Mods for multiplayer/hot seat games

Overview

Mods for multiplayer/hot seat games in Civilization: Beyond Earth.

Important Things

• This is the original guide under Civ V: [link] I just remade the guide under Civ BE. Dear authors, best work!!

• This isn’t working under mods with .lua files (mostly).
• It’s possible that won’t working in sponsors mods.
• Everybody in multiplayer game must have a mod in code.
• The mod will stay in game – on every game mode – to the time when you remove it from code.

• Small Resources Mod (v. 1)

• More Buildings Mod (v. 6)

Please report if you check working of some new mods.

Getting Started

• You need to download your mod. If you did this, and load it in “Mods” section once, you can get next steps.
• Open folder where your mods are saved. It’s probably: Documents/My Games/Sid Meier’s Civilization Beyond Earth/MODS – if it not here, check the Steam settings, or Beyond Earth settings in library.

• Choose your mod and copy the folder with mod files in it. Then go to the game folder. It will be: Disk where you installed a game/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier’s Civilization Beyond Earth/assets OR Disk where you installing games/SteamLibrary/common/Sid Meier’s Civilization Beyond Earth/assets
  FOR EXAMPLE:
  E:/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier’s Civilization Beyond Earth/assets

• Copy a mod folder into “assets”. For better using it in future, rename the folder like “[MOD] <name of the mod here>”

• Then go from “assets” to DLC/Expansion1 and open a file called Expansion1.CivBEPkg with good editor program, like Notepad++.

• In the beginning of <Gameplay> make three lines of break. In the second line add two new things (you can copy it from here):

  <GameData></GameData>
  <Textdata></Textdata>

• Go again to mod folder. Check how many files are in here (count only .xml, .fpk and .lua files)

• As you can see, in this mod there are three XML files. Go again to Expansion1.CivBEPkg and copy the same code lines as up here – copied lines must equals number of files. If there is for example 5 files, you need to copy <GameData> and <Textdata> 5 times.
• Insert the names of XML (or other) files with EXTENSION to both lines. It should look like this:

  <GameData>Buildings.xml</GameData>
  <Textdata>Buildings.xml</Textdata>

  Do the same thing with every file.

In-Game

• Now just go, and make a multiplayer game. Remember: Everybody must have a mod in game code.

• As you can see, this is normal multiplayer game…

• Or no! There’s some addons!

That’s everything – have fun and feel free to ask questions and help me to find out which mods are working and which not!