Daggerfall Skyrim

The city of Daggerfall, as Skyrim would have built it.

Press Play and Skyrim Special Edition opens straight inside Daggerfall's walled capital, with no main menu. The town is laid out from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall's own map data, built with Skyrim's houses, walls and trees, and Daggerfall's music plays over it.

How it works

On every Play, a small launcher reads your own Daggerfall install. Nothing from Daggerfall is shipped or uploaded.

• Town layout: the 8×8 block grid of Daggerfall city comes from MAPS.BSA and BLOCKS.BSA. Each building lot becomes a Skyrim building matched to its Daggerfall type and size: houses, shops, smithies, taverns, a temple and guild halls, all from Solitude, Whiterun and Riverwood.
• Walls and gates: Whiterun's city walls, corner towers and gate towers follow Daggerfall's wall blocks.
• Streets: roads and dirt are painted onto the ground from Daggerfall's own ground tiles.
• Props: lamp posts with lit lanterns, trees, wells, market stalls and crates are placed where Daggerfall put its own.
• Surroundings: a ring of hills encloses the town.
• Music: Daggerfall's daytime town songs (FOLK, SUNNYDAY, SQUARE and more) are decoded from MIDI.BSA and played through Windows' built-in MIDI synth. The music pauses when Skyrim isn't in front.

When you quit, your Plugins.txt and Skyrim.ini are restored exactly as they were and the generated plugin is removed. If a run is ever cut short, the next run restores them first.

First version: kept small

• Single player.
• You can walk the whole city. Buildings can't be entered yet, and there are no NPCs, quests, guilds, dungeons or spellmaking.
• Skyrim only draws the area near you, so distant parts of the town appear as you approach.

Needs

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (Steam), started from Steam at least once before
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (the free Steam release works)
• No SKSE or other mods are needed.

Open source (MIT): the full C# source ships in the download. Remix it with credit.