At your option, instruct players to unsubscribe from your mods on the Steam workshop using the Steam UI.

Migrating from the old Steam Workshop style mod distribution is easy: Switching from Steam Workshop to manual mod version management This makes it virtually impossible that the player will get this file wrong.

The patcher will also, if a modlist.txt is specified in the json file, overwrite the player's Conan Exiles modlist.txt with the one you supply.

The download comes from your server, not Steam, allowing you to control exactly when the players will receive a new version of the mods and ensuring that any corrupted files are fixed, while minimizing the amount of data that has to be transferred (good for slow connections).

The patcher will automatically use the rsync algorithm to download the player's mod data correctly for Conan.

They very rarely will need to modify any of the settings.

Players will launch conanpatcher, point it at the correct config file if it isn't bundled, then click the 'Patch!' button.

Your players will download conanpatcher.exe (along with its other dependencies) as per the Releases page on Github or your own custom distribution.

(Optional) For convenience, bundle a file called conanpatcher_config.json along with the client software in a zip file and host it for your users.

The person(s) GMing/administering a Dedicated Server with mods will configure the appropriate server software (see 'Server Setup' below.).

Steam doesn't allow you to install old versions of mods, so the only way a player can use an older mod is if we install them out of band (i.e., not using Steam). This only works, however, if you ensure that your players have the bit-exact same versions of every mod that your server is running. Instead, you can manually control when you want to update mods (like, when you see a new feature your players want, or a bug fix that's important to you, in the changelog), rather than allowing mod authors' rapid fire releases to dictate your update schedule. If you have players always download the latest version of the mods from Steam Workshop, players may have an inconsistent version because, basically, Steam absolutely sucks at mod version management and sometimes is very delayed in getting players an updated version, and occasionally even corrupts the files when patching them! Also, each patch would require a restart of your game server, which bumps everyone offline.

This tool solves the problem of players and the server having different mod versions, which will be incompatible and players get errors joining the server. It is designed to be configured by a Dedicated Server host then, clients (players on the server) can download the.

This tool is designed to allow manual syncing of specific versions of a mod-set to Conan Exiles players.

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