MabiPro: The Authentic Old-School Mabinogi Experience

I'm a new player and was wondering if anyone has a list of highly recommended mods that new players should be running?

Absolute must for me would be labelled maps for shadow missions. Labelled maps for Iria are also nice but probably won't be missed *quite* as much.

Also related to maps, fog removal for dungeon maps (a.k.a. making it so that you see the whole map from the start like alby normal) and enabling zoom levels for maps in the original areas are great, but will require some XML editing (I could also upload my editted xml files, not sure if that's desired, or permitted.)

Basically what I did in terms of modding, was download a correctly aged version of Tiara's, install my desired mods to an empty folder, and copy everything sans 'db' into my data folder. Outdated/incompatible files in your db folder are just about the only case where you have to worry about your game crashing.

I have a little list of compatible and ToS compliant mods compiled here: https://mabipro.guide/resources/

Pick the stuff you want and follow the directions provided. I recommend the Astral Patcher since it contains a lot of the most common modifications, and it also enables any mods that involve edits to the data folder. I also recommend the bPatcher mods since those are the "official" mods of the server and the extended view range is really useful.