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Bin for Mods

An empty mod you can install into your world to drop other mods into it later. Just like you place bins into your stockpile and fill it with items later. So it's a bin. For mods.
Continue reading for more in depth explanation.


When you create a new world, you choose which mods you want to use in this world, including "Vanilla [something]" mods (yes, all things and graphics in Dwarf Fortress are just preinstalled mods). After that, the game writes list of used mods into your save file and doesn't let you change it afterwards. This protects you from breaking your world by installing or removing new creatures, items, materials, etc.


While this way of installing mods is fine for mods that can break existing worlds, it doesn't let you install graphics mods, which doesn't make sense. You don't want to ditch the fortress you poured tens of hours of your life in just to fix smoothing designations, do you?

Well, you don't have to. Remember how I said that vanilla graphics are just preinstalled mods? This means game loads a bunch of mods every time you load a save, overwriting contents from previous mods (e.g. this mod overwrites smoothing designation graphics from vanilla graphics mod). So, in order to "install" this mod into existing world you can drop it's assets into vanilla graphics mod. But this creates a problem: you replace game files, that will be replaced with vanilla files when you update a game. How can you fix it? You can create an empty mod and install it in every world even if you don't want to use mods. It won't change anything, because it is empty. But if you later find a mod that you want to use, you just drop it's graphics folder into your empty mod and it should work


This is an empty mod for precisely what I described in previous paragraph. You subscribe to it, install it into new world. When you find a mod that you want to use in this world, you subscribe to it, find it in your "mods" folder, and copy "graphics" folder from it to "data/installed_mods/ModBin". When you load your world, the game will load all assets from ModBin and so you will have a new mod in an old world.


If a mod contains something besides graphics, you cannot install it. If mod contains "objects" folder, you cannot install it. Any other mod is probably safe.

Backup your world before installing any new mods!!!
If you don't feel safe with replacing vanilla files, don't use this mod. It is meant for people who can install mods by replacing vanilla files but don't want to do it after each game update.