Patch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bhyi1TA36HC9crB4tlBNk8uk1rim1VQI/view?usp=sharing

CAUTION! Game versions other than 1.7.1 WILL NOT work with this collection.

NEW GAME IS MANDATORY.

Installation method:

The archive contains two folders - MODS and SETTINGS PACK.

In the MODS folder there are folders with mods, they need to be placed in the Modules folder, which is located in the game folder.

In the SETTINGS PACK folder there are folders that need to be placed in a folder at the address (copy and paste into the address bar of Explorer if you don’t understand where it is) C:/Users/%username%/Documents/Mount and Blade II Bannerlord/ConfigsModSettings

If you do not have such a folder, then you need to create it manually. Or start the game with a collection of mods, exit and then put it away.

In both cases, if you are asked whether to overwrite the file, naturally answer YES. The collection contains modified native files required for the mods to work correctly.

CAUTION. Be sure to check the screenshot "Order of mods" and set it exactly the same - mods not listed in the screenshot can be placed in any order. In case you don't have a mod configurator, there is a "Configurator" folder in the archive. Unpack the files from there into the game folder, run it, specify the game folder, shuffle the mods as needed.

CAUTION x2. If you ALREADY have some mods installed, then remember - I do not guarantee the functionality of this collection even if you add any one mod. Simply because it is unknown what it changes there and what it conflicts with.

Collection settings:

The collection has a package of settings for the most balanced, correct and convenient game. This settings package is located separately and should be unpacked following the instructions above. Without this tweak package, most balancing mods will not have any effect. Of course, for those who are experienced and knowledgeable, this is not a problem, and they can customize each parameter, of which there are many, to suit themselves. Inexperienced users are strongly recommended to use the proposed settings package. The options for the game itself are not affected by the set, so configure the game yourself. It is highly recommended not to touch the preset values ​​in the settings package - everything there is verified through experimental checks and calculations.

Also, some mods have their settings directly in their folders, and they are also configured in a balanced manner. If you are experienced and knowledgeable, and/or decide not to install the settings package, keep in mind that in addition to MCM, you will also have to reconfigure the configs in a bunch of mods manually. Not all functions of the mods in the collection are used as expected, in case you thought that this would be the case - with the settings package NO, it won’t be. Without the package, you can turn the game into a complete cheat and only achieve a loss of interest.

CAUTION. Some mods are in English, and they do not have the ability to translate. I personally translated those mods that put their texts in configs. However, I don’t think anyone will have problems.

Composition of the collection and description of mods:

1. Mandatory elements for most mods in the collection: Harmony, ButtlerLib, UIExtenderEx, MCM. Libraries and settings for other mods and functionality “extenders”.

2. AEW - Adonnays Exotic Weaponry - for a variety of weapons for sale and crafting. Contains all sorts of elegant elven things, requires a high blacksmith skill to open the parts, but in fact the parts themselves are so dull. It looks beautiful, but is of little use in battle - true elven equipment.

3. AllegianceOverhaul - to balance the logic of clans and politics. Useful things like setting the logic for joining clans to a player, cooldowns for all such transitions, recalculation of relationships, additional chances to trigger something. In short, expansion and rebalancing of these game mechanics.

4. AutoResolveRebalanced - high-quality recalculation of auto battles, including armor and other bonuses. It is carried out with double precision, where the damage is cut in half - to completely eliminate the possibility of destroying knocked-out armored troops by a flock of robbers with stones and sticks.

5. Set of mods "Better": Skills, Attributes, Combat, HUD, Marriage, Prisoners. Rebalanced bonuses from skills, attributes, etc., improvements to prisoner logic, combat, and interface. Does a lot of things. Improves the return on leveling up any skill, up to crazy values ​​at level 300. Improves the return on leveling up attributes - for example, it increases the experience gained for intelligence or gives bonuses to everything at once for cunning. Includes a vampire and auto heal in battle - 3% damage and 1 HP every 2 seconds if you haven’t received damage within 4 seconds. I’ve already forgotten what HUD and marriage do. Obviously, they are fixing something, balancing something. Prisoners have an adequate chance of escape and an overestimated one if there are not enough people in the garrison detachment: 100 and 200, respectively. Marriage simply gives you the opportunity to try to get married an infinite number of times.

6. BigFuckingSwords - for the ability to pull the sliders when crafting weapons not by 10%, but by 100%. Darts and any swords with the handle turned to the max look especially funny. However, this allows crafted weapons to be more deeply balanced to suit the player's needs.

7. DistinguishedService - allows fighters of maximum rank who have particularly distinguished themselves in battle to become companions. Stupidly ignores any native restriction on companions. However, there is still a limit of a hundred in the config, but I have never typed enough to really know whether it works or not. The mod is configured for non-cheating use, where you can get no more than one companion per battle with a bonus to one non-combat skill, depending on frags above the required limit. To the delight of the players, the fighter retains his equipment. Woe to the players, if the skill parameters remain as they were, then the attributes go into the minus, since at this level a fighter cannot have so many. It can be treated by resetting in the city, but I think here they will reset themselves and all their companions anyway.

8. FemaleTroops and FemaleTroopsReborn - adds lines of female units for all standard and other possible ones - bandits, pirates, peasants... I didn’t download the latter, but I collected hundreds of marauders, they make decent maiden knights.

9. FixedPregnancyControl - pregnancy rebalancing and the ability to have children with almost anyone with a positive attitude. With my wife - even with negative ones. Abortion options and all sorts of unnecessary things are disabled. Relationship limit is once a day.

10. ForgeForMe - an add-on that allows you to craft random items for money, as well as improve any weapon. Until the midgame it is practically not used: expensive, not necessarily profitable, extremely random. However, craft clothes can simply be melted down, and sometimes very interesting items can be found. The improvement is a malicious cheat, reducing any slow rail to the state of an uber-hibitor buster sward.

11. Hayster'sArmoury - a package of weapons for variety and crafting. To be honest, like elven weapons, I almost never used them, but those who like to carry “beautiful” weapons will like it.

12. KillBanditsRaiseRelations - increases reputation with surrounding characters when killing packs of bandits.

13. LazySmith - adds x5 and “all at once” functionality for crafting using Shift and Ctrl, respectively.

14. MyLittleWarband - allows you to create your own troop tree in the internal editor, and save and load them for different saves. Troops can be dressed in crafted clothes and clothes from other mods, and you can set their parameters and culture. It will remove it, but it is needed.

15. New Male Armor - adds three beautiful armor sets with the best protection indicators in the game. However, for the “realism” difficulty it’s still cardboard.

16. NoArmyRestriction - removes the ban on units with a low number of units joining the army.

17. NoPersuasionPreReject - removes the logic of total refusal of dialogue with a proposal to change faction.

18. RaiseRelationWithTownAndVillage - allows you to pour money into relationships with important people in cities, buy food, improve well-being and morale. The only benefit is food, to be honest, or relationships to recruit troops. Or if you take in a hundred bandits at once.

19. ReignOfSword - for lovers of Zweihanders, Flamberges and Claymores. Allows you to create killer two-handed rails. And this is not just for words - the rails have a flag for breaking through shields. True, a good rail will be slow and unbalanced, but here a mod will come to the rescue to improve the numbers. Just a couple of hundred thousand dinars - and you are the owner of a flamberge, which mows down a dozen robbers in one swing! Cool, right?

20. RelationNotificationsOnGameLog - displays text about relationship changes in the game log instead of displaying it in the center of the screen.

21. RespecCompanionsInTowns - reset attributes, skills and focuses for the player and any companion through the city menu. It's a cheat thing, but I had to use it trivially because it was necessary. If I could put the price for dumping a hundred mowers of dough, I would do it. And so - you can cheat to upgrade certain skills, drop into others, and so on until you upgrade everything.

22. ShowTraitExp - shows the accumulated experience of skills. Not a particularly necessary thing, but I was too lazy to clean it up.

23. SurrenderTweaks - reworking the logic of surrender. Shows the chance that the enemy may surrender (not immediately, during dialogue you need to wait a couple of seconds for the script to work), allows you to offer a bribe, and this works with any options - bandits, lords, castles, cities.

24. TrueRelations - adds the entire family and clan to the relationship system.

25. TMCompanions - allows you to move companions back and forth to other clan units through dialogue.

26. UnlimitedCAP - sets the number of clan units to 10, and the limit of companions to 100.

27. zzCharacterCreation - allows you to change the appearance of any character that is in the encyclopedia, including the player, his companions, family, etc.

28. SlowLooters - Slightly slows down, but in different ways, all types of bandits, and also slightly speeds up caravans, residents and, most importantly, the player. But in moderation.

29. SmithForever - a simple mod to ignore stamina for the forge.

30. TroopHealthBar - in battle, shows the HP of your own and others above their heads in the form of a strip - red for enemies, green for allies. You can turn it off if you don't like it by pressing H in battle.

31. CaravansTradeXP - half of the player’s caravan earnings in dinars is transformed into trading skill experience. No more walks with 100,500 horses and a lot of trade. Swing passively.

32. MoreGoldAWCM - money multiplier from all sources. It works for everyone, so that it’s kind of fair, but we know that the AI ​​is a cheater.

33. OltoMod_Discard - rebalancing experience for troops from weapons/armor plus adding experience from other things. There is still a cap on maximum experience, so it doesn’t matter what the numbers are.

HOW to use mod functions that are not explicitly specified and available:

1. MyLittleWarband - the mod allows you to create a troop tree. To use it, you need to open the encyclopedia with a list of troops and select Recruit or EliteRecruit there. But you will have to use both - the minimum requirement is to create two trees, since both regular and elite recruits can appear. It will not be possible to combine both trees, except perhaps by exporting - manually editing xml - importing, and it is not a fact that it will work normally in the end.

Once again: Select the above units from the encyclopedia OR go to any settlement and click with the right mouse button (or left?) while holding Shift on the recruit. In general, you'll figure it out. Next, when you have the encyclopedia window in front of your eyes, where the starting recruit tree icon is drawn, hold down Shift and click on it. This is where the unit editor will open. Yes, you can use ready-made troop templates in the game, and even change them, but only within your personal unit tree. By the way, the mod does not save the gender of units, so keep in mind that when importing any tree, all the units in it will be men.

2. zzCharacterCreation - the mod allows you to change the appearance of both the hero and any companion - during the game and with saving. It also blocks the game’s automatic attempts to return everything to the way it was. Unlike MLW, here you just need to go to the encyclopedia on the companion’s page, and at the top there will be two buttons at once - change your appearance and name. Well, we can change the name in the dialogue, so it’s not particularly important. The set of settings set the value at 16 years, from which they are considered an adult (a game with an emphasis on realism, yeah. In those days, already at 12, a male child was considered a fighter), and old age is pushed back to 60 years. Native values ​​are 18 and 47, respectively. What I mean about age is that you shouldn’t lower your age for your companions and yourself beyond the 16-year limit. It should also be noted that reducing the age can be played at any time, making the characters eternal or, on the contrary, removing them from the game by natural death.

3. LazySmith - the mod adds functionality to the Shift and Ctrl buttons in the forge. Everywhere. Which means you can accidentally hold down Ctrl and craft 100,500 swords at a time from all your supplies. Keep in mind that decrafting and smelting are instant, but if you craft weapons, there will be a lag. With x5 on Shift it is small, but with Ctrl and large reserves of raw materials it can freeze for a long time.

All other mods have their own menus, interfaces or log entries, and do not require a special description to understand their operation.

And now a sheet of gag. You don't have to read it.

This collection will allow you to feel, first of all, more freedom. You will have access to more opportunities and options in almost all of the game’s mechanics (with the exception of diplomacy, you’ll have to decide that shit for yourself). The collection does not add a new map, new factions or new clans. From my point of view, all this is unnecessary. But new things and troops were definitely needed, so there are several mods for them.

This collection does not activate the cheat mode and does not change all the numbers in favor of the player. For the most part, all the numbers will simply be changed, to varying degrees for each mechanic. Some mechanics, particularly stamina for blacksmithing, are simply disabled. Some, for example, the number of clan units, was simply increased to 10, and the limit of companions to 100. Of course, you can go into the settings and set yourself an unlimited limit, but why? The developers have set a lot of limits, sometimes for the sake of realism or simply looking stupid. The same limit of clan units, limit of companions - but in reality, who could care about this? Moreover, given the cheating AI in the game, which assembles an endless number of units with endless reserves of dough, any limits look completely idiotic. This collection in particular is dominated by the wild imbalance of weapons in the native - one-handed and spear-shaped prevailed everywhere. Now you can both craft and buy a wide variety of all other types, and in particular the emphasis is on two-handed swords, which are generally rare in native. Yes, now you can craft yourself a rail and with heroic swings you can immediately knock soldiers off their heels, or even more. But for such happiness you will need the best armor, otherwise in the field the arrows will turn you into a hedgehog, and in sieges the rail will not be able to hit at all due to bottlenecks.

Unfortunately, I did not find only two mods that are required in this collection: a mod for a speed modifier for AI and a mod for changing pay for garrisons. The problem with the player's party fee and speed was solved by two separate mods, but neither of them allows you to set the settings for the above points. Which makes the speed of the player’s squad a little unbalanced in relation to everyone else, but considering that old warband players are not used to trudging around the map at the speed set by the developers, then everything is fine. And the speed of the AI ​​is their problem, especially considering their cheating. Another problem of the native has also not been solved, namely the ability to set the behavior of units of a clan or kingdom. Mods that regulate this are either missing or dead and non-working. So get ready for a relationship of minus 100 with all the villages that will be robbed by your clan’s troops.

There are still two points that cannot be balanced: The first point is that a mod for improving weapons allows you to craft them for money. So, even though I set up the price tags, it’s stupid to set too much, otherwise they won’t use it, but too little will trigger the “craft in every city with a forge and sell” mode. But still, with the current settings, the balance is more or less maintained, and the player can craft something and see the result. Maybe it will be in the black, maybe not. However, this does not in any way detract from the natural imbalance of the native: in both cases the player can simply craft and sell. The second point is the farming of added armor sets, which have 2-8 protection indicators higher than the best native armor. It is enough to create a personal tree of troops and give them these sets for captured troops, and then give them the opportunity to show themselves in battle in order to turn into companions. There is no way to balance this cheating option, unless you remove one of the three mods that make this possible. However, this is a long way, and it will not allow you to quickly get armor sets and other equipment on the ball.

Speaking of prices, all added items in the game are sold in cities. Unlike a warband, the chance of their appearance and price cannot be adjusted, at least I haven’t found how to do it.

In general, I think that I managed to put together a set of mods that pushes the boundaries of the native, increases the player’s freedom of action and removes or reduces some stupid restrictions. What to do with all this is up to potential players to decide, but personally I still recommend using a set of settings and under no circumstances changing them. Please note that no matter how much you want to maliciously cheat using the capabilities of this collection, as in the original, you will end up with banal loot. And I regret it, to be honest, because we should also have increased the prizes in the arena and tournaments, reduced the fees for garrisons and played around with the fine on prices. But this is not there yet, and since version 1.7.2 of the game has already been released, on which more than half of the mods from this collection will not work, I think that it will not appear.