After a recent one Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix has broken many mods, including a popular tool, Larian Studios has announced that it is working on official mod support.
Larian’s publishing director Michael Douse took to X (formerly Twitter) to address some concerns from the modding community, stating that the team was working on cross-platform mod support. The update is expected to be released later this year.
We generally don’t talk about things until they’re done, but as you may have read, we make an exception. We’ve been working on a robust, cross-platform mod support plan that will be released later this year. We love our modding community and want to support them. It’s coming. https://t.co/54GsxNshlQ
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“We have a system, but it needs to be tested and still requires work,” he wrote. “I understand that it sucks when the game is updated and the mods break. Our community teams will start talking to and looping the modding community. For the time being, the work continues.”
The Baldur’s Gate 3 The modding community has faced a lack of support even before the game left early access. It’s difficult for moderators to continually update or work around the problems that hotfixes and patches can cause. For example, Hotfix #18 is broken Baldur’s Gate 3 Script Extender, a popular tool used by modders and people who use mods – and this isn’t the first time the tool has broken either. There are so many mods for the game, including some that just add quality of life features (like increasing or decreasing in-game notifications), along with some that allow players to customize the appearance of the characters.
According to WombatMedic, a senior community strategist at the official Larian Studios Discord, developers have been working on this for a while. It will be a long process, however, with Wombat saying players can expect the next major patch to arrive, which will “happen in a few months.” (For reference, the last major patch came out last week.)
“We absolutely love that we have such an active modding community across all our titles (…) We want to continue to ensure you get the best experience possible, which is why we patch the game regularly, although this inevitably means that any new patch or hotfix may become incompatible with your favorite mods,” she wrote. “We know this sucks, we know you want to play with mods, and we want to make it right.
Wombat responded to user concerns in the Discord that the team also needed to better communicate resources and support.
“Together with the platform holders, we are working to make this a reality and are forming a team to support mod curation. We aim to provide modding support for things like classes, UI, customization, spells, and certain assets and game mechanics,” she wrote.