Morrowind:Cheats

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Morrowind is a huge game, and it can be a bit tough, especially in the beginning. There are quite a few ways to make the game much easier; some of them were put in by the developers themselves, while others are of the more unintentional variety - problems with the game mechanics. These are tactics that exploit the game's own rules to make the game easier.

Please note that Console Commands and Glitches are not listed on this page, even though they are very useful for 'cheating.' A cheat here is not an illegal modification of the game's variables; rather, it's a "game breaker", an exploit of unbalanced mechanics in the game to better one's character. A glitch, in contrast, is a flaw in the game that is NOT meant to be there, even if a player can still take advantage of it.

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[edit] Xbox and PC Cheats

[edit] Infinite Attributes

Buy an attribute-raising spell such as "Jack of Trades" (which increases luck), and Soultrap. Then find a Spellmaker and create a spell that fortifies your stat of choice, casts Soultrap on target, and fortifies 100 Willpower on self (this last is so you can continue casting the spell without interruption). Keep casting the spell until you have your stat at the desired level. The increase is permanent. The spell cannot be used on NPCs, because it only works if you choose On Self when making the spell.

Effects to Avoid
  • Acrobatics: A high Acrobatics skill can make jumping impossible to control.
  • Chameleon/Invisibility: Casting such constant effect spells will make it very difficult for your character to talk with NPCs.
  • Summoning Spells: Don't summon too many creatures. The game won't be able to render all of them, causing low frame rates and crashes.
  • Water Breathing: There's a quest of the temple which requires you to drown yourself. Therefore, do not cast constant water-breathing on yourself unless you have finished that quest.
  • Water Walking: There are many quests that require you to dive underwater. Consider enchanting an item with the effect, or using potions instead.
  • Speed: Running too fast can cause the game to glitch or crash (i.e., running through walls), and some have reported actually dying from hitting a door or wall head-on at such speeds.
  • Sanctuary:This is mainly if you want to be a vampire, or get Eltonbrand, as that requires you to be a vampire. It is impossible for them to hit you with high sanctuary, and there is nothing to counter this effect.

[edit] Corprus Cheat

If you contract Corprus and then sleep or wait repeatedly, your Strength and Endurance will be permanently raised by one point for each day that passes. It is suggested that you sleep directly in front of Divayth Fyr, as your other attributes will drop by one point per day until you get cured. Alternatively, you can restore those attributes with spells, potions or altars, and you can function almost normally, even with the Divine Disease. Be aware, though, that you will need extra disposition points to complete many Quests, to combat the disgust NPCs have towards Corprus. Unfortunately, these permanently raised stats can still be Drained. For example, Bonewalkers can temporarily drain your Strength, and you cannot regain it using altars, unless it is below 100. However, if you let the Bonewalker's spell end (30 to 60 seconds) before you kill it, your Strength will be restored. (This does not apply to Greater Bonewalkers, which instantly Damage your attributes rather than draining them.) Maximum resistance to Magicka will prevent the loss of attributes from attacks.

If your strength does get drained while boosted by corpus, simply use the above "Infinite Attributes" to restore them. A custom spell, with the precise values you've lost due to disease, or spell works fine.

[edit] Drain and Train

Training in Morrowind has two major problems. The first is cost, and the other is the scant availability of high-level trainers. A simple way to work around this is to use a Drain Skill spell. First, purchase any Drain Skill spell from one of the merchants listed here. Next, find a Spellmaker and create a Drain Skill on Self, for the skill you desire to improve. Then find a low-level trainer in the skill, but cast your spell to drastically lower your skill level just before you talk to him. This lets you take advantage of your lowered stats to get the NPC to train you up quickly – and it’s much cheaper! Incidentally, don't bother with a long-duration Drain spell; it only has to be active long enough for you to enter the conversation.

Note: Characters with an active Resist Magicka effect will have to use a Weakness to Magicka effect to fully exploit the Drain Skill Effect.

It helps to have about 40 Destruction when you start using this trick, due to the high effect of the spell. If you are not proficient in Destruction, you can start by creating less powerful Drain Skill spells until you improve. It costs a few gold to keep remaking new versions of this spell when the old one becomes redundant, but by the end of it, you will be able to Drain Skills with ease.

Even after reaching level 100 in a skill, you can continue raising it using this method. Also, your level keeps increasing as your skills do, so you continue to level up even after all your major and minor skills are at 100. If you do intend to level up extensively with this method, best find a trainer at one of the guilds (Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, Thieves Guild), since beds are easily accessible.

[edit] Easy Money

[edit] Alchemical Breakthrough

Alchemy is one of the easiest ways to make money in Morrowind. There is a way to make – and sell - an almost unlimited number of potions, using the game’s Restocking Vendor concept. To begin, find a restocking alchemy merchant, and purchase their entire supply of two different ingredients with at least one common effect. Some recommendations are:

(Note: Not all merchants or items are restocking. For a complete list of those that are, see Restocking Alchemy Merchants.)

Once you’ve purchased their supply of these items, exit the barter screen, but do not close the “talk” screen. Now, re-enter the barter screen, and sell them back the ingredients which you just bought. Exit the barter screen, and then re-enter it for the third time. The merchant should now have twice as many of the ingredients as he or she started with. Buy them all, and repeat the process to further increase their supply. Then, convert your ingredients to potions, and sell them to the same vendor to make a hefty profit.

Notes:

  • This method can also be combined with the Super Potion Trick. Potions created with this trick will be much more expensive, allowing you, with the same encumbrance, to move more value.

[edit] Permanent Golden Saints

In best Telvanni Mage Lord fashion, you can conjure permanent companions who will stay with you, and fight for you to the death. The best companions are Golden Saints - one Saint can defeat a Dremora lord in single combat! First, purchase the spell "Summon Golden Saint" from Felen Maryon in Tel Branora, as well as Soul Trap from the Mages Guild in Balmora. Next, create a spell with "Summon Golden Saint on self" for 1 sec., and "Soul Trap on target" for 1 sec (it will cost less than 100 gold at any spell-maker).* Look at the ground and cast the spell, and when you look up, you'll have a beautiful Golden Saint standing there! (be careful to be looking at the ground when you summon her because otherwise your game will crash) She will stay with you, and fight your battles indefinitely. If you're careful and use "Heal Other" spells judiciously, she could be your companion for much of the game.

One of the great things about Golden Saints is that they always carry high-value weapons and shields - which you can loot once they're dead. Even if you're not powerful enough to kill a Saint yourself, she will eventually fall to one of your enemies. Loot the body, and just summon another one to take her place. Or, if you need help more than you need money, summon several, and watch your golden army clear away all obstacles in your path to glory. Call up your army before facing the tougher Dagoths, and you will likely never have to raise a weapon! Be wary, though - sometimes summoning too many minions will cause the game to lag or freeze.

An additional benefit is that it is far cheaper to conjure up a permanent Saint than to cast the "Real" spell. This will work with most summons, like Skeleton Champions (who drop Silver swords & Iron shields), Bonewalkers (soul gems), etc.

  • For the GOTY XBox edition, use "Fortify Health on Target for 1 Second" in place of "Soul Trap on Target."


[edit] Free Money

If you can cast Fortify Skill, make a spell that raises your mercantile enough to hit 300 Mercantile. You may need a Fortify Restoration skill to cast this spell. At 300 mercantile, you can buy items for 0 gold and sell 1 gold items for all of the merchant's gold.

[edit] The Soul Gem Racket

When you trap a monster's soul in a Soul Gem, its value is multiplied by the size of the monster's soul. For example, suppose you trap something easy, e.g. a nix-hound: its soul value is 10, which means the value of the soul gem where you trap the nix-hound will be multiplied ten-fold, and therefore, you'll be able to sell the 10 drakes soul gem for 100 drakes. In business terms, selling this soul gem would net a very, very huge profit margin of 1000%. Likewise, trapping a Golden Saint, with a soul value of 400, in a Grand Soul Gem, costing 200 drakes, will boost its value to a whopping 200 * 400 = 80,000 drakes, for a profit margin of 40,000%!

Thus, if you want to make a lot of fast, technically legal money, then get a Soul Trap spell, or a scroll if your Mysticism skill is not high, and lots of Soul Gems. Divayth Fyr, from the Corprus Cure storyline mission, has three unguarded Grand Soul Gems in his tower, and Fadase Selvayn at Tel Branora, accessible by boat from Vivec, is the only restocking Soul Gem merchant in Vvanderfell, with 3 non-restocking Greater Soul Gems and unlimited Common, Lesser and Petty Soul Gems.

Once you're done doing the purchases, it's time to go hunting. In early levels, try hunting bull netches: they're not very dangerous, their souls fit nicely in a Lesser Soul Gem, and they increase their value to a comfortable 1000 drakes. In medium levels, try hunting for medium creatures, such as scamps, clannfears and dreughs; in higher levels, you can go straight for the strongest creatures. After filling your soul gems, sell them to Creeper; if he doesn't have enough money to buy one of your souls (such as a Grand Soul Gem with a Golden Saint soul inside), sell your cheaper soul gems first, then exchange the larger soul gems for the cheaper ones, wait 24 in-game hours, and then sell the cheap ones back.

[edit] Infinite Levels

[edit] Method One

It is possible to level up indefinitely using the following.

  1. Raise one of your attributes to 100.
  2. Find or create an item that will raise that same attribute over 100 as a constant effect.
  3. Locate a Master Trainer for a skill that falls under that attribute.
  4. Train over and over. The message underneath will always say that you have raised that skill to 100, but you will still get the skill points and therefore keep leveling. (i.e. Attribute: Intelligence, Skill: Security, Artifact: Necromancer's Amulet, Master Trainer: Hecerinde in Balmora)

[edit] Method Two

Go to jail. You will lose skill points, but you won't lose levels. Train your skills back up, and you'll still level up.

[edit] Method Three

Purchase a spell with a Drain Skill effect. See above Drain-Train cheat. This is more effective than the Soultrap cheat because it actually raises your skills, rather than temporarily enhancing them until they are somehow drained.

NOTE: Although this cheat will allow you to raise your level, it will not raise your skills over 100.

[edit] Recharging Magicka

Those born under the sign of The Atronach may enjoy the benefits of increased Magicka, but the accompanying stunted Magicka does tend to ruin all the fun. Other methods of recharging Magicka, such as Summoning Ancestral Ghosts to Absorb Magicka from them, are time-consuming and eat up more Magicka. As an alternative, simply activate any Shrine of the Tribunal or Imperial Altar, and select Attribute Restoration to refill your Magicka to its max. Note that this trick only works for those born under the Atronach.

A different way to recharge Magicka is with Drain Intelligence 100, 1 s, cast on self. With an Intelligence drained to 0, you have no Magicka, which is 100%. When the drain ends, you will keep the 100% Magicka pool. This is an extreme effect of the standard Magicka pool relativity. Enchanting items with the required spells is fairly cheap, and the spell itself requires very little Magicka.

Players with high intelligence may need to remove any items enchanted with Resist Magicka effects as otherwise intelligence will not be drained to 0. Bretons must cast a Weakness to Magicka on self spell first, as their inherent resistance to magicka will prevent intelligence being drained far enough.

[edit] Scroll Reuse

Scrolls can be reused as often as desired using the following mechanism:

  1. Equip a scroll
  2. Activate magic
  3. Drop all scrolls of that type
  4. Cast the spell
  5. Pick up the scrolls

NOTE: this bug has been fixed in the GotY version of the game.

[edit] Super-Human Power-ups

Note that the following cheats really upset game balance, to the point where they can ruin the game for you.

[edit] Super-Powerup

Prerequisites:

Directions:

  1. Save a "backup" game before starting so that you can reload and fine-tune your process after your initial experiments.
  2. Visit a friendly spellmaker, and have a spell made to Fortify Restoration 100 min/max for 4 seconds on self. You will cast this spell initially, to enable you to cast more powerful spells afterwards.
  3. If the above spell is too difficult to cast, create an additional Fortify Restoration spell with a lower value and a 4 second duration. You can probably manage +25 min/max over 3 seconds, even if your skill is very low.
  4. Create the final custom spell, giving it up to 8 effects. If you add multiples of the same effect, they stack. Fill all eight of the slots with Fortify Alchemy +100 min/max for 1 second.

If your Restoration skill is low, you will first cast the lesser spell. This is probably when you also should drink your first Fortify / Restore Magicka potion. Immediately following, cast the +100 Restoration spell. Immediately after that, cast your new power-up spell and quickly right click!

With all this done, you can now create insane potions such as +368 Speed for 1000 seconds, +72 Magicka for 209 seconds, Levitate 368 for 500 seconds, etc. For Speed, you can use a combination which results in "Fortify Speed", "Drain Fatigue", "Restore Fatigue", resulting in a potion that cancels out its own negative effects. Combining Speed and Levitation potions, you can easily travel from one end of the map to the other in about 10 minutes!

Additional Notes: Drinking multiples of the same potion causes effects to stack. Thus, drinking a great number of Fortify Intelligence and Luck potions may be easier and more effective than using custom spells with the same effects.

[edit] Steal without Fear

In the Ghorak Manor in Caldera you can steal anything you want from the crates, including a set of Orcish Armor lacking only the helmet. While the NPCs will say things like "thief" or "guards", you will not get a bounty on your head. As an added bonus, the Creeper is in the Manor. This works for basically any house without guards, so, as long as you save before you loot everyone's house, you should be fine.

[edit] Easy Stealing

There is a way to steal items without being caught, anywhere in the game, regardless of your stealth or other skills(except perhaps Acrobatics). All you must do is get on top of the item you wish to steal, preferably indoors, and jump up while looking down at the item. At the height of your jump, steal the item and nobody should notice. This is because when you jump, the game registers that you are on a higher floor or level than you really are. You should save before doing this if it is your first time. This cheat/glitch should work in both the original and the GOTY edition of Morrowind.

Another easy way is simply boosting your Stealth Skills to about 900 with Fortify Skill spells or items. (You will need either Mephala's Skill Spell or GoTY edition of Morrowind.) Activate the skill or spell, and then sneak. You can pickpocket characters with very high Sneak skill (better able to detect the crime) this way. For example, Lord Fyr.

[edit] Killing without bounty or being expelled from guilds

In order to kill someone from a guild you are a member in without being expelled (Ordinators in Hlaalu Vaults for instance) you need to be sneaking and kill everyone within sight in one blow. You will only be expelled and get a bounty if A) you are seen OR B) someone survives the initial burst. One method to do this is a spell with Weakness to Magicka 100 in 50 ft, Drain Endurance 100 in 50 ft, Damage Health 100 in 50 ft, and Drain Health 100 in 50 ft, cast while you have the sneak icon.

[edit] Sunder/Keening Cheat

This works in the Xbox and PC (up to 1.1.0605) versions. Drop all weapons except Sunder and summon a Bound Mace. Then hold right trigger and "A" button to switch weapons rapidly. You will permanently raise your Strength and Luck and Blunt Weapon skill to incredible levels. You can do the same for Keening except you use the Bound Dagger and it results in increased Speed. Note that with a Speed score higher than 500 characters move so fast that they become difficult to control.

This also works without the bound weapon when you have both Sunder and Keening in your inventory.

Also any bound weapon, like the Bound Longsword, will raise the corresponding skill when you follow the instructions above. When doing this, you need not use Keening or Sunder -- only the normal weapon which is equivalent to the bound weapon.

Alternatively, wielding a constant effect weapon (such as Skull Crusher) can produce a similar result. Hold down the sheathe/brandish button ("X" button by default) and pull both right and left triggers simultaneously. Your weapon should not change, but the changing weapon sound should still be audible (and your game will slow to a snail's pace). Each time you hear that sound the game adds on the weapon's effect PERMANENTLY to your character. So with Skull Crusher you add on 15 pts. of Feather and 5 pts. of Fortify Attack roughly every second. Remember, this works with ALL constant effect weapons--bound weapons included.

[edit] The Ultimate Hide Power

Saving and reloading a game will make your distant enemies lose the track of you, if you don't want to be followed.

[edit] Invisibility and Thieving

This is more like a trick than cheat, but it serves its purpose. If you cast invisibility on yourself, whether by spell or through enchanted items (like cheap rings), you can take virtually anything that's openly visible as long as it's not on the NPCs themselves. This makes shoplifting very easy, and the good thing is, even the cheap invisibility rings will do just fine. It just has to work long enough for you to keep out of sight, cast it on you, and then take the item. As long as no one took notice of you or remembered you when you cast it, they will not notice the theft, even if you popped right in front of them after taking something. It won't work if you cast it while visible to any NPCs, as they will notice. It is better to use Chameleon than invisibility, so you don't become visible after you take something.

[edit] Perfect Bartering

Use the Soul Trap/Fortify Attribute cheat and make your personality well above about 1000, maybe 1500. Then go to anyone who can barter and you can get anything from them and persuade them to give you whatever you buy for free. You can also sell them anything for as much money as they have- the armorer in Mournhold with 10000 gold, you can sell her an iron dagger for all of her money if your personality is high enough. Getting people to give you money for their own product seems impossible, however. Note: This will not work on anyone with no disposition. Thus, you can't do this with the Mudcrab Merchant or with the Creeper.

Having your Personality this high will also make people who normally will attack you calm and talk to you. Like dreamers and random people in the wilderness, and rogues in Dunmer Strongholds.

[edit] Xbox Cheats

[edit] Basic Cheats

To activate cheats, go to stats page and highlight the statistic you want to replenish.

Health
Black, White, Black, Black, Black and hold A
Fatigue
Black, Black, White, White, Black and hold A
Magicka
Black, White, White, Black, White and hold A

If you close the stats window while holding the A key down for any of the cheats mentioned above, it will replenish constantly. But if you enter any other page in your menu, the chosen statistic will cease to constantly replenish. After activating one of these cheats, kill any monster (with the cheat on) and enter that monster's inventory. Hit the right trigger so that you are on your are own inventory, then hit B and exit. If all went well, you can now access the other 3 menu pages with the cheat still active. Beware: going to the stats page will force you to repeat. Warning: These cheats only act as replenish, you can still be killed with the refill health cheat active. Don't take on high hitting opponents even with this cheat because they can still kill you quite easily.

To further explain, you can use restore health for example with the constant replenish code to restore your health. So long as you do not take a hit hard enough to kill you or several quick shots, you may enter the stats page and not press anything and simply watch your health auto replenish without taking more shots. When you exit the screen back to the play mode you may continue to battle and repeat. You can use this to defeat practically anyone in the game, so long as you have enough health, weapons, armor, time and patience in regards to the enemy.

[edit] Easy Armor Upgrade

You can use this to easily raise your Unarmored, Light Armor, Medium Armor, and Heavy Armor skills to 100. Simply equip whatever type of armor you wish to train, enable the health replenish cheat, and find an enemy or two. Just make sure you pick an enemy that isn't likely to be able to beat you down faster than you can regenerate, swarms of Slaughterfish and nix hounds work well for this.

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