If you have not installed Diablo II Resurrected yet, depending on how you bought it you can first visit the Battlenet Game Installation Guide OR Steam Game Installation Guide
Click here to learn the differences between the Battle.net & Steam versions of the game Diablo II Resurrected.
¶ Use a Launcher or Manually Install Reimagined
Reimagined Launcher (Very Easy) Installs in Windows & automatically updates itself, available on Nexus Mods. With one-click it can find the latest version of Reimagined online too. Auto backup for your saved games.
Manually follow-the-steps (Easy/Hard): You will lookup your own installation directory & you'll be responsible for backing up your own saved games incase a crash occurs during a loading screen.
¶ Default File Locations - Depends if you bought on Battle.net App or Steam
C: Drive is the most common install location. Yours may differ depending on your setup. Launcher finds them automatically.
Battle.net D2R Mod Files:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II Resurrected\mods\ReimaginedSteam D2R Mod Files:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Diablo II Resurrected\mods\ReimaginedSaved Game Files:
C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected\mods\ReimaginedThree
¶ Reimagined Launcher
highly recommend watching Ben's video. The installation process is very simple.
¶ Manually Create Saved Game Backups
1. In File Explorer, navigate to your Saved Game Files directory as listed above.
2. Go back one directory to the \Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected\mods\ folder which contains the saved games for each mod as shown in the picture below.
All Reimagined 3.x saved game versions will be in the ReimaginedThree folder.
3. As shown in the picture right click on the ReimaginedThree folder, select ‘Send to’ and choose Compressed (zipped) folder which copies the contents into a ZIP file. Rename the ZIP file to something memorable, and move it somewhere easy to remember (e.g. your desktop).
Remember to periodically create new ZIP saved game backups so that you don't lose progress in case of crashes. While playing the game, if your PC crashes while the game is writing to a saved game that game can become corrupt resulting in a “Failed to join game” message. The Reimagined Launcher is capable of backing up your saved games making this easier.
¶ Manual Reimagined Mod Installation
Instructions to install the Reimagined mod manually without using any launchers or assistive programs.
Step 1. Download the latest Reimagined Mod version from Nexus Mods.
Step 2. Navigate to your D2R Installation Directory and at the top left click in the blank space and right click to highlight the game's path. Then right click & click Copy as this information will be used in the step 4. Next open the folder called "mods". Your game's installed location will be different then in the picture.
Step 3. Inside the mods folder check for a previous Reimagined folder & if present delete it since you're about to install a new version. (right click, delete)
Step 4. Navigate to where you just downloaded the mod, by default files typically go into your “Downloads” folder. The new ZIP file that you just downloaded starts with the name: "D2R Reimagined" followed by a version number should be located here. The picture below shows Reimagined version 3.0.5 as an example.
Step 5. Right click the ZIP file & click Extract All
- Windows11 Users Click
Show More Optionsto complete the above step.
Step 6. On this next box that pops right click the pathway & click Paste. Now the destination should be where you were earlier when you copied the path. Again your location will be different then the one in the picture below. Now click the Extract button and the Reimagined mod is now fully installed!
Step 7. Next we'll create a shortcut you can use to launch the mod. Go back to your game's installation (from Step 2) & Right click on D2R.exe and click Send to and then Desktop (Create Shortcut)
- W11 Users Click
Show More Optionsto complete the above step.
- Right click the shortcut on the desktop and select
Properties
- In the Target field, add the following to the end of the field:
-mod Reimagined -txt-mod Reimagined -txt -resetofflinemaps(OPTIONAL: This will reset your maps everytime you visit the character select screen)
- Make sure there's a space in-between D2R.exe" and -mod
- Click
Applyand thenOK
Step 6. You can rename the shortcut to anything and then Click or Double-Click the shortcut to play the mod. Reimagined is now Installed and ready!
If you wish to manually install any of the 6 Customization Tweaks (2skill, Forced Terror Zones, RemoveAuraSounds, HDR Fix, Letterbox removal, splashcharm graphic removal) those files are also included inside the Beta Launchers ZIP file towards the top of this page for players that are manually installing their game. If you only want the 2Skill file, then just download the next file below instead.
¶ Manual 2 Skill Point 8 Attribute Per Level Optional file
Instructions to install the optional file that grants 2 skill points, 8 attribute points per level up. This file also makes walking speed = running speed.
- NOTE: This is not a retroactive change, existing characters will not receive 2/8 for past level ups when respecc'ed, but will gain 2/8 on future level ups.
- NOTE: This will need to be completed each time you reinstall or update the mod installation.
Step 1. Scroll down on the Nexus website to the 2 Skill Points Per Level and download the file from Nexus Mods
Step 2. Navigate to where you just downloaded the file, by default files typically go into your “Downloads” folder. Right click the file and click Extract All
Step 3. Finally extract the file into the correct location, depending on if you bought the game using the Battle.net app OR on Steam. You can copy & paste the values below if your game is installed in one of those default locations.
Battle.net: C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II Resurrected\mods\Reimagined\Reimagined.mpq\data\global\excel
Steam: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Diablo II Resurrected\mods\Reimagined\Reimagined.mpq\data\global\excel
You can click Browse & manually navigate to the excel folder if you've installed the game into a custom location.
Step 4. ClickReplace the file in the destination when prompted. This Replaces the old 1skill with the new 2skill file. Now it's installed!
¶ Crashing Frequently? Tips to Troubleshoot
Here are some common resolutions to frequent crashing we've encountered in bug reports across the Discord, Nexus and Reddit.
1. Reimagined 3.0+ is not compatible with saves from Reimagined 1.x.x, Reimagined 2.x.x, D2R vanilla, or other mods if the save file contains items. Trying to place them in the saves folder and use them will often cause the game to crash.
2. Classic characters cannot be created and are incompatible with the mod.
3. Change graphics option VFX Lighting Quality off from Ultra to High or Medium as it barely has any visual impact but kills game performance and causes crashing.
4. Cap your framerate to your monitors refresh rate and/or use Vsync.
5. Don't Alt + Tab, (click out of the screen if playing in windowed) the game doesn't enjoy being out of focus. You can try to mitigate this crash by limiting the Background FPS of D2R.exe via your GPU Control Panel. (The game still likes to crash anyways but the background FPS limit helps reduce the frequency.)
6. Don't equip items on Mercs with Chance to Cast a minion. (Reanimate is fine, it is specifically CTC that seems to cause issues.)
7. Change Power Settings from Performance to Balanced (Unintuitive but seems to work for some people.)
8. If you are using other mods, you can try disabling them to see if the crashes continue but if they edit itemstatcost.txt then disabling them will cause crashes anyways so pay attention to what you are doing and make backups before experimenting.
9. If you are making local mod edits, undo those edits or reinstall the mod fresh.
¶ D2RMM
Using a Mod Manager allows you to easily install a variety of mods together (assuming they play nice) without having to know anything about modding.
Reimagined is packed full of expansive features and QOL updates, so installing extra mods isn't always necessary.
Check the list of Reimagined features below to see if a 3rd-party mod is still necessary.
When using D2RMM your active mod files will be now be located under the D2RMM\mods\ folder instead of Diablo II Resurrected\mods\.
Any changes you make to Reimagined files needs to be done in the D2RMM mods directory.
¶ File Steps
1. Download D2RMM from D2RMM Github.
2. Open the D2RMM folder - navigate to the mods directory.
- You should see a text file called 'PUT YOUR MODS HERE' - leave this window open, we'll use it later.
3. Open a new File Explorer window and navigate to your Reimagined mod folder under your D2R Install directory.
4. Copy the Reimagined.mpq folder (this should contain a Data folder and ModInfo.json).
5. Paste the Reimagined.mpq folder into the D2RMM/mods folder from step 2.
- We recommend renaming the folder to
Reimagined
¶ D2RMM Steps
6. Open D2RMM as Administrator.
7. Once open, click the three dots in the bottom-right corner and select 'Refresh Mod List'.
8. Reimagined should appear in the mod list - click the box on the left-side to enable it.
The Reimagined folder must always be first in the list of mods. Click and drag the line to the top if it isn't.
9. Navigate to the Settings tab (at the top).
- 9a. Click on General.
- Change 'Output Mod Name' to 'Reimagined'.
- Toggle 'Automatically install mods before running the game'.
- 9b. Click on Game Launcher.
- Under 'Extra Game Args', paste the following:
-mod Reimagined -txt - Feel free to add any other args you want after everything else.
- Under 'Extra Game Args', paste the following:
10. Navigate back to the Mods tab.
11. Click Install Mods.
¶ Play time!
12. Hit 'Run D2R'.
¶ Loot Filters
This guide assumes you have already downloaded and installed D2RMM (see above)
- Because of the Warlock DLC we do recommend just using the in-game loot filtering system that is compatible with our treasure file, strings, and mod-added items.
- For users without the DLC, the filter below and others like it on Nexus are use at your own risk and not supported by Reimagined. The mod changes every file each of the filters touches and authors would have to make a specific version for use with Reimagined for it to be fully compatible with no issues.
¶ File Steps
1. Download Pseudo Loot Filter from Nexus Mods.
- Select ‘Mod manager download’ to automatically download and load the mod into D2RMM.
- Select ‘Manual download’ to download the mod to your
Downloadsfolder - extract the mod into yourD2RMM/modsfolder.
¶ D2RMM Steps
2. In D2RMM, click the 3 dots in the bottom-right, and select ‘Refresh Mod List’.
3. You should now see Pseudo Loot Filter appear in the list of mods - click the box to the left to enable the mod.
4. To configure the loot filter, click ‘settings’ to the right.
5. All items are enabled by default (the slider is on the right-side) - clicking the slider DISABLES the item (this affects all rarities, white, magic, rare, set, unique).
- Disabling an item simply means that when a disabled item would drop, the game chooses to drop nothing instead.
- Disabling items does not affect drop chances of other items.
- It may take a few runs to tweak this list to your liking.
6. Once you've finished disabling undesirable items, click out of the menu.
7. Click ‘Install Mods’ in the bottom-right.
8. Hit ‘Run D2R’.
¶
D2RMM FAQ:
My mod isn't showing up in the mod list on D2RMM?
- You didn't put the mod in D2RMM/mods, you didn't unzip the file you downloaded, or it's in a folder that D2RMM doesn't understand
- Run D2RMM as administrator
DM on discord if you need further instructions/help
¶ Reimagined Features:
If you have questions about whether something is included in Reimagined, or would like to see something added, DM one of the Devs, or post in the suggestions-and-feedback channel of our discord channel.
A number of Mod Creators gave express permission to include their mod in Reimagined. Where this is the case credit is given on the Reimagined Nexus Mods page.
The below (non-exhaustive) list of mods are already functionally covered in Reimagined in some form:
New Content
- Completely reimagined Hell Difficulty
Inventory
- Expanded Inventory / Stash / Cube
Items
- Increase Drop Rates (for all items, runes, gems, etc.)
- Sunder Charms (dropped by Bosses, super uniques, etc.)
- sunders drop in nightmare and hell terror zones
- Melee AOE Small Charm (Collin's Charm)
- Perfect Gem Drops / Short Gem Names (there is only one type of Gem in Reimagined)
Systems
- Item Enchants
- Horadric Forging (various cube recipes allow rerolling, crafting, etc.)
- Corruptions (implemented via Orb of Corruption)
- Socket Punching
- Stackable Runes & Gems (runes drop as stacks; gems are collected in a bag)
- Rune Easy Upgrade / Downgrade (tooltip printed on rune stacks)
Mercenaries
- Expanded Merc Equipment (all equip slots useable for mercs)
QOL
- Show Item Level
- Show Item Quality (all items contain [N], [X], [E] tags to show quality)
- Numbered Rune Names
- Better Rune Visibility (runes already named, numbered and colored for easier visual identification)
- Light Pillars (used on various important items)
- Short Potion Names (renamed already to HP1, MP1, etc.)
- Town Cast
- Token of Absolution (sold by Potion Vendors)
- Short Scroll Names (renamed to TP and ID)
- Move Cain and Teleports (characters always start in center of town, Cain is there too)
- Breakpoints and Recipes panels (already included in various forms in-game)
- Terror Zones (TZs span entire acts for an hour already, no need to pick them)
Monsters
- Monster Density (density custom-set in every area already)
- Many new super unique monsters
Environment / UI
- Diablood
- Skill Icons (all skills have been colorised and textured for each class, including Mercs)
¶ Reimagined and D2RLoader
D2RLoader provides LAN TCP/IP support for Reimagined, including Reign of the Warlock (ROTW), without the former class and mechanic restrictions.
notice: D2RLoader is still in active development, so installation steps and configuration options may change in future updates.
Before you begin: Everyone joining the same TCP/IP game must use matching D2R, D2RLoader, and Reimagined compatibility-build versions.
¶ 1. Install the Reimagined compatibility build
Download the Reimagined compatibility build from Google Drive.
Important: The official Reimagined release on Nexus is not directly compatible with D2RLoader. Use the compatibility build linked above.
Download and extract the archive, then place the extracted Reimagined folder in:
Diablo II Resurrected\mods¶ 2. Install and configure D2RLoader
Open the D2RLoader link, then download the latest release zip file.
After extracting the archive, move the d2rloader folder, D2RCore.dll, and D2RLoader.exe into the Diablo II Resurrected installation folder containing D2R.exe.
Open d2rloader\config\d2rloader.toml in a text editor and set Reimagined as the default mod:
default_mod = "Reimagined"
Save the file with Ctrl+S, close the editor, and launch the game by running D2RLoader.exe.
¶ 3. Set up Radmin VPN for LAN play
The game and loader are now ready. To play TCP/IP with friends over the internet, every player must join the same virtual LAN.
Download and install Radmin VPN, then turn it on.
Open the Network menu. Create a private network for your group, or select Join Network to connect to an existing one.
Example public network
Network name: D2RR TCP/IPPassword: DeckardLikesWine@69Enter the details and click Join. Radmin VPN should display the shared network and its connected players.
¶ 4. Connect in-game through TCP/IP
From the character-selection screen, click TCP/IP at the bottom center.
- Hosting: Click Host Game. Give the other players your Radmin VPN IP address.
- Joining: Click Join Game, enter the host's Radmin VPN IP address, and click OK.
¶ Multiplayer checklist
- The same D2R version
- The same D2RLoader version and configuration
- The same Reimagined compatibility-build version
- Matching mod files
Mismatched versions or files may cause connection failures, crashes, missing visuals, broken skills, or other unexpected behavior.
¶ Reimagined and D2RLan
Using D2RLan and an older version of D2R (2.4 developer build), you can make direct connections with a vpn to play with friends.
- Note: The zip provided is not stable and has not been tuned and will have bugs until the contributor team properly evaluates the differences between d2r 2.4 and the latest which has extra columns and features in the game files that are in use.
The instructions will be expanded upon in the future.
1. Download D2RLan from the D2RModding site: https://www.d2rmodding.com/d2rlan
1a. Verify latest d2rlan version, if there is an update it will flash on the bottom left of the launcher. (v1.5.5 is the latest as of 8/25)
2. Install the MS .NET runtime
3. Run D2RLan
4. Install the TCP Files
5. Download and install Radmin VPN as it is the recommended vpn to use for this: https://www.radmin-vpn.com/
6. Download the reimagined_online zip found HERE
6a. optional revert of the inventory UI can be found here
7. unzip and drop the reimagined_online folder in “D2RLAN_CoreFiles\D2RLAN\D2R\Mods\"
7a. The zip may have 1 extra folder layer, in which case you want the reimaginedonline folder with the mpq folder in it ie “D2RLANCoreFiles\D2RLAN\D2R\Mods\reimagined_online\reimagined_online.mpq”
8. Restart the D2rLan Launcher and then select reimagined_online as the mod to use
8a. navigate to options - QOL options and change display mode to advanced. this will show enemy HP bars and resists and I highly recommend using it.
9. Launch the game, create a char, and select TCP/IP and then Host or Join.
9a. You can also copy over your settings.json and custom.key files from other save folders to the reimagined_online save folder in order to preserve your settings from other mods.
10. Use the IP provided by radmin VPN to join your friend.
TBD: Review beacon as well as provide more screenshots for radmin vpn usage.