The Walking Trade Mods — How to Heal Customers

The Walking Trade has a small but active mod library on Nexus Mods, with 30 mods and 1 collection listed for the game. There is no Steam Workshop support, so Nexus is where everything lives. This The Walking Trade mods guide covers where the mods are hosted, which ones are worth installing first, how the Mod Menu API works, and whether any mod can heal customers.

Where The Walking Trade mods live

Nexus Mods is the home of The Walking Trade modding. The game's Nexus hub listed 30 mods, 1 collection and no media entries when it was captured, and the trending slots at that moment were both Thai localisation mods. Steam Workshop support does not exist: in a March 2026 Steam forum thread titled "Workshop/Mod support", a player asked whether mod or Workshop support was planned, and the reply simply linked to the Nexus Mods page for the game.

That split matters practically. Nexus mods are downloaded and installed by hand rather than subscribed to through Steam, and the game ships an in-game mod menu framework that several mods build on. A handful of the library is localisation work, which tells you the community is filling language gaps as well as fixing gameplay.

The mods worth installing first

The library splits into three rough groups: stability fixes, AI and quality-of-life improvements, and cosmetic or localisation work. Most of the most-downloaded mods come from a single author, MrMadmer, who covers fixes, AI behaviour, the mod menu and visual options.

Mod	Author	What it does
Smarter Cleaners	MrMadmer	Cleaner NPCs use boxes and cart baskets, collect multiple items at once and restock with better priorities
Smarter Security Guards (SSG)	MrMadmer	Ranged guards keep distance, reposition and avoid close-range fights
Mod Menu Plus	MrMadmer	Refines the Mod Menu API with in-game language support and access from the main and pause menus
More Worker Looks	MrMadmer	Expands the hireable workforce with compatible customer character models and keeps looks after save and load
Item Fallthrough Fix	MrMadmer	Returns loose objects that fall through the world instead of losing them under the map
Game Speed Fix	MrMadmer	Fixes FPS-dependent gameplay speed so movement and mouse sensitivity stay consistent
Containers Stack Fix	MrMadmer	Restores container stacks that load above empty container stands
Enhanced Anti-Aliasing	MrMadmer	Adds FXAA, SMAA, TAA, AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS options to the video settings
The Border Trade	MrMadmer	Adds a comic outline style with adjustable thickness and draw distance
Toggle HUD	MrMadmer	Hides or shows the gameplay HUD with the H key, rebindable through the Mod Menu API
Restart Current Day	MrMadmer	Adds a localised Restart Day button to the pause menu
Continue Last Session	MrMadmer	Adds a Continue button that loads your most recent save slot
Snap Mode	e3D9c	Snaps and aligns objects when you bring them near cupboards, pallets or walls
Thai Localization	BestGamingCh	Thai localisation for the game
Ukrainian Localization	QQWhisper	Adds a Ukrainian translation for the interface, menus, items, dialogues and in-game text

Installing mods, the Mod Menu API and customer healing

Install order matters more than install method. Start with Mod Menu Plus, because it is the framework several other mods expect and it exposes the menu from both the main menu and the pause screen. Add the stability fixes next, then the AI mods, and leave cosmetic mods such as The Border Trade for last so you can tell a rendering problem from a gameplay problem.

The most valuable fixes line up directly with the game's known rough edges. The Guide Hall review reported items spinning into the ceiling, characters getting stuck in the environment and customers shoving the player around, and the Nexus library answers those with Item Fallthrough Fix, Containers Stack Fix, Smarter Cleaners and Smarter Security Guards. Hotfix 1.2.6 also overhauled pallet physics and upgraded the engine to address memory leaks, so keep an eye on whether a physics-related mod is still needed after each patch.

There is no mod that heals customers. Nothing in the Nexus listing is described as restoring customer health, and because the base game does not document a healing mechanic, there is nothing for a mod to patch. The closest indirect options are Smarter Security Guards, which keeps ranged guards fighting at a distance so shoppers are less likely to be caught, and More Worker Looks, which reuses customer character models for hireable staff. A player suggestion thread has asked the developers to turn the medical ward into a real healing service, but no mod or official feature currently does that (to confirm).

Two habits keep a modded install stable. Read each mod page before installing, because the library mixes small fixes with a 77.9 MB anti-aliasing package and the file sizes tell you how much is being replaced. And re-check your loadout after every hotfix: version 1.2.6 changed pallet physics and the engine version, version 1.2.7 changed item recovery and multi-crafting, and version 1.2.8 changed cleaner behaviour, which is exactly the ground that several of the most popular mods cover.