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12 Apr @ 7:12am

So many of the same mods

I've played this game way back and had it on the back burner. I was on Youtube and seen someone playing with mods so I decided to install it and add some mods. To my surprise people are stealing other people's mods and reposting them there is literally dozens of the same mod posted by dozen different people absolutely makes no sense. Who does that and why? If you cleared out all the duplicates you would have half the mods in there that are there. Mental illness running wild no doubt. Funny thing is I've read some of them and there's no difference between them the same exact mod.

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Vrayna 13 Apr @ 3:33pm

At some point the modkit had an issue, if you tried to open a mod you had downloaded with it, tried to unpack it to tweak it (can't actually be done), it uploaded a copy in your own workshop. Created a bunch of clones that people never cleaned up.
And then there's the willingly reposting that indeed feels very confusing.

As a side note, filter the mods by date, and try to avoid mods from before 2017 as they are using the old flags/limits system and will not play nice with the last version of Banished.
(Filtering things by date will also let you skip the period of accidental clones)

14 Apr @ 7:29am

Originally posted by Vrayna:
At some point the modkit had an issue, if you tried to open a mod you had downloaded with it, tried to unpack it to tweak it (can't actually be done), it uploaded a copy in your own workshop. Created a bunch of clones that people never cleaned up.
And then there's the willingly reposting that indeed feels very confusing.

As a side note, filter the mods by date, and try to avoid mods from before 2017 as they are using the old flags/limits system and will not play nice with the last version of Banished.
(Filtering things by date will also let you skip the period of accidental clones)

Thanks for your reply. But wouldn't it make sense if those other mods are messed up that they should be taken off. It actually blew my mind how many there was of the same ones. And I haven't checked all of them but the ones I did there was no comment on there that they twinked it. I suppose it's hard to know which ones work and which ones don't as far as steam having control. I just found it to be very strange. Thanks for your reply though have a great day.