How to install mods for Wartales

In this guide, you will learn how to safely install mods for Wartales. This guide will cover how to install mods, and how to back-up crucial game files and your saves.

Where to get mods for Wartales

Currently, the game has no official mod support, so, the Steam Workshop for it is unavailable. The best and safest source of Wartales mods is on Wartales Nexus.

Step 1. Backup your game's files!

Before installing any mod, it is recommended that you backup all relevant files from your game's installation folder. In case of Wartales, you only need to worry about one file (res.pak), and folder with your saved games.

You can find your game's installation folder in following ways:
Right-click Wartales in your Steam Library, and select "Manage" -> "Browser Local Files". This will directly take you to your game's installation folder.


Alternatively, you can locate your game manually by going to:
This PC -> [Drive That Contains Steam Library] -> Steam -> steamapps -> common -> Wartales.

From your game's installation folder, you need to copy two things:
Your res.pak file:

And your saves. Due to how the game names the save files, eg. save[number].dat, I recommend you copy entire save folder:
Store it in location of your choosing, I recommend folder on your Desktop:

Step 2. Install your mod

From Wartales Nexus, download the mod you chose
(do mind, that this requires you to make Nexus account, and be logged in):

After downloading, you will have an compressed file (.rar, .zip., .7z) in your download folder, extract it's contents:

After extracting the files, copy them (Ctrl + C):

And paste them in the game's installation folder you found in Step 1..
Choose the option "Replace the file in the destination":


And that's it!
Congratulations, you just modded your game, enjoy!

If anything goes wrong after that, you can use backups you made in Step 1. to restore your game.

Other Guides

If you found this guide informative, check out one of the other guides that may be of help to you:


Dorim's general guide to all things Wartales, contains information about general game mechanics, in-game weapons, armours, skills and passives, maps and much more:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882315862

[Huku]

@Flamevader Hi, the game went through number of updates recently. While the modding process remains the same as it's described in this guide. You need to make sure that the author of the mod you are trying to install has updated it for the game's latest version (including any hotfixes). Otherwise, your game will crash on startup.

[Flamevader]

i could do with some help doing this it isnt working for me

[Huku]

@Tax Yes, that is the exact process you'd have to go through, you put it into words much better than I did.

[Tax]

@Huku

Thanks for the guide. I suppose if someone really wished to use more than 1 mod's changes at a time, they'd be able to extract both .pak's and review each line manually, and merge them using a DIFF tool. Not that I'm volunteering, mind you.

[Huku]

@Navull The "merging" of the mods in the current state of Wartales Modding, would be more or less equal to making a "new mod".

To put it simply, you'd have to know what the both modders changed in the game files, and copy the changes from one mod to another manually. There is no simple or straightforward mod manager that would do the work for you.

People are using QuickBMS to extract and access some of the game files, and then repack them back.

[PegLegNavTTV]

How does one merge Multiple mod paks into one? What program would I need?

[Huku]

@PepeJaba and @Phollus It is currently impossible to install multiple mods, unless they are merged by the modders themselves.

[PepeJaba]

How do I install multiple mods?

[Phollus]

if i wanna install 2 mods, how do i do it?

[Stone]

thx