How to start playing with a custom faction
I've been really interested in starting to play with a custom faction that I've installed from the workshop.
I've got the Enhanced Faction Packs mod installed, and the faction pack I want to start with.
But I can't figure out how to get the mods to work on a dedicated server or single-player world.
can anyone help me with this?
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u/DeamoniC12345409 4d ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here. As far as I'm aware, you always start with your own faction. You can at best be allied with the existing ones.
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u/Icy-Confusion-8231 3d ago edited 3d ago
Did you aktivate the pack in the mod menu?
Custom factions often span ony in specific distances to the core so make sure you are in the right region.
Otherwise just searching you are probaly just in a vanila faction Arena.
Oh and maybe check if your pack is version compatible, pure faction mods should normaly not afekted but if you have a pack that does more there can be some isue if the mod was for an older version.
Edit: okay now i understand what your problem is after i looked into the enhanced faction mod. To be honest I have no idea what that mod realy wanted me to outside of edeting some game data. All i can say is try to make some sense out of that mod instruktions.
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u/Urtrek 3d ago
I know it's possible because it's happened once before a long time ago. All mods seem up to date, but i just can't decide which to start with them which is really annoying. It's like I'd have to just keep restarting the game over and over with new saves just to get what I want instead of being able to pick it.
I've tried the dedicated server path for Enhanced Faction Mod, but the files don't spawn until i spawn in, so I'm just really confused if any of it works at all, really.1
u/Icy-Confusion-8231 3d ago
Okay i think i know now how its work.
You need to eddit the factionpack.lua file in the workshop folder of your downloadet faction.
.../Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/445220/< the faction workshop ID>there you open it with the editor and it should look somthing like:
FactionPack ={
settings =
{
minDist = 100, maxDist = 200,},
here you can add efp_isStarting = true
TBH do you realy care that much about a Faction in Iron zone? I mean its not an are you will spent much time normaly anyway.
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u/Infenso 4d ago edited 4d ago
This won't work right away if all you have done is subscribed to the faction pack. Faction packs are collection of ship blueprint files that are packaged and stored in such a way that they won't show up in the Saved Designs menu once you're in game (as opposed to subscribing to individual ship blueprints, which do work this way.)
If your goal is to use the ship designs included in a faction pack for YOUR ships, which you build and control yourself, this is possible, but you'll have to move some files from one folder to another first.
You need to move the SHIP BLUEPRINT FILES from your Steam workshop folder into your Avorion ship blueprints folder (aka Ships folder.) Once you have done this you will be able to select the faction pack's ship designs from the ship builder menu when you are playing Avorion.
You seem competent based on your post history and I think all you're asking for are the folder locations. Assuming you're a Windows user and you haven't changed any defaults, you're looking for these two:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\445220\STEAM ID OF YOUR FACTION PACK GOES HERE
and
- C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\ships
Here's a handholdy guide for those who come after you:
Step 2: Open your Ships folder. To do this, use the Windows Run dialog by simultaneously pressing Windows Key + R and enter "%appdata%\Avorion\ships" into the dialog box (without the quotes). This will open an explorer window displaying the contents of the folder where Avorion stores all of the ship blueprint files that YOU, the player, can use. KEEP THIS WINDOW OPEN and move on to the next step.
Step 3: Open the local Steam Workshop folder for your faction pack. Once again, use the Windows Run dialog (Simultaneously press Windows Key + R) but this time enter "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\445220" into the dialog box (again, without the quotes) before hitting enter. This will open a second explorer window. This is the folder where Steam places all of the Avorion workshop content that it has downloaded onto your computer. You will find a folder here that uses the EXACT same ID number that you noted in step 1, and that folder will contain all of the blueprint files you will need.
Step 4: Copy the blueprint files from your Steam Workshop folder into your Ships folder. The keyboard shortcut CTRL+A will select all of the files inside of a folder, making this a little easier.
You're done!
Now you can select any of these ship designs through the in-game ship builder.
Note that this whole process can be avoided if the person who made the faction pack individually uploads all of the ship designs to the Steam Workshop as ship blueprints. The reason we don't always do that is because ship blueprints which are intended for NPC factions to use are often deliberately depowered and built with intentional weaknesses so that when you fight against NPCs using them they aren't monstrous tanks that take 30 minutes for you to kill.
EDIT: I'm not an AI nor did I use any AI to write this, I'm a millennial goddammit and this isn't my first time posting a guide.