Mods in offline mode

[NekoSensei]

Hi,

I play RW on my laptop and when Steam is in offline mode, no mods are here !
RW is searching mods...

How I can keep all mods even if steam if offline ?

Thanks :)

[Eretnek]

Don't play on the steam version if you are offline. you could use the latest vanilla version with steam and the one before drm free version for mods.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

It's a bit of a hassle but you have 2 options:

1. Don't use Steam Workshop at all, just go to ludeon forums and download and install mods manually.

2. Use Workshop to find your mods. After subscribing, and after they have downloaded, copy them from the directory steam stores them to the mod directory where they are manually installed. Then unsubscribe from the mods so that you don't have 2 sets of the same mods, which may mess things up.

Using either method will result in loss of auto-updating of mods (that is a good thing!)

here are the directories, modify as necessary if you don't use standard install location of steam:

location of Workshop downloaded mods: (294100 is Rimworld's Steam game ID)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100

locations of Manual mod install folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods

[Hawkins]

Thank you for this fix

[VanyaDae]

This is the most helpful reply I have yet seen for this issue. Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. Easy and quick!

[NekoSensei]

Oh sorry for the delay. Thank you very much :)

[JAHNOOSKA]

In case anyone stumbles across this thread like I did, it's possible to both properly utilize the workshop AND have mods in offline mode. You need to create a symbolic link from the source mods directory to the target mods directory. Using the defaults, link source:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100

Link target:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods

If you don't know what symbolic links are or how to create them with Windows you can use this guide:
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

I don't know if this will persist through a Rimworld update or validating game files. If it doesn't creating a link is fairly quick & easy - so should be an easy fix to re-apply.

[76561198344661335]

We're going to lock this thread up so it doesn't get necro'd again in the future. Thanks for your understanding.