Guide for mods on preconfig servers?

[Raztastic]

I've been looking for 20-30min for a guide on how to run mods on the preconfigured caves beta. Does one exist/is this possible? I've gone to the wiki, surfed the forums, but can not find many strong resources on the topic.

[Zillvr]

Hey @Raztastic welcome to the forums. Have you by any chance happened upon my posts listed below:

• Addings Mods with modoverrides.lua
• Tweaking modsettings.lua

They may not be the best guides, but they work for me.  That's the simplest way to add mods that I know. If you want to specifically configure each mod here's another post I made before. Here's an example of a fully configured modoverrides.lua file in case you wanted to see the how the final result would look. Let me know if something feels confusing. Good luck, cheers.

[Raztastic]

Through much trial and frustration and error, I got it to work. And it was different then your solution. Instead I created a collection to make it easier and consolidate the mods I wanted.  Then I used this incredibly useful link which takes care of a lot of the tedious work. Sometimes the link is picky though, and will kick back a 503. Usually trying later gets it to work.  http://dstct.tdlive.me/

But the key was to ignore the folders in My Documents, and instead go to the parent folder in Steamapps>common> Don't Starve Together Dedicated Server, create a mods folder, and add dedicated.....lua and modse......lua.

 

[Raztastic]

Except now, all that went out the window with Klei changing how it is run....