For Steam users:

1) Make sure you have the Banished 1.0.5 beta. You need to go into the Banished properties in your Steam Launcher and tick the beta opt-in.

2) Download the CC 1.6 compacted file from the link at the top of the CC forums[colonialcharter.com]

3) The file you get is a .rar archive that you need to open. I recommend getting 7-zip[www.7-zip.org] to do that.

4) get the .pkm mod file from the .rar archive and drop that .pkm into your (Steam > Steamapps > common >) Banished > Windata folder.

5) Launch Banished and in the mods section, you should be able to see (and enable) "CC: 1.6 The Forge Awakens". Disable any previous version of CC. Confirm the change to the mod list. The reloading time might be long as it's a big mod.

6) Exit Banished entirely and restart it before you start playing. That will spare you the crashes that happen when you try to quit a town to go back to the main menu. That crash always happens when you make any change to your mod list, and the exit/restart is the un-elegant but efficient way to fix that.

7) Enjoy the madness :)


For non-Steam users:

1-a) Make sure your Banished > Windata folder has those 4 files: data0.pkg, data1.pkg, patch0.pkg and patch1.pkg. If you are missing one of those, it's because you have an old version of the base game, which works fine as it is but will not patch nicely. Reinstall Banished from GoG or wherever you got it.

1-b) Get the 1.0.5 beta patch from the dev's site here[www.shiningrocksoftware.com] and apply it to your game. Check that the game starts. If you can't launch the game at all, it's usually a sign your base game has an issue even though it had the 4 .pkg files, so reinstall it.

Once you have the patched Banished running, exit and pick up the same 2-7 steps as Steam users.

Thank you very much.

It was the beta part that was screwing me up.

when is forge awakens coming to steam tho

Whenever Banished 1.0.5 gets out of beta, is released as stable version and the workshop for 1.0.5 mods gets unlocked. Until then it's not possible to upload CC1.6, you need the manual install.

Banished 1.0.5 is now the release version so as Steam users you no longer need to go enable the beta.
As non-steam users, you should get the stable 1.0.5 patch from ShiningRock here[www.shiningrocksoftware.com]

what a pain in the ♥♥♥♥, great mod just a ♥♥♥♥ to go throw another site