Baldur's Gate 3's Best New Feature Is One You're Not Supposed To Use

has introduced some major new game-changing features, but the one that has the potential to be the most transformative won't be found in any patch notes for the game. After a long wait, the fresh additions and tweaks to come courtesy of Patch 7, which released on September 5 for PC and is set to come to consoles in short order. Many of the changes focus on bugs and improvements to animations, scripting, and more, but new content like extra evil endings and Honour Mode boss reworks are more immediately exciting.

As far as the official Patch 7 inclusions, the best new feature might be the Toolkit, which brings official modding support to the game. As software that's free to download on Steam, the Toolkit makes creating custom content like new items, cosmetics, and character options easier than ever before. The Toolkit doesn't cover everything that fans might want to do with, however, and that's where the community has stepped back in to open up a new kind of opportunity.

Within a few days of the Patch 7 release, Nexus Mods user Siegfre had already created a mod called «BG3 Toolkit Unlocked,» which addresses some of the biggest shortcomings of the official tools. Although the Toolkit doesn't support a few key features like level editing, it's essentially a publicly released version of the toolkit that developer Larian Studios uses to work on the game, and some of that functionality was locked off rather than removed outright. Crucially, BG3 Toolkit Unlocked grants access to level editing in , which could reshape the game forever.

Patch 7 makes a lot of great changes to Baldur's Gate 3, and the biggest adjustments overhaul the game in ways that will be hard to forget.

A couple of great examples of how the BG3 Toolkit Unlocked mod is already being put to use come courtesy of Reddit user katszenBurger, who hasn't wasted any time in starting to cook up new areas. One Reddit post shows a tower by the sea, while another replicates the hellish landscape of Avernus, complete