Why are mods in this game so freaking big????

[ShatteredPumpkin]

like bro most of them just add a few vehicles and weapons and that is enough to make them have a size starting at 10-15gb up to 20gb just for a few items???? wtf is wrong with mods in this game... like srsly if i download mods this size i expect them to have tons of content like in other games when they are this big

[Baby2Chill]

Yeah some servers don't know what they're doing, I join Vanilla+ for no vehicles or lightly modded ones because they can have Helis and Boats but it's only 2-3 GB of mods or 5 at most.

[baddoggs]

Be careful using DZSA as it dupes ALL your mods doubling the space they take.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Be careful using DZSA as it dupes ALL your mods doubling the space they take.

i know how it works but thanks XD

[Ah Pook]

Depends on the mod and what its doing, anything that adds new models and textures will be relatively sizeable due to DayZ's choice of file formats (TGA is an uncompressed image format). Then you have the most egregious problem in the workshop: Repacks which put several mods in to one folder, more or less.

If you play the game modded and server hop, expect to have several copies of large mods, repacking is a damn plague with this game and the workshop seriously needs to be cleaned up. Repacking is just an inconvenience to everyone else when you can run a script to auto-update your server mods instead.

[1337Dude]

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Be careful using DZSA as it dupes ALL your mods doubling the space they take.

i know how it works but thanks XD

Apparently neither of you know how it works, because DZSA doesn't dupe anything.

Baddogs still hasn't figured out how to use Wifi without it lagging, so I shouldn't be surprised.

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by 1337Dude:

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

i know how it works but thanks XD

Apparently neither of you know how it works, because DZSA doesn't dupe anything.

Baddogs still hasn't figured out how to use Wifi without it lagging, so I shouldn't be surprised.

steam/common/dayz/dzsa

[1337Dude]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by 1337Dude:

Apparently neither of you know how it works, because DZSA doesn't dupe anything.

Baddogs still hasn't figured out how to use Wifi without it lagging, so I shouldn't be surprised.

steam/common/dayz/dzsa

Those are called "symbolic links".

Here's how you create them
https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

And if you need someone to set up your Wifi, I can do it for $200. Same rate I'll be charging my next customer for their Wifi setup. It will even let you play games without lag or connection dropping, utilizing technology from 10 years ago. Amazing, right?

[Coffee]

Originally posted by 1337Dude:

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

i know how it works but thanks XD

Apparently neither of you know how it works, because DZSA doesn't dupe anything.

I was sceptical of this claim so I searched it and couldn't find anything to support it. Quite the opposite in fact. From Reddit..

"DZSA does not make a special directory and download an extra copy. the location is the same one as if you downloaded them in steam. dayzsal just make a pointer to them. better you should unsub since steam will queue up updates for them. "

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by Coffee:

Originally posted by 1337Dude:

Apparently neither of you know how it works, because DZSA doesn't dupe anything.

I was sceptical of this claim so I searched it and couldn't find anything to support it. Quite the opposite in fact. From Reddit..

"DZSA does not make a special directory and download an extra copy. the location is the same one as if you downloaded them in steam. dayzsal just make a pointer to them. better you should unsub since steam will queue up updates for them. "

Go to steam/steamapps/common/DayZ.
In there is a file called workshop. That is where the game
stores the modlist for the vanilla launcher.
If you have DZSA installed there will also be a file called !dzsa
There you will find an IDENTICAL modliist the EXACT same size..
Ergo moslist duped..
Pretty easy to check, i even told 1337dude where to look,
they should have checked, Like i just did before hitting keys.
Really, some people..

[ColdNhungry]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by Coffee:

I was sceptical of this claim so I searched it and couldn't find anything to support it. Quite the opposite in fact. From Reddit..

"DZSA does not make a special directory and download an extra copy. the location is the same one as if you downloaded them in steam. dayzsal just make a pointer to them. better you should unsub since steam will queue up updates for them. "

Go to steam/steamapps/common/DayZ.
In there is a file called workshop. That is where the game
stores the modlist for the vanilla launcher.
If you have DZSA installed there will also be a file called !dzsa
There you will find an IDENTICAL modliist the EXACT same size..
Ergo moslist duped..
Pretty easy to check, i even told 1337dude where to look,
they should have checked, Like i just did before hitting keys.
Really, some people..

They are duped only in folder name baddogs, they are symlinks as mentioned, basically shortcuts. The vanilla launcher uses them too. If you go to \steamapps\workshop\content\221100, those are the actual mod folders. The /steamapps/common/DayZ/!Workshop folder you mentioned contains symlinks to that 221100 base folder, same as the "!dzsal" folder does, and names them in the process according to their workshop names. If they weren't, that would mean using the vanilla launcher alone would double the size

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by Coffee:

I was sceptical of this claim so I searched it and couldn't find anything to support it. Quite the opposite in fact. From Reddit..

"DZSA does not make a special directory and download an extra copy. the location is the same one as if you downloaded them in steam. dayzsal just make a pointer to them. better you should unsub since steam will queue up updates for them. "

Go to steam/steamapps/common/DayZ.
In there is a file called workshop. That is where the game
stores the modlist for the vanilla launcher.
If you have DZSA installed there will also be a file called !dzsa
There you will find an IDENTICAL modliist the EXACT same size..
Ergo moslist duped..
Pretty easy to check, i even told 1337dude where to look,
they should have checked, Like i just did before hitting keys.
Really, some people..

exact same size? bro those are shortcut copied folders so DZSA knows what mods to load they have a size of 0Kb xD

[baddoggs]

Select one of the files and check the size with "properties"
I have several that are Gigabite sized. A copy would
not be that big. Please explain.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Select one of the files and check the size with "properties"
I have several that are Gigabite sized. A copy would
not be that big. Please explain.

i would post a link for it that literally shows all my mods in the dzsa folder have a size of 0kb cause they shortcuts but due to discord goofing arround atm its not possible imma post a link to a screenshot anyway cause it might work or probably show the error lol https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903142439676702740/1245892312907911218/Screenshot_903.png?ex=665a6722&is=665915a2&hm=cdc9c57a16c37b7fe38b7403246537516c4b2f83ab8877aef05ed08c8968f27b&

or ill just post it from here lol

https://ibb.co/3NdPr2z

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Select one of the files and check the size with "properties"
I have several that are Gigabite sized. A copy would
not be that big. Please explain.

i would post a link for it that literally shows all my mods in the dzsa folder have a size of 0kb cause they shortcuts but due to discord goofing arround atm its not possible imma post a link to a screenshot anyway cause it might work or probably show the error lol https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903142439676702740/1245892312907911218/Screenshot_903.png?ex=665a6722&is=665915a2&hm=cdc9c57a16c37b7fe38b7403246537516c4b2f83ab8877aef05ed08c8968f27b&

or ill just post it from here lol

https://ibb.co/3NdPr2z

Yeah i see what your getting at, Having gone through mine again
there are several that measures in kb but, why does it say some
of mine are Gigabyte sized? That's whats confusing the issue for me.
Also thank you for not being rude or sarcastic, appreciate that.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

i would post a link for it that literally shows all my mods in the dzsa folder have a size of 0kb cause they shortcuts but due to discord goofing arround atm its not possible imma post a link to a screenshot anyway cause it might work or probably show the error lol https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903142439676702740/1245892312907911218/Screenshot_903.png?ex=665a6722&is=665915a2&hm=cdc9c57a16c37b7fe38b7403246537516c4b2f83ab8877aef05ed08c8968f27b&

or ill just post it from here lol

https://ibb.co/3NdPr2z

Yeah i see what your getting at, Having gone through mine again
there are several that measures in kb but, why does it say some
of mine are Gigabyte sized? That's whats confusing the issue for me.
Also thank you for not being rude or sarcastic, appreciate that.

well i dont have a reason to goof arround so your welcome cause the main size of the mods really bothers me aswell but as you see the whole folder is 0kb so maybe your dzsa locates your mods different due to a different pathway maybe? dayz really is a mess when it comes to modding :D