Broccoli Clock Posted March 30, 2025 Report Posted March 30, 2025 First off, I just want to be clear. I am glad there is modding in the game, and I like that the mod database is on the official site (I find 3rd party sites can become unreliable). I also think the way the mods can be created for this game to be really accessible. It almost makes me want to mod the game because it's so easy (at least from what I can see). However... however... and I am sure that there is a trick to it, but the whole process didn't come across as intuitive. I'm not new to dev, coding or mod building, and I have used numerous mod upload interfaces before. There seemed no place to upload the actual files, and asking it to publish showed possibly one of the worst warning messages possible, a yellow text on white background that disappears after a second or two. I literally had to repeat the process several times just to read what it said, example in spoiler below.. Spoiler Error messages are meant to be seen not some page fluff, they are essential, do not make them hard to read them and don't make them a popup that disappears after a second or two. That's just really bad UI. It kept saying you must upload a playable mod/tool first, yet there is no place to upload those files. It was only by accident that I found that if I navigated away from the edit mod page and go to the actual mod page, and if I was logged in, I then found the file upload option. So to clarify, I can do everything except upload the actual file from: https://mods.vintagestory.at/edit/mod but then I had to literally navigate away from that page and go to the "published" mod page, https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/21934, only to find a Files tab (unselected) where I could upload the files, example in spoiler.. Spoiler Perhaps I've been an idiot, perhaps I didn't RTFM properly, perhaps I missed some text somewhere explaining this, but for me this process was confusing and awkward and almost had me giving up. If this is the intended process of uploading mods, then please provide clearer instructions and for crying out loud no more yellow on white temporary error messages.
Brady_The Posted March 30, 2025 Report Posted March 30, 2025 Are you on the VS discord server? Development on the ModDB has recently been picked up and this feedback might be appreciated. If you are not, would you mind me sharing this thread?
Broccoli Clock Posted March 30, 2025 Author Report Posted March 30, 2025 50 minutes ago, Brady_The said: Are you on the VS discord server? Development on the ModDB has recently been picked up and this feedback might be appreciated. If you are not, would you mind me sharing this thread? Not on discord, happy to drop onto it to give feedback, you are more than welcome to share this thread.
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