Prison Architect

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Help with Uploading Mod
Hello everyone.

I created a texture mod that works fine in my game, but when it comes to upload it to the steam workshop there seems to be a problem. I think it does not upload correctly and even though it shows up in the workshop, the files don't seem to be online. When I subscribe to the mod. on another computer or on the one where I created it, it does not download any files.
I followed one of the online tutorials which was created for an older version of Prison Architect so the actual upload is not included in the tutorial.
I went to the modding folder "...\AppData\Local\Introversion\Prison Architect\mods" and I created a new folder there "Justiz im deutschen Stil". Inside this folder I created a folder "data", a "thumbnail.png" and a "manifest.txt" which looks like this:
Originally posted by author:

Name "Justiz im deutschen Stil"
Author Walter
Description "Diese Mod ändert das Spiel (ausschließlich Grafiken) in einen deutschen Stil. Hierbei wurden auch Elemente der DLCs (Hubschrauber, Boote) angepasst. Da ich kein spezielles Bundesland darstellen wollte, wird eine bunte Mischung aus Uniformen verschiedener Bundesländer verwendet, mit einem Hauch künstlerischer Freiheit."
Version v1.0
Date 09/02/2024
IsTranslation false

Of corse I also added some modified texture files. Some of them directly inside data, some inside the sub-folder "sprite_replacement".
As mentioned, in my game everything works fine. The mod is listed in the menu, I can activate it and the textures in my game are changed as planed.
So then I started the game, went to menu "Extras" -> "Mods", I selected my mod and clicked on "Publish This Mod". I didn't got any error message and the mod is shown green now. The button changed to "Update This Mod". It is listed at the workshop. But, as mentioned above, when I subscribe to it, it won't download any files.
Does anybody has an idea where the problem is or what I've done wrong?

And sorry for my english. Didn't had much practice after school time...
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Subbing to your own mods wont download them to your mods folder.
Instead ask a friend to verify or check the mod size after upload.
Last edited by Ozoneraxi; 11 Jun @ 10:58am
Walter 1 17 Jun @ 3:11am 
Thanks for this info! It won't download my own workship items, even on another computer?
Unfortunately non of my friends owns Prison Architect. So I used a workaround. I tried "steamworkshopdownloader . io" to download my asset. And it also won't download anything. My workshop page shows a file size of 12.874 MB, so I think there is something inside the workshop, but it doesn't download...
Br760 50 18 Jun @ 11:55am 
May i ask what mod your trying to download because i tested some mods and steamworkshopdownloader works fine
Walter 1 19 Jun @ 4:25pm 
I also tried steamworkshopdownloader with some other mods from the workshop and it worked fine. But not with my own mod.
IMy mod is this one: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3501286792

I thout it might be because of the use of ä ö ü ß in the manifest.txt but nope, did not solve the problem. I have no idea...
Seems to work fine for me, I can see many new sprites for staff members.
Walter 1 19 Jun @ 4:47pm 
Really?! Okay, then I understand even less why it doesn't work for me. But that doesn't matter anymore, as long as it works for others. 😅 Then I can finally make the download public. Thanks for the help and for trying it out. 🤗
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