Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord has been round for a short time now, however its monumental recognition has been maintained by one very thrilling factor: mods.
At this early stage, there are of course limits on what will be successfully modded with out inflicting gamers a headache. The Bannerlord launcher has an built-in mod choice and sorting display, and TaleWorlds have indicated on their forum that they count on modding to get simpler and extra highly effective over time as extra components of the bottom game are nailed down.
But modders have already made some modifications. The near-inevitable overhauls and reskins and unofficial expansions are a great distance off, however many beneficiant gamers are already sharing the fruits of their work to change Bannerlords the way in which they suppose it must be. Here’s a number of the perfect ones thus far.
Best Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord mods
Our finest Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord mods information will present you the entire finest mods within the game thus far.
We’ve added a few mods made since that do attention-grabbing issues, however we’d love to listen to about different nice mods for the game. If your favorite mod will not be featured on this information, hold forth within the feedback under and we are going to check out it.
- Character Export Import
- Detailed Character Customisation and Full Body Sliders
- Cultured Start
- Banner Editor
- Screamerlord
- Mixed Gender Troops
- Gay Marriage
- Improved garrisons
- Slow Looters or Slow Down
- Diplomacy fixes
Main phrases by Sin Vega. Additional phrases by Dave Irwin
Our first tip is one you possibly can mod your self. Assuming you’ve put in the game within the default location, go to “C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonMount & Blade II BannerlordModulesNativeVideos” and delete each the recordsdata in there. Bannerlords will now skip the brand movies in the beginning of the game, which over time will save greater than sufficient of your valuable mortality to allow you to listen to Jareth as an alternative. There. Isn’t that higher?
The remainder of these mods must be downloaded after which unzipped to “C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonMount & Blade II BannerlordModules”. They can then be activated from the Bannerlords launcher. If any of them ask you to overwrite a file, remember to again it up first in case the mod messes one thing up.
Bannerlord system change mods
The most helpful mods for Bannerlord are those that change little issues. They don’t have an effect on the game in game breaking methods, however they will let you pace up dialogue or make fight a bit simpler for many who simply can’t get their head across the directional blocking with a protect.
Fast Dialogue
Holy hell this must be integrated into the game instantly. Ordinarily, whenever you encounter any get together on the world map, Bannerlord hundreds a full 3D scene the place you discuss to them head to head. In the overwhelming majority of circumstances, your dialog will final just a few seconds at most, then you definitely’ll be taken again to the principle map. Often, you’ll then should load one other 3D scene as a way to combat a battle. These loading screens are gradual, irritating, and fully pointless.
Fast Dialogue skips them completely. Instead of opening the dialog, it hundreds the usual blue actions menu on the left of the display, and provides the choice “converse”, plus some other related actions like attacking or just leaving. It’s a small factor that’s already saved Sin a heap of time and truly modified the way in which we play. I’m not longer avoiding a number of smaller fights merely to get out of getting to take a seat via again to again loading screens. You completely ought to have this mod put in.
Auto Block Revival
Warband gamers can usually be divided into three classes: those that are shocked and disillusioned that Bannerlord has eliminated automated directional blocking, those that both didn’t use it or don’t thoughts its elimination however are cheap, mature individuals about it, and people who are the rationale most game boards are a screeching rest room of insecure dullards.
Auto block is the one decrease issue function of Warband we’ve used, and we’re glad to see it modded again in. With this mod, that system is ported to Bannerlord. You nonetheless want to dam, and take note of enemy actions, however it’s far much less fussy. Right clicking with a weapon out will block an incoming assault, routinely choosing the proper route. Unless the enemy modifications that route (or your relative positions shift sufficient for his or her weapon to hit anyway), during which case it’s essential to block once more. The one draw back is you possibly can’t toggle it on or off with out restarting the game, however that’s a really minor quibble certainly.
Bannerlord Tweaks
A large ranging assortment of small tweaks whose cumulative have an effect on is already fairly substantial. Renown positive factors from battle are doubled, match rewards are larger, meals manufacturing is greater to make sieges more durable and AI much less more likely to domino the entire map in a single day. XP positive factors for troops are greater all spherical, you possibly can smith extra objects per day, and the game normally ought to really feel pacier and fewer grindy, significantly early on.
Bannerlord Tweaks additionally comes with an in-game menu with full tooltips that allows you to allow or disable particular options, and tweak them to the precise values you need. This is spectacular work, particularly for a model new game.
Its creator, “mildeww” has additionally been dutifully updating the mod day by day to maintain up with Taleworlds’s personal day by day patching. They’re additionally quite clear, reporting which recordsdata are concerned with particular tweaks as they go, within the pursuits of aiding the modding neighborhood normally. Exemplary behaviour that deserves recognition.
Sound the Alarm
This one is a straightforward mod, however a really handy one. Ever been away out of your fiefs on a marketing campaign for an prolonged time frame, solely to your territory to be invaded whilst you’re gone? There is a small piece of textual content that informs you when this occurs by default, however you possibly can simply miss this in the event you’re distracted.
It’s annoying not realizing your cities are being taken over, so this mod offers you a popup alert to say when your fiefs are underneath assault. As that is info that seems within the unmodified game, that is only a completely different and arguably extra helpful method of presenting it.
Better Time
If you thought the earlier mod was a easy change, this one is even less complicated! For those that really feel that Bannerlord continues to be just a bit too gradual, this mod provides an additional pace up button to the game. It’s good for people who simply need to skip a bit of ready round for issues to occur.
Bannerlord customisation mods
Perhaps you need greater modifications than simply tweaking the system behind the scenes. Maybe you need your character to raised replicate your individual imaginative and prescient, like having a man with the most important intestine in all of the land.
The default banners are good and all, however there’s nothing like charging at your enemies with the banner of an offended hen, going full on peasants revolt in your enemies!
Character Export Import
This one is doubtlessly tremendous cheaty, because it permits you to set all of your expertise and even perks to no matter quantity you want. You may do the identical with NPCs, so your spearman sidekick may change into a gifted medic, or your stabber a horse archer. Or you can give all of the kings zero for athletics, then shoot their horse and lead them round the entire battlefield in a giant circle whereas laughing.
The apparent use for it’s to easily bypass a few of the early game tedium, or apply with excessive stage weapons expertise to see how they deal with, and thus whether or not it’s value your time coaching them up. But we’re counting it as a mod as a result of it additionally opens up alternatives for gamers like me, who prefer to arrange problem or roleplaying or just messing about characters. You can count on to see us writing about a few of these in future, because of this mod.
Using it’s fairly easy. Right click on in your character within the get together display. This takes you to their encyclopedia entry, the place buttons have appeared that allow you to export or import that character to a textual content file in your “My Documents” folder. Editing that file permits you to change ability values immediately, in addition to add or delete gold. You may even acquire perks out of order this fashion, with out activating lower-level ones first, for additional customisation.
Note that your total stage seems to be calculated routinely out of your numerous ability factors, which we’re reasonably positive impacts the spawning dimension of NPC armies.
That’s your lot for now. Bannerlord continues to be in early entry in fact, and because it’s nonetheless comparatively early days it’s finest to be cautious with modding, significantly as campaigns can final for a lot of, many hours. Some combos of mods will probably fail to work collectively, and future patches to the game itself might render others inoperable or out of date.
However, Sin examined the vast majority of the mods again when the game first entered Early Access and located them secure and unlikely to trigger main points. Indeed, a number of truly enhance the efficiency of the game. But all the identical, as a rule, it’s finest to not activate or change mods mid-game, and even in the event you’re not utilizing mods you have to be preserving backup saves. Should you put in mods that ask to overwrite something, you need to again these recordsdata up first, and in the event you’re making an attempt a great deal of mods, do your self a favour and preserve notes on what you’ve modified and why.
Detailed Character Creation and Full Body Sliders
The two of those work advantageous collectively, and have been among the many most secure of mods we’ve examined. Both of them add extra sliders to the character creation display, permitting you to additional alter your character’s look.
Detailed Character Creation is extra fundamental, providing solely a few sliders. But this consists of essentially the most dramatic: ageing. Yes, which means THE BABY OPTION IS BACK. You may look extra aged and weary, a bit tubbier, hencher, or skinnier. Babies apart, not one of the modifications are dramatic and you’ll’t create any abominations. It’s a welcome addition, built-in completely.
Full Body Sliders is extra complete, providing extra body-part particular sliders and barely extra excessive modifications. Again these are nothing drastic or ridiculous, and certainly I’ve been in a position to create some refreshingly regular trying individuals. The draw back with FBS is that it’s not modular, and overwrites two recordsdata within the base game. It’s unlikely however not not possible this may trigger issues in future updates, so you need to again these recordsdata up earlier than putting in (the mod’s web page specifies the place to seek out them).
As a bonus, Detailed Character additionally permits you to rename any named NPC via their encyclopedia web page, and FBS permits you to alter their look.
Cultured Start
Another fast and easy however doubtlessly tedium-saving mod. Cultured Start permits you to begin in one in all a number of cities dotted concerning the map (or a random one). This implies that you now not begin on the coaching floor within the lifeless centre of essentially the most boring a part of the map, surrounded by imperial dorks. It saves you from doing the identical begin you all the time do, caught hiring the identical troopers and doubtless driving for a number of days to get the place you need.
Banner Editor
Originally created by “DarthKiller”, it is a republished model of the mod that ought to now be appropriate with Bannerlord’s newest model. Customising how issues look appears to be the place numerous mods focus their consideration, so let’s start with a easy one. Do you would like your banner seemed the way you need it to quite than one of many presets?
Once you’ve downloaded the mod, you’ll want to repeat the contents of the downloaded file into the “…Modules” folder. Doing this may put a brand new file in “SandBoxCore” folder and substitute one of many authentic recordsdata with new one which options extra colors for banner creation.
Bannerlord game tweak mods
These are the mods that change issues considerably. Some have added some new options that change the way you play the game, whereas others permit so that you can have a extra various squad.
Screamerlord
Perhaps you want to bark your orders like an armchair normal, quite than fiddle round with the quite clumsy military command controls? If so, then the Screamerlord mod permits you to yell your instructions to every squad with the usage of a microphone. It works rather well normally, although it does wrestle if in case you have fairly a quiet voice.
A phrase of warning although: this mod makes use of a 3rd get together app known as VoiceAttack. You’ll get 20 voice instructions in the event you use the free model, however must splash some money to stand up to 80 voice instructions within the Premium model. The Screamerlord mod web page factors out what’s included with the free model, however right here is the abstract from the mod’s creator “Leto”:
“Contains 20 commands for unlimited free trial users. It contains the essentials, but I’ve removed some of the more circumstantial ones like ‘facing direction’, ‘dismounting’, ‘transfer’ that you’ll never use. Overall, this is the recommended version for most people. If money is not a thing, the full version has more features and is easier to use; while full users will be able to use partial commands eg. “Infantry” or “charge” individually, free customers might want to chain instructions collectively, e.g. “Infantry charge”. This means you’ll want to talk each the unit chosen and the motion repeatedly. The various could be for me to solely permit partial instructions; I discovered chain instructions to be extra helpful whenever you’re in a rush.”
Mixed Gender Troops
Bannerlord isn’t unhealthy for gender illustration by any means (gangsters particularly appear very matriarchal for some cause), however it’s vanishingly uncommon to see a sword sister, and ladies normally don’t appear to seem among the many rank and file. Mixed Gender Troops provides girls variations of all of the combating models to the game, with similar stats and gear (the vanilla game already does a fantastic job with unisex armours so this shouldn’t be a difficulty).
It works nice, and like Bannerlord Tweaks above, features a clear and complete customisation menu that allows you to set a selected gender ratio (default is 50:50), set a naming conference for the brand new troops, and even exclude particular cultures and factions from these egalitarian practices. Do you need your Battanians to subject principally girls, however not the Vlandians? A number of easy clicks will do it.
Gay Marriage
This mod removes the intercourse verify, letting you flirt with and get married to any noble, even when they’re the identical intercourse as your participant character. It doesn’t will let you marry everybody within the game, however there are much more eligible bachelors/bachelorettes to select from. These are the one restrictions after making use of the mod:
- Your companion should be within the right age vary. The default is 18-40 for males and 18-35 for girls, although you possibly can alter this within the config file.
- Your companion should be single.
- Your companion should be a noble, however not the chief of their faction. This sadly consists of Rhagaea.
- Your companion can’t be associated to you by three generations.
Improved garrisons
With all the military administration, diplomacy, and quests that it’s worthwhile to preserve monitor of, it may be a ache to should preserve the garrisons topped up with defenders. This mod permits you to go away your fiefs to organise their very own defence, recruiting villagers and prisoners.
This does routinely value cash and also you’ll get notifications of the prices concerned within the overview on the underside proper nook. With the change to garrisons that makes them more durable to take care of in the latest patch, the mod additionally offers bonus meals to your settlements.
Slow Looters or Slow Down
Very easy tweaks. Both games cut back the journey pace of sure events on the world map. Slow Down is arguably the lesser, because it solely impacts caravans, however that may be all you need. Slow Looters, in the meantime, will be set to have an effect on a number of sorts (and never simply looters – it’s a possible candidate for a reputation change, so bookmark it in the event you’re ). The latter, nevertheless, requires manually modifying an xml file to the values you need.
That’s a straightforward factor to do, however it’s a step up in problem. Either method, decreasing the pace of a few of these teams is a giant assist, particularly given how excruciatingly gradual Bannerlord is to extend your athletics and driving expertise. Caravans particularly are absurdly quick.
The first caravan escort job Sin took on was a farce because the individuals she was employed to guard instantly raced off into the sundown at twice the pace of the rest she’d seen. Two months later Sin received a notification that they’d died, however she mentioned that they had a superb run. Plus the service provider ought to actually have caught on that one thing wasn’t proper when she went again to him two days later, and he advised her how relieved he was to know she was on the market defending his caravan.
Diplomacy Fixes
This one does a lot of stuff, so if you wish to learn the total factor, head to the dedicated Wiki web page for it. Otherwise, right here’s a abstract of every thing this mod does:
- You can ship messengers to a personality through the encyclopedia web page. It prices affect to take action. They can’t arrive in the event that they’re engaged in one other occasion.
- Factions can type defensive pacts with one another, although the alliance won’t occur if one of many factions within the defensive pact declares conflict on a faction outdoors of the pact.
- Factions may have non-aggression pacts that permit them to forestall declaring conflict on one another for a restricted time frame.
- Your participant character can usurp the throne and change into the ruler of a longtime kingdom.
- As a ruler, you possibly can grant fiefs to different clans in your kingdom to lift relationship scores with that clan.
- You may donate gold to different clans to lift the connection rating.
- Bypasses the settlement vote to present you a settlement in the event you seize it.
- Improves the diplomacy interface.
- Gives you management of the political choices to your kingdom on behalf of your ruler with the “Enable Player Kingdom Diplomacy Control” choice.
- Configurable conflict exhaustion rating (the default is 100).
- Affects the “expansionism” rating indirectly (the mod web page doesn’t state the way it impacts expansionism).
- Attempts to steadiness affect by altering corruption and affect decay.
With all that mentioned, Bannerlords’ future seems vibrant, and modders appear like they’re raring to go to city on it. We’ll be maintaining a tally of the scene, however please go forward and share something cool you’ve discovered with one another. If you’re in search of different guides for Mount and Blade Bannerlord 2, you possibly can verify them out within the record under:
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord guide: A listing of ideas that can assist you get began with the brand new Mount And Blade.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord console: How to allow cheat mode and all of the console instructions.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord skills: A full record of expertise and tricks to construct your character.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord bugs: Some tricks to get Mount And Blade 2 to work correctly and an inventory of identified main points.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord PC requirements: Get the perfect efficiency out of Mount And Blade 2.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord companions: Learn easy methods to recruit companions to your military.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord trade: Make a number of gold rapidly via buying and selling and caravans.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord smithing: How to forge weapons.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord quests: All the options to each quest within the game found thus far.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord conspiracy: Everything we find out about this bothersome quest.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord troops: How to recruit troops and organise them in battle.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord prisoners: Learn a fast method to make some cash and recruit skilled troopers.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord settlements: How to take over cities, handle them, and defend them.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord workshop: How to make use of workshops to make your settlement thrive.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord combat: Learn how finest to combat with every weapon kind and on horseback.
- Bannerlord marriage: How to get married and lift heirs to proceed your conquest.
- Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord siege: Learn easy methods to conduct a siege towards enemy settlements.