Artems Better Party Visuals
Warriors! Bring the world map to life! This mod adds enhanced visuals and dynamic behaviors to parties on the campaign map, inspired by Viking Conquest.
Features
Party visuals scale with party size — larger forces show more troops from your roster.
Raiding parties now display animated raid scenes.
Battles show real-time losses as units fall on the map.
Color-coded backgrounds for relationships:
🟦 Blue – Allies
🟨 Gold – Trade Alliances
Works with most other mods, but may impact performance with many armies visible at once.
Villager parties now have animals walking beside them
If you encounter any issues be sure to tell me - other than that happy bannerlording!
CHANGELOG:
1.0.1
Removed overlapping units when an army is created
Added War Sails support
Fixed crashes
1.0.2
Fixed a crash that would occur when an army is formed
1.0.3
Big code refactor
Changed name
Fixed a few crashes
1.0.4
Fixed issues when loading the game when you are inside a map event (UpdateCharacterPartyVisuals lag)
1.0.5
Fixed crashes
Performance fixes
Updated for Bannerlord 1.4.X
1.0.6 [06.08.2026]
Fixed more crashes
Added the option in MCM menu to set the amount of additional units per party
1.0.7 [16.09.2026]
Updated for Bannerlord 1.5.X
Added the option in mcm to set the amount of additional troops
Extra Ship Visuals will now also be displayed (thanks to jnx to show me how it's done)
Disclaimer
This mod is the intellectual property of its author. You may not reupload, redistribute, modify, or include this mod (or any part of it) in another mod, mod pack, or download without my explicit permission.
If you find this mod uploaded on another website, bundled inside another mod, or redistributed without authorization, please report it to me. I have not given permission for anyone to reupload or redistribute this mod (apart from Litauens Eastern Europe 1259 Mod).
Thank you for respecting the time and effort that went into creating it.
Comments (54)
compatible with 1100?
It should be compatible
guessing its not compatible with europe 1100?
Really cool but it seems to just eat memory. It keeps hard locking my game, especially when loading a save. The slider in the options menu doesn't seem to do anything either.
I will take a look thank you
This mod gets my game crashed whenever i try to launch sandbox what could the cause be ? This happens even with no other mods. I'm using the latest version.
Hm, weird this should not happen, can you provide a crashlog?
Does not work with the 1.5.1 update. crashes at campaign start.
It does not work with the bata branch 1.5. Crashes after entering any game mode.
also getting crashes, but love this mod
issues with banners not appearing on shields in battles unless i retreat and reengage ROT
AdjustRelativeOffset enumerates the party roster during ParallelTickMovingParties; needs to iterate a copy (.ToList()) to be thread-safe. Crashes on map tick when roster changed mid-tick. Thanks for your mod!
Hey really great mod but unless a limit is applied on maximum visible units big armies will always cause the game to stop
Awesome mod but I've had to remove it for causing a number of crashes. They get worse in late gameplay.
Yep crashing on me had to remove it. Cool little mod none the less.
Unusable at this point. Crashes, bad performance.
Would be great if there was an option to reduce the amount of visible units, it crashes often with big armies.
doesnt seem to work with 1.4.7, any update?
Is there a way to limit the amount of size armies get? Becouse beyond 2k it starts crashing for me as i have low vram
Hows it going on the update :D
I hope an update is coming to iron out the fact that my companions and 60% of my army ford water behind my capital ship as I sail
bro its not working ( better map visual recolor failed)
Damn dude, this is a game changer! Waiting or the update, gladly would pay for it. Put it behind a paywall.
Hi, I'm using version 1.4.5, and I also tried version 1.4.6, but the same problem occurred. The game runs normally, but the mod doesn't load at all. It doesn't crash or anything—it just seems like the mod isn't loading. Do you have any idea why this might be happening?
Are any of these versions working for anyone on the latest bannerlord version? It doesn't seem to work on my end.
It seems that all I needed to do was restart the game. It's working.
✌️😁👍
Do this work with ROT? i did try, game doesnt crash, but no visual changes in partys at the game begning
Dear sir Artem, can we get an update please?
It will be updated soon
Doesnt seem to work on Beta.
1.2 please
are we suposed to install all 3 files to our module folder. can you add some intallation instructions for us dummies
If you made it this far you should know
UpdatePartyCharacterVisuals error: Index was outside the bounds of the array. I'm running Retinues and RoT, is it just that the modded armor doesn't read correctly?
+1
Think I have a minor bug where I tried to go to a village but instead went towards an empty point of the map. Will update if it happens again.
I’m currently on version 1.3.12. Since around 1.3.9, I’ve been getting occasional crashes on the world map, but now they’re happening far too frequently. I’m not sure if this is only happening to me or if other players are experiencing the same issue.
What kind of crashes are you experiencing?
Hi, I installed this mod, I'm not getting any error messages, the color change for faction relations works, but the visual change for my group on the map isn't. I tried recruiting people and made an army of 1300 men, but I only have six peasants following me. That's nothing like the impressive armies shown in the images. Is this a known issue?
Have you checked the other nobles how their armies looks like ? If you have 1300 men and they are all peasants only few of them will show, you need a varied roster
I got this crash on 1.0.1 https://report.butr.link/478798 Had something to do with mod order, I have to put this mod at the bottom
After putting it all the way on the bottom it works?
Yeah the pre reqs were just updated but game is crashing. Im only using 3 mods besides armor mods. And the other 2 were just updated
I couldn't help it and tried it with version 1.3.6 with War Sails. Yea it crashed after character creation when trying to load up at the practice arena. Figured it would but had to try. Truly cool looking mod.
Hello! Have you played War Sails? It's really fun, haha. I hope Artems' mods get updated quickly to match it. I only tried running the Hunts mod, but it crashed when entering a hunt, saying the version wasn't compatible. I most want to use a cinematic mode and a better map visual mod. Have a nice day.
Plis 1.2
1.3.2 PLZ I started experiencing frequent crashes after some progress in the game on version 1.3.2. I had an AI analyze the crash report, and it indicated that this mod is the cause. I would appreciate it if you could take action (to fix this)."
You have a crash log?
1.2 and my life is yours!
1.2 please master
Only for 1.3 I guess?🥲
Yeah but if there’s enough people that want a 1.2 version I can do that too
Finally! Heck yeah
