The HoF2 Modding Tools require you to have access to the Unity Game Engine. These tools are compatible with any Unity Game Engine license type, be it personal through to professional. These tools do not work standalone.

Link to the Hand of Fate 2 Modding Documentation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b38u34JAH-16A3PRC5y6fUe9ycGk851mTy5cgjohznY/edit?usp=sharing

What you need to do on the internet:
You’ll need to download the Unity Engine (2017.2.1f1). You can download this specific version by clicking here.

What you need to do in Steam:

• Open your Steam Client.
  
• Navigate to your ‘Library’, located at the top of the Steam Client after logging in.
  
• Download the ‘Hand of Fate 2’ game. If you’ve already done this, but you have an available update for the game, make sure you update the game.
  
• Navigate to ‘Library’ and select ‘Tools’ from the dropdown menu. Within ‘Tools’ you’ll find the ‘Hand of Fate 2 SDK’, you want to download this.

What you need to do on your PC:
Navigate to your game files in file explorer and extract the ‘HoF2_Modding’ project from within the Hand of Fate 2 SDK folder, this will be an archive that you need to extract.

These game files are usually kept here:
Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Hand of Fate 2 SDK, ‘handoffate2_modding.zip’.

You should extract the ‘handoffate2_modding.zip’ to an easy to find location as you’ll need to find it in the future. We recommend your ‘Documents’ folder as a good location for this.

What you need to do in Unity:

• Launch Unity
  
• This will take you to the ‘Projects’ window. If this is your first time launching Unity then this window will open with the ‘Projects Learn’ screen.
  
• Click ‘Open’ which is located in the top right of this window, and navigate to where you saved the ‘HoF2_Modding’ project that you extracted previously.
  
• Unity will now launch the HoF2_Modding project.
  
• When Unity has loaded the project, the ‘Mod Editor’ window will appear.
  
• The first thing that you’ll have to do is point the Install Path at your ‘Hand of Fate 2’ game files.The game files are usually kept here - C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hand of Fate 2.
  
• You can now click ‘Edit’ and start modding!

Updating your mod tools:
Occasionally when launching Unity and arriving at the Mod Editor window, you'll notice an exclamation mark symbol located to the right of your Install Path. This is telling you that you need to update your mod tools. In order to update your mod tools, you’ll need to follow these steps:

• Launch Steam and update the Hand of Fate 2 SDK (it’s found in Library > Tools). Doing so will give you the latest version of the modding tools project archive (zip).
  
• Open your ‘HoF2_Modding’ project folder (this will be located, wherever you’ve extracted it).
  
• Ensure that you make a backup of this project before following the remaining steps!
  
• Open the 'Assets' folder within.
  
• Delete the 'Editor Default Resources', ‘Plugins’ and 'Modding' folders located within the 'Assets' folder of your ‘HoF2_Modding’ project.
  
• Extract the project archive ‘handoffate2_modding.zip’ over your existing project folder.
  
• You’ve just updated the modding tools and should be right to continue modding!