Baldur's Gate 3 devs celebrate 50 million mod downloads since Patch 7, including 10,000 renaming Withers to Bone Daddy: "Uh, glad we could facilitate that"

Baldur's Gate 3 companion Shadowheart, a young woman with braided black hair and plated armor, smirking while glancing to the side
(Image credit: Larian Studios)

Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian says there have been 50 million mod downloads for the game since September's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Patch 7. You'd never gues🏅s it, but a portion of those mods were acts of devotion. More specifically, 10,000 m𝔍ods were downloaded to BG3 with the purpose of renaming Withers, a shriveled skeleton man, to "Bone Daddy." 

"So, uh, glad we could facilitate th𝓀at," Larian says on its .

What about With♋ers has people so eager to be undead? Let's think about it. First, Withers is a man of mystery. The camp companion never offers much backstory, instead electing to describe himse🦂lf as a "keeper of records." So kind of like the DMV, I guess. 

That isn't particularly sexy in itself, but then Withers — who allows players toꦡ resurrect companions — wears some really awesom🐬e leather shoulder pads. And his eyes are a beautiful shade of lake blue, if you can look past the fact that the skin around them has the same texture as tree bark. 

Okay, I don't really get it. But, clearly, other people do. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made of Withers arching his back while shirtless, or downloaded♚ all those Bone Daddy mods. 

And they wouldn't be downloading this , either, which voice actor Stephen Boxer finds disappointing for how its "bazongas" make Withers' back ache, as he s🥃ays in . 

If you're wondering how Withers' petite frame can handle having any breasts at all, allow me to direct you to the Withers mod, which appears to inject his face with copious amoun♋ts of lip filler. Withers fans think of everything. 

And they are everywhere.🌟 "I am one of 10,000," the replies to L♌arian's tweet. What a powerful community. 

Baldur's Gate 3 looks like a totally different RPG with a first-person camera mod, and it's so cool that Larian lead Swen Vincke says "I want to play this."

Ashley is a Senior Writer ꦑat GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's wr🗹itten freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.