The best Bannerlord mods

Looking for the best Bannerlord mods? Taleworlds' sandbox RPG is the ultimate playground for anyone wanting to make their mark on a medieval world. Thanks to the game's incredible modding tools, talented creators have managed to realize Bannerlord's true potential by adding realistic and lore-friendly changes.

The best Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlords mods focus on improving aspects of the sandbox game that could've used additional development time. From changes to the character creation menu that give you significantly more control than before, to lore-friendly armor sets that give your armies threads to match their threat level, there's plenty here to elevate your single-player game experience.

Here are the best Bannerlord mods:

Banner Kings

The definitive total conversion mod, Banner Kings addresses many issues the community has with the base game, overhauling settlement management, village projects, and gameplay improvements outside of combat to make this almost essential. When combined with the Banner Kings Cultures Expanded mod which expands systems like Religions, Factions, and Cultures even further, it's a must-have for diehard fans.

Detailed Character Creation

While you have many options already, the Detailed Character Creation editor enables you to modify a character's age, as well as tweak their muscles and weight with full-body sliders. You can also rename wanderers and nobles and override native calls to "change the player's appearance automatically."

Diplomacy

If you're fed up with endless battles deciding the fate of the kingdom, you can install this Diplomacy mod to activate fun and creative options to cooperate with other leaders. This includes the use of messengers, forming alliances and non-aggression pacts, granting fiefs to clans inside your kingdom, and controls for Vassal Diplomacy.

Open Source Armory

Describing itself as "the number one stop for all custom armour needs", the Open Source Armory is a combination of many existing, popular mods that add over 1,000 armour, 58 shields, 16 banners, and 21 weapons.

BannerEditor Enhancer

If you want to hold a custom banner that will make your enemies quake in their boots, then the BannerEditor mod is the way to do it. It unlocks even more editing options so you can create brightly coloured masterpieces to charge into battle with.

Dro's Color Correction

We couldn't have a list of mods without a graphical enhancer. Bannerlord looks alright, but this color correction mod slightly enhances the color, making each blade of grass pop to give the game a stunning new look.

There you have it, a list of the best Bannerlord mods. Nexus Mods has already created a handy place to store all your Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord mods using its Vortex mod manager. Once you've installed the manager, simply use the Bannerlord extension to keep all your mods in one place. Alternatively, you can also use the Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord modding kit, which comes with the game, to keep everything in one place.