
Once you have installed mods, you can select the Mods option from the main menu of RimWorld to activate them. ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/RimWorld/Mods Library/Application/Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RimWorld This location varies by operating system:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods You can install mods manually by unzipping them into subfolders within your local Mods folder. You can use tools such as RimPy to download and install mods from Steam Workshop and GitHub instead.

Steam Workshop automates the process of downloading and installing mods, as well as keeping them up to date with new releases.Įven if you do not own RimWorld on Steam, Workshop can still be used to discover new mods while some mods are released on Nexus Mods, no other mod site has close to the same amount of mods available. The manual method shown above do.If you own RimWorld on Steam, then the easiest way of finding and downloading mods is by using Steam Workshop. Just remember that most sites claiming to download from steams workshop do not work reliably. Because I guess that this specific site happen to use the above method. (I learned it from this)Īnd finally a YouTube guide showing download of a mod using this method. I have tested this with the above example and it worked.Ī somehow longer description is here.

Using the example above is wold look like:

In this Example The ModID is 735106432Ĥ) run SteamCMD and wait for it to download the command line version of steam. Look at the link while browsing the app on steam RimWorld has 294100ģ) Find the ModID in the link while browsing the Mod. That it SteamCMD.Ī brief description of how to download a mod with this tool follows:ġ) download SteamCMD from Valve's official site.Ģ) find the AppID for the program. it is now possible to anonymously download any RimWorld-mod using the steam command line tool provided by Valve. Tynan did enable anonymous download of RimWorld-mod's from steams workshop.
