Consistent Keys

Consistent Keys

Summary

This mod renames the keys in the game so they'll have a consistent naming scheme. There are also options for other tweaks to keys.

There are two versions of the mod available: an MWSE version and a plugin version. Use whichever you prefer.

Description

Keys' names in vanilla Morrowind are all over the place. There are a few existing mods that address this issue by renaming keys, but either I wasn't satisfied with their naming scheme, or they make a lot of extra changes such as adding keys to the world or making them unlock additional things, or they don't cover the keys added by Tribunal and Bloodmoon. So I decided to make my own.

Keys have been renamed such that their names start with "Key, ". This means that all keys will now group together in the inventory, which is a definite improvement for convenience.

In general, the names of keys are otherwise similar to their vanilla names. In other words, with a few small exceptions for consistency, no important words are added to or removed from the key names. This is so the keys' names will give no more and no less information than in vanilla.

The second word in the name is generally the most important descriptor for the key, in most cases a location or owner's name. This way they'll sort in the inventory in a way that I think makes sense. Slave keys start with "Key, Slave, " so they'll all group together.

In addition, a couple keys that had been mislabeled are fixed.

Below are a few examples to give you an idea of the new naming scheme:

Rusty Key                                          -> Key, Rusty

Orvas Dren's Key                              -> Key, Orvas Dren's

Key to Worm Lord's Tomb            -> Key, Worm Lord's Tomb

Key to Aleft Chest                           -> Key, Aleft Chest

A Glowing Key                                  -> Key, Glowing

Ancient Daedric Key                       -> Key, Daedric, Ancient

Secret Palace Entrance Key        -> Key, Palace Entrance, Secret

Dwemer Key to Table in Mudan -> Key, Mudan Table, Dwemer

Key to Lower Arkngthand            -> Key, Arkngthand, Lower

Addamasartus Slave Key             -> Key, Slave, Addamasartus

One key is clearly special: Shashev's Key. Renaming this key would remove an intentional reference, so it's been made optional. In the MWSE version, it's blacklisted by default. Users of the plugin version can use the "Consistent Keys +1" plugin if you want to rename Shashev's Key.

In addition to changing names, this mod also sets the value of all keys to zero. In the Construction Set the value of almost all keys is 300, but for most keys (exceptions are those that don't open anything), Morr