Building and designing a theme park full of dinosaurs can be a fun and challenging experience in Jurassic World Evolution. There are plenty of dinosaur species to unlock and discover, charters to complete, and tourists to please.

For players who find themselves exhausting everything the vanilla experience can offer or who simply want some additional flavor, mods are a great way to enhance the experience. There are a wealth of mods for this game, and here are some really interesting ones players should consider.

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Updated On August 20, 2021 by Ben Baker: It has been some time since this article was originally released and a number of new mods have been released to further enhance the game. Players are continually finding ways to tweak, modify, and improve the game with better mechanics and dinosaurs. While a comprehensive list of these would be impossible it did seem appropriate to showcase a few more of the standouts. These mods allow players to build bigger parks and give them more interesting and colorful dinosaurs to fill all that space in. Now you can see how some of the newcomers will fare against the old dinosaurs from before.

15 Dracodentitan

Jurassic World Evolution Dracodentitan
Jurassic World Evolution Dracodentitan

The Dracodentitan mod by DrPenny233 and FatEch introduces a new dinosaur to the game. Keeping with the theme of the world the Dracodentitan is a hybrid of the Baryonyx and the Polacanthus. The result is a terrifying dinosaur with the size of a t-rex, but with the litheness of a raptor.

The mod was designed to make the Dracodentitan obtainable in either Sandbox or Campaign mode. The mod creator has fully integrated it into the game with its own research path and Ingen Database entry. This is easily one of the most in-depth and beautifully created mods for the game.

14 Diabloceratops

Jurassic World Diabloceratops
Jurassic World Diabloceratops

The Diabloceratops mod by Magno introduces a new species to the game. It bears a resemblance to the Nasutoceratops, but with a few key differences. It has a large frill and horns that stand vertically from the head.

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A few players have commented that its frills bear some resemblance to the Lord of Terror from the Diablo series. At the moment It’s only available in the Sandbox version of the game, but the creator is working on full inclusion.

13 Excavaraptor

Jurassic World Excavaraptor
Jurassic World Excavaraptor

The Excavaraptor mod by Siaka introduces an interesting-looking raptor-type dinosaur to the game. It’s entirely black with large claws meant for both combat and excavation. It also has a large feathered tail and is roughly the size of other raptors in the game.

According to the creator, it was inspired by the infamous John Sayles Jurassic Park 4 movie script that featured the Excavaraptor, called Diggers in the script. Unlike the script, this dinosaur cannot launch out of the ground and attack opponents, but it does resemble the creature mentioned in the story.

12 Expanded Islands

Jurassic World Evolution Expanded Territory Mod
Jurassic World Evolution Expanded Territory Mod

The Expanded Islands mod by The Toho society is a quality of life upgrade for the game. With this mod installed the islands are now much larger and can support bigger parks. This allows players to build all kinds of things and host a larger number of dinosaurs than they could before.

It does require a brand new map as it’ll corrupt old ones. But once set up the available area to build will be much larger. It doesn’t change any other aspect of the game but gives players more freedom to build whatever they want with fewer limitations.

11 JFD Triceratops Prorsus

Jurassic World Triceratops Prosorus
Jurassic World Triceratops Prosorus

The JFD Triceratops Prorsus mod by Jagged Fang Designs is supposedly a scientific recreation of the historic creation. It replaces the vanilla Triceratops in-game with one that is more life-like. Because it replaces the Triceratops it’s fully accessible in Sandbox and Campaign versions of the game.

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The design of the dinosaurs is impressive. They feature highly detailed models and there are a variety of coloring schemes for the dinosaur’s skins. They’re an artistic addition to the game that looks much better than the vanilla Triceratops.

10 Experimental Feathered Raptors

Jurassic World Evolution Experimental Feathered Raptors Mod

The Experimental Feathered Raptors mod by Demansia makes raptors more interesting by giving them feathers. The core body of the raptor remains unchanged, but their arms, tail, and back of their head will have clusters of feathers.

The mod doesn’t give them flight or anything chaotic, it’s simply a retexture of the raptors in-game. For some players it can be a cool peak at the evolution of these creatures. For others it gives one of the best dinosaurs in the game a unique appearance.

9 Magma Spinosaurus

Jurassic World Evolution Maga Spinosaurs Mod

The Magma Spinosaurus mod by IndoraptorPrototype replaces the skin of the Spinosaurus with a new look. The Spinosaurus now has a fin with black, red, and golden colors to give it a magma aesthetic.

The skin on top of the dinosaur near the fin makes it look like magma is bubbling up from the creature’s back and spilling across its body. It’s a neat aesthetic that makes the Spinosaur a main attraction of the park.

8 Environment Re-Work

Jurassic World Evolution Environment Re-Work Mod

The Environment Re-Work mod by DANNYBOB is a complete retexturing of every environment available in the game. According to the author of the mod the environment felt rather “dull” so they added more detail and coloring to give everything more life.

The mod adds things like Fallen Logs, changes the sand to look more like a desert, and changed rocks to actually have formations than be misshapen lumps. The result of this mod is more vibrant and colorful environments for the dinosaurs to roam around in.

7 Jurassic Park Expansion Pack

Jurassic World Evolution Jurassic Park Expansion Pack Mod

The Jurassic Park Expansion Pack mod by Lucca is an ambitious one. The author went through and retexturing or remodeled the dinosaurs in the game to resemble their movie counterparts across the original series.

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Players can now find T-Rexes that resemble Buck and Doe from Jurassic Park: The Lost World, male and female Velociraptors from Jurassic Park III, and the Triceratops from Jurassic Park among others. The mod even adds the iconic goat from the first movie.

6 Skull Island Dinosaur Pack

Jurassic World Evolution Skull Island Dinosaur Pack MOd

The Skull Island Dinosaur Pack mod by sweetener looks to create a crossover between the Jurassic Park series and the world of King Kong. According to the mod’s lore InGen scientists collected fossils from the sunken Skull Island and are giving life to the dinosaurs found there.

Iconic monsters from Skull Island like the Vastatosaurus, basically a T-Rex with a rhino-like horn, and the raptor-like Venatosaurus all make an appearance. It’s a neat idea that’s well done in this mod pack.

5 Godzilla 1998

Jurassic World Evolution Godzilla 1998 MOd

The Godzilla 1998 mod by The Toho Society recreates the creature from the iconic Godzilla movie. The massive lizard with spiny black scales will immediately become the main feature of any park it’s placed in.

It is worth noting that its not nearly as large as its movie counterpart, though players could argue it’s a younger version. This mod will also replace the Indominus Rex with Godzilla so there’s a definite tradeoff. But for fans of the movie or this dark kaiju it’s a solid mod to play with.

4 Exotic Dinosaur Pack

Jurassic World Evolution Exotic Dinosaur Pack Mod

The Exotic Dinosaur Pack mod by sweetener replaces some of the dinosaurs in the game with more exotic variants. The strange Deinocheirus Mirificus makes an appearance with their duck-like noses. The raptor-like herbivore Effigia Okeefeae is also present.

Perhaps the most interesting of the group is the Eustreptospondylus Oxoniensis seems like an eerie cross between a T-Rex and a Raptor with spines covering it. For those that find themselves not using certain dinosaurs very much this could be a good trade.

3 Woolly Rhino

Jurassic World Evolution Woolly Rhino Mod

The Woolly Rhino mod by Siaka looks to shake things up by replacing the Torosaurus, a dinosaur resembling a triceratops, with the Coelodonta, a Woolly Rhino. They don’t have any special requirements and simply act as a skin and model replacement, but they’re neat to look at.

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Some players may be opposed to having hairy animals in their dinosaur park, but they certainly stand out and can be an interesting addition. They also go great with the abundance of Ice Age era mods that are out there.

2 Baturoceratops Seradursus

Jurassic World Evolution Baturoceratops Seradursus Mod

The Baturoceratops Seradorsus mod by sweetner might draw some confusion from Paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts because it doesn’t exist in the real world. The author known for his Jurassic World Evolution mods set out to create his own dinosaur and insert it into the game.

According to sweetner the name means “Warrior Horned Face” and is a variation of the traditional Ceratopsian species. It’s a great looking dinosaur that fits in with the lore of the world. Putting this alongside other manmade species like Indominus Rex is very fitting.

1 Expedition Charter

Jurrasic World Evolution Expedition Charter Mod

The Expedition Charter mod created by Kaiodenic is a great way to add more to do in the game. The mod is designed to overhaul how expeditions work making it more intuitive. For instance, rather than having fossils unlock per-species they unlock per dig site.

In addition to this tweak there are some changes to the mechanics and gameplay of Charters to make them more interesting and challenging. Players can now use The Black Market to find fossils that may have been obtained from locked dig sites for a premium.

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