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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Bug Abuse Guide
For the XBOX (XB) and Computer (PC)
Last Updated on 10/25/07 (Version 0.6)
By Eventide (Email Address: batterythrower@gmail.com)
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Well, without further ado...
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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This FAQ was written for the Xbox version of the game. In all likelihood,
however, everything covered here *SHOULD* work with the PC version as well.
Given the ease of cheating on the PC (Construction Kit LOL), I doubt anyone
would get much use out of bug abuse, but here ya go.
Oh, I've also included my e-mail address up top. Feel free to send any
questions, comments, or what have you :D
Maybe let me know if people STILL play Morrowind ;)
I try to write in a laid back and relaxed style. I personally am not a big fan
of guides that are dry and boring, and written like a textbook. With those I
just quickly scan for the info I need and stop reading, because they aren't
any fun whatsoever to read. So I use smilies of different sorts, and inject
some humor into my writing, and basically try NOT to make this guide read like
some college thesis (I do quite enough of that kind of writing IN COLLEGE,
thank you). Join me in supporting entertaining writing on the net, and bring
back the style of awesome writers like marshmallow, Grawl, and all the others
who make you interested in reading about a game. (for real, I read
marshmallow's guides for games I DIDN'T EVEN OWN. That makes his stuff
officially entertaining.)
SIDE NOTE: If you are under the age of 13, you should neither be playing
Morrowind nor reading this guide. Respect the ratings system, eat your veggies,
and trust the government, kids! Oh, and don't smoke.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Well, this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down,
and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell ya how...
Oh, about ME... Ok...
They call me Eventide. Oh, and I _was_ event1de on GameFAQs because some 12
year old AOL user registered before me and didn't do anything with his account
for ages and ages, but we'll get into my hatred of *ahem*FAQs later on, ok?
I am 19 and living (currently) on the outskirts of Springfield, MO.
I'm currently going to Ozarks Technical Community College, and pursuing an
Associate of Arts degree with English major. Afterwards, I'm going to transfer
to a larger college and work towards becoming a writer XD
By the way, if you hated high school (like I did) you should certainly look
into NIGHT CLASSES at your local college. Much cooler, much more laid back,
much more interesting. Plus the vending machines are stocked with energy
drinks :D
I've been eaten the hell up with gaming ever since I learned the trick to
making Mario move across the screen, (push right on the d-pad, btw) and things
have only intensified with time, since maturity leads to employment leads to
money leads to collecting games :) I won't go into too much detail, because I
don't want to bore/taunt you with a long list of things I bought. Let's leave
it at that.
In my free time (pshh), I juggle gaming, playing guitar, administrating my
website/forum (ibyb.tk by the way), doing podcasts (IBYB Radio), writing (my
first guide, but I've written a lot of short stories and tv/film scripts aside
from this), causing trouble on the internets, spending time with other people
(yes, even when it takes place outside ^_^), watching some anime (Berserk,
Hellsing, Elfen Lied, Excel Saga, Grenadier, Azumanga Daioh, and Evangelion
are all highly recommended), and generally trying to make it through life
without going crazy :|
If you wanna know anything else about me, or discuss anything that comes to
mind, by all means, feel free to shoot me an e-mail (or more than one, it's
all good). I check it pretty often, but there tends to be a lot of unwanted
crap flooding my inbox every week or two. A good way to get me to read your
e-mail:
1)  Make it in readable English. I tend to write things out fairly legibly
(I hope :/) and I'm not going to bombard you with 1337 speak or AIM
shorthand unless I'm making a joke. Please do the same.
DO NOT SEND: "omg d00d ur faq is t3h w34k!!!1!!!111! l0lgay!!!!111!!heh!"
2)  Please don't ask me how to do something I've already told you how to do.
I don't mind answering questions about things that need to be clarified,
but I don't want to keep replying to the same damn message from 20
diff. people regarding the same damn question that was IN THE GUIDE D: <
DO NOT SEND: "Umm how did I get Daedric gear again?"
3)  If you enjoy the guide, feel free to donate something to me. Music,
movies, books, money, whatever you want. I obviously can't make you give
me anything, but I'd totally appreciate, say, that $3 you were gonna spend
on fast food. For those wishing to show appreciation, e-mail me for the
details. Okay, shameless begging end. ^_^
DO NOT SEND: Things that will get the police called to my house.
Boring copyright info now.
This FAQ is copyright Eventide, 2007-current.
You can read it, download it, print it out for reference, distribute it for
free, or whatever. Have fun, do what you want as long as you're not making
money off it. But post it on another site without my knowledge or (especially)
my permission to do so? Or copypasta (copy and paste) the work I have done,
pretending you wrote the guide? In the immortal words of Will Smith, from
every movie he's ever been in: "Aww hell naw."
I've got no problem with you throwing my guides up there (unaltered of course)
as long as you abide by the following requirements:
1) Thou shalt not claim mine guide as thy own
2) Thou shalt not addeth portions to or removeth portions from mine guide
3) Thou shalt ask me if it is ok to put mine guide on thine site first
99.9% of the time, I will say "Sure", you will do what you wanted to do, and
we'll all have a fantastic time. (The .1% is reserved for people/sites that
want to steal OR have stolen in the past, and as such I am probably pissed at
them and will say "No!") Oh, unless it's GameFAQs or IGN, of course ^_^
This guide is now dedicated FOR LIFE (plus whatever else I write) to Neoseeker
and especially NOT GameFAQs, as GameFAQS is the AIDS that is killing the
video game guide community. Neoseeker is the vaccine that will save us.
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WHY THIS GUIDE WAS WRITTEN
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To teach the reader how to abuse some of the workings of Morrowind for
personal gain, do things that are SO... CLOSE... TO CHEATING without cheating,
and generally become so overpowered as to render the entire game ridiculously
easy ;)
They key thing here is actually NOT cheating! You will not be using some sort
of hack to break the game to your will, you will not be punching in some cheat
code to make things easier, and you will certainly not be downloading someone
else's save.
Oh, and I am totally aware that there are a couple of glitch/exploitation/bug
abuse (cheap play lol) guides out there already, but most have fallen by the
wayside in terms of updates, and some totally lack the information I have put
in this very guide. Therefore, I am laboring to make this the best possible
bit of writing on the subject. Here's hoping all that work wasn't for nothing.
Just remember: you're not cheating, but you ARE fighting dirty.
Too bad that in Vvardenfell, sometimes you can't win a fair fight. :D
There will also be some general information scattered around the guide. Little
tips to help players reach success, get some nice loot or money, find some
stuff that's hard to find, etc. It won't be entirely bug abuse, so sue me :0
It's bug abuse with a hearty helping of general FAQ, so everyone gets
something to enjoy here :D
And because I'm SO DAMNED NICE, I will even throw in a section on keeping down
your file size (which helps in reducing those nasty crashes). And no, I didn't
steal that part of the guide from ANY other guide, I actually wrote it.
Basically, this is going to be one heck of a guide for Morrowind. I'll even
show you how to complete the main quest (and thus BEAT THE ENTIRE MAIN
STORYLINE) without having to do any of the main storyline quests leading up to
it. That's right kids, you can actually beat the largest part of Morrowind in
one fell swoop.
SIDE NOTE: There will be several small parts where "points" will be awarded by
me, to you, for basically having fun with the game, doing stoopid things for
amusement, or paying attention to the text herein. Collect these points and
get a high score, or award them to Gryffindor, or whatever the hell it is you
want to do with them. E-mails with high scores *will* be acknowledged in
future versions of the guide (assuming I revise -__-)
Anyway, here's the class I used for the character I wrote this guide with:
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CUSTOM CLASS: BANDIT
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Class: Bandit
Specialization: Stealth
Favorite Attributes:
Strength
Endurance
Major Skills:
Long Blade
Light Armor
Short Blade
Speechcraft
Security
Minor Skills:
Axe
Blunt Weapon
Mercantile
Athletics
Acrobatics
About:
Bandits make their trade by wandering the land, pledging only false
allegiance, fighting for what they desire, and stealing what they can.
...Yeah, that's a little lame, but you get the gist of it.
Note:
The Bandit's a great combination Warrior-Thief (leaning a bit more toward
Thief) with better combat skills than the average thief given that he has
minors in most of the heavier weapons. Feel free to substitute Medium Armor or
any weapon as a major if you want a combat heavy Bandit. Minors in Athletics
and Acrobatics mean quick leveling plus multipliers in Strength almost all the
time, plus usual multipliers in Intelligence (because of Security). If you
play an Imperial, especially under the sign of the Lady, you'll start out with
enough Personality that you may not ever have to level it. You'll notice Sneak
isn't on the list. Well, most bandits you can think of aren't particularly
sneaky, but of course you can substitute whatever you want. Enjoy.
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STARTING OUT
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NOTE: If you have not yet enjoyed the story of Morrowind, I would not
recommend reading this guide. At ALL. I will liberally spoil some of the more
enjoyable parts of the game, so by all means, if you'd like to play it through
before you read onward, I will wait. For several weeks... or months ;)
Ok, I will *not* be doing a full walkthrough, but I will get you started on
your path to super-broken greatness. ^_^ You begin your game of Morrowind on
the slave ship (yes, you DO probably know all this) with your old buddy Jiub
standing over you.
"Stand up. There you go. Bla bla bla bla bla what's your name?"
This is where you enter your name. (10 points if you keep your character named
"Player") Jiub will talk some more (shut up, Jiub) and after a couple of
seconds the guard will come. I suggest you run *around* him and up to the
hatch, in the interest of saving time (since I'm pretty sure you've at least
played this part before). Open it and get out. Another guard standing on the
dock takes your race information, and you move on into the Census and Excise
office. Pick your class and get your papers, then go over to the wall and
steal (yes, STEAL) the limeware platter sitting on the shelf. The guard will
freak out. Drop the platter as quickly as you can. He'll just get onto you for
stealing. Pick the platter back up and move on at your leisure. In the next
room, why not steal a dagger, and a lockpick? Be sure to pick up that 100
valued Flin as well ;D Lockpick that chest too for 31 gold. Not bad. There's
some decent silverware lying around that's worth a little bit too, and if I
remember correctly there's some alchemy ingredient worth 100 gold in a sack in
the back (Dreugh Wax, perhaps?). Now, outside. Open the barrel and take all
the stuff. Go in the next door and talk to the Captain. Get the note and
package for Caius Cosades and leave. DO NOT steal things in front of the
Captain, because I doubt you could drop EVERYTHING you stole quickly enough.
Now head outside. Fargoth will come up and annoy you about some ring that was
stolen from him. Hey! We have a ring here... ehh, what the hell... give it to
him. It's pretty much worthless compared to what he will do if you give it to
him (recommend you to Arrille, thus ensuring you better prices for things you
buy and sell in Seyda Neen). Now go into Arrille's tradehouse and sell all of
the stuff you stole. Buy a relevant weapon and/or as much relevant armor as
you can.
NIFTY SEYDA NEEN "BUG": People in their houses don't seem to mind when you
steal their stuff. They just yell, and maybe punch you in rare cases. You can
actually kill them, steal everything they own, and sell it without getting
into trouble. Of course, if you kill people outside WHERE THE GUARDS CAN SEE,
you will get into trouble. If you're that hard up for gold, just go in
someone's house and steal something. They'll say something like "Stop that,
thief." and NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. So proceed to run around their house,
stealing everything that's not nailed down, while they stand there and curse
at you :D (oh, in case you didn't know, this doesn't work in too many other
places, but we'll discuss that later)
Anyway, go upstairs in the tradehouse and chat up Flat-Foot. Agree to find
Fargoth's little stash, and head over to the lighthouse. BTW, you can kill the
lighthouse keeper (even though you don't get much of value u_u) OR just go
upstairs and steal that nice 300 value book. Anyway, go out the door and rest
til about 10 or 11. You'll see a sneaky little guy with a torch. Guess who?
Watch Fargoth hide his loot in a hollow treestump. Wait til he starts walking
away, then jump onto the tree and fall safely to the ground. Take all his loot
out of the treestump. 300 gold (nice), a better lockpick (nice), and the ring
you gave back to him (meh). Don't go back to Flat-Foot. He'll take 200 gold
out of your findings, and you need it more than he does.
Ok, now go north out of town. Head west and follow the trail a little bit,
then go south off the trail and head south around rocks and stuff until you
find the dead tax collector everyone talks about when you ask about rumors.
Take all of his stuff and go back to Seyda Neen. Find Foryn Gilnith's shack
(in the cluster of huts outside the tradehouse) and ask about the  murder.
Yup, he did it and I just saved you a lot of asking around. Tell him there is
no excuse for murder, etc. and then kill him (you hypocrite ^_^) Let him hit
you first so you don't get done in for murder (you might as well start
learning this tactic for people you kill who don't have it coming, ie
townsfolk and the like). Be sure to poke around a little, he's got a few items
that are worth around 250 gold altogether. There's a book under the hammock
and an enchanted hammer in the basket by the door. Enjoy :D
Now go the Census and Excise Office. If you came here BEFORE killing Foryn,
you could possibly give back the gold the tax collector had on him, but why
lose good money? Anyway, you will be rewarded (500 gold, delicious :9). You
should have around 1000 gold in 15 minutes, which is not bad at all for a
level 1 character. Oh, I almost forgot that you should sell the tax
collector's ring. You COULD give it to his girlfriend at the lighthouse for 3
weak restore health potions, but that's a waste. (10 points if you already
killed the lighthouse keeper and stole the potions in question) Ok, last thing
in Seyda Neen. Go north-eastish until you see the big ugly bug (silt strider)
and you'll see a cave nearby. Go in.
Welcome to your first Bandit Lair raid. The enemies here should really not
give you much trouble since you have some nice gear, but if they do just back
off and rest outside or in Foryn's bed :D Once you've killed everyone, begin
looting. Take anything that has a value of 10 or higher. (10 points if your
character consumes his or her first official bottle of Skooma *in* the
Bandit's Lair) :D
NOTE: You will quite likely find some Skooma and/or Moon Sugar lying around.
It's somewhat illegal, so you won't be able to do business at many places
whilst holding it. Before trying to sell your loot, why not go to Foryn's
shack and drop it in a barrel or something? Yes, it IS worth a lot, but it is
not time to liquidate that asset yet ;) If you don't plan on selling any more
loot in Seyda Neen, feel free to carry it with you to Balmora, and drop it off
someplace there when you need to.
After you've sold all the plunderings you care to sell, hop on the silt
strider and head to Balmora.
You should have been playing maybe 30-45 minutes now, and you should have
somewhere between 1750-3000 gold, depending on whether you waited 24 hours
when (if) Arrille ran out of gold so that he could get some more, and how much
you stole and/or sold. Not a bad start, son. (following my own guide with my
test character, I had 2518 before leaving Seyda Neen, without stealing much at
all, and without selling any loot from the bandit's lair raid ^_^ not bad)
Now, Balmora. First things first, get rid of that letter and package. Give it
to Caius Cosades (his house is WAAAY back in the corner, kinda close to South
Wall). He should give you some money and tell you to do work, son. (10 points
for identifying the relevant pop-culture reference) Thanks, d00d! Now head
over to South Wall and talk to Sugar-Lips Hobasi. (10 points if hearing the
words "Sugar-Lips" somehow reminds you of MASH.) Join the Thieves' Guild and
ask about a job. Sugar-Lips will whine about wanting diamonds. Go to the
Alchemist across the river and go upstairs. Unlock a certain chest and take 3
diamonds. If you're feeling especially greedy, go back downstairs, swipe a
diamond off the shelf, and run like hell (yes, there's a guard RIGHT IN YOUR
FACE every time you walk into that shop). Hand one over to Sugar-Lips, and do
whatever it is you do with valuable items you steal.
BUG: If you find Hecerinde's house and ask him about South Wall as a member of
the Thieves' Guild, instead of "The South Wall is a working-class cornerclub
bla bla bla", he'll agree to help secure it. THIS _WILL_ CANCEL OUT ANY QUEST
YOU ARE CURRENTLY DOING FOR THE THIEVES' GUILD IN BALMORA, so if you want the
rewards/loot from a certain job, I'd hold up on doing this one. Go back to
Sugar-Lips and tell her about securing the South Wall. You just jumped through
all of the Thieves' Guild quests for Balmora :o However, this really dicks up
your advancement for the Thieves' Guild. You should be Operative by the time
you've done all the Balmora quests, and you won't make it from doing this
early on. This is basically because they used "South Wall" as a topic for
*everyone* in Balmora, and didn't specify the conditions under which it would
work for Hecerinde. So instead of asking "Where the hell is South Wall?" like
you would with everyone else, you ask "Why aren't you helping secure South
Wall?", even though your character has no damn idea what he's talking about.
Neat trick though ;)
Ok, now we're in good with the Thieves' Guild (one way or another), so that we
can get those annoying bounties off our heads when we get caught stealing or
killing people :D The next order of business... why not get a house to keep
all your loot in? Ignore going through all the Great House stuff to get a
stronghold (takes too long, no fun) or keeping your stuff in Caius' house (I
dislike the idea of this guy eyeballing my stolen property, plus he's got a
Skooma pipe under the bed) :| So what shall we do? Why not do the next
Thieves' Guild quest? That's right kids, Sugar-Lips wants the key to Nerano
Manor. Just go in there and wax Ondres Nerano. He won't put up much of a fight
at all (he's a stoopid noble), but killing him *does* mess up advancement in
House Redoran later on, so take note. So once he's out of the picture, take
his key and unlock all the stuff you can in his house. Now loot to your
heart's content. You should come across a decent 1000 gold worth of stuff at
least. Sell it all and you've got yourself a great big house to keep
everything you could ever want to keep in, and a bed to sleep in, and *LOTS*
of storage space in the bedroom (that sounds inappropriate) :( Ah, quick note
on his house. If you plan on enchanting some items later on, keep all the
exquisite clothing items in the chest of drawers upstairs. They make for
excellent enchanting (Constant Effect represent). (At this point I had 4221
gold, again with very little stealing. It's completely reasonable to assume
you could have anywhere from 4000-8000 depending on how much you steal and/or
sell. Still, a pretty good start, and will definitely get you some trainers.
You could easily hit level 3 with this amount of gold ;D if you wanna)
Ok, now here's some info on killing someone and looting their house, all for
the measly cost of 1 gold... NOTE: In order to do this without losing items of
value, you must have *no* stolen loot on hand. Not your weapons, armor, etc.
because you WILL lose them if you a guard catches you. Now, all you need to do
is go into a house and steal something worthless, like a cup that's worth 1
gold. You'll get in trouble because the poor schlub you're gonna kill will see
you steal it (if you're doing it right) and he/she  will attack you. Be sure
they hit you first, otherwise murder is the case. (10 points for identifying
the source of "Murder Was The Case", of course it's an easy set of points)
After they hit you first, kill them. Now, before stealing anything, either
turn yourself in to a guard (in to, not into. you don't want to be a guard) or
clear up your tiny 1-2 gold bounty with the Thieves' Guild. Now that you have
no bounty, go back to the house and steal whatever you please.
Oh, and you can live there too.
By now you should have some combination of the following:
- 4000-8000 gold
- a decent weapon
- an enchanted weapon for raiding tombs, etc.
(assuming you didn't sell all of them)
- some decent armor (a full set by now)
- a house in Balmora, a really big one :D
- training to the point of level 2-3 (if you paid for trainers)
- a decent foothold into the Thieves' Guild quests
- a hanging quest (the main one for the Blades, I personally didn't do it
until I was at level 25 or so, and breezed through the main line. Pretty
good idea IMO ^_^)
- Skooma/Moon Sugar saved up (to be sold later for a pretty nice profit)
You should be farther in your hour or so of gameplay (think I'm clocked in at
about an hour and 15 as I write this, plus time for rewriting parts of the
guide :D) than 95% of the people who play Morrowind, and you're absolutely
breezing through the game if this is your first playthrough (which you know by
now, I highly do not recommend. You are ruining the game's excellent story,
and you should stop reading from this point on)
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RANDOM LOOTZ
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Ok, this is likely to be a very very large list of loot you can find all over
Vvardenfell, along with how much each one will be worth when you find it. This
should be a good place to check if you're looking to get decent items or some
gold pretty quickly. Entries are pretty much randomly thrown together (as I
find them), so you may have to skim a little bit. I apologize ;___;
NOTE: This *will* be a large part of the guide, but it's all helpful info, so
why not add it in? Longer guide with some good money-making info is good :D
Those of you unsure of what to do with higher-value items? Just go to Ghorak
Manor in Caldera and visit your old buddy, the Creeper :D He'll buy almost
anything at full value, except alchemy stuff and books. He also has 5000 gold
on hand, and like all shopkeepers, gets more every 24 hours. Assuming your
item is OVER 5000, buy things from him first that add up to:
(Value of item) - 5000 (or, 5000 less than that item's value)
So, say you're selling a sword worth 17k. You'd have to buy 12k worth of stuff
so that he HAS the 17k, and then you have 12k worth of items you can re-sell
to Creeper, waiting 24 hours for him to get more money as needed.
FURTHER NOTES ON HIGH-VALUE SELLING TO THE CREEPER: Try to buy things that are
even multiples of 500 or 1000 if possible. Skooma works wonders here, as you
can combine them into any combination of thousands you need. I also used a lot
of Ordinator armor in my transactions, which should be 2000-3000 a piece. I
tell ya, selling off that Daedric loot takes FOREVER!
-Take the western trail out of Seyda Neen. Tarhiel will fall outta the sky
(watch out, he's heavy o_o). Feel free to grab his journal and anything he
has on him (those scrolls are pretty neat > _