A new Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord update WS v1.2.8 / BL v1.4.8 released on PC. According to the official Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord patch notes, the latest update WS v1.2.8 / BL v1.4.8 addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord patch WS v1.2.8 / BL v1.4.8 will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Patch WS v1.2.8 / BL v1.4.8 Notes – August 10, 2026
War Sails v1.2.8
The following changes are specific to the War Sails expansion and are not part of the base game.
Changes
- Fixed a crash that occurred if the deceased notable had a caravan at sea at the moment of death.
- Fixed a crash that occurred during the War Sails storyline when trying to initiate a conversation with Gunnar while the owner of Ostican is hostile.
Bannerlord v1.4.8
The following changes are part of the base game and apply to the War Sails expansion as well.
Changes
- Added detection checks and warnings which appear in case the player has corrupted game files.
- Added a fallback system to shader compilation to handle cases of corrupted local shaders. The system should recognize a corrupted shader cache and remove it without causing a crash.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused horse rein visual bug when a mounted agent died.
- Fixed a bug that caused jittering on ragdolls.
- Fixed a bug that caused drag-and-drop to use incorrect position with different UI scales and resolutions.
- [MP] Fixed a bug that caused decals being removed in Multiplayer mission reset. Only newly added blood decals will be removed.
Modding
- Locally created shader cache is now deleted automatically after a module list change, to prevent shader cache-related crashes.
- The mod publish system now compiles terrain shaders as well, reducing loading times for scenes in mods.
- Added a system that lets modders override the water material on a per-scene basis for non-naval scenes.
- Added a new modding documentation page to cover this system – Custom Water Materials for Non-Naval Scenes.
- Significantly improved the Settlement Distance Cache computation performance, reducing the overall time needed to generate it by half.
- Fixed a bug that caused Settlement Distance Cache computation to fail silently on modded world maps. Errors are now properly reported to the user.
- Fixed a crash that occurred while saving a metamesh from modding tools.
- Fixed a bug that caused the world map water to render as black in the editor.
Download Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord update WS v1.2.8 / BL v1.4.8 on PC.
