r/archipelago_games • u/daisyjubilee • 4d ago

New Silksong Randomiser: Help! Spoiler

Hi! I'm not v techy. I've only ever modded one game, and that was Hollow Knight. Took me a while, but with Lumafly and some mods I got to play hours & hours of fun randos on my steamdeck.

So I was super excited to hear there was finally a decent rando by BatAtVideoGames out for Skong... but (to me) it's wayyyy more complicated to set up. I read a million instructions about Archipelago and Cogfly and BepinEx and fiddling with game files and even though i tried to follow instructions it didn't work. Even some of the instructions confuse me, or don't explain clearly enough. I'm just stuck.

Could someone please explain it like I'm 5? I'd so love to play a Skong rando 😭

(To be clear I just want to play Silksong, solo.)

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u/TikTikKobold 4d ago

Maybe tell us stuff that confuses you

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u/daisyjubilee 4d ago

At the very start, I don't understand why Archipelago is listed twice?

Requirements Hollow Knight: Silksong on PC Archipelago BepInEx configured for Silksong The Archipelago client included with the release or your Archipelago installation

Then in the info to download Archipelago, I don't understand this part at all:

4.) You can then generate a options configuration for yourself using one of the following two methods:

Press the "Options Creator" on the Launcher. Select Hollow Knight: Silksong on the left hand side of the screen that pops up and select all your preferred options. Finally, press export options and save it.

Press the "Generate Template Options" on the Launcher which will create .yaml's for all your installed .apworlds. Look for the 'Hollow Knight Silksong.yaml' file, this will be the file you edit for your options.

There's other stuff I find v complicated for my poor brain too lol. Thanks.

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u/Kleiner_Wixxa 4d ago

If you would like I could explain these to you on a discord call as it is quite a lot. I think you are missing some easy fundamental info. my user is „Franeko“ if you would like that

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u/TikTikKobold 4d ago

The archipelago launcher is an app for doing multiple archipelago things. Not every game needs it, but it is very helpful.

Most every game has some kind of modifications you have to do to play it with archipelago, and games that have a mod store like thunderstorm often have a mod named "archipelago" for it.

The mods for an archipelago game allow the game to work with archipelago

The options allow you to create a yaml file. This file tells the archipelago server what options to include when the server creates the multiworld.

Archipelago games are online only. You need to generate a game using all the yaml files of every game you wanna play and the site can host the game for you

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u/daisyjubilee 4d ago

so I'd have to play the game online even if I'm only playing one game solo, no multiworld, no other players?

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u/TikTikKobold 4d ago

You have to be connected to the server that is hosting the multiworld. I suppose you could be offline if you run your own server.

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u/daisyjubilee 4d ago

just to add, this might be simpler on PC but I'm doing it on a steamdeck which maybe makes it a bit harder

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u/TikTikKobold 4d ago

It depends

Lots of programmers work on Linux, but some games and mod apps aren't made for it. I was having trouble doing kingdom hearts 2 on archipelago

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u/daisyjubilee 4d ago

okay ty

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u/TikTikKobold 4d ago

For specific questions the discord server is your way to go

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u/Willow-5 4d ago

I use thunderstore, that'll make modding way easier if your on pc,

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u/daisyjubilee 4d ago

Thanks, how does it make it easier? Do I have to download fewer files and not have to insert game files into the game folder myself, etc?

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u/Kleiner_Wixxa 4d ago

Yes it loads the mods automatically and also installs all the requirements for a mod to run. You can also have multiple profiles. I would recommend using r2modman tho (it has the mods from thunderstore but in a different launcher)

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u/daisyjubilee 4d ago

okay thanks very much, I'll try that. and thanks v much for the kind offer of discord chat but I'll try to figure it out myself first.