Installing mods

The launcher’s MODS page installs and manages mods. It has two lists: GET MODS, the mods on Thunderstore, and MY MODS, the ones you have.

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From Thunderstore

On GET MODS, pick a mod and press INSTALL. The launcher downloads it, installs anything it depends on first, and puts it in Mods\<Owner>-<Name>.

• The list is read from Thunderstore once each time the launcher starts.
• A mod’s page shows its description, version, size, downloads, last update and its README.md. Website opens the author’s site when it has one.
• A package in Thunderstore’s Tools category, and not in Mods, cannot be installed from here: its button opens it on Thunderstore instead.
• Packages marked NSFW are never listed. A deprecated package is hidden, unless you have it installed, and its page says its author no longer supports it.

A package needs something for the game to load: game data built with ReSkate Studio (layout.toc), a map (reskate-levels.json), parks (a parks folder) or a plugin (reskate-plugin.json). A mod pack, whose manifest.json only lists other packages as dependencies, installs too. A package with none of these is refused.

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From a .zip or a folder

On MY MODS, use Install .zip or Install folder, or drag a .zip or a folder onto the launcher’s window. Open Mods folder opens the folder itself. The launcher finds the mod inside what you give it: the shallowest folder holding something the game loads (layout.toc, reskate-levels.json, reskate-plugin.json or parks/*.park.json), or else the shallowest holding a manifest.json. A Thunderstore package’s manifest.json, icon.png, README.md and CHANGELOG.md at the top of the zip go into the mod’s folder with it. The mod’s folder is named after:

• the zip, without a version at its end (Team-Map-1.2.3.zip installs as Team-Map), when the mod is at the zip’s top;
• the folder holding the mod, when it is deeper.

Characters other than letters, digits, spaces, _, - and . become _, and the name is cut to 64 characters. When that name is taken, the launcher asks before it replaces the mod; the copy you had is deleted. The launcher refuses a zip with unsafe paths in it (absolute paths, .. or drive letters), a folder with links in it, and an install that would leave less than 1 GB free.

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Updates

A mod installed from Thunderstore shows UPDATE TO v<version> when a newer version is out, and UPDATE ALL updates every one. When enabled mods have updates, PLAY asks first. An update replaces the old copy. Only folders named <Owner>-<Name>, as Thunderstore installs make them, are checked for updates. A mod you installed by hand under another name is not.

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Finding mods

Both lists have a category menu. Click a category once to show only mods in it, again to hide mods in it, and again to show either. GET MODS uses Thunderstore’s categories. MY MODS uses the categories of each installed mod’s package, or No category. MY MODS also filters by All mods, Enabled, Disabled, Maps, Game data, Updates, Problems and Conflicts, and sorts by Load order, Name or Largest first. Drag a mod to move it in the load order only while it sorts by load order.

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Profiles

PROFILES saves which mods are on, and in what order, under a name.

• Loading a profile turns on its mods in its order and turns every other mod off. Mods it names that you do not have are downloaded. Every mod stays installed once.
• COPY CODE and SAVE FILE share a profile, and IMPORT CODE and IMPORT FILE take one in. The codes and .r2z files are r2modman’s, so the two managers read each other’s profiles. Thunderstore keeps codes for a limited time.
• You can have 64 profiles.

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Uninstalling

Uninstall moves a mod’s folder to the Recycle Bin, so you can get it back.

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While the game runs

The launcher says Skate is running: restart it to apply changes. Changes you make there apply at the next launch. To turn mods on and off in game, use the MODS tab of the ReSkate menu: see applying mods while the game runs.