Elex - install mods, tutorial?

[Shanks]

Hi title says all i wanna install mods, ty for ur help :p

[Faedrill]

Where is the problem?

[Shanks]

? i wanna know where i must install mods.. its a NORMAL question, i dont mod anything

[Faedrill]

Read the description of the mod.

[Shanks]

NICE ty, error message : application terminated abnormally

[Faedrill]

If you want more help then start giving information.
Which mod?
Where do you installed the mod.
What is the problem. Does the game start? Crash in the menu or at loading the save? Error message.
Does the game work without the mod?

[Butterscotch]

I don't know if you still wanna know or not, but I'll tell you anyway as it always pissed me off when I was getting into modding and everyone was like "Lol what? It just happens magically from falling out of our ass"
It is really easy, you want to find your Elex data folder, go into "My computer" and search Elex, if like me you need to clear some space then this might take about 5 minutes to find it. Once the search has found it there should be about 4 folders there, go into all of them and find the one with the data folder, make a shortcut out of the data folder for ease next time. Now you have the folder go ahead and install whatever mod you like, for me I used this https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/19

Now you will need to install it manually because there is no mod manager to support Elex that I know of. Once done, find the file you just installed, it will be zipped so you need to extract the files with 7zip, if you don't have it it is a 100%must in modding anything ever. Or that one that sounds like a dragon but I don't use it so.
Okay now you have installed 7zip, extract the file and open it, it will contain a data folder, simply copy it, and go to the data folder for Elex and past it, the rest is done for you.

Here is 7zip https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Have fun and enjoy modding, any more questions just ask.

[Twitch.tv/Okingo]

@gameoverlordN7 dude seriously i have never seen a more useless answer, you scold the first commenter for not answering properly but dude, all he wanted to know is where you put the mods... and thats the thing you did not cover. what is a ''data folder'' i googled where to put mods for elex and this came up, and i still dont know how to. but i m assuming since you get .pak data you have to put them into the ''packed'' folder wich you did not state (''A:\Steam\steamapps\common\ELEX\data\packed'')

[Butterscotch]

@Okingo Dude what? It's a data folder, it's where the data and scrips for the mods are kept. I didn't have a "Packed" file in my data folder (Not that I have the Elex anymore but I can't find it in any of the other data folders of my games) The mods go in the data folder, not packed.
And no that's not what he wanted to know, he asked "Where is the problem?" as if he doesn't see an issue and the OP is an idiot. The modding community if full of people that act as if modding is the easiest thing in the world, an it is but you have to learn it first. When I first started I was told to go and watch hour long video's that barely cover the point and were never easy to follow.

You get 7.zip or winrar.
You find a mod you want.
You download it.
You extract he files with one of those two systems. (To do that right click and find where it says "Extract files" then click okay in the pop up)
You go into the new file that is created with the extracted data.
To be safe you copy everything in that folder.
Then you find the game.exe folder and through that you will find the data folder.
You past the data you extracted from the mod folder into the data folder.
You then activate the mod in a Mod Manager. Outside of an MM you can sometimes activate the mod in the game menu. Other than that I don't know, I haven't had to do that yet.

If the mod data folder contains a folder in it named "data" and has other files outside of that. Then It is best to copy all of them and put them all in the game.exe folder. The rest will sort itself out and go where it needs to go because that's how files work.

You do not touch a "Packed" folder, whatever it is you don't need to worry about it. That's on the Mod authors end (Unless you want to start making mods, in which case you will need to watch hour long video's on a multitude of different topics and install many different programs. In then end it's "Easy" but still takes forever)

[ste3e]

I agree with Butterscotch. Rar sounds like a dragon.