Installing Mods on Spore

As it can be slightly confusing for some, i might as well make one just incase there isnt one on the first few pages of the Spore Community Guides.

1: Places to get mods from

Many places have spore mods, even Youtube.
Most of the mods i have are hosted on DavoOnline's "Host your Spore Mods" and "Davo's Spore Mods" forums there. Im sure you could find quite a few from offical Spore forums, and other Spore-related forums too.

Before you say there's a malicious ad in the adfly page on some of them, please note it is easy to avoid.
All you must do is hit "Skip Ad" a few times after disabling adblock so adfly will let you skip the ad, but the first time or so will open a Popup, which you should close before it can load any webpages.

After it says you can download something and (if) it asks you what to do with the file, such as open it in something or save it somewhere, close the adfly tab and download the file.
If it is a RAR/ZIP/any kind of compressed file type, go to 2.
If it is simply a .package, go to 3.
If it's a .sporemod, go to 4.

2: Compressed Archive Files

Now you have a .rar / .zip / any other compressed filetype, but this wont work as the mod file.
If you have anything that can open them, open them now and look at any .txts and the .packages inside the file.
If its something like Dark Injection, then there will be a main .package and lots of add-on .packages.
Select the ones you want, and extract them to the Data folder of Spore.
Basically, to get to it, go to Steam Library, right click Spore, click Properties, go to Local Files, and click Browse Local Files.
After you've done this, you should be in the Spore folder.
Depending on expansions you have, there will be BP1content (Creepy and Cute, you can put it's .package into Galatic Adventures to use them together), Data (Core Spore data, where you can put Core Spore mods.) and DataEP1 (Galatic Adventures data, where you can put Galatic Adventures mods.). If you are using Dark Injection, its best to stop for a moment and not do it, because Dark Injection has a problem where it will try to load Galatic Adventures data that dosen't exist if you use Core Spore with it. Most mods nowadays are made for Galatic Adventures, so i suggest you put your mods in DataEP1.
After it's all done and the mods are completely in there, done extracting and everything, start up Spore (Galatic Adventures if you put the mods there) and enjoy your mods!

If it contains a .sporemod, though, then extract it to a easy to get to place and go to the fourth section here.

3: Plain .package Files

Now, you have a .package file.
What you do with this, is head to the Spore folder (which you can do via going to Steam Library, rightclicking Spore, going to Properties, clicking the Local Files tab, and Browsing Local Files.) and put the .package in the coresponding data folder.
The data folders are as follows:
BP1content (a folder with a single .package file, containing the content of Creepy and Cute, which you can put into Core Spore and Galatic Adventures' data folders to use Creepy and Cute with them),
Data (Core Spore data.),
and DataEP1 (Galatic Adventures data.)
If you have a mod that only works with GA, put it in DataEP1.
If you have a mod that only withs with Core Spore, put it in Data.
After all of that, you can start upo Spore/GA and enjoy your mods!

4: .sporemod files

The .sporemod extension is meant for a Spore modding API, which comes with an easy installer.
To use a .sporemod file as a mod, you must first download and install the Spore ModAPI launcher.

Please note: you must run the Spore ModAPI Launcher for mods using the Spore ModAPI to work properly.

Some mods i know to be using it are the Infinite Color mod (which lets you use a color picker instead of different shades and such as in normal Spore) and Dark Injection (the newest release at the time of writing this).

After downloading it, or if you already have it, open the Spore ModAPI Easy Installer and select the .sporemod file you want to install, and if it brings up a configuration before installing it, such as with Dark Injection, then you may select what you want and don't want from the list it gives, if any.
After it's done installing, and you are done installing all the mods you want, you may run the launcher.
If it asks about which Spore version you are using, answer that.
It usally launches even if it says it cannot find which version you are using, along with launching despite a error message and such.

5: We're done.

I hope this helped you, if you didnt know how to already.
I dont know what else to put here, so have two creatures i created with mods.

[FoxYin_11♥♣•]

when i installed ModAPI, i accidentally selected wrong game folder, now i keep getting application load error V:0000065432. I am also unable to change the location, what should i do?

[Hellfire Phoenix]

No mods are loading. At all. I've used the spore modding api thing to install and to start spore but theres nothing

[someoe2]

so like, i did in fact download the spore mods and installed them with the sporemod api thingy, tho when i launch it with the spore mod api i am met with error 18, how do i fix this?
please note that my spore ga broke once and i had to make it run as administrator to make it work again

[angry scorpion]

then you got cheat code

[angry scorpion]

first press shift ctrl and c

[angry scorpion]

i know cheat code

[Hazica]

most likely, yeah lol

[sorcha1234]

so will i need to buy galatic adventures?

[Hazica]

this is real old but yeah:
1. as said below, use the Spore ModAPI Launcher to install mods since it'll be easier to manage them from there (and some outright require it, like the .sporemod files)
2. the DavoOnline forums are the main place mods are posted, at least as far as i'm aware. theres probably areas out there unknown to me that also host mods, but DavoOnline is the one i'm most familiar with, and is where you can find most mods most people would be using

[RoseGold]

wonder what some mods are adn where to find em... been searching to find one to allow me to make alot more things (some YT had sphears and teeth, but the video never credited a mod) if someone find sit i'd love that. but for now, and mod suggestions?