Whole bunch of QOL mods just broke

[Mac Mcleod]

Stepup no longer works.  Without this, I burn out my wrists very quickly.
The prettier map mod no longer works.
The extra Icons mod no longer works.
The list goes on.

Is everyone else seeing this?
They don't report an error in the Mod Manager.  They just don't work.  They worked 2 days ago.

[Diff]

6 minutes ago, Mac Mcleod said:

Stepup no longer works.  Without this, I burn out my wrists very quickly.
The prettier map mod no longer works.
The extra Icons mod no longer works.
The list goes on.

Is everyone else seeing this?
They don't report an error in the Mod Manager.  They just don't work.  They worked 2 days ago.

You change anything in the past few days? Do they still show up in the Mod Manager? The Mod Manager doesn't report errors, any errors would show up in the logs folder. Anything interesting in yours?

[Mac Mcleod]

5 minutes ago, Diff said:

You change anything in the past few days? Do they still show up in the Mod Manager? The Mod Manager doesn't report errors, any errors would show up in the logs folder. Anything interesting in yours?

The mod manager does have the feature of showing errors.   It shows yellow triangles for mods that have an error.  That's when I update them or remove them if they have no update.

I'll look for a log.  I changed Nothing.   I literally played on Tuesday and had no problems and now today *nothing* works.   Doesn't work for my son-in-law either.
Makes our maps look like crap.   Makes movement painful (literally painful for my hands to have to manually jump).

Edited October 17, 2025 by Mac Mcleod

[Mac Mcleod]

7 minutes ago, Diff said:

You change anything in the past few days? Do they still show up in the Mod Manager? The Mod Manager doesn't report errors, any errors would show up in the logs folder. Anything interesting in yours?

Okay, the TOPS server has set mods to "whitelist" so nothing works now.  It's not the game.  It's the server moderators.  I'll take it over there.

[Diff]

7 minutes ago, Mac Mcleod said:

The mod manager does have the feature of showing errors.

Not runtime errors, which are often more relevant when having issues with mods. You already tracked down your solution here, but in the future do keep the logs in mind if you run into any problems that the Mod Manager doesn't answer for you! If nothing else, they'll tell you exactly which mods the game is actually loading and using.

[Mac Mcleod]

4 minutes ago, Diff said:

Not runtime errors, which are often more relevant when having issues with mods. You already tracked down your solution here, but in the future do keep the logs in mind if you run into any problems that the Mod Manager doesn't answer for you! If nothing else, they'll tell you exactly which mods the game is actually loading and using.

I've been using the Mod Manager screen for close to a year now and never needed to look at the logs.  Didn't even know they existed.
This is really upsetting.  I can't go in any unsettled area without Stepup.  I'd be in severe pain within a half an hour.  
I hope they approve it.

But they also nuked my map icons.  So now it's a bunch of useless dots instead of arrows, skulls, etc.

And they nuked oldmap that made the map look pretty instead of all sepia tone.

[Mac Mcleod]

They have approved the Accessability mod  (which has a lot more features than StepUp (continued) ). 
It includes ".step" which restores step up.  I was able to play with it.
I still hope they approve StepUp.   I'd hate for them to be picking and choosing winners and losers in the modding community.  They have a lot of influence.

[Echo Weaver]

I thought TOPS was vanilla? So you're talking about client-only mods here? 

[Mac Mcleod]

6 hours ago, Echo Weaver said:

I thought TOPS was vanilla? So you're talking about client-only mods here? 

Yes.  Client-side / client-only mods must now be pre-approved or they don't work.