How to Mod Baldur’s Gate 3 – Step by Step Guide

Dungeons & Dragons

May 1, 2024

Emmanuel Echoga

Baldur’s Gate 3 offers so much adventure in the Forgotten Realms . With more customization choices than ever, playing such a creative game can be so much fun. This is all thanks to its determined community of players in the Baldur’s Gate 3 player count, who have been hard at work, making various mods for fun and function to improve your adventure. If you are interested in joining the fun, here’s how to mod Baldur’s Gate 3.

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Learning How to Mod in Baldur’s Gate 3

Thankfully, programs like the game’s fan-made Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Manager simplify the potentially difficult process. They automatically detect downloaded mods and handle the heavy lifting for you. You still have the choice to install the mod manager and choose which mods to activate during your play session.

Here’s a step-by-step process of customizing your gaming experience:

Download and extract the Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Manager (Nexus Mods or GitHub).
Run Mod Manager.
Manually download the mods you want from a mod website.
Extract the mod files, and copy the .pkg file in the folder located at the following pathway: C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur’s Gate 3\Mods. That’s the general game path, locate yours if you changed it when installing.

Note: the \AppData\ folder is hidden by default. Go to View in the file explorer and check the “Hidden items” box.

Head over to the Baldur’s Gate 3 mod manager and click “Refresh” until the mod shows up.
The mod itself will be on the inactive pane at first. All you have to do is drag and drop it on the active pane to activate it. The number beside the mod files ensures the mod’s load order. The higher the load order, the higher its priority. The mod’s author should indicate an ideal load order for their mod. If they don’t, gameplay changes and overhauls would typically be loaded first, while less extensive mods like hairstyles would load towards the back.
Save the load order by pressing Ctrl+S, and then launch the game from the mod manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+G.

Where to get mods

The beauty of mods is that there’s really no limit to the kind of things you can add. Nexus Mods would be the best place to get Baldur’s Gate 3 mods really any other games you want to have a go at. It has nearly 4,000 mods for you to download, which is a pretty insane amount. They range from quality of life changes, weapon additions, character customization, and many more.

We hope this guide proves helpful in showing you how to mod Baldur’s Gate 3. Also, an important note – make sure to have a separate save for your original playthrough just in case of any problems, as it is known that modding isn’t always safe and could corrupt your save file.