User:RobinHood70/Mods

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Mod Name	Version	Why I Like It	Drawbacks
Patches
Official Oblivion/SI Patch	1.2.0416		Relies on the community to fix the bugs they don't feel like fixing.
The Unofficial Oblivion Patch	3.0.1	Fixes the bugs Bethesda doesn't feel like shelling out to pay their programmers to do.
The Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch	1.3.0	Fixes the bugs Bethesda doesn't feel like shelling out to pay their programmers to do.
The Unofficial Official Mods Patch	v12	Fixes the bugs Bethesda doesn't feel like shelling out to pay their programmers to do.
Light/Darkness Mods
Light Spell Recolor	1.3	Whoever thought "nuclear radiation green" would be a good colour for a light spell should be shot!
Darker Dungeons	1.1	Makes dungeons far more realistic.
Illumination Within Revived Optimised	0.9.2	Makes cities look very nice when combined with Original Color Darker Nights mod.
Original Color Darker Nights	1.0	Makes all outdoor cells more realistic at night time.
Visual Enhancement Mods
CaptNKILLs NonTiling Texture Mod	1.0	Removes tiled effect from grass and such. (Especially noticeable if you move the Grass Slider all the way to the left so that items on the ground are more visible.)
Cyrodiil Terrain Map	2.5	Makes it much easier to tell what kind of terrain you're fast-travelling into, and is just generally more immersive.
Enhanced Water	2.0	Makes water much more realistic.
Enhanced Water - SI Addon	0.1
GW71 Life Detect	1.0	Gets rid of the "purple people eaters" and replaces them with a much nicer red colour.
Hammerfist Shiny Gold	1.1	Makes gold shinier and therefore easier to see. Debatably more realistic as well, at least if you accept that everyone polishes their coins on a regular basis. <LOL>
Improved Fruits, Vegetables and Meats	1.0	Makes foods in the game look much more realistic.
Koldorn's Ayleid Ruins Textures	1.0	Another mod that adds more realism. Ayleid ruins are much more detailed and decrepit with this mod.
Koldorn's LOD Noise Replacer	1.3	Distant land should not look speckled, simple as that.
Landscape LOD NormalMap Fix	1.1	Gets rid of the "blotchies".
Landscape LOD Normalmap Fix MipMap Fix	1.1	Supposed to help with stuttering caused by the above mod.
Landscape LOD Replacement Textures for Oblivion	1.1b	Higher quality textures.
Landscape LOD replacement textures for Oblivion (Border Regions)	1.1b	Higher quality textures.
Leviathan Soul Gems	1.1	Makes soul gems look much nicer.
Natural Faces	0.95	Tweaks the faces of NPCs to look more natural and less blotchy.
Realistic Horse Eyes	1.3	If you're not using this, go look at your horse's eye. You will then understand why I use this.
Skingrad Bridge Lights	1.0	Fixes the Skingrad bridge lights so that they actually shed light!
Audio Enhancement Mods
Atmospheric Oblivion	1.0	Adds a lot of really nice atmosphere to the game.	Sounds are sometimes a little too frequent/repetitive.
Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul	0.9	There are some amazing sounds in this package!
Content-Altering Mods
Direnni's Alchemy Apparatus	1.1	Convenient to avoid having to search for randomly-placed Master-level equipment.	Potions still detect as Master level, so an otherwise identical potion with the same name made with Master-level equipment then later made with Direnni's equipment will be downgraded. (Solution: rename your potions or never use Master-level equipment.)
Haldur's Alternate Skeleton Key	1.02	Makes the Skill bonus toggleable, allowing you to advance the skill normally, or raise your skill level if you need it.
Pitcher Plant Harvestable	1.1	Adds alchemy ingredients to the otherwise broken Pitcher Plant.	Need to be careful of load order, as some mods will interfere with this.
UI Mods
Expanded Hot Keys and Spell Delete	1.0	Eight hotkeys for spells and equipment combined...seriously?!? This mod ups that to 28 and enables equipment combos.	Shift and Alt keys cause you to stop moving; Walk key may need to be re-mapped to be useful.
Major Jim's UI	1.12	Overall, this just lets a lot more information fit into the same space on your screen. What I like most about it is that when you're mixing potions, you actually get to see the weight of the ingredeints on-screen! Why Bethesda didn't think of that is beyond me.	Causes a couple of minor glitches with the map display, in particular causing you to not be able to click on southerly locations to fast-travel to them (more problematic with Shivering Isles, but also a minor inconvenience with Deepscorn Hollow).
No More Annoying Messages	1.0	The name says it all, really. Removes some of the more annoying messages that continually appear throughout the game.
No More How Many Prompts	1.0	Makes it much easier and faster to sell stacks of items one-by-one in order to increase your Mercantile skill faster.	Not switchable in-game like some other mods, but can easily be switched out-of-game, which was good enough for me.
Convenience Mods
All-In-One Basement	6.0	What good is having a house in each city? You end up leaving stuff all in one house, typically, and never use any of the others...or at least that's how I end up. This mod gives each house a communal basement, which is nice.	It also has the option of letting you instant-travel between houses, which is nice in its own way, but I consider it more of a cheat. I think in my next game, I'll leave it disabled.
Clocks of Cyrodil	1.0	Mostly because I thought it sounded like an interesting idea and was curious to actually watch time pass within the game, rather than having to hit F4 all the time.
Harvest Flora	3.0.1	Makes it so much easier to know what you've harvested and what you haven't. Excellent for farms and some clustered ingredients like Wisp Stalks.	Completely disables Pitcher Plants, so you need to watch load order of Pitcher Plant mods.
Keychain	4.20	When playing intelligently, I never scroll through the keys with the mousewheel, but sometimes I'm not so with it...this avoids that problem altogether.
Oblivion Gate Markers	1.1	Makes it easy to track down all those annoying Oblivion Gates and shut them once and for all. Also, of course, I use it cuz I made it!
Other Mods
Realistic Physics and Force	1.0	Makes things generally not fly off half-way across the room from a lowly fireball spell and similar such physics problems.
Mods I Want to Try
Mods I Tried and Uninstalled
Qarls Texture Pack 3 Redimized and Further Reduced OMOD	1.0	Excellent, highly-detailed textures.	It's freakin' huge (1.7 Gig)! More to the point, the textures were actually too detailed and sharp for me. It gave the game a surreal aspect.