Making Mods

If you want to start making mods, this is the right place.

First, you will learn the basics of how Astroneer mods are structured and how to make basic mods by editing game files. Then, you will learn how to make more advanced mods by using the Unreal Engine to create your own items.

Contents

• About Astroneer Modding
  • About Astroneer
  • Unreal Pak Files
  • Unreal Asset Files
  • File Structure and Paths
  • Tools For Creating Mods
  • Items in Astroneer
  • Getting Help
• Setting up Modding Tools
  • Setting up Folders
  • Setting up repak
  • Extracting the Game Files
  • Setting up UAssetGUI
  • Opening an Asset
• Basic Modding
  • How Making a Mod Works
  • Setting up Folders
  • Creating metadata.json File
  • Finding the Asset to modify
  • Modifying the Asset
  • Packing the Mod
  • Installing the Mod
  • Verifying the mod works
• Setting Up the Modding Kit
  • Visual Studio
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • Modding Kit
  • Wwise (optional)
  • Generating Visual Studio project files (optional)
  • First-time Launch
  • Developing Mods
• Adding Custom Items with the Unreal Editor
  • Creating the Mod Folder
  • Creating an Item
  • Cooking the Mod
  • Packaging the Mod
• Picking Names
  • Naming is hard
  • Allowed Characters
  • What you need to choose
  • Author ID
  • Mod Name and ID
  • Mod ID extension
• Adding Missions
  • Adding the Mission Trailhead
  • Adding Mission Trailhead to the Mod
• Adding Mission Panels to Items
  • Creating the Mission Panel
  • Creating & Linking the Supply Drop Points
  • Result
• Diegetic UI
  • Making Diegetic UI
  • Adding Control Panel to the item
• Procedural Generation
  • Procedural Generation
  • Writing the metadata
• Custom Routines
  • Custom Routines
  • Prerequisites
  • Setup
  • Advanced usage: ICustomRoutineAPI
  • Advanced usage: JSON
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • General Questions
  • Game Asset Questions
  • Unreal Editor Questions
  • UE4SS Questions