There a simple way to make mods compatible with the current development branch at all? Such as changing the waywardVersion to the current version? Or something similiar? I know some games, modding compatibility between different versions, just by changing the "version" of the mod can make it work. Is there anything similar to this at all? Or a way to make the mod compatible with the current version of the game?
#Simple way to make mods compatible with the development branch?
potent crane
severe niche
Sorry, not on my PC but under the modding guide it explains how you can run the update command from console.
(If you're making a new mod or have access to its source files)
potent crane
Hmm, I found what you mean, but it would seem that it doesn't work on any of the workshop mods. Nor TARS. Can't update any of the mods to the nightly build.
severe niche
Oh I see! Lookup the GitHub for each of those, they have development branches for each! You can download those and run them on the dev branch.
Not back to my PC but googling "Wayward GitHub" usually brings it up if you don't have it bookmarked.
lapis shale
There’s a branch dropdown on the GitHub pages for each. It’ll either say master or main by default (I don’t remember which) and you can click on it to switch it to “development”, and then download them as zip with the green button (I think it says “code” for some reason)
Once you’ve downloaded it unzip it and put the mod folder in your wayward/mods folder
Should show up under local mods
potent crane
Thanks for the info you two!
potent crane
A little confused now. I found the development branch, downloaded and tried to load. Says the mod is incompatible with current version.
Ok, so I do the update wayward +mod update . , but then I get the error: “error loading mod”
Not sure what to do from here. I’m on the nightly branch.
Oh and I’m on Linux
potent crane
Welp I found the issue: I didn’t download the mod from the green button. I did the git clone… somehow doing it that way breaks it? Not sure. 🤔
Oh wait, the git clone was most likely downloading the master not development one.
Geez I keep speaking too soon lol, while the above worked, it only worked for TARS. All other mods error out and I guess not compatible with the nightly build.
severe niche
Id keep checking - I'm able to get debug tools and the others working fine off the current GitHub development branches for each.
potent crane
Well debug tools does work as well... but the others: Argus, Odd Magicks, Troposphere do not work, just state: "Error loading Mod."
lapis shale
odd
it's still been getting updated, idk
When you hover over the mod, what version does it say it is in the tooltip?
For each of them
oh nvm that doesn't get updated
I think I'd have to see your log to know what's happening
If you have multiple versions of the mod installed sometimes that can happen?
Idk what else it could be
potent crane
I’ll look into it again after work tomorrow. Try a few things, and give some logs.
potent crane
Sorry it took so long to get back. Recently started doing another playthrough. Same issues and all. If it matters, this time it
it
it's on the Steam Deck
I did the update feature, to no avail. Even just did a clean download from the developer branches on github, still get the error: "Error loading mod"
potent crane
Seems the "out" folder from the master branch is missing from the development branch.
If I copy the "out" folder from the master, I get this error now:
[2024-11-07T01:39:44.284Z] [Mod] [Odd Magicks] [DEBUG] Setup with state Error
[2024-11-07T01:39:44.285Z] [Mod] [TARS] [WARN] Unable to initialize mod. Could not initialize /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wayward/mods/tars-master. Error: Script error for "mod/Mod", needed by: /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wayward/mods/oddmagicks-development/out/OddMagicks, /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wayward/mods/tars-master/out/TarsMod
http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror
Which I assume is because the
"out" folder is the actual contents of the mod, of which are not updated since the development branch does not come with that folder.
lapis shale
Each of the mods has a pre-release copy being published to, for example, https://github.com/WaywardGame/tars/releases
You want to download the main zip file and that will include the out folder
If you want to create the out folder yourself from the source code you need to build it in vscode
potent crane
Geez, that was the issue. While I do look at release, usually if I don’t see a date/number corresponding on the release while looking at the main Page for the GitHub, I just assume I have to download the zip from the code button. Which, most of the time works, but in this case, that does not work.