Now you can formally create and use Baldur’s Gate 3 mods on PC

Baldur’s Gate 3 modding has arrived for PC gamers. After a closed alpha in June and an open beta in July, the long-awaited Patch 7 — which would be the sport’s final large replace — is now obtainable. It allows you to mess around with user-created weapons, armor, lessons and subclasses, spells, cube skins and absolutely anything else you’ll be able to think about.

Mods can be found by means of an official (mod.io-powered) in-game Mod Supervisor and exterior channels. “We are going to by no means stop modding exterior of our personal official pipeline,” Larian Studios wrote. However the developer says its formally authorized mods are focused for stability and cross-platform compatibility. “It’ll additionally guarantee a smoother expertise, at the price of extra script-focused modding, which might nonetheless be accomplished exterior of our pipeline,” the studio wrote.

Larian stated earlier this summer time that Baldur’s Gate 3 mod help would arrive on PC first, with Mac and console help “shortly after.” However the developer clarified in an replace at the moment that console (PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S) and macOS gamers can count on Patch 7 in October.

That presents some short-term compatibility points. If you’d like your sport save information to work throughout PC and console, you’ll want to carry off on putting in Patch 7 in your PC. Nonetheless, cross-platform save compatibility will return in October when the replace lands on PlayStation, Xbox and Apple gadgets.

Larian says Patch 7 in Baldur’s Gate 3’s console variations will embody “a further curation course of” to find out which mods can be obtainable throughout platforms. “Whereas not all PC mods will grow to be obtainable for console, we’ll make sure to publish tips that will help you perceive what sort of content material will cross our needed checks — with out blocking any unsupported inventive mods on PC — in order that we are able to proceed supporting the modding neighborhood each inside and out of doors our official pipeline,” the studio wrote.

Mod help isn’t only a enjoyable bonus for players; it’s additionally a approach for Larian to maintain the sport alive because it pivots sources to new initiatives. CEO Swen Vincke stated in June that opening the gates to modding would enable the developer “to say ‘okay, now it’s yours totally,’” according to Eurogamer. After all, the studio will nonetheless push updates for crucial bug fixes, however at the moment’s arrival of Patch 7 is probably going the primary stage of calling it a wrap on one of 2023’s best games.

If you wish to roll up your sleeves and dive into Baldur’s Gate 3 mods, Larian has created a collection of useful tutorials for modding guidelines, getting started with mods, creating mods and browsing others’ creations.