Usable Starting Equipment
🟠 Updated over a year agoPreview
🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #11 of 200 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
After character creation, the mod checks your weapons and armors for forbidden materials, weapon types, armor types and shield types.
When possible, it downgrades the item to a poorer item you can use.
You start with Iron Greaves
If you can not use plate, you get Chain Greaves.
If you can not use chain either, you get Leather Greaves.
If you can not use leather either, you get a random piece of clothing for legs.
When a weapon or shield is impossible to downgrade further, the item gets removed and you receive a small random amount of gold instead.
Also: some quest mods add items at game start. These are currently bugged so you will get iron weapons with the color of elven.
This mod will convert these items to the material they appear to be. As long as you are able to use that weapon type and material.
Usable Starting Equipment is a compact gameplay mod by Ralzar that checks all weapons and armors after character creation to ensure you can actually use them. With 661 endorsements and 51,004 downloads, it's a popular quality-of-life fix for players tired of starting with unusable gear.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 661 endorsements and over 51k downloads.
- Solves a real annoyance: starting with gear your character can't wield.
- Simple, focused mod that does exactly what it says.
⚠️ Cons
- May conflict with other mods that alter starting equipment or character creation.
- Only affects starting gear, not items found later in the game.
- No detailed patch notes or compatibility list provided.
For players who hate when their new character spawns with a weapon they lack the skills to use. It's a must-have for roleplayers and min-maxers who want a clean start. Skip if you never pay attention to starting gear or if you use overhaul mods that already handle this.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you're using a mod manager, just download and activate; it's a simple plugin.
- Check your load order to ensure this mod loads after any mods that change starting equipment.
- Test with a new character to see the effect immediately.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Daggerfallunity Mods
- Author
- Ralzar
- Version
- 1.0.5
- Downloads
- 51,004
- Endorsements
- 661
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 9/23/2021
- Updated
- 5/18/2025
🧩 Commonly Used Together
Users add these mods to the same collections — a real compatibility signal, not an AI guess.
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