Elden Ring received a new life with the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, but PC players were left in the dust as some of the most popular mods remained incompatible with the new update.
In the absence of any up-to-date modding tools, here are the best mods that are compatible with Shadow of the Erdtree right now.
5 best mods to pair up with Elden Ring Shadow of The Erdtree
Seamless Co-op
Size: 1.4 MB
If you have friends to play Elden Ring with, this is an absolutely essential mod for the true co-op experience. With this mod, you can finally step into Shadow of The Erdtree and tag-team the first Furnace Golem like the raid boss it was meant to be.
With this mod, many of the usual restrictions of the limited Fromsoft co-op experience is gone. Your friends will no longer be just phantoms, but co-op buddies in earnest. Defeating enemy bosses will no longer force you away from the host’s world. Various other features bolster the experience:
- No more co-op limitations like arbitrary barriers for joining players
- All players can summon their own Torrents
- Map waypoint synchronization between players
- Game progression events completed in online play will also progress the game in your own world.
Seamless Co-op also goes the extra mile to smooth over connectivity concerns. It revamps Elden Ring’s p2p connection system itself, leveraging native features from Steam’s stronger networking API.
Boss Arena
Size: 108.1 MB
Elden Rign integrates many cool features from older Fromsoft games into one big Soulsborne smorgasbord. However, it leaves out the ability to replay bosses from Sekiro. That’s a shame, because Shadow of The Erdtree adds a large number of spectacular new bosses.
With the Boss Arena mod, you can replay these Shadow of The Erdtree bosses (and also those at the base game) at your own pace. To eliminate the progression gaps, you can also get a lot of freebies like free Flask upgrades and runes to level-up. You can finally have a proper boss-rush mode in Elden Ring. Prepare for a tough time with these pesky DLC bosses, though.
Elden Ring QoL upgrade mod
Size: 1.5 GB
Elden Ring is arguably one of the best open-world games of all time, but it’s not perfect. As mod author TheWideMurloc explains, this mod is meant to stamp out a few design gaffes, jank, as well as introduce QoL changes.
Some of major features are:
- Buffs to the poise stat to make armor more than just fashion value
- A mockup of Sekiro’s Deflect mechanic, introducing a handy ‘timed block’
- Parry frames are now more similar to Dark Souls 1
- More flexibility for Ash of War application on weapon types
- Automatic but balanced FP regeneration
- A new indicator will notify which attacks cannot be blocked
- Faster Torrent at full gallop
- Convenient zoom-out on camera during boss encounters
- Throwing pots are more viable
- Malenia’s anti-fun mechanics have been nerfed
- Default dodge animation is now akin to the ‘Quickstep’ Ash of War
While some features of the mod work with the DLC, it has some animation-related incompatibility. As the mod page clarifies, “anything that uses a new animation from the DLC (including weapons) will not contain any bullet, hitbox, sound, spell, or iframe data.”
Elden Ring-Quest Log
Size: 20.3 MB (Without third-party quest patcher)
Unintrusive quests and environmental storytelling are hallmarks of a of a Souls-like. However, given the sheer scope of Elden Rings, we wish questing was more handholdy. If you share the sentiment, this handly Quest Log mod is a godsend – now also compatible with all DLC quests!
The nice thing about this mod is it’s still not a fully guided questing experience. No floating marker will point you right to the target you need to speak to. Instead, the quest log is an immersive account of how far you have progressed each questline. For completionists out there, it can act as a checklist of what you may have missed.
Sekiro Deflection
Size: 40 MB
There are many overhaul mods like Graceborne or ERR that either have no DLC compatibility, or only partial patch compatibility. If you want to inject something fresh for your second Shadow of the Erdtree playthrough, Sekiro Deflection is the mod to go with for now.
As the name implies, Sekiro Deflection tries to recapture how parrying and posture works in Sekiro. There are no feature-creeps, and no extra frills – the mod has a limited scope, and it executes that to perfection. Yet, it is such a fundamental change that it makes for a completely fresh way to play the game.
