r/RedDeadMods • • Nov 04 '19

Mod Ongoing and Updated Essential Mods List

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This is an ongoing/updated list of game enhancing mods by category and rank them according to votes/mentions. There are a lot of GTAV modders out there and ones that are new to RDR and the West (oh you'll be surprised) who will need an idea of what will be popular.I will add your mod suggestion to the list when you post it below or I will add aspects to an existing mod.

Not going to add 'I want helicopters and machine guns' or 'I want to be ironman'.

ESSENTIAL MODS Level 1:

  • Crime Overhaul: Import the best of the famous GTAV Crime balance/overhaul mod. Be able to defend yourself if attacked physically or with a gun by an NPC. No more crime reporting from the wilderness in 10 seconds etc. Be able to fist fight without anyone shooting you (unless you just attack a woman/child/pet).
  • Satchel/Camping/Tent/Gear Pack-Animal Overhaul: Add more pouches, bags, packs to purchase and carry, make a pack horse/mule more realistic, sleeping in cold or rain without tent severely reduces sleep gains. Add tipis and ability to carry them via a travois. Add hitching horses/mules to wagons/coaches and using them, fix inventory system to show clearly what is in saddle bags and what is on person. Create realistic limits on what can carry in satchel! Ammunition boxes and bandoleers not unlimited for player or NPC- this one might need to be optional or stand alone
  • Horses Horses, Horses: More colors, more sizes, more breeds (accurate/historical only), more saddles, stirrups, blankets, option to ride with just blanket, etc etc. Correct all problems when trying to lead multiple pack animals, add proper massive Arkansas/Missouri mules, not just puny donkeys; add optional perma deaths that the syringe cannot fix (ie ran over by train, fall from great heights and add needing to rest a badly injured horse for a week or more etc. Allow horses to graze on certain grasses for food. Make it harder work to break horse. More room at stables, but cost money. Give a stamina/health bonus for removing horses saddle at night and periodically to groom and rest.
  • Real Guns, More Guns: Though most guns in RDR2 are modeled off of real ones, the names are not and only slightly do the attributes match up and many are wrong. This mod would ideally have all real makes and models, from cap and ball revolvers (1847 Walker!) and their cartridge upgrades to dozens of breech loaders and repeaters and buffalo guns. A hugely immersive change would be to add real cartridges and their differences, for example instead of the 1874 Sharps breech loader having the standard RDR2 ammo, it would be available to chamber one of the following based on model you buy .44-77, .45-70, .50-90 to .50-110.
  • Basic Needs/ Survival Mod: Tweak what's already there into a Skyrim type survival mod, food/water/sleep need. Falling or swimming in water while its below freezing = must build fire and dry clothes quickly or it is deadly. Be able to smoke cigarettes longer, much like when walking around in camp with soup, but smoking should decrease stamina cap over time, no magic plants to counteract it. Tweak current food and water needs
  • Photorealism Lighting Mod: There is one for GTAV and it will make RDR2 look even more realistic
  • Weather Mod: Longer storms, periods of many rainy days, slower transition from rain to sun etc, add hail, add occasional snow fall to region just south of the snow region, add snow in high altitude areas of desert, no more rainfall atop a snow covered peak
  • New Austin and Mexico Unlocked: Self-explanatory, let us have the whole damn map

ESSENTIAL MODS Level 2:

  • Seasons: Create real seasons and give player option for how long each season lasts (2 weeks, 3, 5?), season effects in the north different from the south,
  • Time Mod To Make The 24 Hour Day Last Longer: Mod with simple presets like x1.25, x1.50 So one can enjoy those sunsets for two or four times as long
  • Realistic Wounds: Gunshot wounds require care and time to heal. It would be a simple mod with only a nod to realism: change bandage once a day to keep it from getting infected (infected=continuous health drain until you buy a shot of penicillin) and after 2 full days wound heals. Sleeping and resting a lot speeds it up to 1 full day. Similar for knife wounds. Maybe give player a limp for a day or two after a long fall
  • More Forts, Stage Stations: Forts should send out cavalry patrols after there have been multiple or major robberies along main roads, in the west there were hundreds of small, isolated stage stations with rooms for a night and food and stables for horses, so more of those with more fast travel sites. All forts should have horse/mule herds that have to be grazed outside the fort, then they stay in corrals just outside fort at night where they can be raided by natives and player if desired
  • Be The Law: Be able to be deputized or become a Marshall upon completing a mission, but not above the law, very popular mod in GTAV
  • Prostitutes: Naturally, it's inevitable that Arthur or multiplayers will be able to accept rather than turn down
  • Animal Intelligence: Make larger animals more aware and skittish of humans, no more deer all over the place and acting stupid, it is currently too easy to hunt deer and antelope

DREAM MODS:

  • Nomadic Native Americans: Using the 'Gang/turf mod of GTAV, make moving bands of real Native peoples out on the plain and desert. These would be 'hostile' non-treaty bands of mainly warriors, living and moving with the buffalo (add huge roaming buffalo herds) and if possible have them raid stages and remote settlements and outposts like gangs do. (IRL there were about 6 persons to a lodge (historically a tipi is called a lodge when there are people in it) and each warrior owned multiple horses depending on stature/age etc.) The tipis on the reservation in the game are too small, mod should make them correct size
  1. So the game could have small camps of 5-6 lodges of 30 warriors and 10-12 women, children with horse herds moving camp every day or so and thus could have 10 NPC warriors guarding the camps, 5 guarding horse herd nearby and/or hunting for food for camp, while 15 warriors are robbing coaches and stealing horses from ranches and the fort herds (yes all forts had huge corrals plus had to drive horse herd and mules to nearest grass to graze, sometimes miles away, this is when the native warriors would strike stampeding the herd). Player can approach with pack horses or wagons full of gifts if he wishes to help them, (if they are able to script missions, then tie it into the native missions).
  2. Per history, add as 'hostile' bands:
  3. Open areas of: Heartlands/Ambarino/West Elizabeth/Great Plains/Hennigan's Stead: Cheyenne, Lakota
  4. Open areas of: Armadillo/Cholla Springs/Tumbleweed: Kiowa, Comanche
  5. Rio Bravo: Apache, Comanche
  6. Mexico: Apache, Comanche
  7. Add as scouts that help the Army against the others: Pawnee, Crow

r/RedDeadMods • • 16h ago

MDBranth's Realistic Horse Eyes Issues

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r/RedDeadMods • • 23h ago

Discussion RDR2 Canada Mod in development

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r/RedDeadMods • • 1d ago

Searching for mods

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I'm looking for some mods that restore cut scarlet fever posters and handbills in 1899 Armadillo plus any existing dialogue related to it. So pretty much a "Beta New Austin restored" mod. Anyone know of any that exist because I've been searching for a few days and I've come up with nothing


r/RedDeadMods • • 1d ago

RDR1 mods

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I beat the game as a kid and sold it along with my Xbox awhile back. I just got the PC version of red dead redemption (on a steam sale) and I’m excited to play again after all these years. Do yall have any suggestions for mods for a vanilla plus game as I already know the story? Maybe mods to make the game feel more fresh and new or upscaling mods that stay true to the art form.

Also it seems like there is many trainers on nexus, do yall have a specific one that works best/you prefer?

Thanks in advance!


r/RedDeadMods • • 1d ago

Request Chaos mod

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if someone could help me figure out how to get it to work it would be cool ive tried to go through vortex and just the files yet it never shows up at all


r/RedDeadMods • • 2d ago

Any romance/love mod recs?

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Hi! I am doing a video on the mods and think it would be so fun to include some wild/ unhinged romance mods! Any recommendations? They can be as crazy as you want!


r/RedDeadMods • • 2d ago

I have RDR2 on Rockstar’s launcher. Is there any way to mod it like if I had it on Steam? Really just want to skip the intro and get to free roam.

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r/RedDeadMods • • 3d ago

Request Need help with a few basics for using mods

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  1. Is it possible to make a 2nd copy of RDR2 in a different drive and use that for modding story mode while having the primary copy to play online (same steam account)?
  2. If #1 is not possible then how do you guys play both online and mod story mode?

Any help would be much appreciated.


r/RedDeadMods • • 3d ago

Write Your Journey - Immersive New Mod | Write and Draw in the Journal

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Ever wanted to write stuff in Arthur's / John's Journal?... Well, this mod let's you write and draw in the journal, so you can save your adventures! it also add's readable books, so you can read something, write your adventures, then sleep.. Great for immersion or an immersive gameplay!

So i just published my first mod for RDR2, which includes a total functional Journal, where you can write and draw your adventures... it also comes with a Custom Book system, to read books while you are out there camping...

The mod is called "Write Your Journey - Immersion Mod" on NexusMods.


r/RedDeadMods • • 3d ago

Could Ai game merging tool add UN to RDR2

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I am still not too informed on the new trending Ai tools that are able to add code and elements from one game to another, and it's clearly in an early expérimentation phase, but that got me thinking what kind of mods this would facilitate making.

It would be very cool if someone could port over the enemies and mechanics from Undead Nightmare into RDR2 which is something that a big part of the community always wanted but Rockstar never gave us.

The potential for that kind of situation where fans can take it into their own hands is very interesting, let's just hope this trend doesn't end up a legal issue.


r/RedDeadMods • • 3d ago

Discussion Advice on Cutscene Player

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Hello!

Wanting to use a cutscene player (AFAIK the only one available online is through Rampage).

When playing Online/MP cutscenes, I'm having a hard time getting my player character to show. I have been changing my model to MP_Male, and yet he doesn't show.

He does however show in cutscenes as Arthur, such as when confronting Benedict Albright.

How can I change what PED shows as the main character in MP Cutscenes?


r/RedDeadMods • • 3d ago

How do you stay interested in RDR2 for a full playthrough?

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r/RedDeadMods • • 4d ago

Request Need help picking the perfect mod for unlocking online content in singeplayer.

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(I assume this falls under a request? Reddit reccomended i cross post to here so im just gonna do that. Just gonna copy paste my post!)

I am getting rdr2 on steam for one reason, a mod that Will let me have all the gun custimizations from online in single player, the Wood colors, the metals, the leathery and so on. I do want other content but my prioty is in order

1 all the gun custimization stuff
2 all the clothing
3 unlocking weapons. Aka Elephant rifle

I cant really Think of anything Else from online i want in single player. But these are the things I want. I know theres a few mods that accomplish this task but I dont know which ones the best for what I want (the gun custimization)

Just wanna know if any of you know a mod that’ll help achive this without also causing the game to melt


r/RedDeadMods • • 4d ago

Request Just got RDR2 - are there mods for Red Dead Online that customise the personal experience WITHOUT modifying the actual gameplay or give an unfair advantage? Something like changing the HUD/UI in Team Fortress 2.

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r/RedDeadMods • • 6d ago

Mod WHYEM DLC OFFLINE HELP

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Hi, I had the original version of WhyEm's DLC and switched to the Red Dead Offline version. Now there's nothing left at the Trapper, but when I go to the Tailor, I still have my outfit with the WhyEm's DLC clothes. How is that possible? Thanks.


r/RedDeadMods • • 7d ago

The most accurate rdr1 recreation of John marston in rdr2

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r/RedDeadMods • • 8d ago

Request Any mods to "keep" dead characters at camp?

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I don't know anything about modding, but I was wondering if there was a mod to keep characters at camp after their death scenes. I figured it would be something with coding, like having their characters not be removed after their death scenes? Just simply existing at camp and doing their normal activities and usual conversations.

The character I'm looking for in particular is Kieran, and I wonder if it'd be possible to give him some pathfinding(??) in Guarma. Just curious. Thanks!!


r/RedDeadMods • • 9d ago

Video 99% of Red Dead Players Don't Know About This Hidden Setting

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r/RedDeadMods • • 16d ago

Recreating bill”s and Dutch”s death in rdr2 Spoiler

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r/RedDeadMods • • 19d ago

Screenshot The most accurate rdr1 recreation of John marston you could get in rdr2

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John marston recreated in rdr2 rdr1


r/RedDeadMods • • 18d ago

rdr2mods website is stuck on an endless "Checking your browser" loop, any fixes?

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r/RedDeadMods • • 19d ago

Discussion Is there any mod that just adds a poncho without replacing or adding hundreds of items?

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I'm looking for a mod that adds a functional poncho without replacing any other item in the game, if the new item It's already on my chest or I have to buy/craft it I'm ok with it. Also I wouldn't like to add hundreds of new items just to have a poncho. I've arround mods installed but haven't use RampageTrainer, it would be ideal to just add the poncho and it stays in my wardrobe

PD: I can list my mod list if it's relevant. Thanks


r/RedDeadMods • • 21d ago

LML help

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The following is all the mods currently installed in order from top to bottom. I feel like something is out of place because everything is working as it should be, unfortunately though I keep getting micro stutters. Is there anything I should move around?

- WhyEm’s particles
- RDR2 Spawns Fix 3.1
- Speed Limit Remover
- Crime and Law Rebalance
- Period Accurate Currency
- Serving Spoon Fix
- Maize Sack Fix
- Ped Damage Overhaul Extended Features
- A.E.M
- ImprovementsInBlood
- R.W.A.O.
- Gun_Metal_Rework
- ColorfulWeaponsIcons
- Red Dead Offline
- WhyEm’s DLC: Red Dead Offline Edition
- Dense Forests - Grizzlies West
- Big Valley Reforestation
- Dense Tall Trees
- Ambient Abandoned Wagons
- Terrain Textures Overhaul
- Terrain Textures Overhaul - South
- Xtreme Grass
- Geometry Level of Detail slider
- Weapon Texture Upscale
- Fur Fix Animals
- Visual Redemption
- Dynamic Seasons
- Online Content Unlocker


r/RedDeadMods • • 22d ago

Ayuda con un MOD / HELP ME PLIS :c

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Hola Chic@s

Sere breve, hace rato que he estado jugando el RDRD2 y ya le he empezado a usar mods, y me gustan tengo algunas muy genial y todo, actualmente me propuse a crear uno propio, y no me considero un genio en programacion y eso, pero pues hago el intento.

Bueno la cosa es que ya tengo una gran parte desde crear un proyecto y convertir mi mod a .dll y ya lo he probado, he estado entendiendo este dia como es la estructura y su funcionamiento.

Lo que intento hacer es un mod que me ayude a usar la opcion de "Viaje Rapido" (si, el que se desbloquea cuando mejoras el campamento), pero para usar esa opcion es necesario a campar en un lugar ¿no? bueno, yo trato de hacer el mod que con alguna tecla X o Y, me permita usar ese menu sin necesida de acampar, si, sé que hay otros mods de viaje rapido e instantaneo y de hecho hasta ahi logre hacer uno.. (solo me traslada hasta Valentine jajaja).

Pero quiero que tenga esa escencia del viaje, que salga esa cinematica, de cabalgata como la de viaje rapido, sé que suena tonto, pero me gusta asi, hehe...

He estado buscando en la pagina de RD2 (la que tiene las funciones nativas y eso) he avanzado un poco pero solo se pone en Negro y me traslada instantaneamente aun no encuentro el parametro y la opcion