The Baldur’s Village mod for Stardew Valley, which added Baldur’s Gate 3 characters into the farm and life simulator, was an enormous hit with followers, and even earned the stamp of approval by Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke. Nevertheless, a DMCA takedown discover issued by Wizards of the Coast briefly resulted within the fan mod being taken offline. Wizards has now clarified that the DMCA was a mistake and the mod is officially back up.
“The Baldur’s Village DMCA takedown was issued mistakenly–we are sorry about that,” Wizards stated in an announcement (through PC Gamer). “We’re within the strategy of fixing that now so followers and the Stardew group can proceed to get pleasure from this nice mod!”
A Nexus Mods spokesperson spoke to (*3*) when the DMCA was obtained, saying they had been additionally questioning if it was a mistake. “Hopefully, that is an oversight from WotC, who typically use exterior companies to seek out violating content material, and they’ll reverse their choice,” they stated. “Fingers crossed for Baldur’s Village.”
The mod makes a few of Baldur’s Gate 3’s principal characters into villagers, even giving them their very own elements of the map. These embody Gale, Shadowheart, Wyll, Karlach, Halsin, and Astarion. At present, Astarion is the one new neighbor gamers will have the ability to romance at the moment, however the staff has confirmed that Haslin’s romance storyline is being labored on.
To get the Baldur’s Village mod up and operating, gamers may even want to put in the Stardew Modding API (SMAPI), the Stardew Valley Content Patcher, and the Portraiture mod, all of which might be downloaded without cost over at Nexus Mods. As soon as the mod is put in, you need not fear about beginning a brand new recreation, and the mod ought to seamlessly combine the brand new content material into present save recordsdata.
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