I wanted to extend a personal thank you to those modders who have been part of our soft-launch test group and who have helped populate the Workshop already with their hard work. Here at Red Hook, we are excited to see Darkest Dungeon users enjoy your creations!

And to those just discovering this Workshop Group: a warm welcome! We look forward to discovering what you come up with.

Finally, another thank you to MaesterSilvio for his help in documenting the Workshop Guide while we've been hard at work on The Crimson Court.

--Tyler (Design Director), on behalf of the Red Hook team

If it makes you feel any better, we have made those same errors during development. Always kept meaning to make an effects tool or spreadsheet/exporter, but haven't gotten around to it yet!

A couple notes:

Currently, when you run the upload_steam_workshop.exe, it looks at all mod files and tries to find out if there is a corresponding core game file of the same name. If so, it overwrites it. This is true for effects, heroes, loc, trinkets, etc.

1) In the game, you can toggle priority of different mods and how they are applied. This is how to resolve problems where more than one applied mod affects the same file.

2) For effects specifically, we are going to do some work to allow adding other/new effects files. So you could create a new effects file just for your mod. E.g. "effects_mymod.darkest" and that would get added to the effects library at run-time. So this will resolve some problems. However, we won't be doing that until we're back from the break.

It might be something Pierre will have to look at once back. But just for clarity, the build update that went out Friday should all loc modding as follows:

1. Copy all .xml files from the game's localization folder to your mod's data/localization folder
2. Make changes you need to the .xml files in your mod's data/localization folder
3. Run the steam_workshop_upload.exe with your project's json.

The steam_workshop_upload should run the localization if necessary.

So if you haven't tried it since Friday, give it another go.

Oh - an added note on stripping files out: we want to avoid situations where people are accidentally trying to upload the entire data directory again, and also by stripping out files you didn't change wrt vanilla, that ensures that if we update those files ourselves, your mod isn't accidentally out of date with files you didn't even intend to change.

1. Agreement: when it was flagging me, it was a big message that you can't miss. Also, uploading didn't work until I signed it. So, if you aren't seeing it and your upload is working, I wouldn't worry. :)

2. Hopefully Pierre can help us with that.

3. I was having the same problem. Let me know if you find a solution.

4. Yes--see discussion in the "Known Issues" thread, but basically removing files that are unchanged with relation to the vanilla install is intentional.

Good question, but I don't think anything you can mod right now will conflict with UI/controller. However, I never seem to run out of chances to be wrong, so just keep us apprised of what you experience!

Hey all - apologies for the timing with regards to the holiday. (Our team is scattered to the four winds, and not all are nearby computers.) Keep compiling known issues (I see Maester Silvio's started a list--that's super helpful for us so we don't miss anything.)

With regards to deleting files, it's as John said: our intent was to strip out any unchanged items, because the way the mod application works is to overwrite only changed files in the core game install. But I understand this can cause some issues between testing your mod (where you need to put everything working in the actual game install directory) and then uploading the mod (where you should then separate things out of the core game install and return it to vanilla state.) The intent is that you would eventually just use the workshop flow to actually test the mods, too.

In any case, we can discuss flow and possible changes once we are back.

A note on Loc: Pierre pushed a build late Friday night which had the loc stuff improved. Prior to that, loc wasn't really working as an additive/individually moddable basis. (See my modding Guide for how the state of the loc was prior to Friday night.)

In any case, these difficulties are exactly why we needed this test group, so we thank you for bearing with us through the bumpy phase!

Hey all - I'm Tyler, the co-founder of Red Hook and the design director for the game. We're excited to do workshop, and will be doing it in stages. Thank you for offering to help us get started, and for your contributions to the community!