The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind/Test Cells

This is a sub-page of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

These rooms were built specifically for development purposes, and are not intended to be found in-game. They can only be reached with the console using the command coc "CELLID".

To do: Screenshot the rooms.

ToddTest

Cell ID: "ToddTest"

ToddTest (presumably named after Bethesda's Game Director Todd Howard) is a room, modeled on the Puzzle Canal under Vivec's palace, used for testing, well, pretty much everything. The light brown bowl near where you enter, when used, will give you abnormally high stats, give you items and skills needed to test various parts of the game, and infects you with Porphyric Hemophilia. Also hanging around are five level-centric beasts, a Steam Centurion and six NPCs - three Ordinators, Admiral Rolston, Pretty Kitty and Todd's Super Tester Guy!, who offers every service in the game and has vast amounts of gold. The chests scattered around hold one of every item in the game except for Artifacts. Interestingly, Bloodmoon adds several chests with items specific to that expansion. There are also other items in the test level as well sitting on tables near the chest of books. Among them are soul gems with souls inside them, including an Azura's Star (A reusable soulgem). There are also a couple of Daedric weapons, the Bittercup (which greatly increases your character's highest attribute but greatly lowers the lowest one), and a few ingredients. Todd's Super Testing guy is in the "Blades" faction and attacking him will expell you from it. He also is marked as a guard and will attack the various creatures that spawn in the level upon seeing them attack you, as well as attempt to arrest you if you break the law in the test level.

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  A barrel to set up stats.

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  These bells are on the other side of the starting point. They play sounds. Probably for testing Activators that generate sounds.

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  One of the many enemies encountered in the test cell. Todd's Super Tester Guy will automatically attack as soon as he sees a creature. Probably done for testing Guard AI.

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  This table has all sorts of good items on it. There's a Daedric Longsword, a couple of soulgems with souls already in them, some gold, and a magic amulet. The chest contains just about every book, note, and other readable work from the vanilla game, including every skill book.

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  This table is across from the other one. It has a Steel Longsword, Bittercup, a couple of magic scrolls, and Azura's star with a soul already inside it.

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  Todd's Super Tester Guy has just about every service in the game. He's also a member of Blades and a guard. So not only can he arrest, the player will also get kicked out of Blades for attacking him unprovoked.

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  The Ordinators and door are always here. The boxes only appear if Bloodmoon is installed.

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  This table features alchemical equipment. The chest contains ingredients for said equipment but only the ingredients found in the vanilla game.

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  Featured here is the NPC "Admiral Rolston" as well as various containers. One of the barrels in the front of the screen tests sound effects while the other is for testing lockpicking. The chests behind the Admiral in the back contain every piece of unenchanted armor and weapon from the vanilla game.

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  This chest is a duplicate of the ingredients chest and contains the same things. The room in the back is a dead end filled with rocks and is frequented by the NPC "Pretty Kitty".

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  As for Pretty Kitty herself, she doesn't have anything notable to say or offer. She's about as generic as one can get. She doesn't even wear any clothing.

Character Stuff Wonderland

Cell ID: "character stuff wonderland"

This place has almost all the armor and weapons in the game... as well as some high-level monsters, so be ready to fight for it. The layout consists of a large circular room using the Dunmer stronghold tileset. Enemies found in here include a Steam Centurian, Ogrim, Skeleton, Clannfear, Dremora Lord, and Kagouti.

Mark's Vampire Test Cell

Cell ID: "mark's vampire test cell"

This cheery place has two vampires and a bed, presumably for testing the process of getting the Vampire Lurgy, having the requisite horrible dreams and becoming a Vampire yourself.

Clutter Warehouse - Everything Must Go!

Cell ID: "Clutter Warehouse - Everything Must Go!"

This bizarre room contains Lord Cluttermonkey, a hostile (and curiously, plot-vital) Argonian farmer with a nearly complete set of Daedric armor and a bizarre weapon called Clutterbane, and an NPC called Used Clutter Salesman who sells useless junk and has no money to buy things. This room houses lots of prop collections and setups for area designers to copy and paste as required. Lord Cluttermonkey may have been marked Essential either by accident or to test the Essential character flag. He is not the only instance of a character unrelated to any part of the main quest being marked as essential. One example is a Nord named Crazy Batou who carries the Bloodworm helmet artifact.

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  Clutter Warehouse - Everything Must Go!

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  Lord Clutter Monkey and his dialog. As you can see, he is also a merchant, though he only deals in lockpicks and he has none to sell nor money to buy them with. He has pieces of Daedric Armor he cannot wear (the boots and Daedric Face of God) in his inventory as well.

Redoran Interior

Cell ID: "redoran interior"

Seems to be an interior for testing the Redoran Interior tileset.

Redoran Interior2

Cell ID: "redoran interior2"

Pretty much the same deal as the other one.

Ken's Test Hole

Cell ID:"ken's test hole"

An empty room. The walls on the inside allow the player to walk through them into the black abyss. There are some rather valuable weapons floating in the sky above the player just tantalizingly out of reach for some players. Using the console command "tcl" or using a levitation spell can get the player up there. If the player has a high enough acrobatics stat or a strong jump spell it will also work. Provided its range is long enough, a Telekinesis spell can possibly also reach them. Due to the placement of the items above, it's possible that this area may have been used for testing levitation, or the layout was originally much different.