VOLOVerified Order and Load Optimisation Load order sorting for Baldur's Gate 3

No, although two moments make it look that way: picking your file, and saving the sorted one. Neither touches the network.

When the page loads, your browser downloads VOLO's code and runs it on your computer, the same way a downloaded program runs. Picking a file hands it to that code through the browser's file picker, which reads it straight from your disk into the page's memory. The sorting happens in that memory. Saving the result uses the browser's download dialog, so it feels like a download, but the file is built inside the page and written from there to your disk.

Check it in the browser's network panel. Everything you see comes from this site: VOLO's own code, styles, images and typeface, and the masterlist it sorts against, which is one file of public data served the same way to everybody. Your mod list is in none of them. The Submit page adds Cloudflare's anti-spam widget, and sends your order only once you press the button. That button is the only thing on the site that sends your list anywhere.

The privacy page names every third party involved, including the ones this answer glosses over.

They say how much the placement is worth, because a guess and a verified position should not look alike. No label means players filed that mod there themselves, which is the strongest evidence VOLO has. A curated placement is a maintainer's hand-written rule. An inferred one was voted on by the mods either side of it in submitted orders, and the percentage is how much they agreed. A listing placement came from the mod's own Nexus or mod.io page, which describes the mod but says nothing about where people load it. An author placement means the mod itself is listed nowhere, but its author's other catalogued mods overwhelmingly sit in one section, so the mod is filed with them. A guess means VOLO read the title and had nothing else to go on, and unplaced means it had not even that, so the mod waits at the end.

Expanding a row gives the reasoning in full, including any dependency that forced it. If a placement looks wrong, move it, and if the moved order works, submitting it is what corrects VOLO for the next person.

Not today. This has been checked, so it is a confirmed answer.

I asked Larian directly in August 2026, and a Community Manager checked with the team. There is a modsettings.lsx on consoles, the same file VOLO reads on PC, but there is no way to get it off the console or put a modified one back, and external software is not compatible with mods on consoles at all.

It cannot be done with a mod either, which I looked into next. Load order is decided before any mod runs, so a mod cannot reorder the mods it was loaded alongside. Mod files are data with no access to the file system, and Script Extender, the only thing on PC that has such access, is a Windows library that cannot exist on a console.

What already works in your favour is that the masterlist is built from mod.io as well as Nexus Mods, and mod.io is the platform behind the in-game mod manager. Your mods are in the data and sorted like anyone else's.

So there is one workflow left, and it ends with you doing the last part by hand. VOLO shows you the order on a phone or a PC, and you drag your mods into that order in the in-game manager yourself. I could make that much less tedious by letting you connect your mod.io account, so VOLO reads what you are subscribed to and builds the list without you typing two hundred names in. However, it would still be incredibly manual (and tedious) to reorder them on a console.

I have not built it, because it is only worth building if people would actually use it, and dragging a long list around with a controller may cost more than it saves. If you would use it, say so on the Nexus page or open an issue on GitHub. If enough people want it, I will build it.