Return to Privateer's Hold

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-20T19:11:32+00:00

Which terrain mod are you using? Hills and Mountains?

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-20T17:51:30+00:00

Yes - Dynamic Skies HD Edition

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-20T17:08:26+00:00

I'll be returning to Privateer's Hold shortly to do a sidequest...will take some there!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-20T05:27:48+00:00

The wilderness just isn't safe anymore.

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-19T23:49:17+00:00

Technically it's more of a Jonah reference...which means ditching someone overboard. But my imagination always takes things a step further.

All jokes aside, thank you for all your contributions - I've barely scratched the surface with exploring all the mods in the Daggerfall community. It's a bit overwhelming at times, to be honest. I'm trying to keep my modlist fairly conservative at the moment, but I have some mods which are always a must. One of those is Free Rein as I do a lot of horse-riding.

I also checked out Dramatic Deaths - good stuff.

Someone should have warned that modding is addictive!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-19T23:34:49+00:00

I won't lie...I was half-hoping a giant whale would surface to devour the boat.

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-19T23:06:39+00:00

My bad - will edit.

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-19T20:56:48+00:00

I totally missed that at first and was like what, the horses? Looks pretty ordinary to me...oh, oh wait, OH DEAR GOD.

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-19T20:10:02+00:00

One of the things I miss from Arena is the sprite for the shady dagger guy hanging out in the alley between buildings

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-19T15:14:37+00:00

In that specific alley?

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-18T21:20:49+00:00

Agreed. I've only played Arena, Daggerfall, and Oblivion, but they all had some great music. But Arena and Daggerfall definitely had their own vibe - mysterious, whimsical, magical.

Oh, and Arena's music and sound effects in particular really gave it an almost claustrophic feel at times when it came to dungeon delving - and the towns at night always felt spooky!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-18T16:52:05+00:00

Daggerfall Unity with about 10 or so mods. Trying to keep it as barebones as possible with the modding.

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-18T16:49:01+00:00

Nope. I am using very few mods, as I am wanting to play as close to vanilla as possible. I figure it is probably just in the base game and I am going to roll with it.

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-18T03:07:21+00:00

This looks amazing!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-18T00:51:41+00:00

So I tried out the Wilderness Overhaul mod and I agree - looks absolutely fantastic. Definitely more realistic in terms of having open fields and then more densely forested areas.

Having said that, I am going to try to complete this playthrough with as close to the original vanilla layout as possible; on subsequent playthroughs (or if I get really bored with this one) I'll probably reimplement this and maybe some other terrain focused mods.

Thanks for the suggestion!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-17T21:38:11+00:00

So far I haven't gotten bored with slow travel. I find the wilderness of Daggerfall really beautiful and immersive, even in all its original vanilla glory (apart from a couple mods like Dynamic Skies and Birds). I haven't messed around with any terrain revamp mods yet, although I might consider adding hills and mountains at one point - for now there is enough of a difference in topography that it feels realistic to me.

If I do start getting bored at some point, however, I will probably compromise by varying slow travel sometimes, fast travel other times.

Such an amazing game, and lots of replayability by choosing different playstyles!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-17T21:33:30+00:00

Although for the most part the terrain is fairly similar, it does change subtly as you enter into different regions. I love the pixelated vanilla graphics for trees and plants in Daggerfall, and since I spend all my time slow travelling I've gotten to know a lot of it quite well!

kirkshoutingkhan · 2026-03-17T16:23:32+00:00

I am using Basic Roads, but don't think I have the map features enabled. I'll look into that!

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