Blood Backhand Blade Retexture (Standalone Retexture with Icons)

Description

This mod changes the appearance of the Blood-infused Backhand Blade with a 8K retexture inspired by the Rivers of Blood katana, Eleonora’s Poleblade, and Rakshasa’s Great Katana.

If you have multiple Backhand Blades in your inventory and some of them are infused with other elements (or not infused at all), those other BHBs will remain unchanged (this mod only affects the Blood-infused version of the Backhand Blade).

Additionally, this mod adds icons/images for the Blood Backhand Blade across the inventory, HUD, description, and all relevant in-game menus.

If you are only interested in the Backhand Blade retexture and do not care about icon/image changes or having a standalone version for the Blood infusion, you may prefer my (replacer) retexture-only mod instead .

What exactly does the mod do?

To modify only the Blood-infused version of the Backhand Blade, this mod includes its own set of materials, textures, and models. Because it also replaces the icons/images for the Blood BHB in the inventory and other menus, it requires additional menu files. To link all of these assets to the weapon’s data, several parameters must be edited in the game’s regulation file (regulation.bin).

Installation (Mod Engine 2)

1. Download and install the latest version of Mod Engine 2.

To maximize compatibility with your game, copy all the files inside the “ModEngine-2. 1. 0. 0-win64” folder (which contains the modengine2 and mod folders, the Readme file, modengine2_launcher.exe, 3 batch [.bat] files, and 3 configuration [.toml] files) into your Elden Ring\Game directory. You may delete any batch or configuration files you don’t need (e.g., the Armored Core 6 or Dark Souls 3 ones).

2. Download this mod, then extract/copy/drop all its contents into the mod folder of Mod Engine 2.

3. Launch Elden Ring in offline mode using the batch file (launchmod_eldenring.bat) from Mod Engine 2.

Compatibility

This mod is not compatible with mods that modify any of the following:

- The regulation.bin file (needed to link the newly added materials, textures, models, and icons to the weapon data).

*This can be resolved via Smithbox using the provided .csv file to merge this mod with others. Alternatively, you can manually adjust the parameters: go to Param Editor → EquipParamWeapon → 645