Unturned How To Install Mods

Installing Steam Workshop Mods and Maps to your Unturned Server

Last updated: 2022-01-27

Subscribe to Mods or Maps on Steam Workshop

Subscribe to the workshop content you want to use on your server from the Steam client, and let it download to your PC. We recommend y'all have a text certificate on hand open up such as Notepad++, if you programme on using the automatic download method. You volition employ the program to help yous record and transfer the Steam Workshop ID numbers for each modernistic you desire to install to your server. Write them downwardly as you subscribe to them in Steam. You lot can run into their ID numbers on each workshop addons URL link.

Location of the Workshop ID number for an Unturned Map

You tin also pull up a listing of all the mods you've subscribed to if you enter the Steam Workshop, and click "Browse", then "Subscribed Items". This list won't bear witness the Steam Workshop ID number yet, you will need to click on each one to bring you to their pages to find their ID numbers similar in the example higher up.

Location of the list of subscribed workshop content for Unturned on Steam

Automatic Download Method

In gild to utilize the automatic workshop ID download method, you must navigate to the unturned folder, which is within the server folder in the main directory of the File Director on the left hand side of your NodePanel. If y'all don't meet an unturned folder in that location, information technology means you have not started the server as least in one case yet. The game volition create a serial of folders and files when it starts up. Once the server has started up, terminate it, and when you look in the servers folder, you should see a newly created unturned folder.

Inside the unturned folder volition be a file called WorkshopDownloadConfig.json. Select the file so click on the "Edit" button.

The WorkshopDownloadConfig.json file for an Unturned server within NodePanel

If this is the first fourth dimension opening this file, you will see something like the screenshot below.

A view of the workshopdownloadconfig file for the game unturned

The line yous need to edit is the outset 1, File_IDs. You volition be placing all of the Workshop ID numbers you've recorded in your text document (Notepadd++) and entering them in betwixt those 2 brackets.

The File_IDs setting for Unturned to download the workshop content within NodePanel

Press Enter on your keyboard a couple times to give yourself some space to add together in the ID numbers like so:

A view of the config file for workshopdownloads in unturned, with space made to insert the workshop id numbers

In betwixt the white brackets, put each ID number on it'south own line. Add a comma after each ID number, except for the terminal ID number which needs no comma at the end. Remove whatsoever blank lines from the config file, until it looks something similar the screenshot below.

A view of the workshopdownload config file with two workshop id numbers added

Practise non alter any other part of the config file, the other lines in the config are required for the config file to practice information technology's job correctly.

When you lot're finished making edits, click the blueish "Save" push in the upper right corner. Yous're all set up to start your server up, and it volition brainstorm the process of downloading the workshop content.

You volition run into in the Console section of the control panel that the Steam Workshop mods are being downloaded, and installed automatically. Using this method, the game automatically sorts the mods into the correct folders (maps into "Maps", other items into "Content" in the /server/unturned" directory).

Unturned_Adding_Mods_successful_installation_message_edited

(the red cake is the server IP, which we covered up for this picture)

A Note about Workshop Downloads for Unturned

Afterward the programmer of Unturned switched the core graphics engine used by the game some time agone (Version 3.28), much of the content on the Steam Workshop became outdated and unusable in the game. The developers of the mods and maps had to update their creations to make them work with the major changes that were introduced in that version. Many mods and maps had been abased by their authors, and were never updated.

This became a huge issue, equally people found and tried to use this outdated content on their servers, which usually resulted in the server instantly crashing.

Because of this, the developer had to add a feature to the automated downloader that looks to see if the mod or map has been updated to run on the new Unity 2022 version of the game. If it has NOT been updated, the game will non download information technology. The game will skip that workshop ID and continue trying to download others on the list. If the entire list of Workshop ID numbers y'all accept added to the file are outdated, it volition skip them all. If the automatic downloader will non download it, nosotros highly recommend that y'all do not try installing information technology manually. Equally mentioned above, this unremarkably caused servers to crash instantly on startup.

As well, as part of that same doublechecking process, the game can now notice that a modernistic you have added to the list requires some other base mod to work correctly, and it volition automatically download that other mod likewise. Because of this feature, you may run into letters in the panel that it had downloaded less or more mods then yous entered.

Manual Method of Installing

Given how easy the automatic method is for installing mods, we're simply including this method in case you are using mods that are not carried in the Steam workshop for Unturned.

Navigate to the folder server/unturned/workshop on your server.
Inside yous volition run across a Maps folder and a Content binder.
Upload mods to the appropriate folder, maps go into Maps, and items/vehicles/objects become into Content.

If the non-Steam Workshop mods will not load, contact the author of the mods for more than assist with how to properly load them.