Boom Variants

v1.9.54·Updated 2026-09-29

[V81] Adds in 90+ variants of vanilla enemies into the game

About this mod Author’s original text

Boom Variants

VR SUPPORTED (stfu jon)

Description:

This mod adds Enemy Variants to the game (NOT ENEMY SKINS)

these variants have variable changes/entirely new mechanics to them

that makes them 100x more fun to fight (or not).

A fair warning:

This mod contains:

~300MB worth of content

Gore (non-photorealistic/same as vanilla)

Possible weird occurances with respawning mechanics added by others mods.

Arachnophobia mode for all Bunker Spider variants (so that all the highly arachnophobic people can relax)

Unused variants (variants either WIP and published too early, or straight up not intended for serious use)

Contents:

Adds more than 80 variants:

  • The Guardian (Nutcracker Variant)
  • Paradesman (Barber Variant)
  • Bottom Feeder (Maneater Variant)
  • Croquette (Maneater Variant)
  • Nextbox (Redpill Variant - Unused)
  • Steel Soldier (Nutcracker Variant - Removed)
  • Silver Soldier (Nutcracker Variant - Removed)
  • Super Mech (Old Bird Variant)
  • Ténébreux (Bracken Variant)
  • Stoplight Sharkhead (Thumper Variant)
  • Velvet (Bunker Spider Variant)
  • Bouffon (Jester Variant)

(Old version)

v

  • Iron Maiden (Coil-Head Variant)
  • Masked Driver, Masked Hunter, Perfect Mask (Masked Variants)
  • Sire Vansburg (Butler Variant, includes Spoon for Knife)
  • Rot Wasps (Mask Hornets Variants)

Old Look

New Look

  • Birch Brother (Forest Keeper Variant)
  • Rattle Rat (Eyeless Dog Variant)
  • Gardine (Snare Flea Variant)
  • Marauder (Hoarding Bug Variant)
  • Cloud Dragon (Spore Lizard Variant)
  • Frost Pecker (Giant Sapsucker Variant - Unused)
  • Mouette (Manticoil Variant)
  • Phantom (Ghost Girl Variant)
  • Sturgeon Hunter (Baboon Hawk Variant)
  • Shadow Bug (Hoarding Bug Variant)
  • Distotipede (Snare Flea Variant)
  • Masquerrino (Masked Variant)
  • Mud Serpant (Earth Leviathan Variant)
  • Garnice (Bunker Spider Variant)
  • Dart Puma (Feiopar Variant)
  • Scratch Tiger (Feiopar Variant)
  • Nickel Ray (Backwater Gunkfish Variant)
  • Inker Bayfish (Backwater Gunkfish Variant)
  • Carcass Growth, Carcass Bloom (Cadaver Variant)

Old

New

  • Husk Growth, Husk Bloom (Cadaver Variant)
  • Graveling Growth, Graveling Bloom (Cadaver Variant)

Old

New

  • Corpse Growth, Corpse Bloom (Cadaver Variant)

Old

New

  • Carrion Growth, Carrion Bloom (Cadaver Variant)

Old

New

  • Permafrost Falcon (Baboon Hawk Variant)
  • Sandman (Bracken Variant)
  • Foliage Panther (Feiopar Variant)
  • Bounty Bot (Old Bird Variant)
  • Crasher (Old Bird Variant)
  • Granule Iceeater (Thumper Variant)
  • Granulet (Thumper Variant)
  • Vernel (Snare Flea Variant)
  • Guerrier (Nutcracker Variant)
  • Franz (Nutcracker Variant)
  • Snow Viper (Earth Leviathan Variant)
  • Polar Termite (Hoarding Bug Variant)
  • Mudman (Bracken Variant)
  • Arctic Ravager (Eyeless Dog Variant)
  • Dirt Catfish (Backwater Gunkfish Variant)
  • Vautour (Manticoil Variant)
  • Wangerd (Bunker Spider Variant)
  • Blood Skittos (Mask Hornets Variant)
  • Bog Crawler (it's real) (Thumper Variant)

Sludgewater Leafbush

Eastside Swampreeds

Dark Mudferns

  • Berry/Berry girl (Bracken Variant)
  • Gibson (The world ender)
  • Dragonflakes (Circuit Bees Variant)
  • Seedhead Shark (Thumper Variant)
  • Carnage Bloom (Cadaver Bloom Variant)
  • Ghost Sheriff (Nutcracker Variant)
  • Voltbumbles (Circuit Bees Variant)
  • Marcher (Barber Variant)
  • Scout (Nutcracker Variant)

Leader Alt

  • Kite Lizard, Glider Geko, Breeze Dino, Air Croc, Flying Komodo, Winged Skink, Wind Wyvern (Tulip Snake Variants)

Air Croc

Breeze Dino

Glider Geko

Kite Lizard

Flying Komodo

Wind Wyvern

Winged Skink

Credits:

Purple Lethal Company - Creature Renders and Mod Icon

Zeeky Zeekstersssss - Original monsterrsrrsssrssssss

Debbicar - Egg drop sound for the Small Egg

Me - Pretty much everything else

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.

Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

BepInEx-BepInExPackButteryStancakes-BarberFixesAudioKnight-StarlancerAIFixpacoito-itolibJacobG5-JLLIAmBatby-LethalLevelLoaderBLB__Mods_LOL-SpectreLibTeamXiaolan-DawnLib

File & checksum

Filename
Boom_Variants-1.9.54.zip
File size
282.5 MiB