My new favorite Elden Ring mod replaces Torrent, goats, deer, and boars with capybaras

A stack of capybara modded into Elden Ring.
(Image credit: FromSoftware/Delamain)

If you're anything like me, you're eager for it to be June 21 already, when Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree drops. FromSoftware's largest expansion to date, it promises a slew of new horrific enemies to battle, creepy lands to explore, and weapons to collect. In the meantime, however, we can cruise around the Lands Between in style as we collect all the runes, smithing stones, and talismans our hearts desire on a brand new mount.

A giant capybara.

Delamain's "Capybara Island" mod, available here on Nexus Mods, turns our beloved Torrent into a gigantic fluffy capybara. Apparently it also changes all goats, deer, and wild boars as well, which begs the question of whether or not our intrepid mod author took the time to animate the capybaras rolling around like maniacs. Why do the goats in Elden Ring roll around like that, anyway? Someone ping the lore guys, we've got big questions here.

The mod also promises fun capybara facts on the loading screens. Perhaps it will tell you that capybaras are the world's largest rodent (they can grow up to 170 lbs!), or that their large front incisors never stop growing and they need to grind them down on food or tree bark. Maybe it will tell you about the relationship they have with the yellow-headed caracara, where the adorable birds ride around on their backs and eat ticks off them.

I have yet to ride a capybara from the fields of Limgrave to the frozen Mountaintops of the Giants, but I am intrigued about the last line of the mod description, which offers "other stuff to explore." Perhaps Mohg's trident will be replaced with a capybara-headed staff, or the Red Wolf in the Raya Lucaria library will instead be a giant rodent with a sword gripped in its powerful incisors.

If you're looking for other Elden Ring mods to tide you over for the next month, check out Convergence or Elden Ring Reforged, both of which offer tons of rebalancing, updates, and new content. There's also the excellent Seamless Co-op mod, which allows you to traverse the world of Elden Ring with a friend without them being kicked out every time you beat a boss.

Russ has been playing PC games since the top of the line graphics were in ASCII and has been obsessed with them just about as long. After a coordinated influence campaign to bamboozle his parents into getting a high speed internet connection to play EverQuest, his fate was well and truly sealed. When he's not writing about videogames, he's teaching karate, cooking an overly complicated dish, or attempting to raise his daughter with a well rounded classical education (Civilization, Doom, and Baldur's Gate, of course). He's probably mapping in Path of Exile right now.

Read more
Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring – Shadow of the Erdtree
A foppish figure stands in fine clothes and a strange red mask.
Hero modders take a break from their 25-year quest to make the rest of Morrowind to make the Oblivion we should have got instead
The great shinobi blade - owl moveset mod for Elden Ring
Here's an Elden Ring mod to give you the rad moveset of Sekiro boss Great Shinobi Owl
character creation in Monster Hunter Wilds
The best Monster Hunter Wilds mods
kingdom come: deliverance 2 sphere world
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 modder snaps, transforms all women, animals, and doors into fleshy spheres but turns all men invisible: 'It’s just spheres. Experience spheres!'
The creator of the Elden Ring Seamless co-op mod is now infusing unlimited multiplayer into Dark Souls 3
Latest in RPG
Avowed Kai holding out his hand toward camera while explaining something to the player.
Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements
Olivia, a hunter from Monster Hunter Wilds, looks perplexed in an icy blue environment.
Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds
Sans, from the hit 2015 RPG undertale, folds his arms in a dashing suit as stonks rise in the background.
You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years
KOTOR remake returns for annual tradition of reminding you it's still alive, but no you can't hear anything more about it until it comes back next year to say it again
Alligator skull with glowing eyes on human body and cords coming out sitting at piano with "The Norwood Etudes" ready to play
My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'
Rise of the Ronin review
Rise of the Ronin review
Latest in News
MrBeast posing in front of a stack of cashing, promoting Beast Games season 2
Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won't do it again
Image for
Rise of the Ronin's PC troubles continue as players report disappearing saves on Steam
Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio
Metro Exodus
'I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community': 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033's 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game
Assassin's Creed Shadows promo image
Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers
Avowed Kai holding out his hand toward camera while explaining something to the player.
Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements