Plan your perks
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.5% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #7 of 178 Miscellaneous mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
This mod brings a welcome piece of QoL to the game. Rightclick to cycle between different perk planning colors: orange, green(planned), red(forbidden). Control+rightclick removes any color.
There's more: you will now find new buttons in the perktree menu. Clicking the right one will open an all new menu to save and load perk builds. This is mostly meant to enhance other mods, such as Legends + PTR which add a lot of perks.
A 'Perk Build' is a collection of planned perks, so perks that have the green border around them. The idea of this mod is that you can have a collection of these perk builds, to easily plan new brothers, try out different things, or just share them with other people.
On the right part of the screen, you will see which perks are currently planned for this character. You can save these perks as a new "Perk Build". Doing so will add them to the list below. They can then be applied to another brother, or exported as a string to your clipboard (aka copypaste).
The perks in the list will be coloured if the currently selected brother already has them, and greyed out otherwise. If you're using Legends, perks that area missing in the perk tree of the current brother will have a red overlay.
"Export Build" can be used to get a snapshot of the currently planned perks of the selected character, without having to save them as a build. Likewise, "Apply build" can use such a snapshot and apply it to a character.
The "Override planned perks" toggle can be useful if you have multiple smaller perk builds. You might have a "Init" build, for brothers with high init, that only plans "Dodge, Overwhelm, Relentless". If you disable the toggle and then apply such a build, all other planned perks will remain.
Builds are saved between campaigns by using the MSU persistent data system. You can turn this behaviour off in the mod settings.
Known issues:
The input fields are rather wonky. ctrl+v to paste your clipboard works, but will enter the text many times. Thus, use the 'paste clipboard' button.
If using legends, you'll have a known issue of tooltips not appearing if the current character does not have these perks (due to dynamic perks). The next legends update should fix that.
How to use:
-download the file and place it into \Battle Brothers\data\ without unzipping.
-can be added to an ongoing campaign
-you'll need modding script hooks v19+ (Legends has it integrated)
Plan your perks is a quality-of-life mod for Battle Brothers that lets you highlight perks to plan out your brothers' builds. It eliminates the need to nickname your bros like "2h QH hammer" by providing a visual planning tool. With 613 endorsements and 41,125 downloads, it's a popular utility for build planning.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community favorite with 613 endorsements and over 41k downloads.
- Simple, focused tool that does exactly what it says—no bloat.
- Saves you from mental gymnastics of remembering every bro's build.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in December 2025—might not be compatible with future game patches.
- Only highlights perks; doesn't auto-assign or calculate stats for you.
For Battle Brothers players who like to plan out their bros' builds in advance and want a visual aid. Skip if you prefer to wing it or if you want a full build calculator.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure to place the mod in the correct mod folder for Battle Brothers (usually /mods in the game directory).
- Use the highlight feature to map out perk trees before committing points in-game.
- Combine with a build guide to maximize your bros' effectiveness.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Battlebrothers Mods
- Author
- TaroEld
- Version
- 6.0.1
- Downloads
- 41,125
- Endorsements
- 613
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Created
- 10/12/2021
- Updated
- 12/16/2025
🧩 Commonly Used Together
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