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Dark Ages Dungeons

Published: Category:Dark Ages SeriesWritten by: Vexonar

Immense and Provocative

Carved from glaciers and volcanism, Skyrim’s dungeons and caves provide an unforgettable opportunity for any treasure hunter. Choose from two different texture styles to create your own picture-perfect look.

Features

Hauntingly Foreboding

Dark Ages Dungeons seeks to create an underground world that is both delightful and foreboding. While both packs include the same textures for forts, Dwemer and Nordic, the stones inside the generic dungeons and mines will be based on preference.

If you want the most out of your dungeons, make sure your interior lighting is set just right. Don’t forget to add Divine Interiors: Shadows and Light to provide the right atmosphere for your dungeon delving.

Formed of ancient geothermal activity

Fantasy dungeons are more of the rough-hewn volcanic rock set to the same texture as Dark Ages mountains.  You’ll find igneous rock textures that look like diorite and diabase or a blend of the two. Tamriel is an alien world, after all. It covers dungeons, caves, mines, Dwemer ruins, Nordic ruins, and Ruins Forts.

Due to the nature of the rock formations, very little of the meshes had to be fixed which allows for more space for other mods.

Includes

  • Nordic Dungeon Texture Sets
  • Dwemer Dungeon Texture Sets
  • Ruins Forts Texture Sets
  • Mines Stone & Wood, Scaffolding, & SMIM’d Ropes
  • Ivy & Roots
  • Doors & Dirt

Step into the familiar

Traditional Dungeons are more of vanilla aesthetics with sedimentary rocks and mineral layers. You’ll find textures that look like limestone, shale, and sandstone, rather than the igneous rock of the fantasy pack. Meshes have been remapped to provide fixes for the lighter-colored minerals and stones. It covers dungeons, caves, mines, Dwemer ruins, Nordic ruins, and Ruins Forts.

Includes

  • Nordic Dungeon Texture Sets
  • Dwemer Dungeon Texture Sets
  • Ruins Forts Texture Sets
  • Mines Stone & Wood, Scaffolding, & SMIM’d Ropes
  • Ivy & Roots
  • Doors & Dirt

Gallery

Enhance Your Game

Shape the world to your story.

Alien. Igneous. Step into another world.

Shape the world to your story.

Vanilla. Sedimentary. Step into the familiar.

Technical Info

Compatibility

Choose which texture pack works best for your vision of Skyrim.

This is a texture/graphic overhaul for all caves, mines, and dungeons. Each texture set contains the same set of Dwemer, Nordic, and Ruins Forts textures, but features rocks that are either igneous (Fantasy) or sedimentary (Traditional). Do not use it with other graphic overhauls that do the same thing. Do not use both.

Ropes are SMIM’d. Do not use non-SMIM rope textures. To complete the look for other places, add Dark Ages: Architecture to your load order. To achieve the same look as the gallery, add Divine Interiors: Shadow and Light to your load order.

Load Order

Meshes and Textures on your Logical Load Order sheet.

How To Use

Add mod to your favorites from the Bethesda.net website.

Download mod to your library from in-game.

Enable.

Have fun.

The Dark Ages Series would not possible without the following resources:

Artwork

ClearanceClarence for the mines, mountains, caves and signs Perms LinkSecondary Perms
T4gtr34um3r – some landscapes and the bridges Tarshana/ Open Source
Osmodius – for the various stone wall textures in Solitude, Riften, Whiterun, Windhelm and the roads Perms Link
Insanity Sorrow – for providing some incredible resources Perms Link
raiserFX – Detailed Rugs  
Langley – furniture bits, landscape ideas and clutter items Perms Link
Gutmaw – noble furniture/chairs Perms Link
Brumbek – SMIM furniture, clutters, architecture, jewelry, etc Perms Link
Brumbek SMIM Food- Tomatoes, Potatoes, Bread, Apples Perms Link
Crusty Loaves by Thunderfluff Perms linkMod Link
HQ Food by eratico – salmon, sweet roll, venison, slaughterfish, chicken Permissions ModLink
Melt in the Mouth by Elza for cream treats Modder’s Resource
Soups by Quib (Modders Resource files) File Link Soups by Kjell Granlund (Modder’s resource) Modders Source Files
mherp – for the signs Perms Link
benitoite for the honeypot Perms Link
CrazyLion – fort doors and other meshes Perms Link
HD Markarth elecgs Perms Link
HD baskets by Himini Perms Link
Original Xbox Mod Tarshana

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HQ Textures

HQ Textures Info Link
HQ Textures Wood Flooring
HQ Textures Cut Stone Textures
HQ Textures Slate Roof Textures
HQ Textures Wood Grain Textures

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Software

  • 3DSMax
  • Quixel
  • Nifskope
  • Photoshop

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