Mods Wont Download after reinstall

[Divinehammer]

I recently resinstalled RW I can see that I am still subscribed to mods in the workshop but they will not download or will not show up in my mod list not sure which is the problem. How do I get the mods to show again? Thanks.

[Astasia]

Make sure Steam is in online mode when you play, the game isn't setup for using workshop mods offline.

If it is, then try deleting the following file:

*\Steam\steamapps\workshop\appworkshop_294100.acf

That should refresh your mods. Sometimes it works right away, sometimes you have to wait a bit or restart Steam for it to recreate the file.

[Need More Gore]

Thank you so much i ended up unsubscribing from all my mods twice and reinstalling twice none of it got my whole list this though worked ill have to right it down ive had this problem before

[Unikitty27]

This method doesn't seem to work anymore as of 2020, as I cannot find appworkshop_294100.acf like usual. It's not where it's supposed to be, which makes me think that Rimworld changed this file at some point to a different number? Have no idea, but now after doing several reinstalls, restarts, subscribing and unsubscribing to mods, and completely deleting everything having to do with Rimworld on my pc, steam simply won't download my mods. Same thing happened to me with Civ 5...

Unless of course this is a fluke, and it's really just my pc being weird. Always a possibility!

Edit: After trying everything, I decided to try one more time and went to my workshop page *without* the game running. I unsubscribed to a mod, and it looks like Steam finally is downloading my subscriptions. Hallelujah!

[Struckboot]

Originally posted by Unikitty27:

Edit: After trying everything, I decided to try one more time and went to my workshop page *without* the game running. I unsubscribed to a mod, and it looks like Steam finally is downloading my subscriptions. Hallelujah!

This worked for me! Ty!

[Aus]

Originally posted by Unikitty27:

This method doesn't seem to work anymore as of 2020, as I cannot find appworkshop_294100.acf like usual. It's not where it's supposed to be, which makes me think that Rimworld changed this file at some point to a different number? Have no idea, but now after doing several reinstalls, restarts, subscribing and unsubscribing to mods, and completely deleting everything having to do with Rimworld on my pc, steam simply won't download my mods. Same thing happened to me with Civ 5...

Unless of course this is a fluke, and it's really just my pc being weird. Always a possibility!

Edit: After trying everything, I decided to try one more time and went to my workshop page *without* the game running. I unsubscribed to a mod, and it looks like Steam finally is downloading my subscriptions. Hallelujah!

It does work, the file appworkshop_294100.acf will be located on the same path as there the game was originally installed. So for me it was in my "I" Drive steam workshop as I installed Rimworld on the "I" drive. Basically, check the volume's workshop folder depending on which volume you installed it on. Hope this helps.

[knightofthehokeypokey5532]

I searched my whole pc of the file appworkshop_294100.acf, both after reinstalling the game and verifying the integrity of the game files. No dice. Perhaps the file's hex numerical has changed?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by knightofthehokeypokey5532:

I searched my whole pc of the file appworkshop_294100.acf, both after reinstalling the game and verifying the integrity of the game files. No dice. Perhaps the file's hex numerical has changed?

Given its the steam app ID for rimworld and hasn't changed ever... And I found my copy of the file in about 10 seconds... in the same location it has always been too.

it is in the steam workshop folder on the same drive as rimworld, easy to find if it has been created. If it hasn't then steam itself is needing to be booted a little, check for steam client updates and that should jolt steam into making sure everything is where it should be and that all workshop content is downloaded if the game is.

[knightofthehokeypokey5532]

Starting it in offline, then restarting it in online seemed to finally work. Thank you so much for your help ... jolting steam, indeed.

[MehZmeH]

deleting workshop file appworkshop_294100.acf worked for me. Found mine in \steamapps\workshop directory.

[Frostbite]

For me it took deleting the file, restarting steam, then unsubscribing and resubscribing to a mod.

[Wyntr Witch 🎃]

Originally posted by MehZmeH:

deleting workshop file appworkshop_294100.acf worked for me. Found mine in \steamapps\workshop directory.

Me too - only deleting Workshop folder let me download mods again (after I deleted all mods in the numbered folders within the content folder). Thanks!

[Meister Ho]

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

Originally posted by knightofthehokeypokey5532:

I searched my whole pc of the file appworkshop_294100.acf, both after reinstalling the game and verifying the integrity of the game files. No dice. Perhaps the file's hex numerical has changed?

Given its the steam app ID for rimworld and hasn't changed ever... And I found my copy of the file in about 10 seconds... in the same location it has always been too.

it is in the steam workshop folder on the same drive as rimworld, easy to find if it has been created. If it hasn't then steam itself is needing to be booted a little, check for steam client updates and that should jolt steam into making sure everything is where it should be and that all workshop content is downloaded if the game is.

Yeah, but the number changed. In my folder it was 242920.acf and deleting it and wait a little bit, solved the problem for me.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Meister Ho:

Yeah, but the number changed. In my folder it was 242920.acf and deleting it and wait a little bit, solved the problem for me.

It hasn't changed, app IDs are permanent and unique, they control everything from the URL for the store page and forums to the location Steam downloads the files from. If you look above this is forum is steamcommunity.com/app/294100. If that number somehow did change it would literally break everything.

App 242920 is Banished. It might be possible a corrupt workshop mod for another game was causing Steam to fail to update the mods for any game, but I haven't heard of that being a thing before.

[~PhReAkInSaNe~]

**EDIT**
After i did the fix below the ACF file appeared in the same directory, the same freaking window that i hadn't closed, that it wasn't in minutes before!

I think there's a good chance that the ACF file NOT being there is the problem for those of us that are having issues with mods not downloading and there isn't an ACF file.

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Glad some of you saw the 294100 app file. Yes, I understand the other numbers arent the game. But the fact that deleting that folder worked for some is irrefutable.

For me, the .acf file wasnt there. Perhaps because i had unstalled the game and it may have been deleted via steam uninstall process.

As i'm sure most if not all of you did these things I did...

1. verify integrity of game files - didnt work

2 uninstall reinstall, didnt work
3. unsubscribe resubscribe didnt work
4. couldnt find the .acf file it was NOT in the directory for me. period. dont challenge me on this or your just being an ass.
I restarted my pc, did unsubscribe/resubscribe again, NOTHING.

BUT THEN

i went into my subscription page of my workshop, unsubscribed the same file i was testing from the regular workshop page... and viola! it started downloading the workshop files.

It seems that we're all right in our own way, it works a bit differently based on the specific issue/glitch we're experiencing.

Lets make sure that we acknowledge others fixes instead of challenging them. It obviously worked for that other person. :)

Happy gaming ya'll. Have fun butching them prisoners and enslaving the lolis... or maybe not? :P lol

[[NC]Harry Körner Balance Toast]

I just added a new mod to my subscriptions.
It downloaded the new one and soon after started downloading the 3GB of other mods xD