Best Conan Exiles Mods for 2026

Conan Exiles has one of the most mature and rewarding modding scenes in the survival genre, and in 2026 a handful of mods remain essential for any serious server. Whether you're building a roleplay hub, a hardcore PvP arena, or a massive PvE adventure, these are the Conan Exiles mods worth installing this year.

Admin and Roleplay Foundation: Pippi

If you install one mod, make it Pippi - User & Server Management. Pippi is the swiss-army knife of Conan server administration: a robust permissions system, custom chat channels, teleporters, NPC merchants, warps, kits, and an in-game admin toolset that goes far beyond vanilla. Roleplay servers rely on it for player-run shops and events, while every admin appreciates the moderation tools. It's also widely compatible, making it a safe cornerstone for almost any mod list.

Massive Content Expansions: Age of Calamitous & EEWA

For servers that want more to *do*, two big content mods lead the pack. The Age of Calamitous (AoC) is a huge expansion adding new factions, questlines, weapons, armor, building sets, and a leveling feat system that dramatically extends progression. It effectively turns Conan into a light RPG.

Endgame Extended Weapon Arsenal (EEWA) targets the late game specifically, adding new bosses, dungeons, attributes, and a progression system for players who have already conquered everything vanilla offers. Together, AoC and EEWA give your server dozens of extra hours of content — just be mindful of load order and don't stack too many overlapping content mods at once.

Building and Decoration: Emberlight & Less Building Placement Restrictions

Emberlight enriches crafting and building with new stations, thralls, recipes, and decorative options that blend seamlessly with the base game's aesthetic. It's a favorite for PvE and roleplay builders who want more creative range.

Paired with it, Less Building Placement Restrictions (LBPR) is nearly mandatory for serious builders. It relaxes the game's finicky placement rules, letting you snap, overlap, and position pieces freely to create the elaborate bases the vanilla system fights you on. Ambitious builders consider it non-negotiable.

Appearance and Interface: Fashionist & Hosav's Custom UI

Fashionist lets players change the look of their gear independently of its stats — a transmog system. On roleplay and social servers, being able to look the part without sacrificing armor value is a huge draw.

Hosav's Custom UI Mod overhauls Conan's interface with a cleaner, more informative, highly customizable HUD and menus. Better stat readouts, inventory improvements, and quality-of-life tweaks make it a popular pick across all server types.

Building a Compatible List

Conan mods are powerful but order-sensitive. A few rules keep things smooth: install fewer, well-chosen mods rather than everything at once; check each mod's notes for known conflicts (especially between multiple UI or building mods); and get your load order right in modlist.txt. Large content mods like AoC and EEWA generally want specific positions in the list — read their descriptions. When something breaks after an update, the culprit is almost always a mod that hasn't been patched for the latest game version yet.

Where the Mods Come From

All of these live on the Steam Workshop, and Conan servers load them through a modlist.txt file that defines both which mods run and the order they load in. Crucially, every client must have the exact same mods, in the same order, as the server — mismatches will block players from connecting. It's a simple system once set up, but load order and version matching are the two things to watch.

Run It on Nxeon

Maintaining a Conan modlist by hand means syncing Workshop items, ordering modlist.txt, and re-checking versions after every patch. Nxeon's game servers include a one-click Mods manager for Conan Exiles that pulls Workshop mods, lets you drag to set load order, and keeps your modlist.txt in sync automatically — so your clients always know exactly what to download. Build your list, set the order, and get your Exiles back into the Exiled Lands.

Ready to expand your world with Pippi, Age of Calamitous, and more? Spin up a modded Conan server and start building.