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How to create your own modpack
By revolver ocelot
This is a rather simple guide to how to create your own modpack, I had a bit of a struggle before I got the hang of it.

If you want to create a modpack for you and your friends then stay tuned and hope its useful!
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Before the guide
Before we dive in, it's assumed that you've got R2MODMAN up and running with a few mods of your own. If not, no worries! Check out this quick video tutorial on how to get it installed.

Useful links
In this guide I am using these links in general, I will talk about them more in the guide itself but here they are for quick acess

Lethal Wiki[lethal.wiki]
Markdown Preview[thunderstore.io]
Manifest Validator[thunderstore.io]
Preparing the files
Lets begin with preparing the files, you will need at minimum 3 files in order to upload your modpack
icon.png - your icon that will be on the mod itself
README.md - a readme (can be empty)
manifest.json - a json file that sorts all of your mods content into one

Your icon.png MUST be 256x256 in order for it to be uploaded.
README.md as written above can be empty but its for instructions or extra details you wanna write down

Manifest.json is the main part of the mod, heres a template of it and we will explain what everything means

{ "name": "BeterModpack", "version_number": "1.4.0", "website_url": "https://github.com/thunderstore-io", "description": "Neheheh look lois im a modpack", "dependencies": [ "BepInEx-BepInExPack-5.4.2100" ] }

  • Name: "Name of your modpack"
  • version_number: MUST BE ABOVE THE VERSION YOU HAVE NOW IF YOUVE UPDATED IT
  • website_url: can be any URL
  • description: a description to say what your mods about
  • dependencies: a list of mod names that exist, in this example you can see "BepInEx-BepInExPack-5.4.2100"
DEPENDENCIES
This will be your list of mods, you might be asking how you can get them? its really simple

you will need to take this string and add " between them
DONT FORGET EVERY LINE YOU GOT DOWN YOU NEED TO PUT A COMMA
this means if you add this mod your manifest.json needs to look like this now.
{ "name": "BeterModpack", "version_number": "1.4.0", "website_url": "https://github.com/thunderstore-io", "description": "Neheheh look lois im a modpack", "dependencies": [ "BepInEx-BepInExPack-5.4.2100", "x753-More_Suits-1.4.1" ] }

You can always use Manifest Validator to make sure your .json file is proper and with no errors[thunderstore.io]

once you have finished making your manifest.json and the rest of the files you will need to take them and put them into a single .zip file MAKE SURE ITS ZIP AND NOT .7z OR .RAR
Uploading your mod
Now for the last part, to upload your mod you will need to go to here[thunderstore.io]
one there you will need to create an account in thunderstore and then a team.
Create a team
go to this url right here[thunderstore.io]
Click on create a team and choose a name of your liking

Final part
Finally we go back to the previous link[thunderstore.io]
and select your team, community should be LETHAL COMPANY and categories are by the mods you choose, I usually pick
  • Modpacks
  • Server-side
  • Client-side

You can use this image as a reference, finally upload your "modname".zip file and click submit and you're pretty much done!
Extra
Some caution but it might take a bit for the modpack to be uploaded properly to their site, afterwards you can find it right from R2MODMAN!
This is my first ever guide I wrote to steam sorry if its not the best!

2 Comments
revolver ocelot  [author] 19 Jan, 2024 @ 8:08am 
You have a "version" just change the number to something higher (example from 1.0 to 1.0.1) and itll let you update the mod with all the included mods in it!
xTigxr 19 Jan, 2024 @ 3:24am 
how do i update the modpack?