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How to install Mods on your Conan Exiles Server

Conan Exiles has Steam Workshop support, meaning you can download and install mods on both your client and your server.

Workshop Mods

To locate where Steam stores the mods it downloaded follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on Conan Exiles in your game library, and the menu will pop up. Click on Properties at the bottom
  2. On the next pop-up window, click on the Local Files tab across the top, and then on Browse Local Files
  3. A File Explorer window will open. To get to where Steam hid the mods click the Up Arrow in the upper left to move up twice until you are in the steamapps folder. EG: D:/SteamLibrary/steamapps
  4. Open the workshoo\content\440900 directory.
  5. You will see a bunch of folders with numbers. These are all the mods you have downloaded. Leave these mods in the numbered folders
  6. Select all the folders and then right-click one of the folders. Once the menu opens go to Send to and select the Compressed (zipped) folder option
  7. Name your new .zip file mods.zip

Now you have a .zip file ready to be uploaded.

Uploading the Mods to the Server

  1. Go to the AleForge Panel
  2. Open the File Explorer tab
  3. Navigate to ConanSandbox/Mods on the server.
  4. You can drag and drop your zip file onto the panel, or use an FTP client. Once uploaded right click your zip folder on the panel. Select unarchive to expand the zip.

Use the AleForge Panel to Install Mods

The last step before the server can actually use the mods is the file inside every numbered folder needs to be moved out of that folder and directly into the /mods folder. The server will not load any files inside other folders inside /mods . The server also needs a modlist.txt file to tell it which mods to load. We have a handy script that will do all of this for you automatically.

  1. Stop the server
  2. Create a new backup using the Backup tab.
  3. Open the Startup tab and check Unpack Mods
  4. Open the Settings tab and start a new reinstall.

Our reinstall is a soft reinstall that will only touch files that were initially downloaded for the game. Your worlds and configs will not be touched.

  1. Open the mods folder and verify the folders are gone and that there are a bunch of .pak files and a modlist.txt file.
  2. Go to the Console and start the server

Your server will now load with your mods.