troubleshooting IMPORTANT PSA FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE USING NON-STEAM MODS -- How to get them to show up in the launcher! (WINDOWS 10 ONLY)

[JustANormalUser]

This took me AGES (read: roughly 45 minutes to about an hour and a half) to get properly working, but this is important and I wanna make sure people know how to get stuff working properly on Windows 10. I don't own a Mac, nor do I run Linux, so if you have fixes for those, feel free to post them. 

 

1. Download and install the mods you want to use as normal (this means placing both the folder that you extract from the .zip/.rar/.7zip as well as the .mod file into your mods folder, which should be C:\Users\<your name>\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod; for these tips, I'm assuming that you're using the C:\ drive for the location of your My Documents folder)

 

2. Open the .mod file using the text editor of your choosing (I prefer regular old notepad, but Notepad++ works well)

 

3. Highlight the following: 

 

   path="mod\<nameofmod>" (for example, if you're using the Carnalitas mod, it should read path="mod\Carnalitas" prior to first launching the game/launcher; if you open the file after you run the game/launcher, it'll change to path="C:\Users\<your name>\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod\<nameofmod>", so you probably want to do this prior to launching the game/running the launcher!)

 

4. COPY IT (either via the right-click context menu OR by CTRL + C)

 

5. Open the folder the mod came with 

 

6. Look for a file named "descriptor.mod" (should either be right under CHANGELOG.md if that file is present or the first file right under the last folder of the mod; some people don't often include change logs with their mods!) and open it

 

7. PASTE THE PATH THAT YOU COPIED BENEATH THE FOLLOWING: (either via the right-click context menu or by CTRL + V)

 

  name="nameofmod" (again, for example, name="Carnalitas")

  supported_version="1.5.*" (or similar)

 

--> If you did it correctly, it should read as follows (replace all instances of "Carnalitas" with the name of the mod you are using; I'm just using it as an example): 

 

  name="Carnalitas"
  supported_version="1.5.*"
  path="mod/Carnalitas"

 

8. SAVE THE DOCUMENT (either by CTRL + S or by the drop-down menu under File; this is very important, otherwise you won't be able to add the mod to your playlists!)

 

9. Boot up the game via Steam/the Paradox Launcher and check All Installed Mods (should be the second one from the bottom of the list of options); if you've done everything right, it should show up!

 

Now all that's left is to make a new mod playlist and play!

[NoNickNeeded]

If you actually need to do this something is wrong with your installation. Do you by chance have something other than plain letters and numbers in your user-name?

 

I too run Win 10 and I just have to do step 1 and it's right there in the launcher to be selected like any steam-workshop mod. Sometimmes the laucher needs to be started, shut down and started a second time for a mod to show up, but I've had that issue on both manual and workshop mods, so it's a general launcher issue I presume.

 

Still good to know a workaround in case anyone runs into a similar issue, so a thumbs up from me.