How to trigger re-download of mods I have subbed to.

[Tryst49]

I uninstalled Ark because it was taking a lot of room on my disk. I now have another disk and reinstalled Ark on that disk.

My problem is that I launch the game and it shows none of the workshop items that I have subscribed to. If I go to the workshop, I am still subscribed to them all, but they are not on my hard disk.

Is there a way to trigger the re-download of all the workshop items I am subscribed to so I can use them in the game?
The only way I can see to do it at present is to manually unsubscribe and re-subscribe to each one individually, but I have over 120 of them in total, that's going to take forever.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

The original mod zipped should be in your downloads then you extracted it to the game's Mods Folder?
I guess it depends on what game and how they do it, if the original is not in your downloads as a zip you just have to go back wherever you downloaded the mod from.
I dont think there is an auto reinstall with mods.

[Tryst49]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

The original mod zipped should be in your downloads then you extracted it to the game's Mods Folder?
I guess it depends on what game and how they do it, if the original is not in your downloads as a zip you just have to go back wherever you downloaded the mod from.
I dont think there is an auto reinstall with mods.

These are mods from Steam workshop. Subscribing to the mod triggers a download as does any updates to it by the mods author.

The problem is that when a game is uninstalled and later reinstalled, there appears to be no way that I can find to download the workshop items again without unsubscribing and then re-subscribing to each and every one.

I just wondered if Steam had some hidden way to trigger downloading all the ones for that game you have subscribed to in order to replace them in the game folder.

[eram]

Unsub then resub to the workshop mods.

[J4MESOX4D]

When you reinstall a game on Steam, any workshop items you were subscribed to should also be downloaded once the base installation is completed. This should show on your downloads page as just a workshop download attributed to the game.

[Tryst49]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

When you reinstall a game on Steam, any workshop items you were subscribed to should also be downloaded once the base installation is completed. This should show on your downloads page as just a workshop download attributed to the game.

It didn't.
Downloaded the whole game and that was it. 120 workshop items subbed and it never downloaded a single one.
I gave up and had to unsub and resub to each and every one of them to get them back since there is no shortcut to "download all subscribed workshop items for this game". The whole process took me 4 hours including waiting for the 20 Gb resulting download to finish after I had done them all, instead of a one click procedure that should have taken little more than 20 minutes.

[eram]

you can make your own workshop lists like this as an example.
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2466261097

then if needed un-sub re-sub with 2 clicks. not sure if its the same with all workshop games but recently many of them dont auto update and you have to unsub-resub.. So keeping all your mods in a personal list is very useful.

[Fwo0osh]

This happened to me when I reinstalled steam to try to get one of my other games to work.
As a consequence, I lost all of my mods for Rimworld, even though I was subscribed they wouldn't download. I actually did solve this by going into Steam\steamapps\workshop\content
In this subfolder is some folders with numbers, and you have to find the one connected to the game you want to reinstall the mods for, the manually copy and paste these back into the original game files in the Steam\common folder.

[smeagol]

Just thought I'd say what worked for me: created a workshop collection with all my mods, then unsubscribed to all mods, turned off steam, turned it on again, turned steam off a second time, subscribed to all mods, and then turned on steam again. This activated the download process for me.

[Nika💕Jae]

Originally posted by smeagol:

Just thought I'd say what worked for me: created a workshop collection with all my mods, then unsubscribed to all mods, turned off steam, turned it on again, turned steam off a second time, subscribed to all mods, and then turned on steam again. This activated the download process for me.

what do you mean "turned off steam"

[76561199384688145]

you have to exit stream using task manager or use the pointing arrow which is located right side of the tab bar. right click stream and use the exit option

[76561199384688145]

Originally posted by MXCherryPink:

Originally posted by smeagol:

Just thought I'd say what worked for me: created a workshop collection with all my mods, then unsubscribed to all mods, turned off steam, turned it on again, turned steam off a second time, subscribed to all mods, and then turned on steam again. This activated the download process for me.

what do you mean "turned off steam"

you have to exit stream using task manager or use the pointing arrow which is located right side of the tab bar. right click stream and use the exit option. Hope it helped

[Philistine Swine]

This worked for me, though I don't know if 'worked' is the right word.
Why the ♥♥♥♥ do we have to manually add each mod to a collection instead of a simple "Redownload All" button?

[Raptr]

Verifying the game files redownloaded all of my subscribed mods

[Sir Motorsheep]

Originally posted by Froakiedoakiepoop:

you have to exit stream using task manager or use the pointing arrow which is located right side of the tab bar. right click stream and use the exit option

*steam

[Vodakhun]

In case it helps anyone:

I wanted to force it to download all my 500~ RimWorld mods again, but exiting and reopening Steam, reinstalling the game, verifying the files etc didn't work, and I didn't want to go through all of them and add them to a collection.

In the end I just unsubscribed and subscribed again to 1 of my mods, and that triggered the download for ALL of them.