Character Screen Contracts (aka Better Melk)
🟠 Updated over a year agoPreview

🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #8 of 400 User Interface mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Displays your current contract progress for each character in the character selection menu.
Most of this mod's original functionality has been officially implemented by Fatshark, so that obsolete functionality has been removed from the mod. Here is the original description for historical purposes:
Normally, Sire Melk doesn't actually start to track your contract progress until you talk to him first every week. He similarly holds the weekly completion bonus hostage until you talk to him.
With BetterMelk, you don't have to talk to him for either of these: you will automatically accept new contracts and automatically collect the weekly completion bonus. You can also enable messages to notify you when you have new contracts (disabled by default) or when you've finished all your contracts (enabled by default).
Additionally, your current weekly contract progress for each character is displayed in the character select screen.
Note that for the purposes of this notification, the mod assumes your contracts are new if you just loaded into the hub and all your contracts have zero progress on them. So if you, for example, repeatedly quit to character select and re-enter the hub, you'll be told you have new contracts even though you don't really.
If you want to make Sire Melk more enjoyable to talk to, consider downloading my other mod Friendly Vendors.
Simplified Chinese localization by deluxghost
Russian localization by xsSplater
Source: GitHub
Character Screen Contracts (aka Better Melk) is a UI mod for Darktide that displays your current contract progress directly in the character select screen. With nearly 2,000 endorsements and over 86,000 downloads, it's a popular quality-of-life improvement for players who want to track Melk's contracts without navigating menus. Last updated in July 2025.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust (1,975 endorsements, 86k downloads) — this is a must-have for Darktide UI.
- Saves you from tabbing out to check Melk's contracts — everything's right there on character select.
- Actively maintained (updated July 2025), so it should work with recent patches.
⚠️ Cons
- UI mods can break with game updates — check for patches after big Darktide releases.
- Only shows contract progress, not other mission details — don't expect a full overhaul.
- Might conflict with other UI mods that modify the character select screen — test with your load order.
For Darktide players who constantly check Melk's contracts and want a cleaner way to see progress. If you're a UI mod enthusiast or just want less menu hopping, this is for you. Skip if you're looking for gameplay changes — this is purely cosmetic UI.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Since this is a UI mod, make sure you have the Darktide Mod Loader installed and up to date.
- If you use other UI mods, load this one after them to avoid conflicts.
- Check the mod's page for any patch notes after Darktide updates to ensure compatibility.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Warhammer40kdarktide Mods
- Author
- ItsAlxl
- Version
- 1.13
- Downloads
- 86,578
- Endorsements
- 1,975
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 3/13/2023
- Updated
- 7/22/2025
🧩 Commonly Used Together
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