Awesome BG3

A curated list of awesome tools, tutorials, and resources for Baldur's Gate 3.

Contributions are welcome!

Conventions

• Any list item with an OctoCat has a GitHub repo or organization; click on it to see the source code!
• List items with this 📦 icon have source code hosted elsewhere.

Contents

• Conventions
• Contents
• Community
• Documentation
• Learn
• Media
• Mods
• Tools
• Videos
• Miscellaneous

Community

• [Official Discord Server for Larian Games]
• [Discord]

Documentation

• Official BG3 wiki: bunch of resources for modding. Limited but still better than nothing!
• BG3 Script Extender's documentation: Norbyte's documentation for the Script Extender

Learn

My own repo is a WIP. More in-progress than work as of now 😂

Media

• 2k Icons by Nuion: glowing/normal/transparent icons, graciously create by Nuion to use in your mods. You can use them freely as long as you don't sell your mod.

Mods

All the following mods should be unpacked with LSLib before you can check their files and learn from them.

• Sample Magic Ring Mod by AnteMaxx: Level 1 difficulty. A template mod for magic ring and spell modding. Contains 4 magic rings.
• Sample Equipment Mod by AnteMaxx: Level 2 difficulty. A template mod for Armor and Weapon modding, and for implementing custom icons. Contains 3 armors, 1 weapon and 1 backpack.
• Basket Full of Equipment by AnteMaxx: Level 3 difficulty. Over 700 pieces of new armor and equipment, mainly for humanlike races. Very useful to check for advanced functions, such as adding spells to equipment, etc.
• Daughter of Lolth by Rukongai: Useful if you want to learn BG3 scripting and how to register listeners.

Tools

• BG3 MultiTool by ShinyHobo: Utility for quickly generating Baldur's Gate 3 mod packs from an unpacked workspace.
• BG3 MiniTool by Padme4000: Mini tool for editing some of the lsx files for baldurs gate 3 modding
• BG3 Script Extender by Norbyte: required by many mods, and indispensable to access LUA script from within your mod or debugging them in the console
• LSLib by Norbyte: Tools for manipulating Divinity Original Sin and Baldur's Gate 3 files

Videos

• Tutorial videos by Padme4000: Some are a little bit outdated but this is an invaluable resource for learning how to mod 3D models in BG3

Miscellaneous