How to install mods

Guides are almost always a work of personal opinions and thus results may differ.

Pretext

You can install mods. They mostly add visual changes to the game - mostly used to add Quality of Life at the cost of the overall aesthetics / prettiness of the game. Installing mods is NOT against the Server rules and can be done freely, as all they do is replace game-files (usually images). This includes either particle effects like smokes, or the HUD of the game to make it more pretty.

Method 1

The first method of installing mods is to just unpack them and mirror the directories of the mod to the games directories. While this is a little bit easier, this is not advised, as this will overwrite the default files of the game, making reverting the changes back to the base a lot more difficult - and in case of an update to the files due to a server's patch changing those exact files, overwrite the mod in question!

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Method 2

Method 2 is preferred, as disabling and enabling mods is very easily done with a config file - and updates to the server will not break the mods. It needs a little bit more set-up, but this is what the guide is for! In addition - if a mod should sit atop of another mod, because one mod changes a lot, another a little but they change mostly the same files, the config will allow you to designate a so-called "load-order".

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