Mod on the new PC downloaded automatically?

[Elite Guard]

I'm changing my PC, not an upgrade, it's a total new PC. So, my question is very simple:

If I install steam back again with Cities Skylines, are all of the mods that I have now going to be downloaded with it automatically?

[CyberVibes]

As long as you copy over your saves from the old computer and use them to subscribe and enable your mods and assets you should be fine, you'll lose all your mod settings unless you migrate the game completely, but having a fresh start is the best way to go.

[MarkJohnson]

Yes, the whole workshop will install all workshop you are subscribed to.

If you don't want the workshop, then unsubscribe to them from your workshop files section under Your Files drop down.

Otherwise, it'll all download to your system automatically for you. Then do as CyberVibes said to restgore workshop settings.

I just clone the whole Steam install over to the new machine/drive if possible. It saves a lot of time. At least the Steam Apps folder. It saves times downloading all of your games again.

[CyberVibes]

I'm not one to trust Steam with downloading lots of content and with it being holiday season the servers will be inundated with requests so i prefer to do as Marks says and copy my folders over from the old machine, here's a guide if you want to follow that route.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1622651894

Also there's a big benefit to backing up your folders every time you subscribe to new assets, this way if the author deletse them you'll still have a local copy and the asset won't disappear from in your saves.

[Metacritical]

personally i backup my entire appdata folder as this stores the settings for 90% of all the software installed on my computer and saves a lot of time once the new system is up and running.

[macluk]

Don't trust dream workshop to do the job for you. I had to do something similar. Ended up going through all assets on workshop collecting them again.

Best is to create series of collections for your assets, especially when you have over 999 assets, there's an instruction online how to do it. Not complicated and saves you time and worry. You then access your collection on steam and download everything back on the new or old PC.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by macluk:

Don't trust dream workshop to do the job for you. I had to do something similar. Ended up going through all assets on workshop collecting them again.

Best is to create series of collections for your assets, especially when you have over 999 assets, there's an instruction online how to do it. Not complicated and saves you time and worry. You then access your collection on steam and download everything back on the new or old PC.

The game already makes a collection inside the save file itself. It's under content manager then savegames, find you saved game and there are two buttons, Subscribe All button to subscribe all workshop, and Enable All to enable all workshop that was enabled in-game during the save.

I find making a collection of many assets to be very time consuming. I was very happy for the devs to add it to the saved game file itself. Then all you need to do is reconfigure any game mods to what they were. backing up appdata and the game folder should have them all ready for restoring.

[mbutton15]

There's been a lot of mention of workshop assets - but what about assets you created yourself ?
I have a lot of park assets and a few intersections that I've made myself. But most of them have not been uploaded to the workshop. What would someone need to do to make sure their own assets are not lost ?

[CyberVibes]

The assets you create yourself are located in: C:\Users\Your_Windows_Profile_Name\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Addons\Assets if you back up the Colossal Order folder you'll always have them

[MarkJohnson]

Yes, all of your user created content (various built-in editors), including game saves, are saved in appdata/local for this game. Just backup cities_skylines folder completely every so often for good measure. Some mod authors save mod data there as well.