What are the best 7 Days to Die mods? Over the last decade, 7 Days to Die has made a name for itself as one of the best survival games out there, and all while in early access. Now the full release is nearly upon us after all this time, it’s as good as ever.
That said, if you’ve been playing since day one, you might be looking for ways to change up your 7 Days to Die gameplay in 1.0. Thankfully, inventive new 7 Days to Die mods continue to flood in thick and fast from the community, and they’re showing no signs of slowing down. As you wait for the 1.0 release date, amplify your survival game experience with these top 7 Days to Die mods, all compatible with the current 1.0 beta.
Here are the 16 best 7 Days to Die mods for 1.o:
Lockpick Any Door
This mod is of course only recommended if you don’t consider this cheating, and you’re happy with the mega boost to your natural capabilities. But, as you might expect, Lockpick Any Door allows you to, well, lockpick any door.
Firearms Expansion
As you might expect from the name, the Firearms Expansion 5 mod for 1.0 adds a bunch of new weapons for you to build, and all are compatible with existing ammo and mods. This mod adds a whopping 28 new weapons schematics, so there’s plenty of choice as you build out your arsenal.
Loot all the Things!
FNS’s Loot all the Things mod is a great way to give yourself a helping hand as everything is lootable. Cardboard boxes? Lootable. Computers? Lootable. Pianos? Lootable. Don’t worry, though, while this mod does make things easier, it’s not completely OP, as the creator recognizes the need for balance. They have recently nerfed the loot tables for cardboard boxes as they were considered too generous, and even go so far as to recommend a slightly less powerful alternative…
FPS Lootables
FlufferNutterSandwich themselves, creator of the Loot all the Things! mod, recommends this very similar mod if you want to be able to loot everything, but not quite so readily. Much like the above mod, FPS Lootables allows you to loot vehicles and other previously unlootable containers. Inside, you’ll find items related to the location you’re searching, such as seeds in tractors, and in very low quantities so as not to make things too easy.
SteelUI
We removed a few mods from this list as they haven’t been updated to the latest version yet, and one of them was the super popular SMX UI mod, which hasn’t been updated since August 2023. While we’ll be sure to the fan-favorite mod back if and when it comes to 1.0, we’ve included a couple of other modders you can support instead.
One of those is 0xSteel who created the SteelUI mod, perhaps the most similar UI mod we’ve found to SMX so far. This dark theme changes the look of the existing HUD and UI as well as adding some beneficial features such as vehicle bars, hunger and water levels, ammo count, and more.
Jakmeister999’s Enhanced HUD
Similar to SteelUI, Jakmeister999’s Enhanced HUD adds a bunch of quality of life changes, only this one’s got a lighter look to it, so it’s up to you to decide which aesthetic you prefer.
Jakmeister’s mod adds food and water bars under the health and stamina bars, numbers to toolbelt slots, and the player’s level, core temperature, air temperature, and elevation to the compass, as well as much more. You can also add an enemy health bar if you want, but this add-on is optional. We’ve also shared another mod for that below.
Enemy Health
While you can add enemy health with Jakmeister’s Enhanced HUD, you might want a different UI mod, or you might simply be happy with enemy health bars and the game’s vanilla HUD. In that case, kreedyk’s Enemy Health mod can help, giving you the ability to see how close to death your target foes are. This is always helpful for deciding which weapon to tackle them or simply if you’d survive the fight.
Craft from Containers
Another almost essential quality of life change, the Craft from Containers mod, as you’d expect, allows you to bring up the crafting menu from any container item. We all know crafting games can get a bit tiresome when you have to keep trudging back to a specific workbench, so the ability to access the crafting screen from any container is a game-changer. While some of the mods in this list work for older versions of the game, please note that Craft from Containers has been made specifically for 1.0, an older version can be found here.
Really Dead Corn color-blind mod
We love it when game developers incorporate lots of accessibility features and consider the needs of certain groups when making their games, but sometimes these things slip through the cracks.
Color-blind gamer usHallgrim noticed that, in 7 Days to Die, dead corn looks a lot like harvestable corn without the ability to see the subtle color changes, so they made this fantastic mod to clear that up. Now, thanks to the Really Dead Corn mod, dead corn looks like a dead bush, so you won’t waste any time trying to harvest something that is no longer viable.
Shared Reading
The Shared Reading mod is indispensable to those who play the zombie game with friends. When one person picks up and reads a book or magazine, thus learning the skills associated with it, everyone in your party now unlocks the skill at the same time. This makes everything so much easier, as you no longer all have to find the same magazines or get that one person with that skill to do all the work. The same goes for crafting schematics.
Bicycle Speed Boost
As you can from the rather self-explanatory name, the Bicycle Speed Boost mod boosts the speed of the in-game bike. That’s not to detract from just how useful this mod is though, as the standard speed can get pretty frustrating. You’ll be pleased to hear that the mod doesn’t mean you’re peddling at unrealistic rates, instead, the difference offers a noticeable increase in travel speed while remaining realistic to suit the nature of 7 Days to Die.
Increase All Stack Sizes
While there are a lot of stack size mods for 7 Days to Die, and some are more configurable than Increase All Stack Sizes, this is one of the best and most functional we’ve found so far for 1.0. The only downside is that this mod automatically just increases the inventory stack maximum to 30,000 as standard. However, we’ve not seen any issues with this so far.
You can change the number in the game files, but if you aren’t familiar with how to do so or don’t want to risk breaking the mod altogether, then 30,000 should still allow your game to run without bugging out any items – and still completely removes any worries that you’ll run out of inventory space.
Fast Tree Growth
One of the first mods we look for with any survival crafting game speeds up the growth of trees. Naturally, wood is one of the most crucial and valuable resources you can find in 7 Days to Die, and is required for several crafting and building recipes, so running out is a bit of a bummer. You can sit around and wait for those trees to grow at the standard rate, or you can speed things up a bit with this Fast Tree Growth mod, and be back at your workstation in no time.
No Enemy Indicators
No, we’re not wording that wrong. That is no enemy indicators – and we love this mod. Let’s face it, we’re playing a zombie survival game for the challenge, and entering a quest to be shown where enemies are around you doesn’t really replicate the real-life implications of a zombie apocalypse. We don’t want to know where they’re hiding, we want to be surprised, to have to think fast to survive. With the No Enemy Indicators mod from Byteblazar, you can do just that. You might just die more.
Less Wasteland Rubble
This one is just a general quality-of-life mod, making drive and cycling through the wasteland a much smoother ride. Unfortunately, Less Wasteland Rubble only works on new maps, so you can’t use this on your existing worlds, but if it’s something you’ve found bugs you, it might be worth considering for the 1.0 release.
Snow to Water
This simple modlet from the creator of Fast Tree Growth and Less Wasteland Rubble is a similar godsend, giving you the recipe option to turn snow into water – essential when you’re stuck and running low in a frozen wasteland.
So, there you have it, the best 7 Days to Die mods for you to try out. With 7 Days to Die launching from early access soon, there has never been a better time to play the apocalypse game and try to survive the night.