Daggerfall Dungeon Variety

Description

There are 18 different types of dungeons in Daggerfall. Aside from enemy spawn tables, loot tables, and brief flavor text upon entering, there isn’t much to distinguish these various dungeon types. Harpy Nests will always look exactly like a Vampire Haunt which will look exactly like an Orc Stronghold. Daggerfall Dungeon Variety attempts to fix this by giving each ordinary dungeon type its own hand-authored texture set, making dungeon types truly feel like their namesake.

Each dungeon type can be enabled or disabled in the mod settings. Dungeon types disabled in the mod settings are left completely alone and use Daggerfall Unity's normal dungeon texture behavior.

Main-story unique dungeons are intentionally untouched. 

All textures have been palettized to match Daggerfalls original color palette. 

Human stronghold dungeon type has been left to use the default vanilla dungeon tileset, since it seems the most fitting.

How It Works

Daggerfall Dungeon Variety is a little more involved than a simple texture replacer. It identifies each dungeon’s type at runtime, selects a matching visual theme, and applies thousands of exact texture rules across dungeon geometry, injected models, billboards, and the automap. This allows different dungeon types to maintain distinct appearances while remaining compatible with supported texture and model overhauls.

Mod Settings

Open the mod settings from Daggerfall Unity's Mods menu. Each ordinary dungeon type can be enabled or disabled individually.

When a dungeon type is When a dungeon type is enabled, Daggerfall Dungeon Variety applies its authored texture set.

When a dungeon type is When a dungeon type is disabled, the mod does not alter that dungeon type at all. Daggerfall Unity will use its normal dungeon texture behavior according to your launcher settings, including Classic, Climate, or Random dungeon textures.

Main-Story Dungeons

Main-story unique dungeons are deliberately excluded from this release. They should therefore appear exactly as they normally would in Daggerfall Unity. This is intentional. Unique main-story dungeon appearances may be handled separately in a future version.

Compatibility 

If another mod replaces the same dungeon textures, results may depend on mod load order.

Dungeons of Daggerfall - Vanilla Redux by SquidKamer - Compatible

Vanilla Enhanced by carademono - Compatible

Unofficial Block Location and Model fixes by XJDHDR - [co