How to enable mods

[Richard-monagha]

I'm posting here because I posted this in the user mods forum but got no reply.

I've played on the new patch since its release but not used any mods in a while but recently I subscribed to extended timeline to try it out but I have no idea how to enable/activate the mod on the new launcher. Used to be you just enable/disable them and click play on old launcher.

It shows as being installed on the launcher itself under installed mods and is enabled in the playset list. I have made a new playset and added the mod to it and selected this playset instead of initial playset under the play game button but it won't load up the mod, only the base game.

Can someone explain to me how I activate mods on the current launcher after subscribing please.

Thanks in advance.

 

[grotaclas]

Normally mods can be enabled in the way which you describe.

One common reason for mods which don't work despite being enabled is that you have multiple versions of the same mod(or different mods with the same name). If you have a local version of a mod or a mod version that was installed with the old launcher and a version of the mod from the new launcher, none of these will work. To fix it try to remove all local or old mod versions(which don't start with ugc_) from your mod folder.
If that doesn't help, you can try to remove the files "launcher-v2.sqlite" and "dlc_load.json" and the folders "mod" and ".launcher-cache" from your "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/" folder. This gives you a clean slate, but it deletes any local or self created mods and removes any launcher settings and playsets and the information which mods and dlcs are enabled.
Did any of this help?

 

[AndrewT]

Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods
- delete the folder Documents/Paradox Interactive/eu4/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/eu4/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/eu4/launcher-v2.sqlite

Add eu4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list. You should add steam.exe and C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.6/paradox launcher.exe to that list.

- subscribe to a few mods
- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!

 

[Debris94]

I apologize in posting in this old conversation. I simply wanted to mention i have similar issues but largely most likely because of mistakes on my part. I seem to have screwed myself up in this area by trying to transition move my one drive to my larger interior additional ssd card.

 

[grotaclas]

I apologize in posting in this old conversation. I simply wanted to mention i have similar issues but largely most likely because of mistakes on my part. I seem to have screwed myself up in this area by trying to transition move my one drive to my larger interior additional ssd card.

Are you looking for help with your problem? If you do, have you already tried the things which AndrewT mentioned in the comment above yours? If they don't help can you describe your issues in more detail? Normally when you want to use mods in eu4, you subscribe to them in steam, then steam downloads them to "steamapps/common/workshop/content/236850/<steam id of the mod>" and then they appear in the all installed mods section of the launcher when you start it afterwards and then you can add the mod to a playset in the launcher and activate the mod in the launcher and then select the playset with that mod in the main page of the launcher and then the mod will be active if you start eu4 from the launcher. If that doesn't work for you, which of these steps still work and which fail and do you get any error messages?