Mod Config Options not saving/enabling for servers since update

This happen to me as well

Hey,

I have solved this issue by modifying the default settings of the mod within the "modinfo.lua" located at:

Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\mods\workshop-601091520

Any line with "default =" should be changed to the setting you desire.

Since the servers were loading the mods, just not anything other than the default settings, I made the changes here. This is most likely an incorrect approach to solving this issue.

 

Scanning log files from the servers that experienced this issue, I focused on this line:

[00:00:00]: Could not load mod_config_data/modconfiguration_workshop-601091520_CLIENT

I located this directory at:

Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\Cluster_3\Master\save\mod_config_data

And found it empty. Is something supposed to be here?

 

I also noticed there was a file called "modoverrides.lua" located here:

Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\Cluster_3\Master

and 

Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\Cluster_3\Caves

It seems to contain all of the settings that could be configured across all active mods on the server, but within the logs, its only:

[00:00:00]: modoverrides.lua enabling workshop-601091520

 

I have no idea how to solve this other than the default setting method. Please enlighten me.

Your workaround will work for you as long you don't update your mods. However, I don't think your values will apply to other people playing on your server.

Setting values of mod options in modoverrides.lua is the proper way of doing it, unfortunately, there seems to be a bug somewhere currently, as you've reported. Hopefully devs will look at this on Monday.

Edited February 14, 2016 by Muche

People say that even old stable simple mods (Health Info, Mineable Gems) can't save their settings. It's important issue.

Yes, happens to me too.

Is it related to crash-on-exit bug?

Run into it too, while trying to add config options to my own mod. As I see the situation, it happens like this:

1. You configure the mods in the game UI, and it works.

2. The settings are saved into modoverrides.lua, no errors on this step either.

3. You launch the server, and it reads modoverrides.lua and creates local configs in mod_config_data. The files are created, I saw them.

4. When it tries to read the files, it doesnt work. The function TheSim:GetPersistentString returns false for whatever reason.

5. When no configuration file is available, the default config for mods is used instead.

Happened to me too after the big update.

I think I've found the reason.

3 hours ago, Morse said:

2. The settings are saved into modoverrides.lua, no errors on this step either.

The structure of the produced modoverrides.lua is incorrect, it uses config_data, but configuration_options is expected.

4 hours ago, Muche said:

I think I've found the reason.

The structure of the produced modoverrides.lua is incorrect, it uses config_data, but configuration_options is expected.

Yep, confirmed. After I changed config_data to configuration_options and marked files read-only so that the game doesn't rewrite it, the server started with all the mods configured correctly.