The Caldera Ancient Mine 2020

Description

The Caldera Ancient Mine is a large and hard dungeon or rather mine in 6 sections or rather 7 sections that was originally released 1 week before the release of Oblivion 2006 that I now have remade some. I recommend minimum lvl 30 but some claims lvl 40 as I want it hard. The main reason I made it was that I needed a lot of glass and ebony for a crafting mod I used to play and it works perfect with any crafting mod that uses standard glass and ebony and there is some of that in this mine for sure.

Go to Caldera and listen to rumors (or just visit the blacksmith)

Mods that changes the landscape in Caldera will make some things to look a bit odd as I added 3 sewer objects at the exterior.

I have tested it with Caldera Mine Expanded and with Morrowind Crafting and they work perfect together and Feuerkl1nge did add some rocks at my spot so I had to move my guard a little bit but it just made it look better. Morrowind crafting has a door next to mine but they do not conflict.

Added path grids in every cell

Exchanged all failed ghostly miners to UserExists Skeletons and made each and everyone unique, with unique Dunmer names

Added other small critters through Levellists instead of direct

Added Creature levellists to the sewers, which will be fun depending on which monster mods you use. Giants makes it a bit funnier really with this levelist

Moved my guard in Caldera mine a little bit to fit better with the other Caldera mod

Some spell and grammar corrections

* Cleaned it with Tes3cmd

When did the mining operation get started in the Caldera in the first place? Well 2e 583, the Caldera Mine area is nothing else then just a Volcano Caldera (ESO) so I have been thinking about this some and I think this is what did happen:

Ebony was found in the Caldera crater a bit in to the 3rd Era and a big Dunmer mining crew started to dig it out and they also found glass deeper in to the mine complex . After a while the entrance to the Ancient Mine collapsed and the miners couldn't get out so they died but something kept their corpses alive or reanimated so they continued to dig the mine out, making it to the large complex it is today. But why didn't they dig them self out? That is a very hard question to answer as I do not know how these miners thinks really but maybe they did finally and maybe that is how this old section got rediscovered?

Caldera is an Imperial City so the question is if the mining started after the city was built or did they build the city first after they discovered the rich mine? Did the Dunmers begin to mine the area before or after the Imperials came to Morrowind in the 3rd Era? I have tried to find answers but...