Dungeon Settlers Mods: Nexus Recruits and Unit Packs

Dungeon Settlers mods are not on Steam Workshop. The packs live on Nexus Mods, and the ones the site currently surfaces are character packs, a unit pack and a control mod.

Where the Mods Live

The game has a Nexus Mods section of its own, and its front page leads with a trending list. That is where the mods are published, listed and downloaded.

The Steam listing tells the other half of the story. Its categories are Single-player, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing, with no Workshop entry, which means there is no in-client subscription path and every mod has to be installed the Nexus way rather than through Steam.

The Delvers Character Packs

The lead mod is Delvers Core, published by Mozzez. It adds Lowell, Liana and Kragas as recruits and provides a shared foundation for Dungeon Settlers character packs.

Delvers Frieren builds directly on it. The mod adds Frieren as a unique recruit for Custom Expedition and the guild, and it requires Delvers Core 0.4.1 to work. That dependency is the one thing to read before installing: a player who subscribes to the character pack without Core gets a recruit that cannot load.

The pair also explains how the pack line is meant to grow. Core is the framework, and each character pack adds one recruit on top of it, so the install order is Core first and packs second.

Unit and Control Mods

Not every mod on the list is a character. 256 Units is a unit pack, and WASDcontrol is a control mod, both published by Boboxx103. The same author's page also carries Wearefamily and MaouXGuiltycrownZ.

That spread matters for how the mod list should be read, because a trending order that mixes character packs with system mods is not a recommendation list. The character packs change who can join the party, while the unit and control mods change what the game offers at the systems level, so a player looking for a specific change should search by category rather than by the trending order.

What to Check Before Installing

The endorsement counts on the list are still low, which fits a game that is in Early Access: the mod scene is young, and a pack that has not been endorsed yet is not the same as a broken pack.

The list is also short enough that the whole set can be read before installing anything, which is the advantage of a young mod scene. The checks worth making before installing are the dependency version, whether the mod targets Custom Expedition or the base campaign, and whether the game has patched since the mod was updated. Delvers Frieren's requirement of Delvers Core 0.4.1 is the concrete example: a version number in the description is the mod author telling players which build the pack was tested against.