Adding mods to your Don't Starve Together server

Installing mods on a Don't Starve Together server takes two files, which you edit on the Files tab of the dashboard:

dedicated_server_mods_setup.lua in the mods folder tells the server which Steam Workshop mods to download.
modoverrides.lua in DoNotStarveTogether/config/server/Master (and Caves) turns the mods on and holds their settings.

Stop the server before you start (see Power controls).

Find a mod's ID

Open the mod's Steam Workshop page. The last part of the page's link is the mod ID:

Example Mod

Add individual mods

Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your Don't Starve Together server.
Select the Files tab, open the mods folder and select dedicated_server_mods_setup.lua to open it in the editor.
Add this line to the file:
```
ServerModSetup("ModID")
```
It should look like this:
Replace ModID with the mod's ID. Keep the quotes and the parentheses.
To add more mods, add another ServerModSetup("ModID") line for each mod.
Select Save file.

Next, turn the mods on with modoverrides.lua, as described in Enable the mods.

Add a Workshop collection

Adding a Steam Workshop collection works the same way. The only difference is the line you add to dedicated_server_mods_setup.lua. Instead of ServerModSetup("ModID"), use:

ServerModCollectionSetup("Workshop_Collection_ID")

Replace Workshop_Collection_ID with the ID from the collection's Workshop page. For example:

Mod Collection

Enable the mods

On the Files tab, open the folder DoNotStarveTogether/config/server/Master.
If modoverrides.lua is already there, select it to open it. Otherwise select New file, enter modoverrides.lua as the name and select Create (see Create a file or folder). The new file opens in the editor.

Paste this text. It enables two mods. Replace modid with each mod's ID, for example workshop-347079953:

return {
  ["workshop-modid"]={
    configuration_options={  },
    enabled=true
  },
  ["workshop-modid"]={
    configuration_options={  },
    enabled=true
  }
}

To add more mods, add another block like this one inside the outer brackets, separated from the previous block by a comma:
```
["workshop-modid"]={
  configuration_options={  },
  enabled=true
},
```
Select Save file.
If your server has caves, create the same modoverrides.lua in DoNotStarveTogether/config/server/Caves too, so the mods are enabled there as well. Copy the text from the Master file and paste it into a new file in Caves.
Start the server. The mods download and are enabled on the server.

Configure your mods

Some mods need to be configured. The easiest way is to let the game create the config for you on your own computer, then copy it to the server.

Subscribe to the mod on the Steam Workshop and start the game.
Select Host Game.
Go to the Mods tab and tick the mods you want.
Select the mod you want to configure, then select Configure Mod.
When you're done, select Generate World. The game creates the config file modoverrides.lua in Users\%useraccount%\Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\%randomnumber%\Cluster_1\Master on your computer. To find the folder, you can also select Manage World:

And then Open World Folder:
Copy the file to the server, into DoNotStarveTogether/config/server/Master. Either:
- Open the file on your computer in a text editor and copy everything. On the Files tab, open the server's modoverrides.lua, replace its contents with what you copied and select Save file. Or:
- Delete or rename the server's existing modoverrides.lua, then open the Master folder on the Files tab and select Upload to upload your file (see Upload files).
If a mod changes the caves, do the same with the modoverrides.lua from the Caves folder on your computer and the server's DoNotStarveTogether/config/server/Caves folder.
Start or restart the server. Your mods are now installed, enabled and configured.