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This mod overhauls the cities of the Iliac Bay. Currently it varies city layouts, makes cities denser, adds navigable main streets, and adds farms, cropfields, and Kamer's windmills to the city outskirts.

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This mod overhauls the cities of the Iliac Bay. Currently the mod:
  • Varies city layouts, giving them randomly-generated, usually non-rectangular shapes.
  • Adds navigable main streets.
  • Removes residential and repeated service blocks, making cities somewhat smaller and denser.
  • Adds farms, cropfields, and Kamer's windmills to the city outskirts.

Required mods:
RMB Resource Pack
Windmills of Daggerfall by Kamer
Fixed Desert Architecture by Cliffworms
Daggerfall Expanded Textures by Ninelan
DET Harvestable Crops by TheLacus, Ninelan, and carademono
Rosy's Resources by RosyTheRascal (important note: Rosy's Residences not required)
New Paintings by PRAEst76

Known compatibility issues:
Because this mod changes city layouts, it works best with new games. You can probably get it working fine with your current games by deleting AutomapData.txt and DiscoveryData.txt in your savegame files (though note that you'll lose all your discovered locations). You may have to temporarily disable the mod to complete ongoing quests.

Beautiful Cities fully integrates Taverns Redone, Soldier's Luxury, Daggerfall Interior Enrichment Project, and Detailed City Walls. If you have both Beautiful Cities and Beautiful Villages active, you do not need to enable these mods.

Beautiful Cities is fully compatible with Finding My Religion, Famous Faces, and Lively Cities. Finding My Religion is required to sleep inside of temples for members. Locations Overhauled mods should be put lower in the load order for compatibility.

Beautiful Cities is compatible with Harvestable Crops, but the large cropfields outside of cities cannot be harvested. This is because these fields can contain as many as 10,000 crops. These require special handling for performance reason.

There are compatibility patches for Archaeologists Guild and ImmersiveTravel in the Files page. You can also download a compatibility patch for Bards and Balladeers.

Visitable Crypts and Town Graveyard Dungeons are not compatible with Beautiful Cities.

Performance issues:

If you are getting long loading times and low framerates, that's because of the huge cropfields this mod adds around cities. You can now adjust the Crop Density slider to the RMB Resource Pack's mod settings. Try setting it to 5 or 6. This will greatly decrease the number of billboards in the cropfields BCoD adds around the cities and should dramatically lower loading times and framerate drops.

Credits:
Podleron: RMB Editor
Kamer: for his gorgeous windmills
Cliffworms: this mod integrates Fixed Desert Architecture, Finding My Religion, Lively Cities, and Detailed City Walls
UncannyValley: huge thanks to Uncanny for permission to integrate Taverns Redone
AzimovYuri: huge thanks to Azimov for permission to integrate Soldier's Luxury
RosyTheRascal: huge thanks to Rosy for permission to integrate DIEP!
Ninelan: for everything in DET!