Baldur's Gate 3 Confirms Sad News For Next Update

Summary Official mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 won't allow for new quests and levels due to technical limitations.

The modding toolkit may not be as robust as expected.

Despite restrictions, Baldur's Gate 3 still offers a wide range of mods, with more expected with Patch 7.

The announcement of Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7, which heralds the arrival of official mod support, may have been championed by the community but Larian Studios wants to set expectations to avoid any major disappointments. When it comes to developing custom content for the sprawling RPG, there have been some impressive fan-made add-ons but nothing that fundamentally overhauls the experience. Players hoping to design new quests, characters, locations, and scenarios may want to temper their excitement given that Baldur's Gate 3's mod support won't be as robust as expected.

Per DarkElfMagic on Reddit, the user shared an image of the official Baldur's Gate 3 account on X (formerly Twitter) noting that players will be unable to create new levels or quests due to what it describes as "technical constraints and platform-specific guidelines."

The full extent of the toolkit is currently unknown but based on the comment, it sounds like it will be more focused on creating surface-level cosmetic tweaks to the game and perhaps custom classes and abilities. While it will still technically be possible to create new stories and locations, they won't be officially supported by Larian Studios.

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Modding Baldur's Gate 3 Is Still Exciting

Just Don't Expect Entire Reworks

Following the Reddit post, many expressed concern that the introduction of mod support on consoles will force Larian Studios to implement restrictions for PC users. Community manager SaloAtLarian noted that the developer has no intentions of going this route and those who opt to make and install mods on PC won't locked inside a box. The team will ensure that everything created with the toolkit will "pass an additional curation process for cross-platform support," ensuring that PC players aren't limited in what they can install.

The launch of an official Baldur's Gate 3's modding toolkit is still an exciting feature but the inability to create new levels and quests has left many disappointed. Without Larian Studios' official support, those same restrictions have hindered the modding community since the game launched into early access in 2020 so many were hoping that the developer would be able to override these limitations. That may not be the case, but the amount of custom content that's still available for Baldur's Gate 3 is still staggering.

Even with the aforementioned constraints, Baldur's Gate 3 certainly isn't lacking mods. The RPG boasts one of the largest catalogs of mods on sharing hub Nexus Mods so one has to imagine that the launch of an official toolkit will cause this number to grow even higher. Players will just have to wait and see what they can create when Patch 7 drops in September.

Source: DarkElfMagic/Reddit, SaloAtLarian/Reddit