Must-Have Mods for Elder Scrolls Online: 10 Add-ons and How to Install Them with Minion

The add-on manager from MMOUI, the team behind ESOUI, where every add-on in this guide is hosted. You search for an add-on inside the app, click Install, and Minion puts it in the right folder. Update All then keeps your whole list current in one click, which matters in ESO because add-ons break with game patches.

• Free to download, for Windows and macOS, with a Flatpak build for Linux and the Steam Deck. Its change log mentions a small ad that supports development
• Finds your game and the add-ons you already have on first launch
• Backs up your add-on list and their saved settings, so you can restore everything after a reinstall (needs a free account)
• Minion 3 does not install the libraries an add-on needs by itself. Install them the same way, by name (see Step 2)

Whenever you harvest a crafting material, open a chest or fish a fishing hole, HarvestMap saves the spot and puts a pin on your map, your compass and in the 3D world. It only shows what you discovered yourself, unless you add the shared data from other players.

• Tracks ore, cloth, wood, runestones, alchemy plants and solvents, chests, heavy sacks, thieves troves, safeboxes and fishing spots
• A heatmap mode shows resource density, and a filter hides nodes that have not respawned yet
• Choose which pins show on the map with the funnel icon on the right side of the world map
• For other players' locations, add HarvestMap-Data and run its DownloadNewData script. Updating that add-on wipes the data, so run the script again after each update

Shows where every treasure map, survey report and Tales of Tribute clue leads, right on your world map. Loot a treasure map or a survey and you no longer have to compare a blurry painting with the landscape: the dig spot is pinned.

• Covers every known treasure map, survey and tribute clue location in every zone
• Comes with its own small minimap, and shows the spot on your compass as you get close
• Filter each pin type on or off from the world map
• It needs seven libraries, more than anything else here. Check the table in Step 2

Adds the pins the game does not give you: skyshards, lorebooks, dungeon bosses, unknown points of interest, chests, shrines, fishing nodes and the locations for dozens of exploration achievements. It works directly with the in-game map and needs no libraries.

• Turn pin types on and off in the world map's Filters panel
• Add CustomCompassPins to see the same markers on your compass
• Installing by hand? The folder must be AddOns\MapPins, not nested inside a second MapPins folder
• It has treasure and survey pins too. If you see double pins next to Lost Treasure's, untick one set in the filters

Turns the built-in world map into a small, always-on minimap. Because it is the game's own map, every pin from HarvestMap, Lost Treasure and Map Pins shows up on it without any syncing. It is deliberately lightweight: no rotation mode or border pins.

• Move and resize it in mouse-cursor mode (the . key by default, or press Enter as if to chat)
• There is a keybind to show or hide it
• Do not run it alongside another minimap, such as the one in AUI
• Includes world-map performance tweaks you can switch off in its settings

A library rather than a feature you see on its own. It lets other add-ons draw their own markers on the compass bar at the top of your screen. Lost Treasure needs it, and Map Pins uses it to show its pins on the compass.

• Install it once and leave it enabled. It has nothing to set up
• It is listed under Libraries in the in-game Add-Ons menu

Puts a countdown on each slotted skill that has a duration or a damage-over-time effect, so you know exactly when to recast it. It is the easiest way to learn a rotation, and it keeps working on the bar you are not looking at.

• Shows a second row above your bar with the timers of your back-bar skills
• Counts stacks on skills like the Nightblade's Grim Focus
• Switches timers to the target under your reticle, and blinks a little after a timer hits zero so you do not miss it
• A blacklist in its settings hides timers you do not want

Removes the small interruptions that add up over a play session: confirmation dialogs, spammy chat messages, guild invitations from strangers and alerts that tell you what you just did. Every option is a switch, so you keep the messages you actually want.

• Skip the fast travel confirmation, for wayshrines and for other fast travel
• Block random guild invitations, and the joined, left and kicked messages from guild rosters
• Hide the "house was recommended" alerts from Home Tours
• This is the maintained continuation by Dr_Z. Older No, Thank You! versions are still on ESOUI, so install only this one

Since 2026, Tamriel Tomes have replaced the old Endeavors and daily login rewards, and every completed challenge brings up a pop-up while its points wait to be claimed in the Challenges menu. This add-on claims your Tome Points automatically, or just hides the pop-up if you prefer to claim them yourself.

• Auto-claim is the default, and a chat message tells you which challenge was completed
• Switching to hide-only needs the optional LibAddonMenu-2.0
• It replaces the old daily-reward claimers, which have had nothing to claim since March 2026

Open a crafting station with a writ in your journal and the add-on crafts everything the writ asks for. Your daily writs can take less time than switching characters, which makes them worth doing on every alt.

• Picks style stones for you (the nine basic racial styles by default), and takes the quest items it needs out of your bank
• Loots writ rewards, handles the quest and bank dialogs, and protects you from stealing by accident while you do writs
• Type /dailyreset to see when writs reset
• Doing master writs seriously? The author points to Writ Worthy for those

Marks the items you never keep as junk, by rules you set once: low-quality gear, trait-less items, low-level materials, food, potions, treasure maps and more. It can then sell your junk automatically when you talk to a merchant.

• Exclusions keep what matters: set items, rare styles, Nirnhorned and intricate gear, and items you still need to research
• Go through every rule once before you rely on it, starting with the defaults
• Careful with the destroy options: the destroy keybind has no confirmation
• Not updated since 2023. The author notes that because LibSets is kept current, it should keep working without an update