Enchanted Compass - A Minimap Mod
🟠 Updated over a year agoPreview

🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.1% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #16 of 142 User Interface mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
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The mage guilds have the solution for the lost traveler and adventurer. The enchanted compass. This little trinket is nothing more than a cheap compass embedded with a soul gem fragment and enchanted by a guild recruit learning and honing his skills. Pick it up and see the world in a whole new enhanced vision as your senses are honed and a part of your mind floats above your surroundings.
[]Item System: Compass can be an item required to be equipped to use the compass map.
[]Compass Condition System: Compass has health and can get damage and broken over time.
[]Environmental Effect System: Compass is affected by the environment with effects including water droplets, blood, mud, dirt, dust, frost, broken glass, and even magical vortexes.
[]Compass Cleaning System With Animations: Clean your compass with a rag and watch it as it happens. The dirtier it is the longer it takes.
[]Compass Repair System With Animations: Using the compass repair kit will repair the compass; Watch as you take it apart and put it back together. If the glass is broken, you need a cut glass in your inventory. If the compass is really damaged, you may need to replace the dwemer dynamo. Don't move when repairing though or you will drop the compass and screw up the repair.
[]Smart Enchantment View: Your enchantment view will adapt to whatever your location is to ensure you always have the best understanding of your surroundings.
[]Full Screen Controllable Compass View & Individual Building Highlighting: When viewing the compass up close, you can move the view up, down, left, or right. When hovering over buildings, the compass view will tell you what it is.
[]Dynamic Entrance/Exit Markers: The compass finds the closest entrance and exit to buildings and dungeons. When inside an interior, the exit door marker will turn from green to yellow to red based on how far away vertical level wise you are. On the same floor, the door is green and the more floors you go up or down the closer to bright red it turns.
[]Soul Gem Quest Detector: The newest compasses now have a soul gem fragment set in them and enchanted to turn green if your in a region or interior with a quest and red when in a region or interior without a quest.
[] Dynamic Quest Bearings and Icons: The compass detects the most recent citizen request on your mind and will provide you bearings pointing you towards the request and then mark it with an icon when it comes into compass view. The bearing will then disappear once the icon is in map view.
[*]Adaptive Enchantment View: Your enchantment view will pick up more of your surroundings, including living things, and provide a bette
Enchanted Compass is a UI mod for Daggerfall Unity that adds a minimap to help players navigate the vast world of Illiac Bay and complex city layouts. With 509 endorsements and frequent updates, it's a popular quality-of-life addition for those tired of getting lost.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community favorite with 509 endorsements and 24k downloads
- Solves the game's biggest pain point: getting lost
- Actively maintained, last updated April 2025
⚠️ Cons
- Could conflict with other UI overhaul mods that alter the HUD
- May not be compatible with older Daggerfall Unity versions
- Potential performance impact if rendering a large map area
For Daggerfall Unity players who are tired of wandering aimlessly and want a practical navigation aid. If you're a completionist exploring every corner of Illiac Bay, this is a must-have. Skip if you prefer the authentic, challenging navigation of the original game.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you're running Daggerfall Unity, not the original DOS version, as this mod is built for the Unity port.
- Check the mod's load order if you use other UI mods to avoid overlapping elements.
- Use the mod's settings to adjust the minimap size and position to your liking.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Daggerfallunity Mods
- Author
- l3lessed
- Version
- 6.1
- Downloads
- 24,802
- Endorsements
- 509
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 9/24/2021
- Updated
- 4/7/2025
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