Summary
Larian Studios has revealed more than 50 million mods have been downloaded forBaldur’s Gate 3since it rolled out official support. That’s 50 million downloads in two months, by the way, as official mod support wasn’t introduced until September’s patch seven. It seems many of you were dying to rename Withers during your first year with the game as of those 50 million mod downloads, 10,000 of them were for a one that renames Baldur’s Gate 3’s resident skeleton Bone Daddy.
Larian shared a graphic on Twitter that celebrates Baldur’s Gate 3 players hitting the 50 million mod milestone that includes giant rabbits hopping around - I’m assuming there’s a mod that makes them significantly bigger. While the studio hasn’t provided a detailed breakdown of what mods have been downloaded or which ones are the most popular, it did deem it noteworthy that 10,000 of you wanted to change Withers' name to Bone Daddy.
You find Withers near the beginning of the game and while he isn’t a companion who follows you around, he returns to your camp and is incredibly helpful in a variety of ways. Withers - sorry, Bone Daddy’s most impressive attribute is his ability to bring your companions back from the dead. However, he is also the only means in the game through which you can change your class. It’ll cost you, but it’s that ability, and having to pay him for it, which makes the Bone Daddy nickname pretty apt.
10,000 Of You Have Renamed Withers “Bone Daddy”
Sometimes The Simplest Mods Are The Best
Baldur’s Gate 3 players were always going to run rampant once mod support found its way to the game, but even Larian must be floored by just how much you’ve been tweaking its creations in the two short months since it provided us with the official tools. There’s no sign of the pace at which mods are being used slowing down either. Quite the contrary as a matter of fact as this time last month Baldur’s Gate 3’s official mod count was at 15 million. If it continues at the same rate we’ll be celebrating 150 million mod downloads by December.
Not only is Baldur’s Gate 3’s modding scene showing no signs of slowing down, but there’s arguably just as much interest in 2023’s Game of the Year as a whole as there was when it launched more than a year ago. Earlier this week it was revealed thatDruid Grove was originally going to be filled with even more scammersthan it already has, and somehow all this time later players arestill shocking us with tales of their most messed up playthroughs.
Baldur’s Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.
