Silt Strider TES3MP

A Black Salamander Studios server project

Tales from Nirn: Silt Strider

Silt Strider is a persistent, roleplay-focused multiplayer Morrowind server. Shared land, shared ash storms, and the world carries on while you're offline. Play together or alone with friends or strangers and create your character's story.

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  • 117 Required mods
  • 229 Optional overhaul
  • 0.8.1 TES3MP build
  • OpenMW Engine

Announcements

Latest from the server

  • Merlin

    Update 1.7.0 - Real-time Travel, Sailable Ships and Silt Striders with friends, Companions Overhaul, Economy Overhaul, Serious Optimisations and Living World Updates

    This is a big one, I didn't realise just how much we've done in 10 days lol. Beside all the megathread bug squashing, tons of new gameplay elements you'll immediately notice as you play. Update is live now, just run the launcher (or download it if you don't have it already from ). Still no official ping yet, that will come Tuesday as long as this launch goes smoothly and there are no game-breaking bugs we...

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  • Merlin

    Launcher Week 1 Progress Update

    Hey folks, thought I'd give a quick rundown on what's happening this week and what's happened so far since new launcher released.

    • The launcher was released 3 days ago. In that time it's helped players get in much easier and reduced the barrier of entry, and has really brought in more activity. It's great to see.
    • In those 3 days, tons of bugs have been exposed in the megathread. Those bug reports have been really helpful, and the focus this week will be on tightening the questing system, especially regarding vanilla quest engine integration into AIRIS...

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  • Merlin

    Silt Strider Launcher (Unofficial Announcement until next week)

    I won't ping everyone, yet. That'll be next week after some live bug finding and resolving until next week, once Linux is also working. However, it's finally time.

    • The launcher is out.
    • No more Wabbajack.
    • No more faffing around with figuring out how to install with GOG.
    • No more needing to install anything except a single launcher.
    • Our own on-going tes3mp openmw 0.51 engine fork.
    • Full scale server systems updates and even shaders support.
    • Head to to download the new launcher.
    • For the...

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What makes it different

Most multiplayer Morrowind is vanilla Morrowind with other people in it. This is not that.

  • NPCs that hold a conversation

    The people of Vvardenfell talk for themselves rather than reading from a list. They remember who they have met, they know their own kin, and they bring up their own problems without being prompted.

  • Towns that change hands

    Every settlement has a holder, and how firmly they hold it is tracked. Influence, pressure and crisis all move. Settle the right problem for the right people and the map answers.

  • Roads made by walking

    The road network is not authored in a file. It is recorded by players walking the routes, and new roads join existing ones where they meet.

  • Consequence that follows you

    Witnesses report what they saw. Kill someone with family and the family finds out. Bounties, grudges and hunts all carry across sessions.

  • A pack worth the download

    117 required mods, with a further 229 in an optional overhaul tier for anyone whose machine can take it. The launcher handles all of it. No Wabbajack required.

  • Persistent, not reset

    Characters, world state and territory carry over between sessions. The server is not wiped between play nights.

Tales from Nirn

From the channel

Trailers, roleplay footage and the occasional look at what we are building.

More on YouTube

Where the project is

Silt Strider is live and playable, and it is also still being built. The living world layer in particular is under active testing, which means you will occasionally meet an NPC who contradicts themselves or a system that does not behave. We would rather run it in the open and fix it with players in the world than polish it in private.

If you want the stable experience, the server plays perfectly well as straightforward multiplayer Morrowind with a very large mod pack. If you want to poke at the strange parts, the Discord is where that conversation happens.

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