Now you have two choices: one is to install the Heart of Winter patch, bringing your game up to v1.41. Heart of Winter: If you have Heart of Winter, install Icewind Dale and Heart of Winter (no need for the IWD-only patch). Vanilla Icewind Dale: If you don't have the Heart of Winter expansion, install Icewind Dale and add the official IWD-only patch, which brings your game up to v1.06. (If there's something missing, I'll do my best to add it to the order.) In the interest of full disclosure, I am the author of IWD Fixpack, IWD Tweak Pack, Unfinished Business and Item Upgrade.

With that in mind, here's a rundown of a good IWD mod order using some of the more common mods. Now that it's been modernized it can be installed in a more natural place in the order. A lot also depends on how the mod is written-Ascension, for example, used to be recommended very early in BG2 install orders due to the ancient way it had been written. The readmes are there for a reason, and most modders try to help players avoid issues with install recommendations and compatibility concerns. There are, of course, all sorts of exceptions, or mods that really don't fall cleanly into a category.

Within each category, another good rule of thumb is to go with older mods first. This is why just about every tweak mod suggests it goes last in the install order.

from other mods, but they can only do so if those resources are present when they're installed. they'll freely change items/creatures/scripts/etc. Most in this category are written to be universal, i.e. You may find a mod NPC commenting on a mod quest, but only if the NPC follows the quest in the installation order. NPCs should go after quests simply because some NPCs will detect modded quest content and provide interaction with it. Once you've got a solid base, it's time to start adding actual content. This is also a pretty good place for item/store mods, especially if they're stable and unlikely to be updated often. Because of how WeiDU (the modding tool that actually installs the mods) handles and preserves installation order, the earlier you can place mods like this the easier it will make any future mod updates to your installation. Improved BAMs) without worrying about modded content. Ace's Alternate Soundtrack) or which are designed to only alter original game files (e.g. There are some mods that don't really interact much with other mods (e.g. This category is a little hard to describe. Many mods create new resources from the existing ones, so getting in the fixes early prevents errors in the original files from propagating to mod files.Ītypical Content Mods. In the spirit of cmorgan's install order thread for Tutu, I thought I'd try to put together something similar for Icewind Dale.įixes.

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