I Need Help, Main Quest Options

[1234king]

O.K. im in the ushiluku ancestrial tomb or w/e but i cant find the bonebiter bow and im at the very end of the tomb

[Renee]

I think I need help. Not about the main quest, though.

I installed an alternate start mod, began rolling a character, all good so far. Got to the part when it asked which Starsign I'd like to select, so I chose Tower I think. But that's as far as I could get. There was no way to confirm this. No 'OK' button.

Screw that mod, that mod is history! Don't really need an alternate start really, do we? Not like there's a whole lot of tutorial for MW right? Doesn't take much time to start somebody new. I was really interested in starting from a different location. Not something I really need, though.

So the mod is gone. Back to Seyda Neen, staring at the first Dunmer in the game. Started somebody new. Gave her a name. Got outside the boat and picked a race, picked hair and face. Get inside the Census Office. Picked a Class. Got to the Starsign page. Picked Tower. But again, there was no way to confirm this. There was no OK button!

Obviously that mod screwed something up in the base game. Answer seems to be to Install the base game from scratch, right? Straight from the disc. Except when start to do this it says something which made it sound like installing would get rid of any Morrowind material on my gaming computer. I forget exactly what it said (I'm at work right now) but there was a message which made it sound like installing would uninstall everything else present Morrowind-related. So I just STOPPED right there.

I can't remember how this works. If I've got MW installed in a particular folder and want to reinstall, I can't just choose to do so in another folder, can I?

[macole]

I can't remember how this works. If I've got MW installed in a particular folder and want to reinstall, I can't just choose to do so in another folder, can I?

It's been 6 years so I may be wrong but I was under the impression that you can assign the install to a different file path. I'm not sure at which point of the install. Here is a couple of tricks that should work.

It’s much easier to have multiple Morrowind installs than it is for Oblivion and Skyrim. Try this method I found some time ago;
Steps for creating multiple installs of Morrowind for play-testing/mod-testing...
1. Change your Bethesda Softworks folder's name to "Bethesda Softworks Original".
2. Insert your Morrowind disc and install the game.
3. Install Tribunal and then Bloodmoon.
4. Change the new Bethesda Softworks folder's name to "Bethesda Softworks Play-Testing".
5. Change the original Bethesda Softworks folder's name back to Bethesda Softworks.
You now have two separate installations of Morrowind. Use one for testing and the other for playing the game.

Or I think this would work just as well,
1. Find your Morrowind folder
2. Rename it to something like Morrowind_ORG or Morrowind_MACsGoingToDieIfThisDontWork
3. Insert your Morrowind disc and install the game.
4. Install Tribunal and then Bloodmoon.
5. Now you’re ready to start installing your mods.

Either way be sure to check your desktop shortcuts' properties to ensure they are pointing to the correct target I would also rename the desktop shortcuts MW1 and MW2.

Beat of luck.

This post has been edited by macole: Dec 2 2022, 06:36 AM