Just four days after the Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Tools Official Release and Larian’s official partnership with Mod.io to host the modsThe site’s mod downloads for the game are already at nearly five and a half million. The most popular Baldur’s Gate 3 mods so far are:
- ImpUI (Enhanced UI) with 283K downloads
- Faces of Faerun with 180 thousand downloads
- Adjustable party limit with 116k downloads
- Kay’s Hair Extensions with 108K Downloads
- Minor fixes in Mod Manager with 97k downloads
- UnlockLevelCurve – Level 13-20 with 91k downloads
- FaerunColors with 88 thousand downloads
- All Camping Clothes and Dyes with 82K Downloads
- Best inventory interface with 70k downloads
- Weightless consumables with 67 thousand downloads
- Best Hotbar 2 with 65k downloads
- Origin Feats with 61 thousand downloads
- LemonShaderBase with 60 thousand downloads
- Lemons AIO Pack 2 with 60 thousand downloads
- Lemon AIO Pack 1 with 55 thousand downloads
- ContainersExtended with 55 thousand downloads
- Kay’s Hair Mod with 54 thousand downloads
- Leicarna Piercings: Crystals with 54 thousand downloads
Many of these are simply reposts on Mod.io of mods that were already available on Nexus and were made without the mod tools. Still, having access to the mod kit will allow modders to make new and potentially better mods for Baldur’s Gate 3, so it’s worth keeping an eye on the scene.
The implementation designed by Larian and Mod.io includes a built-in mod manager, which allows users to easily download and install mods within the game. This was particularly important to implement because Larian wanted Baldur’s Gate 3 mods to work even on consoles, which would not allow for the traditional PC modding tradition of downloading files from third-party sites and installing them in a somewhat complicated way.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 7 isn’t available on consoles (or Mac) yet, but it’s due out next month, so you won’t have to wait too long. We’ll let you know when it goes live.