Beyond OMD3: Mods and Modding

Want more from OMD3? This is your place. This guide will provide a curated list of Mods to expand OMD3 and will explain how to install and use mods. Disclaimer: mods might affect performance and gameplay in unexpected ways.

Introduction

This guide has the aim to explain how mods work and how to install them. Also to provide a list of "trusted" mods, more on that later.

Before we start, what is a mod?

A mod (short for "modification") is an alteration by players or fans of one or more aspects of a video game, such as how it looks or behaves. Mods may range from small changes and tweaks to complete overhauls, and can extend the replay value and interest of the game.

Disclaimer: mods can have unexpected side effects like bad performance or game crashes.

Now that we have the definitions out of the way, let's talk about how mods work in OMD3.

Curated list of Trusted Mods

What is a "Trusted Mod" ?
A mod that has no aim of deliberately ruining the game experience by cheating or making the gameplay detrimental. Also its modifications are well documented and clear.

(This list will exclude mods with the aim of trolling, breaking ToS or any hateful message.)

If you have made a mod and want it to be featured in the list, feel free to contact me.

Trusted Mods

⤷ Additional content mods

Additional content Mods

Endless for All Maps

Makes every map available as an Endless mission. All maps from the Campaign 'Old Friends' and the maps from the campaign 'Drastic Steps' are added to the endless map list and are playable in this game mode. Once installed go to Endless mode to play the maps.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Super Scramble

Makes every map available in Scramble Mode at every tier. All maps from the Campaigns 'Old Friends' and 'Drastic Steps' are added to the Scramble map list, as well as the two Endless-exclusive maps. There are three versions: Regular, Rift Lord, and Chaos. Rift Lord sets all tiers to Rift Lord difficulty. Chaos Mode expands Scramble to 12 tiers. It also disables War Scenarios until the final Tier, with a chance a get a War Scenario.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Sandbox

Sets the cost of all traps to 0, allowing for a sandbox mode with unlimited traps.
Also provides unlimited health and mana.
Traps can be placed in any surface and all can be rotated.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Extra Traps' Specials & Uniques Upgrades

Specials & Uniques provides new upgrades for a variety of traps. It enables regular upgrade paths for War Machines, as well as new uniques and specials for regular traps. In some cases, existing uniques have been shifted into Specials, as it made more sense.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

TimeMaster's Hell Challenge - North Wing

Looking for a true challenge?
This mod is hard, beyond Rift Lord and Nightmare difficulties.
Welcome to Hell and Good Luck!

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Endless Only Maps as Campaign

This mod allows to play the endless only maps as campaign maps.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

⤷ Fun mods

Fun Mods

War Machines Indoors (and regular maps)

Makes every war machine usable indoors and in any map. A negative side effect is that they can't be used in the special slots anymore.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Orcs Must Fly

This mod enhances the Traps and some Weapons physics capability.
Making them 5x stronger and able to affect large enemies and bosses.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Easy Endless

Want to learn the game at your own pace or rather don't want all the chaos?
This mod gives you more breaks between waves, removes the coinloss and does not ramp up enemy HP as fast as the base game.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

⤷ Overhaul Mods

Overhaul Mods

This mods are a game overhaul with extensive game changes, see all the info in the mod pages.

OMD2XP

The OMD2 Experience is a total rebalance of the game, changing values for Traps, Characters, Upgrades, Enemies, and Endless gameplay values, bringing them in line with Orcs Must Die 2.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Xerulized

The Horde is done messing around.. They want you dead.
More Bosses and variety of units in Endless
Smoothed Curve, no Coin Loss.
9 Tier Legion Scramble

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Green Tide

Green Tide is a massive rework, re-balance and overall shuffle around.
Heroes with different play-styles, weapons feeling different than a large pile of perfect hit pew pew wands and tweaks to enemies making melee weapons more viable.

Note: Scoring is disabled with this mod due to balance. Cheating is not endorsed.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

⤷ Cosmetic Mods

Cosmetic Mods

OMD2 Style Orcs

Gives Medium and Heavy Orcs, Orc Archers, Mountain Trolls, and Gnoll Hunters color schemes matching those of their Orcs Must Die 2 Counterparts.

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

In their Prime

Replace the Prisoner and Orc World Max skins for a more Youthful looking Warmage Experience!

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

Replace the default Gabriella skin for a more youthful Sorceress experience!

Get it here[www.nexusmods.com]

How to install

OMD3 mods can be installed in a few different ways but here I'll talk about an standard way.
Following this way will ensure that installing mods is an easy process and that is easy to keep track of multiple installed mods .

Mod Files

Format:

• Should have .pak extension
  
• Should follow this naming convention: 5XX-ModName_P.pak where XX is any number and ModName is the name of the mod

The 5XX number serves to specify the order of loading of the mods, since some mods might modify the same item or feature (for example the Flip Trap), in case of multiple mods editing the same entity, the changes to that entity of the higher numbered mod will prevail.

Installation

1. If you don't have one already, create a Mods\ Folder in your steamapps\common\Orcs Must Die 3\OMD\Content\Paks\ folder
   
2. Place the mod file (with a valid format) into your Mods folder.

How to make mods and how do they work

At the moment there is no simple way of creating mods, like using the workshop.
But you can get more information and support by joining the modding community linked in the section below.

Modding community

A modding community for the Orcs Must Die! franchise has been in the making for a little while.
Feel free to join and discuss, ask and learn about the OMD modding by joining the discord server below:

https://discord.gg/kpYnQbnW55

A guide to modding[docs.google.com] exists for anyone wanting to get their hands dirty, and further support and information can be found in the above Discord.

Thank you

Thanks for reading, I hope the guide helped some of you with getting into using mods!

TM

[Ricardo_Rick]

does mods work in co-op? and how?

[Ragenarok]

I cheked this looking for a 4 (or even 3, honestly) player coop mode

[TimeMaster]

Not possible, or we couldn't figure out how to do it, unfortunately

[Hümmögi]

A 4 player coop mod anyone? :D

[NWCfafnir]

Sadly original game is so low on content... I miss the unchaind...

[Sex]

Does my friend also need the mods in order to play these modded modes or could I just host the match

[Kevin Mamar]

Thx

[Raidenrw11]

i agre

[nholman74432]

it would be nice if someone made a mod launcher for it so modding orcs must die 3 would be easy for everyone

[Kimse]

just redo the map and it should unlock and no need for 5 skulls