Beginner's Guide To Install ADD-ONS using MINION

in this guide i will teach you how to download Minion and install any addons to your game and fix any common issues that comes with it,
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Context / Disclaimers

always be careful when editing game files cuz it can break your game so.. always backup before going forward

Lib = Library

What are addons and are addons legal?
Add-ons are extremely helpful in-game. While some games have banned add-ons (or mods), others openly embrace the modder community. Elder Scrolls Online is one such game.

In ESO, installing and using addons is completely legal and allowed. Adding them to the game is very easy, as you will see below.

i also have provided links to download and if you don't feel comfortable clicking on links i have mentioned Keywords to search it up by yourself.. :)


Now lets move on!!

Step 1 (Downloading & installing Minion)

To install minion you'll have to download the setup file from the official site

CLICK HERE [minion.mmoui.com] or Search "Minion Mod Menu ESO" on google and you will find it.

Once you get to the official site, Click on the BIG GREEN DOWNLOAD button and itll download an .exe file into your Downloads Folder,
Double Click on the EXE and Install Minion on your PC

Click Next, Next and then Install and the Launcher will install it to your HDD

Step 2 (Configuring Minion to Detect ESO)

Now i assume that you have ESO downloaded and Minion installed, so lets get on with step 2 which is where we locate the ADD-ON folder of ESO in your DOCUMENTS so minion can download any add-ons it Directly to it without any issue.

Now go ahead and Launch Minion.exe and Click on this + icon on top left corner to add ESO to your Games List and Click on Elder Scrolls Online

once you click on Elder Scrolls Online, it'll open a window for you to Locate Addons Folder, which will be located in your Documents;
\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns

Step 3 (downloading ADD-ONs)

Once you have done everything correctly as written above, you can go ahead and install Add-ons to your ESO game

to install any Addons, you can Navigate to Find More tab and Search for your desired addon and download it.

after installing you can Load up the game and goto addons tab ingame and click on RELOAD UI button to load in any unloaded ADDONS

Troubleshooting any issues

if your installed addon is in RED TEXT, that means your installed addons needs a library file that is not already installed in your PC

to fix this... you can expand the installed addon and find the lib files which arent installed in red and search them on Minion and install them.

Beginner Recommended Add-Ons

these are some addons i personally use my self and might help you are a new player just like me or a vet.

Addon Names

[1] Bandit's User Interface by Hoft
[2] Map Pins by Hoft
[3] Perfect Pixel by KL1SK
[4] Quest Map V.2.98 by CaptainBlagBird, Sharlikran
[5] By The Anscestors by kyoma
[6] Inventory Grid View by Randactyl,ingeniousclown

REQUIRED LIBRARIES (you can download from Minion)

[1] LibChatMessage (this is outdated but requred for QuestMap addon)
[2] LibCustomMenu
[3] LibDebugLogger
[4] LibGPS
[5] LibMapPing
[6] LibMapPins 1.0 r34
[7] LibQuestData
[8] CustomCompassPins
[9] LibAddonMenu-2.0

Must Have ADD-ON's

• AlphaGear2 by Mesota - Gear Manager
  
  
• Auto Category and Auto Category Revised - Inventory Manager
  
  
• Bandit User Interface by Hoft - Lets you Customise in-game UI ( health,stamina,magicka bars. maps and etc. )
  
  
• BeamMeUp by DeadSoon - This Addon will help you travel without spending gold, a wayshrine unlocker to be exact
  
  
• BugCatcher by Werewolf Finds Dragon - this addon will remove any errors from screen if any addons arent updated, and stop the addons cluttering your screen
  
  
• Code's Combat Alerts by code65536 - this addon will show if any ENEMY NPC's are trying to 1 shot you by showing a loading bar above your character
  
  
• Combat Metronome by Darianopolis - Global Cooldown timer visualiser ( you are capped to 1 skill usage per sec in a server so this will visualise it )
  
  
• Lazy Writ Crafter by Dolgubon
  Daily Alchemy by Marify
  Daily Provisioning by Marify
  
  
• Fancy Action Bars by Andy.s - this will show you both action brs/skill bars on your screen and the cool downs of the skills in the same screen.
  
  
• Action Duration Reminder by Cloudor - this will show you a cool duration timer for the skills making it easy for you to see if the skill it ready or not.
  
  
• Hodor Reflexes by Andy.s - MUST HAVE IF YOU DO RAIDS/TRIALS and a requred addon by trial leaders to check the party memeber's damage.
  (for this addon to to work at it full potential all the members in the party must have this installed for the party leader or anyone in the party to check a players damage dealing)
  
  
• Inventory Insight by Manavortex - account wide inventory item searching UI
  (if u have 5 characters and ur in another character and wanna know about an item in ur 4th character, you can use this UI to look it up)
  
  
• Item Set Collection Tracker by Zelenin - this addon will put a RED 'x' on an item if it isnt in your ITEM SETS COLLECTION
  
  
• Set Tracker by Elephant - this addon will show all the items that you dont have in red and the ones you have in green, better if you watch the video below to see it.
  
  
• Map Pins by Hoft - well, this addon will give a list of item that arent in you map and give to the option to show them, for example, if u turn on treasure in the item list and check ur map, itll show all the chests which are hidden in ur map
  
  
• OdySupportIcon by Odylon - puts role icons above ur party members head, for example if ur friend is a tank; he will have tank icon above him.
  
  
• Perfect Pixel by KLISK - better if u watch video to see what kinda addon this is, cuz this addon makes the game look way better than it is.
  
  
• Quest Map by Captain Blagbird - this addon will show all the side quests which are not visible by map default and put a yellow exclamation mark on the location
  
  
• Tamriel Trade Center by Cyxui - although its a good addon to have ingame, it requires you to download and update the price sheets manually and run a client in BG. not recommended
  
  What i do is simply search up TTC in google and search the item on their website.. which is way better in my opinion but its all comes up to personal preference
  
  
• Writ Worthy by Ziggr - Master writ crafting automaton

If any of these addons arent working, THAT MEANS THE REQUIRED LIB FILES ARE MISSING, SO SCROLL UP TO SEE HOW TO INSTALL AND FIX ALL THESE ISSUES.

THANKS FOR READING!!

Checkout my other guide's
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2758018071
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2782878668

[Oxcraig]

Minion won't let me use my AddOns folder that is located thru OneDrive. I don't install any games on the C drive as that drive only has Windows 10. All my games are on the E drive but the AddOns folder is located at C:\Users\mlabr\OneDrive\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\Addons. Is there a solution to this problem?

[Axiata]

thats weird... can u disable them all from main character menu? and log into the game and check if the ui is working and try /logout and turning on 1 by 1 and see whats the addon thtats breaking the ui?

or is ur problem that addons arent working like not executing after the update? did u check if theyre up to date?

[chriskop]

For some reason i can not see my addons in game after the update, everything done through minion

[Axiata]

yep.. every addons are working except for the inventory grid view, it crashes the ingame ESC menu...

[chriskop]

Are add ons working after update 33?

[Axiata]

theres more addons that u can use.. i mean now i have some ui addons like to change how buttons look and inventory grids... u can check on youtube if u want for addons suggestions..

thats how i found out about darkui and inventory grid view.. (both are in minion) and the the guy who commented was a irl friend of mine.. hes new to the game.. dont mind him

[Tsadhe]

want to elaborate? if its 5/10 can you share the addons that would improve it to a 10? Id like more im still new. or was that just a bait post?

[H4M00D]

eh.. i would give this guide a 5/10, keep it up

[Axiata]

Steam OS is linux, im probably sure minion is a windows application.. instead on downloading minion.. you can just download addon itself and extract them to the addons folder manually...
also im pretty sure thats the only way here.. idk i might be wrong..

[erehwon.menotu]

I'm sure this has been posted before but I just installed SteamOS...installed ESO on my nice new SteamOS box...How do I install Minion while in SteamOS??