Must have mods

[Shea]

Guys what mods are good for banished?Also does achivements still work with mods,Thx

[ebrumby]

Achievements don't work with mods. I'm one of those who started using mods after only getting 6 achievements (by accident). I've tried to go back to vanilla to get more achievements but feel too deprived and quickly give up. The #1 mod I would want added to vanilla is a Flatten Terrain tool.

I always use the big Colonial Charter mod which has its own flatten terrain tool (currently 1.76), Increased CC and Slightly Ridiculous Storage - all available from BlackLiquidSoftware.com. From WorldofBanished, I almost always add in: kid1293's Colonial Housing, Bed & Breakfast and Forest Outpost; Red Ketchup's Creepy Cemetery, Colorful Two-Story Houses, NMT Little Housing2, Garden Walls Utility, and NMT3.0MultiStory Housing; and I add Discrepancy's Townhouses and Pick & Hen Tavern.

I would not start with MegaMod. It's HUGE and can be really confusing, but it is also a good way to find out which mods are out there and which ones you want to use.

[Uldra]

just browse trough the workshop?

[ebrumby]

When using mods from the workshop (or anywhere else for that matter), make sure they were developed or updated to work with Banished 1.0.7 which came out 9/2017. The exception seems to be the mods that just add housing.

[dixiechow]

I use Colonial Charter 1.76. I use a variety of houses I chose from the Steam Workshop. The colonial houses included in CC are great. I also like red-ketchup's Boston House and Tom Sawyer's Nordic Log Cabin. Aside from buildings I also like red-ketchup's I See Fire. I like to add a bonfire to my town square and set lamp posts here and there. I like Voeille's Lush and Green. I also like BlackLiquid Radius Recolour. It gives a nice wide dark blue circle radius instead of a pale yellow. My old eyes need all the help they can get! :-)

[some moron]

Where do you find all these? I don't see them in the steam mods

[ebrumby]

WorldofBanished.com - also a great place to go to read/join in conversations with the modders as they develop their mods. BlackLiquidSoftware.com (creaters of Colonial Charter). There's also BanishedVentures.com which is Tom Sawyer's website who makes The North Mod.

[dixiechow]

"I See Fire" -- "Lush and Greem" -- "Nordic Log Cabin" -- "Boston House" and "Radius Recolour" are all on Steam Workshop.

[some moron]

weird. I don't think they were there the other day. And now others are missing. And there are six enhanced herbalists and six intense fishing. Oh well I got the Radius Recolour thanks!

[dixiechow]

I know, there is an overabundance of enhanced buildings especially the fishing docks. Just keep looking. Try looking under the "most popular" option.

[Vrayna]

As EBrumby said, remember to look at publishing dates and avoid things older than the middle of 2017.

[MaestroII]

Not all banished mods are in the workshop but you can find more on https://banishedinfo.com/
Just put the mods in the Steam\steamapps\common\Banished\WinData folder.

[tambaloneus]

I'm using CC 1.76 it's got everything I want :)