BG3 Symlink Mod Utility

I made this for a friend in like eight hours before we played so we'd have the same BG3 modded setup for one game, but be able to continue playing our vanilla game vanilla. I figured it might be useful for someone else too for similar reasons. Please read instructions on how to use it, or it won't work!

The app comes with:

• []6 files in its root directory

  []3 folders

  []1 vanilla load order

  Don't rename the folders, don't rename the vanilla load order.

  Wait, this is an app and I don't know you! How do I know this isn't a virus?

  You can check out the source here.

  Nexus Blocked the DL?

  Yeah it has to be manually checked by them to be on the site unfortunately. There's a release on the Github though, and a link to that in the Posts tab.

  Usage:

  []Download and unzip into the same folder you have your BG3 Mod Manager in for ease of use.

  []Put mods you intend to install into the Mods folder

  []If you're planning to install, for example, NativeMods, you put those into GameData/bin

  []You can install root mods this way too! It'll work. Instead of putting things directly into your steamapps BG3/Data and BG3/bin folders, put them into the GameData/Data and GameData/bin folders.

  []Reshade can be installed the same way. Just put dxgi.dll, ReShade.ini, and the reshade-shaders folder into the GameData/bin folder.

  []I recommend making a reshade-presets folder too to keep things tidy.

  []You can even install the Party Limit Patcher this way. Just plop the applicable files into GameData/bin. THIS INCLUDES BG3. EXE AND BG3. DX11. EXE.

  []To get those files easily without overwriting your original ones: Open your steam BG3 bin folder. COPY the exes elsewhere. Follow the Party Limit Patcher install instructions from the GameData/Data folder, but use the steam exes. Let it create its new exes. Move its new exes into the GameData/bin folder. Delete its backup copies from your steam bin folder. Move YOUR backup copy back in there so it's fresh as the day it was installed. (You can probably use the backup exes the PLP creates but I am a paranoid android so I prefer to use my own copies. YMMV.) Now you have your patched version in your separate folder and can still use the unpatched version if you wish.

  []Once you have your stuff set up and ready, go into Load Orders and make a copy of Vanilla (or, if you already have a load order, copy that into here). Name the file whatever you want. Seriously, you don't have to name it ModSettings. You can name it AstarionsCuteFangs and it'll work - I promise.

  [*]Open BG3Config.cfg and change the contents to point at YOUR Baldur's Gate 3 steam folder. Default it will say C:\Program Files (x8