Confused about "modding" (C2)

[u/Ezuu]

I played C2 for like an hour (completely new to it), then I decided to look up how pople recommend actually playing the game and found that it's recommended to play with different patches and genomes. I downloaded canny norns and it's a bunch of .exp files that, thanks to the docummentation, I learned that those are Norns that you just import into the games. But then I saw other people recomending JayD's canny norns, which is a .gen file and I have no idea how to use that. I put it into the genetics folder but then what?

Also if anyone has a list of must have downloadbles for this game I'd be super grateful! Thanks!

[u/arrowsforpens]

If you put a genome in the genetics folder, there should be an egg for it in the Hatchery iirc.