Auto Equip Companions
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📋 About This Mod
Will make your companions automatically upgrade their equipment when leaving inventory screen.
# Auto Equip Companions
:: REQUIREMENTS ::
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord v1. 3. 15+
:: DESCRIPTION ::
Automatically equips companions with the best available gear when closing the inventory screen.
Per-character settings allow you to control which equipment slots are managed for each hero.
:: FEATURES ::
- Auto-equips companions on inventory close
- Manual trigger button in the inventory screen
- Per-character template selection (Default, Infantry Captain, Cavalry Captain, etc.)
- Per-character toggle to enable/disable auto equip
- Per-slot toggles for armor, weapons, horse, and harness
- Settings are saved between sessions
- Configurable behavior via game_settings.json
:: USAGE ::
Open the inventory screen. A button will appear in the top-right area.
- Left click: manually trigger auto equip
- Right click: toggle the settings panel
In the settings panel you can select a template for the current character, enable/disable auto equip
per character, and toggle individual equipment slots.
:: TEMPLATES ::
Templates control what type of gear each slot looks for when auto-equipping.
Armor: Best available of any armor type for each slot
Horse: Best available mount and harness
Weapons: Matches the same weapon type already in each slot
Infantry Captain
Armor: Heavy armor in all slots
Horse: Empty (dismounted)
Weapon0: One-handed weapon (includes bastard swords if enabled)
Weapon1: Shield
Weapon2: Polearm
Weapon3: Thrown weapon
Cavalry Captain
Armor: Heavy armor in all slots
Horse: Best available mount and harness
Weapon0: Cavalry/lance weapon
Weapon1: One-handed weapon
Weapon2: Shield
Weapon3: Thrown weapon
Horse Archer
Armor: Light armor in all slots
Horse: Fast mount and light harness
Weapon0: Bow
Weapon1: Arrows
Weapon2: One-handed weapon
Weapon3: Arrows (extra quiver)
Bow Captain
Armor: Medium armor in all slots
Horse: Empty (dismounted)
Weapon0: Bow
Weapon1: Arrows
Weapon2: Shield
Weapon3: One-handed weapon
Crossbow Captain
Armor: Medium armor in all slots
Horse: Empty (dismounted)
Weapon0: Crossbow
Weapon1: Bolts
Weapon2: Shield
Weapon3: One-handed weapon
Coming Soon
Custom templates that let you select slot templates when you want.
Custom slot templates that let you create custom way to calculate best item in slot.
More Pre-built templates (suggest criteria you'd like)
GitHub Repo
Discord: boom9001
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📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Mountandblade2bannerlord Mods
- Author
- Boom
- Version
- 1.3.15
- Downloads
- 37,511
- Endorsements
- 592
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 9/25/2022
- Updated
- 3/22/2026
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