Baldur's Gate 3 News

Baldur's Gate 3 modders have already cheekily unlocked a developer mode in Larian's toolkit, potentially paving the way for full custom adventures

Look, modders are like sand. Let me explain. I mean that as a compliment - they get everywhere, and often do it faster than you'd ever think. Take, for example, the modder who's already managed to unearth and unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's brand new official modding tools, which could soon make custom levels a reality.

Yep, if you're counting, Patch 7 only came out last Thursday, bringing with it that long-awaited official mod support after a few months of beta testing, and we're already chatting about people going 'Sod the official stuff you're making it a lot easier for me to do Larian, I'm gonna try something properly difficult'.

The mod that unlocks the chance for folks to have a go at this complex stuff is 'BG3 Toolkit Unlocked' from modder Siegfre, who's previously had a go letting you have a LAN party in Skyrim by playing with your mates.

Hack the planet, wizard fans. A modder has cracked open some previously disabled abilities in the official modding toolkit for Baldur's Gate 3, making it possible for folks to create their own levels or alter the game's existing environments. The toolkit (which was only made available last week) previously wouldn't let you do any of that, due to "technical constraints and platform-specific guidelines," according to developers Larian. But modders neither care nor sleep. It took them just two days to worm their way into the devkit's innards and make the impossible possible.

I get that a lot of people's Baldur's Gate 3 experiences were different from mine, but one thing that surprised me? How many swear the game's mod scene was essential to their experience. The big changes like new spells or classes always felt out of place in this RPG system I'd grown to love so much, while the small quality of life tweaks that really appealed to me always seemed like too much of a bother to get working. Now that the in-game mod browser makes installing them a no-hassle, one click process, I get it. BG3 modding, I apologize, I wasn't really familiar with your game...
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It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

Just two days after Larian released Patch 7 for Baldur's Gate 3, a massive update that included official mod tools and an in-game mod browser, modder Siegfre on the Nexus uploaded BG3 Toolkit Unlocked. This mod reactivates disabled features of the toolkit, including a full level editor. It's early days yet, but this could open the possibility for custom areas or even standalone campaigns made using Baldur's Gate 3's engine...
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At more than 3m downloads in just over 24 hours after Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 dropped, you can probably say that the modding tools are popular

Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 finally added in mod support, and safe to say, it's quickly proven popular amongst players.

Modding Baldur's Gate 3 has been plenty popular so far, but it wasn't until this week's most recent patch that introduced mod support where it became a lot more feasible. And less than 24 hours after the patch went live, Larian Studios founder and Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke shared that more than a million mods had been installed. Just to be clear, there obviously aren't that many mods available, it's just the total count across all players installing mods, but it's an impressive and honestly slightly frightening figure. You all really were desperate to mod the game, huh?

Just a few hours after that though, ModDB and mod.io founder Scott Resimanis responded to Vincke to note that the game "just ticked over [three million] installs and accelerating," so I repeat, you all were desperate to mod the game, huh? The Mod Manager does make it a lot easier to install mods, so it's no wonder so many of them have been downloaded - you can only imagine how many have been installed since then.