JWL Histories and Occupations for Patch 7
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 3 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #325 of 699 Character Customisation mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
PATCH 8 COMPATIBLE: YES, WITH MODSImpUI is needed to see icons for custom backgrounds. I use ImpUI Patch 8 Fork in my own game.
Jewels: please contact me so I can hand off this update to you! Thank you (:
Patch 8 is just around the corner and here I am, STILL fixing things from Patch 7! Truly, the life of modding is one of hardship.
Anyways, here’s one of Jewels’ many wonderful mods for you—Histories and Occupations, a custom backgrounds mod now updated for Patch 7. This is pretty much a straight port, keeping the same functionality, icons, descriptions, and UUIDs of the original mod. However, I did end up making a few changes:
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[]Rebuilt using the toolkit for mod.io compatibility (if Jewels wants)
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]Corrected spelling, punctuation, grammar errors[]Secret Identity fully implemented, now provides Disguise Self spell as intended
[]Inspiration support added, linked to vanilla goals
- NEW for v1. 1: Patch available to replace ability score changes
🚨 This has been minimally playtested because I got tired of working on it, so please let me know if I broke something!! 🚨
All UUIDs and handles were retained where possible. Existing game saves and translation patches SHOULD still be functional.
⭐INSPIRATION⭐
Inspiration support is new for this mod, and I tried to use my best judgment in picking which vanilla backgrounds to inherit goals from.
Before anyone asks: no, I will not change these. Implementing Inspiration means I added over 1,100 goals to these backgrounds. The BF even wrote a script to automate updating the UUIDs/handles because of the bonkers amount of time it would have taken to do manually; without him, this addition honestly wouldn’t have even happened. If you’d like to edit the background goals yourself, take a look at this guide by the wonderful Bibsan.
The full list of linked backgrounds is below:
Alchemist = Sage
Animal Collective = Outlander
Anthropologist = Entertainer
Archaeologist = Guild Artisan
Archivist = Sage
Astral Drifter = Outlander
Bounty Hunter = Soldier
Cartographer = Guild Artisan
City Watch = Folk Hero
Courier = Outlander
Detective = Folk Hero
Devil’s Bargain = Noble
Gambler = Charlatan
Gladiator = Soldier
God-Touched = Acolyte
Highwayman = Criminal
Mercenary = Charlatan
Merchant = Guild Artisan
Ninja = Soldier
Pirate = Criminal
Pugilist = Soldier
Rancher = Outlande
JWL Histories and Occupations for Patch 7 updates UmbralJewels' Histories and Occupations mod to be compatible with Patch 7+ of Baldur's Gate 3. It's a compatibility patch for players who want to use the original mod with the latest game version. With 118 endorsements and 88,409 downloads, it's a popular fix for a niche need.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Essential fix for Patch 7 players—without it, the original mod breaks.
- Proven demand: 88k downloads show tons of players needed this.
- Lightweight patch, no bloat—just makes the old mod work again.
⚠️ Cons
- Does nothing on its own—you must download the original mod separately.
- Only addresses Patch 7 compatibility; future patches may break it again.
- No detailed changelog or install notes provided by the author.
For Baldur's Gate 3 players who love UmbralJewels' Histories and Occupations but updated to Patch 7 and found it broken. If you're new to the mod, grab the original first, then this patch. Skip if you don't use that mod or haven't updated your game.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have the original Histories and Occupations mod installed first—this patch only updates it.
- Use a mod manager like BG3 Mod Manager to load this patch after the original mod in your load order.
- If you're on Patch 7, this patch is mandatory; if you're on an older patch, you don't need it.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Baldurs Gate 3 Mods
- Author
- Jewels
- Version
- 1.2
- Downloads
- 88,409
- Endorsements
- 118
- Category
- Character Customisation
- Created
- 2/2/2025
- Updated
- 8/17/2025
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