Warhammer 40K: Darktidehas been in great shape for the past year thanks to the excellent support from Fatshark. While the developers do their best to add new features, especially based on feedback, players can still mod many things in Darktide for an even better experience. Whether you want to view a scoreboard, health bars for enemies, or spawn enemies in the meat grinder, the modding community has something for everyone. Here is how you may install mods in Warhammer 40K Darktide if you’re playing on PC.
Installing Mods for Warhammer 40K Darktide
Installing mods in Darktide isn’t as simple as dragging and dropping the mod files into the installation folder initially, but it’s still a mostly painless process. To install mods in Darktide, you need the following:
Fatshark doesn’t officially support mods but they are still allowed. If something goes wrong with a mod, you’ll either have to disable the mod or contact the mod author for help as Fatshark hasn’t provided any mod tools.
We’ll go over how you may set up Darktide to work with mods step by step.
Darktide Mod Loader
First, we need theDarktide Mod Loader, which allows players to enable, and disable mods in-game.
The bat file has to be run every time the game releases an update or hotfix since those disable mods.
Darktide Mod Framework
Now, we can install the Mod Framework which will add a mod manager in-game. This is pretty simple to set up as well.
\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\mods
After that, we’re set, and we can finally install mods in Darktide.
Mod Installation in Darktide
With theMod LoaderandMod Frameworkinstalled. We can start adding mods to Darktide. As an example, we’re going to add the“Scoreboard” mod created by Grasmannin Darktide.
Adding Additional Mods
If you want to add another mod, follow the same process as above and add the mod title in the next line of the “mod_load_order.txt” file.
For example, after you have copied the folder for“Healthbars” mod by raindishinto the mods folder, add the mod to the list in the “mod_load_order.txt” file as shown below.
To disable a mod, you can simply remove the line from the text file. It’s that easy.
That covers everything you need to know about modding Darktide. It’s a fairly simple process, and there are tons of mods to check out that can add quality-of-life features, new systems, and visual overhauls.
Ali Hashmi
Ali has been writing about video games for the past six years and is always on the lookout for the next indie game to obsess over and recommend to everyone in sight. When he isn’t spending an unhealthy amount of time in Slay the Spire, he’s probably trying out yet another retro-shooter or playing Dark Souls for the 50th time.
