Our March release continues to be available at our website, TESNexus, and Great House Fliggerty.

Download: Main Mirror | Fliggerty | Nexus

Tamriel Rebuilt is pleased to announce the release of build 16.03!

What’s New

Aside from continuing the trend of bug-fixes and internal housekeeping from the last update, this update includes various minor additions to all of the files, the most visible of which is an overhaul of southern Morrowind's provisional heightmap. Our next update will be released in June 2016. Future updates will continue to be maintenance releases. Our project is currently in the final stages of planning and conceptualization of House Dres and the Deshaan Plains, so stay tuned for further updates on this front. Please consult our changelog for a detailed list of changes and fixes. You are encouraged to visit our forums, or social media outlets to keep track of current progress.

For more details, please watch the release video above! And now for a special announcement...

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The Tamriel Rebuilt Team needs YOU!

That's right. For the first time since the initiation of our ongoing project restructure, we are calling for your help. As we are now in the leeward end of our major transition, the time will soon come when we will resume work on planning and developing actual content.

We are in need of a wide range of skills, from administration, organization, planning, writing, art, assets, and eventually actual construction/implementation. Don't worry if you don't know how to use the CS, as contributions to planning and art design will greatly accelerate implementation, and are just as important towards making measurable progress. There are many things to be done outside the construction set. For more information on the types of work we need, check out our Help Wanted page! Our showcase policy has become less restrictive in recent months, and is now only required for actual Construction work. Concept Art, Assets, Literature, writing and planning are exempt from the process and is now open to all.

Tamriel Rebuilt is pleased to announce the release of build 15.12!

Download: Main Mirror | Fliggerty | Nexus

What's New

We have a release video!

Aside from the usual bug-fixes, we have been focusing a lot on internal housekeeping, sorting out our plugins and file structure to make things easier for us going forward. That being said, this release is not without new content to play with:

A small plugin which adds travel locations across all of the areas we have created so far and integrates our travel network with Vvardenfell's has been packaged with the main download. This plugin is designed to be loaded with TR_Preview, but is not dependent on it; players using the plugin without TR_Preview loaded may just end up traveling to the middle of the ocean if they pick a destination outside of the TR_Mainland landmass. Aside from being a convenience measure, this plugin also provides a rough idea of the travel network we will be working towards including in TR_Mainland. Please post any feedback to this plugin in this thread.

The travel network as it currently stands can be seen here:

TR_TravelRoutes_Solstheim-thumb.png

On a smaller scale, some cell names have been added to Almalexia to aid orientation within its vast sprawl.

As always with updating, please be sure to remove the previous install of Tamriel Rebuilt in its entirety. For a full list of changes, please consult the changelog file that is included in the package.

Our next update will be released in March 2016.

Thank you for your continued support, and we hope you enjoy this release!
-The Tamriel Rebuilt Team

It's almost been a year since the last news update, but we've been chugging along below the radar. Enough time has passed since our structure overhaul so that we can see what has worked out well and where we need to make further improvements and adjustments, and this short update will focus on a few examples of the latter:

While the more open Lead Developer/Senior Developer system has generally been an improvement over the prior, more secretive and exclusive management structures, some organizational work -- such as posting news updates -- has fallen by the wayside in the transition between management. We are working on amending that -- our tumblr page which has long been inactive has been revived for instance -- but still have a ways to go.
The move to the new website and restructuring of the forums has also never really been completed. As far as the latter is concerned, at least, we're working on it right now. We've fixed permissions, consolidated the antiquated forum categories, forums and sub-forums, and have begun the process of moving obsolete threads to the now-visible forum archives and replacing all the ancient and convoluted stickies that are littered about the place.

So in short, the forums and website are still a mess, but we're sorting things out and will keep you posted. Once we're done, TR will be cleaner and more accessible as a website, a forum and project. Thank you for your understanding.

In an effort to make our content both finished and unfished more accessible to the public, we are phasing out our current system that bills our content into major “releases” in favour of a model that allows content to be released more gradually and frequently.

Starting from our next update/release (which should come soon), we will no longer be releasing content based on the “eight major releases” plan. Given the lengthy (and increasinly non-linear) nature of TR's development, we have decided that our prior approach no longer suits our needs or desires to release content to you in a timely fashion.

Instead, we will be taking the approach of simply adding onto the main download as we finish areas, wherever and whenever they become playable. You will be recieving bite-sized chunks of our content gradually as we progress towards completion. We are moving to a single release/update stream where both minor bugfixes and additions will happen simultaneously. So rather than say a major “Almalexia” 1.0 release, followed by subsequent bugfixes, you will get a single update with a snapshot of all progress. Some updates will be major, and some not as much. Think of it as your operating system updating itself throughout the course of its' life. This should reduce the confusion and consolidate all releases from now on. Any land additions to the main file will be marked and emphasized in the changelog.

We are also merging our Alpha and Main releases in the same stream, instead of releasing them seperately and at seperate times. Each iteration of Tamriel Rebuilt's public release will include the Main ESM file containing our playable content, as well as the optional Alpha ESP containing our unfinished content. As content in the latter becomes playable, it will migrate into our Main ESP. Bundling both files together will help reduce file incompatibilites with users who choose to use both files. It is recommended that if you wish to use the Alpha however, that you do so with something other than your current savegame, as it's strictly for playtesting and experimental purposes only.

Finally, all future builds of Tamriel Rebuilt will be versioned based on the year and month of that update/release. So if an update/release happens on August of this year, the build number would be 14.08 (quite similar to Ubuntu's release scheme). Should hotfixes need to be released for major issues, the specific day will also be fixed to the version number. The names originally intended for our major releases will still be used as codenames to mark major milestones (like the completion of Almalexia or the the Thirr River). Hopefully this numbering scheme will make it much easier to keep track of progress, and ensure one always has the latest version of TR installed.