and new prizes to win! I must emphasize that these are OPTIONAL challenges, the Morrowind May Modathon has always been and will continue to be a free-for-all modding competition where all are welcome, regardless of themes, but if you'd like to unlock some additional cheevos and get a chance to win some additional prizes, you can try your hand at making a mod to fit one of the weekly themed challenges below.

Week 1: May 1st-7th, Make a mod that fits the theme of "Blood & Faith" (Use the header image here to participate)
Week 2: May 8th-14th, Make a mod that fits the theme of "Vanity & Alteration" (Use the header image here to participate)
Week 3: May 15th-21st, Make a mod that fits the theme of "Hunted & Chaos" (Use the header image here to participate)
Week 4: May 22nd-28th, Make a mod that fits the theme of "Love & Crime" (Use the header image here to participate)
Week 5: May 29th-June 2nd, Make a mod that fits the theme of "Secret & Escape" (Use the header image here to participate)

Can you make a mod to match each theme? Each of these challenges are deliberately designed to be fairly broad and open to interpretation, potentially fitting any of a wide variety of mods, allowing you to let your creativity go wild!

Participation and How it Works:

You can participate by leaving a short note in the mod description page of your mod at Morrowind Nexus that includes "Part of the May Modathon Month" somewhere near the top of the description or use the "Modathon 2022" tag to mark your mod as a competition entry.

Every week, at least five different modders will be selected at random to win a single AAA or Indie game, and the way this works is that we'll compose a list of all participating mods released that week, plug them into a random number generator, and the first five results we get back will be the winners for that week.

If you win in one of these weekly drawings, I'll send you a message on the Nexus or Discord notifying you that you've won and providing a list of games you can choose from as your prize. We have over 500 games to give away, so hopefully you'll find something you want on there!

Unlike in past years, we'll be deterring the \winners of the Modathon by category, so the mods with the highest endorsements in each of our competition categories by June 30th will be declared the winners.

We'll be going by whichever categories you upload your mods on the Nexus to, and obviously, some categories (like Weapons and Armor) will be counted under broader categories like "Items". If you have any questions regarding how this will all work, exactly, feel free to post them below!

In total, there's 11 categories with Masteries (and other categories of mods will be included under one of the existing categories, if you're posting a mod to Miscellaneous for example, we'll include it under the category that makes sense, depending on the mod, or you can include what category you want it to be included under in the mod description):

Companions/Creatures/NPCs
Dungeons
Gameplay Mods/Bug Fixes/Patches/UI (Depends on UI mod, some may be categorized as Graphics)
Graphics Mods/Animations/Audio/Shaders
Immersion Mods
Items/Weapons/Armor/Books/Etc...
Landscapes/Landmasses
Modder's Resources/Utilities
Player Homes
Quests/Guilds&Factions
Towns and Cities

Rules:

Overall this competition and giveaway is pretty easy to understand, and there aren't a whole lot of rules involved, but there are a few things we should clear up just in case.

First, all types of mods are perfectly acceptable. From texture replacers to gameplay tweaks to content mods like house mods, quest mods, or dungeon mods. All of those are fine and will be accepted for the competition! The only kind of mod that will NOT be accepted is cheat mods, i.e. placing a barrel full of loot in the middle of Seyda Neen or placing a Daedric longsword in the Census and Excise Office. Cheat mods like that will not be considered for the competition.

Also, we accept both tes3mp and OpenMW mods, as well as MWSE Lua mods! Regardless of which platform your mod is designed to work with, all will be accepted!

Second, all submitted mods must be, at least for the most part, safe for work. Questionable content is acceptable so long as it isn't the entire mod, remember we have to showcase these and we can't showcase adult-themed mods on the channel!

Also, it should be pointed out that for larger mod projects, you can submit a demo or playable beta of your mod as part of the competition and it'll be perfectly acceptable. I do need to stress that it must absolutely be playable though. Any mod that crashes to desktop upon loading the game will not be considered.

In addition, we ask that all participating modders please only release a maximum of 5 mods per day, there were some issues in past years with mods immediately getting buried, and we want everyone to have a chance to have their mods get seen! Also, we won't be counting very quick CS edit mods as counting towards achievements, in order to encourage less spam.

Remember, this only applies to mods released in May, so let's all get to modding and make this the big 20th Anniversary that Morrowind truly deserves!

If you don't know how to mod, check out our Let's Mod Morrowind series for a visual guide to modding - including interiors, basic scripting, and quest design.

If you have any questions about this event, please leave a comment or send me a message!

Want to check out our past Modathons? You can find playlists of the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Modathon competitions down below!

Edited June 4, 2022 by darkelfguy

darkelfguy · June 4, 2022

The 2022 Morrowind May Modathon Month Modding Competition, celebrating Morrowind's 20th anniversary, is officially over! And wow, it was an absolute record-breaking year with hundreds of new mod releases! Overall, just under 300 new mods were released for the 2022 Modathon by 115 individual modders, covering everything from massive new dungeons to new gameplay mechanics, entire new factions with dozens of quests to play through, beautiful new landscape additions, scenic new graphical replacers and just about everything else that you can think of!

The amount of new content released in May dwarfs anything we've seen before for Morrowind, with so many notable highlights, like Astrologian's Guild, a massive new faction and quest mod with over a dozen hours of content, or NecroCraft, a gameplay mod that adds a fully functional necromancy system to Morrowind, or the massive dungeon mods of Of Eggs and Dwarves and The Hive of Baan Binif, adding some truly scenic dungeons for you to explore and fight through, and who can forget Dwemer Cycle, the first fully-functional motorcycle mod for Morrowind? Not to mention the countless other equally impressive and high-quality mods released for this year's Modathon!

Even after 20 years, the Morrowind Modding Community continues to thrive, reaching new heights and making more and more content for this amazing game! Truly, we are living through a golden age of Morrowind, and with so many fantastic mods released, there can only be more bright things ahead!

The grand prize winners of the competition will be announced on July 1st! In the meantime, we're still sending out achievements and prizes for our random-drawing winners, so please be patient as we gradually get to everyone!

But anyway, as always, we have a full breakdown of all the mods submitted for the Modathon, all 299 of them, down below, organized by mod category!

Armor, Artifacts, Weapons, and New Item Mods:

Audio and Music Mods:

Companion, Creature and NPC Mods:

Dungeon Mods:

Gameplay Mods (Vanilla Morrowind - No Requirements):

Gameplay Mods (Cloud Storage MWSE Addons):

Gameplay Mods (MWSE):

Gameplay Mods (OpenMW):

Gameplay Mods (TES3MP):

Graphics Replacers and Graphics Mods:

House Mods:

Immersion Mods:

Joke Mods:

Modder's Resources:

New Locations and Landscape Additions:

Quest Mods:

UI Mods and HUD Extensions:

Town Mods:

A massive thanks goes out to all of the modders that participated this year, you've all managed to make Morrowind's 20th anniversary a truly special event, and these modding competitions are only made possible by our wonderful modding community!

As always, the best games never die, and we've proven once again just how true that statement is! Thanks for making Morrowind great, and I'll see you all next year for the 2023 Morrowind Modathon!

Edited June 4, 2022 by darkelfguy

darkelfguy · July 30, 2022

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Morrowind May Modathon Competition:

Its taken us a while, but we're finally ready to announce the winners of the 2022 May Modathon Competition! With 299 mods submitted by an estimated 115 individual modders, the 2022 Modathon has been, by far, the most competitive event in Morrowind's modding history, both in terms of the sheer quantity of mods submitted and in terms of the quality of those mods. Out of those 299 mods, we've narrowed down the results to 12 winning mods in 11 categories, with 11 mods in the runner up position.

As a quick reminder, we have 11 grand-prize categories for the competition, one for each type of mod, with the most endorsed mod in each category (as of July 1st) winning that category's grand prize.

In any event, here's the winners of the 2022 Morrowind May Modathon!

First, the winners of the general achievement masteries:

The People's Choice - Most Endorsed Mod - Stripes the Cat By Stripes

Numbers Matter - Most Downloaded Mod - Westly's Faces Refurbished By Merch_Lis

Emperor, King, and Justice - Most Cumulative Endorsements - Spammer

Army of One - Most Mod Releases - The Wanderer

Champion of Legends - Release the most popular Quest or Guilds & Factions Mod

1st Place - Astrologian's Guild By Billyfighter

Runner Up - OAAB Brother Junipers Twin Lamps By Brother Juniper with updates by Lucevar

Champion of the World - Release the most popular Landscape or Landmass Mod

1st Place - Bal'laku - The Lonely Towers By Kalinter

Runner Up - Ugarte By Aitrus

Champion of Life - Release the most popular Companion, Creature, or NPC Mod

1st Place - Stripes the Cat By Stripes

Runner Up - Repopulated Morrowind By GrumblingVomit

Champion of Artistry - Release the most popular Graphics, Animations, or Audio Mod

1st Place - Westly's Faces Refurbished By Merch_Lis

Runner Up - Melchior's Excellent Grazelands Acacia By Melchior Dahrk

Champion of Comfort - Release the most popular Player Home Mod

1st Place - Slof's Daedric Mansion By Trylobit and AlienSlof

Runner Up - Honey I shrank the Nerevarine - Carryable Tiny Player Home - OpenMW Only By Wiz1

Champion of Clutter - Release the most popular Items Mod

1st Place - Aspect of Azura By Melchior Dahrk

Runner Up - DRIP - Dynamic Randomised Item Properties By Merlord

Champion of Enhancement - Release the most popular Gameplay, Bug Fix, Patch, or UI Mod

1st Place (2-Way Tie) - Necrocraft - A Comprehensive Necromancy Gameplay And Quests Mod. By VitruvianGuar

1s Place - Attribute Effect Tweaks By Necrolesian

Runner Up - MWSE Compare Tooltips By rfuzzo

Champion of Culture - Release the most popular Towns and Cities Mod

1st Place - Balmora Waterworks By MwGek

Runner Up - Imperium - Castle Ebonheart By Endoran

Champion of Dungeoneering - Release the most popular Dungeon Mod

1st Place - Of Eggs and Dwarves - Gnisis Eggmine and Bethamez Overhaul By Seelof

Runner Up - Tales from the Ashlands - The Great Hive Baan Binif By The Hive Mind

Champion of Immersion - Release the most popular Immersion Mod

1st Place - OAAB Shipwrecks By Corsair83

Runner Up - Get Wrecked - Shipwreck Overhaul By Cerebulon

Champion of the Community - Release the most popular Modder's Resource or Utility

1st Place - Item Browser By Merlord

Runner Up - Selection Details by NullCascade

Congrats to all the winners! Without question this was the best Modathon on record, both in terms of quantity and quality, and you should all be proud of what you accomplished, regardless of whether or not you won!

TheWanderer001 · August 19, 2022

What happened to the Master of Madness - Most Unique Achievements award ?

Edited August 20, 2022 by TheWanderer001

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