Telvanni Guard is aggressive towards exhibition piece in Dwemer Museum

Issue Description

Telvanni Guard is aggressive towards Articulated Amunculi Head (talking head of Dwemer robot) in Dwemer Museum. When head is killed player no longer can talk to it.

2026-03-22 23-29-18.mkv

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a test character, spawned in Tel Vos, Central Tower.
  2. Go to Dwemer museum on second floor
  3. Stand near robot head and wait for Telvanni guard to go to second floor during partol
  4. Notice: music changes to battle theme, when guard reaches second floor he summons a bonewalker and starts attacking robot head.

System Information

  • OpenMW Version: 0.50 Release
  • Operating System & Version:

Bazzite, created Fedora 43 VM in Distrobox and installed Fedora package of OpenMW into it.

Also observed on Windows.

  • GPU: Geforce 1050 Ti
  • Morrowind Version: Steam
  • Language: English
  • Addons: Tribunal, Bloodmoon

Mods

  • Are you using mods?

    OAAB Grazelands 2.1.0 + its dependency OAAB Data 2.5.1

    Also observed on Expanded vanilla mod pack

  • Are you using any shader mods?

    No

  • Does it happen in a clean vanilla install?

    Articulated Amunculi Head is not present in vanilla game. Telvanni guard is peaceful towards exhibition in original engine with the same mods installed.

Logs and Settings

Location: Tel Vos, Central Tower, Dwemer Museum

bc output on Articulated Amunculi Head

Report time: 2026.03.22 22:06:21 UTC
Content file: 5 [OAAB_Grazelands.ESP]
RefNum: 4294
RefID: "ABtv_Dwe_HelmTalking"
Memory address: 0x564e3703ce60
Cell: Tel Vos, Central Tower
Coordinates: 1376.48 1198.6 16207.4
Model: meshes/oaab/u/xdwhelmtalking.nif
(DIR: /var/home/onager/vm-homes/openmw-vm-home/morrowind-mods/OAAB Grazelands-49075-2-1-0-1737940444/00 Core)
Bound textures: 
  BSA: /var/home/onager/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files/Morrowind.bsa
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_03.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_03.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_05.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_02.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_00.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_steam_centurions_34.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_08.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_01.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_04.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_08.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_08.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_05.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/vfx_alpha_steam00.dds
    diffuseMap: textures/vfx_alpha_steam00.dds
Script: "ABtv_DwHelmTalking_s"

openmw.log

settings.cfg

Edited by Onager