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The 10 Best Kingdom Come: Deliverance Mods
What are the best Kingdom Come: Deliverance mods?
This medieval RPG is remarkably realistic and engaging, but after a few playthroughs, you may want to experience something new.
Fortunately, there’s no shortage of great mods created for this game by its robust modding community.
Today, we’re taking a look at the best mods for Kingdom Come: Deliverance that we highly recommend adding to your next playthrough!
The 10 Best Kingdom Come: Deliverance Mods
There are over a thousand mods for Kingdom Come on the Nexus, but not all of them can improve the game in a worthwhile way.
The mods we’ve chosen have been selected based on their number of endorsements and the quality of the changes they make to the game.
So, before your next medieval adventure, take a moment to read through our list of the 10 best Kingdom Come: Deliverance mods:
10. Bow Dot Reticle
While being a stealthy archer in the best games like Skyrim is basically a must, archery in Kingdom Come is much more difficult.
In the vanilla version of this game, it is incredibly hard to learn how to effectively use archery, as there is no aiming reticle to help you.
Now, this is totally immersive, and we appreciate the novelty, but also, we’d like to be able to hit a target for once!
Fortunately, the Bow Dot Reticle mod is here to help, and it’s become a must-have in our options.
What we love most about this mod is that it only adds a very small dot to the center of your screen that is very unobtrusive.
With this mod, aiming your bow and hitting your target is so much easier, and we really wish it had been an option in the vanilla game.
Again, we understand the need for realism, but seriously, it should at least have been a togglable feature!
9. NPC Complains Less
Are you sick and tired of every NPC in the game criticizing your life choices every time you walk a little too close to them? We are too!
Nothing is more irritating than walking through a town and having absolutely everyone you pass question your motives.
Well, this mod puts a stop to it by changing NPC behavior so that even a slight touch won’t cause them to freak out.
However, if you walk straight into someone, it will cause them to grumble or grunt under their breath.
Major reactions are now only reserved for if you somehow smack into someone while running really fast, which makes sense.
Oddly enough, this mod mimics how NPCs are actually supposed to act but doesn’t due to an issue with the game’s AI script.
While it’s unlikely that we’ll get an official fix for this since the game’s latest patch didn’t mention it, this mod is a pretty great solution on its own!
8. Bushes
Have you ever been galloping through the world on your horse only to collide with a concrete wall masquerading as a bush? Yeah, us too.
There is something simultaneously frustrating and hilarious about being stopped dead by an otherwise unremarkable bit of foliage.
Well, if you’re as tired of these overpowered bushes as we are, this mod by JovianStone is an absolute must-have.
This mod removes all of the collision boxes from all of the bushes dotted around the world, so they can no longer serve as leafy speedbumps.
There is also a version of this mod that also removes the collision from small trees, so if you don’t want to worry about those either, you have the option.
We seriously love this mod because, after all, these aren’t the hardest bosses in Elden Ring here, they’re freaking bushes, and they should not be that powerful!
The only real downside is that the leaf rustling sound is tied to the collision boxes, so with them removed, the bushes make no sound.
However, this is honestly a small price to pay for being able to ride our horses without fear of death by bushes.
7. Volumetric Fog Enabler
Volumetric fog can really bring a game to life, and it actually exists in Kingdom Come: Deliverance; only the devs have it disabled.
If you like the misty appearance that volumetric fog can bring to the landscape, then you definitely need to check out this mod.
What the Volumetric Fog Enabler does, as the name suggests, is turn on this feature which the devs left turned off.
While trying out this mod, we experienced no issues with the fog being in the game, so it’s safe to assume that disabling it was probably an aesthetic choice.
However, it’s still nice to have the option to turn it on, and it definitely looks fantastic in-game when it’s enabled.
Although not everyone is crazy about volumetric fog, we definitely suggest giving this mod a try to see if you like it!
6. Stay Clean Longer
One thing that’s always bothered us about the vanilla game is that you can walk like 5 feet and look like you’ve been rolling in a pig pen.
We get that the medieval age wasn’t the cleanest place, but seriously, we should not be getting this filthy this quickly!
Thankfully, modder Mad General has created a mod to solve this problem, and we will be forever grateful.
With this mod, the distance you have to walk before getting dirty has been increased, so you will gradually get dirty over time.
Without this mod, you could clean up in the bathhouse and be filthy again by the time you walk to Inn in the Glade.
Now, you can walk all the way to Talmberg and be a bit scruffy but nowhere near as dirty, which is a huge improvement.
While we like that this game tries to have even more realism than Red Dead Redemption 2, we feel that this mod is actually more realistic.
After all, a long walk can make you a bit dingy, but in the base game, it makes you look like you’ve literally rolled on the ground the whole way there!
5. No Helmet Vision
As we’ve stated many times now, this game prides itself on realism, but sometimes this doesn’t translate into good gameplay.
Take helmet vision, for instance. It completely obscures your view, so you only have a small window to see through while everything else is blacked out.
Now, we respect the fact that, in real life, this would happen, but in a game, it’s just really annoying to look at, and it’s really made us hate using helmets.
Thankfully, JustAnOrdinaryGuy has created a mod that removes helmet vision so that you can see everything on screen without giving up your helm.
Moreover, he has also created the Translucent Helmet Vision mod, which makes the otherwise blacked-out parts of the screen see-through.
So, if you want to retain a bit of realism, you can. Otherwise, you can keep your screen completely visible!
We tried out both of these mods, and while we like No Helmet Vision the best personally, Translucent Helmet Vision is a good middle ground!
4. Sectorial Lockpicking
From the best Fallout games to the Elder Scrolls and Risen, lockpicking minigames are everywhere, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance is no exception.
Unfortunately, the lockpicking in this game can be difficult at best and completely infuriating at worst!
However, Sectorial Lockpicking is a mod that seeks to make things a bit easier without breaking the game’s original mechanics.
While the vanilla game uses a system similar to those found in Bethesda games, it makes things harder by giving you no clue where to start.
This mod makes things easier by adding sections that clearly show you where you need to keep your pick.
Sectorial Lockpicking is a huge timesaver, and it is especially useful if you’re playing with a controller, which otherwise makes the minigame incredibly frustrating.
If you’re fed up with lockpicking in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, do yourself a favor and download this mod ASAP!
3. A Sorted Inventory
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a great game, but its inventory system makes us want to pull our hair out!
Not only is the naming of items haphazard at best, but there are no vanilla options for filtering items, which makes things more difficult.
Fortunately, the A Sorted Inventory mod reorganizes things to make them much less rage-inducing and much easier to navigate.
This mod renames almost every item in the game so that they fit into a categorization system that works using tags added to an item’s name.
So now, in your weapon’s menu, all of your longswords will be listed together, while over in the other tab, all maps will be together, et cetera.
This type of organization system can also be found in some of the best Fallout 4 mods, and it makes things so much easier to manage!
If you’re tired of scouring your inventory for items, treat yourself to A Sorted Inventory and thank us in the comments below!
2. Unlimited Weight
Okay, so this mod is just a straight-up cheat, but it makes gameplay a lot easier, and we had to include it because we’re tired of weight limits.
Yes, yes, it’s immersive, but there is a lot of good loot in the world, and we want to be able to horde it all!
In the vanilla game, the max carry weight Heny can achieve is 206, but the max weight achievable in Fallout 4, for instance, is 375.
Seriously, video game protagonists should be able to carry much more than the average human purely because it makes things fun!
Well, this mod sets the maximum carry capacity in Kingdom Come to 999999999, so you never have to unload your loot before you want to.
Of course, this mod also allows you to choose your own weight value, so if you want to set it to something more realistic, you can.
Now, we don’t recommend using this mod during your first playthrough, but if you want to replay the game and have fun, Unlimited Weight is great!
1. Unlimited Saving
Taking our number one spot is a mod that changes one of Kingdom Come’s most nerve-wracking mechanics, the limited save system.
While the vanilla game has autosaving, there is a limit to how many times you can manually save your game.
The only way to manually save is by using Savior Schnapps, visiting a bathhouse, or sleeping in a bed.
However, when you’re wandering around in the countryside, this can be extremely nerve-wracking because, at any moment, you could lose a ton of progress!
As the name suggests, this mod changes things by allowing you to save anytime without needing to use Schnapps.
This effectively gives you unlimited saves, so if you’re nervous about losing progress, this mod can help you feel more secure!
However, there are certain parts of this game where the mod won’t work because the game itself won’t allow any type of saving.
When this mod is installed, all you have to do is use the escape menu to drop a save, which you will then be able to load from whenever you want.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance may be one of the best Medieval games, but being able to save whenever we want is something we wish had been included from the beginning!
Summary
We hope you’ve enjoyed our list of the 10 best Kingdom Come: Deliverance mods and found some you can’t wait to try!
KCD is an incredible game, but even so, these mods fix a lot of the issues that players have with the vanilla version.
All of these mods really help improve gameplay, and even if some do sacrifice a bit of realism, they definitely make the game more fun to play!
Here’s a quick recap of the 10 best Kingdom Come: Deliverance mods:
- Unlimited Saving
- Unlimited Weight
- A Sorted Inventory
- Sectorial Lockpicking
- No Helmet Vision
- Stay Clean Longer
- Volumetric Fog Enabler
- Bushes
- NPC Complains Less
- Bow Dot Reticle