Hello friends,
The days are getting colder, the holiday decorations are creeping out early, and honestly?
We’re leaning into it. It’s been a long year, one that saw Baldur’s Gate 3 receive twelve new subclasses, full cross-play support, and the arrival of photo mode - the last final, final last patch.
It’s been an exciting year for us, what with also launching Larian: Channel From Hell, with weekly streams where you’ve had sneak peeks into our madness, met valued members of the team, and pushed Aoife to her limits with her Dark Urge run.
However, they’re not the only stars of the show - your mods have caused tears, laughter, and pain. Lots of pain. Like getting rammed in the ankles by a muscle car pain.
So before we close out on 2025, we’re looking back at some of the best moments brought about by your mods!
But before we start our reminiscing, we’re kicking off the festive season with a livestream party - and you’re invited! Don your ugliest Christmas sweater, warm up some cocoa, and curl up in front of the computer for a four-hour-long stream where Senior Communications Developer, Aoife Wilson, has bribed devs across Larian Studios with cheese and a joyous time, as they attempt an honour mode run!
Live on the 3rd of December at 2pm GMT, every death will mean a new challenger will try their might. Nothing says Christmas cheer like Myrkul obliterating your existence, as my gran always said.
This will now be our last stream for the year, as the Community Team heads on over to The Game Awards, where we’ve been nominated for Best Community Support!
Which, bugger us sideways, to be nominated for a third year in a row is a complete honour.
Should you want to share the love, sign in and vote for Baldur’s Gate 3 to win the Best Community Support award by following this link:
https://www.thegameawards.com/nominees/best-community-support
Mod Author 0iml bore witness to the Patch 7 animated trailer and insisted giant bunnies should be a permanent fixture of the Sword Coast. Find the 126 bunnies (plus 3 top-secret special bunnies) or do as we do: install it, forget you installed it, and be pleasantly surprised by the expertly placed balls of fluff.
Aesthetically pleasing and life-saving. If you were drowning in a puddle, perhaps.
Pool Floaties by baeator offers you a choice of four inflatable pool floatie hats that can be used in the helmet slot, each with varying stats to help you navigate the watery waves. To really give your playthrough an edge, the Goostarion Floatie Hat comes equipped with its own Astarion starting armour. Dye Astarion’s armour, and your Goostarion will match!
Made by Bugby128, consume a clown egg and learn the ability to use new cantrips that paint you with clown makeup. Nothing else to be said, really, beyond the fact that Bugby has undoubtedly dealt psychic harm by forcing the image of a clown laying an egg into our minds.
Particularly effective at generating hysteria when forgetting you have those puppies installed and arriving at the Dank Crypt. Thank you, MaybeeAdam, we wouldn’t have him any other way.
Thanks to mod author wa_rouk, you can now recruit Carlach, Gale Decarios, Ascarion, Shadowkart, Vehicwyll, Lane’zel… Or the whole fleet, if you will. We have a soft spot for Carlach; she unfortunately has a penchant for vehicular manslaughter.
A refined classic. Mod author FR05T has given Astarion a makeover, and it never fails to catch us off guard. Did you know he will also be handsome in his character portrait? Neither did we.
See, we added this mod for the adorable beanies, not realising mod author chunyou had enchanted them with quite a few luck buffs. But who needs game balance when you can look this adorable?
Want an owlbear beanie of your own? These are inspired by the very real Owlbear beanies you can find in the Larian merch store!
Listen, we have no excuse for enabling these. He did say “down comes the claw”, he just didn’t specify it was one of his. Thanks to mod author kariimatcha for bringing Raphameow into the world, and props to mod author Nikjima for making it so that Raphael also has his collar unbuttoned in his true cambion form. Enjoyed by all.
Mod author chunyou has lovingly stitched together these adorable dinosaur pyjamas for Scratch, perfect for those cold camp nights. There’s nothing better than watching him run around in the background, wagging his dino tail, while Volo performs unlicensed surgery on us.
This completely and utterly legally distinct mod made by mod author Skirbie, offers giant, dangerous, glowing swords to swing around, plus an array of other designs and themed clothing.
Also thanks to Skirbie, we gave Gale a gun. Went as well as you’d imagine.
It is called BALDur’s Gate 3 after all. This mod by wa_rouk will make all companions (and other surprise important NPCs) bald. We think everyone pulls it off magnificently.
Nothing spices up a playthrough with your friends like a freak grenade launcher accident. Evelyn’s Monarch is available on consoles and PC, made by Skirbie, probably without the intention of turning everyone within a 5m range into a cloud of gore.
If you’re looking to bring the laughter (and pain) to your latest Baldur’s Gate 3 run, we’ve listed all of the mods being used on stream over on mod.io! Download the collection here.
And boy, are you modders busy bees. You’re closing out the year with 10,000 mods uploaded to mod.io, and over 350 million mod downloads! Give yourselves a pat on the back and a shot of whiskey.
To show our gratitude for all of your creativity, Swen has a few words to share: