•Patrik Mršnik• 6 min read
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GreedFall Mods Every PC Player Should Install First
GreedFall mods are not really about new armour sets. The best GreedFall mods go after what grinds you down across a 40-hour save. The confirmation window on every container, the two-companion cap, a compass that hides half of what you want to find. On PC, you can patch all of it in an afternoon.
We said as much in our GreedFall Review, where the quality-of-life gap was the clearest mark against an otherwise strong RPG. This page turns that complaint into a shortlist.
Below, you'll find the mods worth installing first, the folder they go into, and the compatibility traps that catch Gold Edition owners.
GreedFall Mods Summary
Quick Loot by m0rdenkainen strips the confirmation prompt out of every container you open.
Better Compass by Matt2014 shows inactive side quests and distant doors, and widens the detection range.
Increase Party Size by TPadvance lifts the two-companion limit and can be switched mid-save through a dialogue option.
Mod Slot Support by Dheuster handles conflict detection and is the closest thing GreedFall has to a load-order manager.
Gold Edition owners should install one mod at a time. Files written against the base game can misfire on the DLC build.
Console players get none of this. The PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S builds have no mod support at all.
The Best GreedFall Mods For Everyday Friction
Start with the five that change how an ordinary hour plays. Every entry below writes into the same folder, so you can stack them in one session and test as you go.
Mod | Author | What it fixes |
|---|---|---|
Quick Loot | m0rdenkainen | Removes the pop-up after each container |
Better Compass | Matt2014 | Shows inactive quests and distant doors, longer range |
Increase Party Size | TPadvance | More than two companions, switchable mid-save |
More Carry Weight | rufus696 | Capacity presets up to 5,000 |
Romance Hints | Shaiandra | Marks the dialogue choices that move a relationship |
Quick Loot and More Carry Weight work as a pair. GreedFall throws crafting junk at you constantly, and the base carry limit turns that into a shuttle run to a merchant every second area. Raise the cap to 1,000 and looting stops being a chore you plan around.
Increase Party Size is the one that changes combat maths. Its author flags known issues: the interface still draws only two companion health bars, party members sometimes stand in odd spots, and the mod can clash with anything editing quest or dialogue files. Take a manual save before your first run with it.
How Do You Install GreedFall Mods?
You unzip the mod and drop its folder into datalocal inside your GreedFall install directory. On a default Steam setup that path is SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\GreedFall\datalocal. No patcher, no script, no launcher argument.
Vortex handles most Nexus uploads if you prefer a manager, and Improved Camera by naChooey ships instructions for both routes. The manual method stays useful, since uninstalling means deleting a folder.
Install Mod Slot Support by Dheuster before anything ambitious. It adds conflict detection, mod initialisation and localisation handling, and several later mods expect it to be present. STuRoK83 also maintains Updated ModSlot, a pack of roughly twenty mods with DLC support.
What Breaks On GreedFall Gold Edition
Mods authored against the 2019 base game can fail on the Gold Edition build, which folds in The De Vespe Conspiracy expansion. Failure looks like a silently ignored folder or a dead dialogue trigger, so you can play an hour before noticing.
Install one mod at a time and load a save after each. Community compatibility threads track which files still behave on the current patch, and anything last updated before the DLC shipped needs its own test run. Mods touching quests and dialogue are the fragile ones. Camera and compass tweaks almost always survive.
Platform decides the whole conversation. The PC release on Steam is the only version any of this applies to. Publisher Focus Entertainment lists GreedFall on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S, and no console build exposes a mod folder. There is no Switch version.
FAQs About GreedFall Mods
Final Words
Fewer than two hundred mod files exist for a game this ambitious. Almost nobody built new questlines, and the authors who stayed spent their time sanding down the edges Spiders left rough. That makes the install decision easy. You are picking which annoyances to delete. Loot prompts and carry weight first, since those hit every hour. Party size after, once you have a save you are happy to risk.
Backtracking is the gap nobody closed. No mod fixes the sparse fast travel network or the corridors you walk three times, and it remains the part of Teer Fradee most likely to end a playthrough early.
Starting fresh on PC? Set the folder up before session one. Bolting a party size mod onto a late save is how people end up with two health bars and a companion standing inside a wall.
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