best mods to download for a new player?

[Giambo]

best mods to download for a new player? or should i stay default until i learn well the game?

[Quill]

Stay default

Once you're able to survive for over a month start to branch out into modded content

[Armagenesis]

Play vanilla until you understand what's what in the base game. So when you come across an issue, you'd know if it's a mod problem or base game problem.

[Quill]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

Play vanilla until you understand what's what in the base game. So when you come across an issue, you'd know if it's a mod problem or base game problem.

Also lets you know what mods you'd enjoy

What's the point of jumping into the deep end of Britas Weapon Mod if you don't find Gun Gameplay enjoyable?

[BurgerTime]

if your interested tho, you cant go wrong with any mr atomic duck packs, when your ready. Heres a llink https://steamcommunity.com/id/adamhunt126/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=108600

[Valen Logan]

craft helper (41.X) is a good one for a new player. What it does is when you right click on an item that can be part of a recipe it will have an extra option called "craft help" where it will pull up a list of recipes that item is used in.
There is a lot of stuff in this game and a lot of it gets used for things but some things don't. It can take awhile to learn what is useless and what aint, this mod helps tremendously with that.

[uni790]

Being reletively new myself, I grabbed one that says it shows the true bonuses and the like on traits, and well, a nude mod, (but I tend to grab one of these for every game, nothing special there for me)

[stevasaur]

TBH, if your goal is to learn the game, ui mods like Zombie Health Bars, Clear Descriptions for Moodles and More Descriptions for Traits wouldn't steer you wrong.

Sure, some people might get enjoyment from figuring out obfuscated game information, but a lot of us have limited free time and don't want to spend that time figuring out how much the "tired" debuff decreases your damage (answer: it's a lot).

[zodi_kid]

My two personal favorites, are:
- Weapon condition indicator (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2619072426): tells you how much durability your equipped/hotbar weapons have. I am now playing totally vanilla and it is the mod I am missing the most. Makes the information more accessible.
- Noodle Quarters (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2854030563): if you are bad at guessing what shade of green/red your moodle is, this mods adds a pointy end to the circles for every stage. For example, 1 for Peckish, 2 for Hungry, 3 for Very Hungry, 4 for Starving. Again, it doesn't reveal anything the devs didn't want you to see, it just makes info more accessible.

EDIT: Steam doesn't like the links, but if you search the mods by their name, you should find them in the workshop.

[Jambie Lionheart]

ACTUALLY! For new players I'd recommend the 'weapon damage indicator' mod. Honest to god, wish I'd found that one sooner. It's not like there's achievements either so it really doesn't matter if your first run in virginia vanilla. Other than that I'd see leave the rest because you kinda do wanna get familiar with the base game before you start adding mods.

[nekochan AL]

item condition
car door open indicator
minimal display bars
draw on the map
clear description for moodles
advanced trajectory
those are all the mods i currently play with, they all dont change the way the game plays, it just adds helpful quality of life additions into it that will either save your life, or just make it more managable. the only exception is the advanced trajectory mod, which i HIGHLY recommend all players use if they dont want guns to be absolute trash like they are in the vanilla game
have fun!

[μ]

minimal display bars helps a new player to learn faster imo.