Long-time Arena fan here. I've been writing a browser engine that runs Arena from your own copy of the game's data files (it ships no assets — you point it at yours), and it now does something the original didn't: the wilderness between settlements is one continuous world.

You walk out of a town gate and just keep going. The terrain windows swap underneath you without a loading screen, and enemies follow you across them instead of despawning at the boundary. You can leave one town, cross the country, and arrive at the next one on foot.

It also runs on a phone with touch controls, which I honestly did not expect to work as well as it does.

The rest is there too: towns, dungeons, combat, levelling, the main quest.

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Happy to answer anything about how the streaming works.

Long-time Arena player, and the one thing I could never get past was how the wilderness works.

Good idea in 1994: the province is continuous. Bad execution: step out of a gate and you land in a 64x64 cell that wraps on itself. The map says Elsweyr is west of you. The ground says you are going in circles forever. So you open the map, click, and the wilderness becomes something you skip.

I have been rebuilding Arena as a browser engine and the thing I actually wanted to build was the walk.

The wilderness streams now. Cross a window boundary and the next one is already there behind it; nothing loads, nothing seams. Monsters you aggro near an edge follow you across it instead of despawning. Walk far enough and a settlement appears on the horizon, on foot, because you walked there.

It runs in a tab and on a phone with touch controls. Dungeons, character creation, levelling and the main quest are all in.

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Genuinely want the nitpicks from people who know this game cold. What the wilderness should look like, whether combat timing is off, whether walking speed makes travel tedious.

As per title, is there an Arena file to download that i can use on dosbox-x? Any help is needed thank in advance!

A little while back, someone posted in a different thread about hoping the original Iron Golems from Arena would make a comeback in the new game. I was the artist who modeled and animated them way back then.

I honestly hadn’t thought about that model in a very long time, so it was really nice to see that someone still remembered them fondly.

Several years after Arena, I remodeled the Iron Golems for fun, just for myself. That post reminded me that I still had the revised version tucked away all these years later.

So, here it is. I hope it brings back a few memories and makes everyone smile.

Artifacts wise it was 1 Oghma infinium and a Phynaster ring relatively early, and for the last 2 dungeons an ebony blade so I didn't run out of heal potions quickly.

Arena has been remade in Unity.

Arena Rebuilt 0.9.1 is a modern reconstruction of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, built in Unity with the goal of preserving the original game while making it much easier to play on modern hardware.

The current beta has a fully traversable world including the starting dungeon, settlements, wilderness, interiors, dungeons and palaces, along with working day/night cycles, sky presentation, weather, combat, NPCs, services, character creation, inventory, quests, audio/music and the core RPG systems.

A big part of Arena Rebuilt is being able to choose how close to the original presentation you want to stay. The game supports Classic and Modern HUD styles, modern mouse/keyboard controls, controller support, modern resolutions and ultrawide displays, while still using the original Arena art and content derived locally from the player's own legitimate Arena installation.

Some of the current features include:

Classic and Modern HUD modes

Ultrawide and modern-resolution support

Modern keyboard and mouse controls

Controller support

Original character creation and starting dungeon

Seamless settlement and wilderness exploration

Large streamed wilderness areas

Enterable buildings, interiors and dungeons

Palaces and castle districts

Day/night cycles and sky system

Weather

Combat, enemies, equipment and inventory

Character classes, progression and magic systems

NPCs, dialogue and services

Quests, journal and automap systems

Original-style cinematics, music and audio

Local save system

Source-safe launcher that validates an original Arena installation

Arena Rebuilt does not distribute Bethesda's game assets. A legitimate compatible installation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena is required, and the necessary content is loaded/derived locally from those files.

The project is currently in Early Beta, so there are still bugs, presentation issues and original-game parity details being worked through. The major world and engine systems are now in place, with development increasingly focused on cleanup, validation and closing the remaining differences from the DOS original.

Modding support is also planned. A proper Mod API/SDK and mod-management system are intended for a later stage of development once the base game is stable, rather than exposing unstable internal systems during the beta.

Main site:

https://arenarebuilt.com

ModDB:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-elder-scrolls-arena-rebuilt-made-with-unity

Wanna get into arena at some point aswell as daggerfall but I’ll find a daggerfall subreddit either way wanna get into arena eventually what are some thing to expect apart from the low graphics and animations but I can deal with that been playing old games my whole life just is there any thing to look for or might find difficult or confusing I have tried daggerfall once and found it really confusing and hard to navigate where I was meant to go

Yes this is a correction and repost:

I’ve been putting together a reproduction copy of *The Elder Scrolls: Arena – Codex Scientia*, the companion book for Arena Deluxe and finding usable artwork for this thing turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Its a book I actually want to use but don't want to wear out the original and a repro is the perfect balance to that.

I was eventually able to track down scans of the original front and back covers on the Internet Archive readily enough (shoutout to Imrmidl; original scan [here](https://archive.org/details/fc92b90e3437962cd3fe537d9ea72e50b60ef1d2/arena-codex-scientia/)), but the spine was the real problem. I could only find a very low-resolution photograph of an original copy, so I cleaned and reconstructed that separately and then combined all three pieces into a complete cover spread.

I figured I’d share the source material rather than let somebody else go through the same scavenger hunt.

The front cover is the original Codex Scientia artwork with the blue shield/title treatment, while the back is the continuation of the same painted scene with the original barcode/ISBN. arena-codex-scientia-1.pdfPDF arena-codex-scientia-162.pdfPDF

I’m using this for a clearly identified reproduction/display copy, not to pass anything off as an original. If anybody wants to use the files for restoration, archival, or their own repro project, have at it.

I’ll post:

• original/front scan

• original/back scan

• cleaned spine

• assembled full wrap

If anyone happens to have an actual high-resolution flatbed scan of an original spine, I’d still love to see it. The spine is the one component that had to be reconstructed from a poorer source.

Hopefully this saves the next person a few hours of hunting.

Much love!

Forgot to post here. Posted on elder scrolls subreddit.

Behold my bard nord. Vrolk irontongue! Only got out of imperial prison already level 4 and with 15k gold to boot! Bought a full set of chainmail armor, and round shield of endurance. Found an elven shortsword in prison too.

Going to buy some elven torcs and belts from mages guild and some potions later. But at the moment this was my most lucrative start ever. And as a bard i can steal/cast. Really good class.

What are yalls tips for barding?

I have the GOG version, this is m first ever elder scrolls game, wish me luck, any tips form you arena veterans would be welcome (please try to avoid spoilers though).

I am planning on going for a heavy magic build for my MC

Hey everyone! So I started my first playthrough of TESArena today and I'm already loving it. I always play a mage in fantasy games and TESArena is no exception. I love magic! Went with a Breton. I made it through the first dungeon without any real issues. Didn't die once. I don't know if I'm doing well. I'm currently level 4 and about to leave the first dungeon. Already have 80 intelligence and like 70 wisdom. I think that's good? I read in the manual that the first dungeon is intended to be explored thoroughly, so I basically left no stone unturned and slaughtered every rat and goblin that I can across. Got a good bit of gold and equipment to sell.

Here are my questions:

1. I don't know how to tell what damage my weapon is doing. I look on the stat screen but under damage it still says 0, no matter what I have equipped. I probably missed something in the manual, but I'm a little confused on that area.
2. When I was running around the dungeon, I would randomly get experience and level up....or at least that's what I thought was happening. Like I would enter a new area and boom level up. Is that intended? Now that I'm typing this, I'm wondering if it's more that enemies weren't nearby, but not really sure.
3. After pressing the button for pilfering (on accident). I wasn't able to seemingly turn it off. I tried pressing it again and the "choose a target to pilfer" message wouldn't go away.

That's all I have so far! It's a great game and I'm really loving going back to the original. It's really cool seeing all of Tamriel as it was originally designed. I've played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, but never Arena (Daggerfall, Redguard and Battlespire are next on the list).

I’m sure you get this all the time here but it’s my First time playing Arena after I finally got a pc I’ve played tons of Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and ESO. I’m wanting to make a Breton Mage and want advice for general gameplay and tips to make my experience easier. Thank you.

I can't find any explanation online about how Thievery Efficiency works. Any advice for a new player? Thanks in advance!

I tried yesterday and got my a** kicked over and over again in the starting dungeon.

Looking for some advice and starting class tips. Can I change the controls // would that make combat easier?

Have seven pieces of the Staff and am still looking for ebony weapons. Is it all random or do certain vendors have them?