Enjen Posted June 18, 2025 Report Posted June 18, 2025 (edited) Good morning all Seraphs and Vintarians o7 I come to you today with a question; In the ModDB Website their are two types of mods: Server-side, where they only need to be installed on a Server for everyone to experience the fun, and Client-side, where it effects each individual. (Think HUD type mods). Here is my question; There is another category called "Both" and I am a bit confused on it's meaning. The obvious is that the server and the player must have this mod to enjoy it, however when you join a server you are prompted to download the Mods. Does this count as downloading them to your client? It's to my understanding that mods download from servers go into a special "ModsByServer" folder. Do we have to then install these mods in our actual "%appdata%/VintagestoryDate/Mods" folder manually? Thank you and I am eager to everyone's responses Edited June 18, 2025 by Enjen
idiomcritter Posted June 18, 2025 Report Posted June 18, 2025 did a search in the wiki on ModsByServer and found the following: Quote Modded multiplayer Vintage Story If you want to play on a modded server, it's even easier. Starting from Vintage Story 1.16, when you connect to a multiplayer server which offers a modded game, your game will automatically set up the mods correctly for that server on the player's side. Your game will create a sub-folder for the server's mods (folder is automatically named by server name or IP address) in the ModsByServer folder - one sub-folder for each different multiplayer server. The full folder location is %AppData%\Roaming\VintagestoryData\ModsByServer Pro-tip: very occasionally a mod updates its code to fix a bug, but keeps the same filename. In this case, your game will not download the new version of the mod when playing multiplayer because it thinks it already has the correct version. Therefore, in multiplayer if you encounter bugs or crashes which might be caused by a mod, it is worth trying this: quit the server, delete the server's mods sub-folder and re-join the server to let it download all the mods afresh I'm not sure in which order of precedence the mods folders are loaded in (ie servermods first). It doesn't appear from the above that anything further is needed when downloading server mods except for the pro-tip bit
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