Mod basics
How to Verify a Download With SHA-256
One command, no extra software: certutil or Get-FileHash on Windows, shasum on macOS, sha256sum on Linux. What a match proves, what each kind of mismatch means, and when checking matters most.
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Guides
GTA V
Are Mods Safe? Scripts, ASI and DLL Explained
Textures cannot hurt you, Lua runs inside the game's sandbox, a DLL can do anything. How to read a scan result by category, the red flags that apply everywhere, and what a host can and cannot check.
Farming Simulator 25
Why FS22 Mods Don't Work in FS25
The descVersion check, the new engine, the changed scripting API and game systems; what converting a vehicle, a map or a script takes; who may do it; and the signs of a conversion done badly.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
Can You Use ETS2 Mods in ATS?
Same engine, same format, different world. Category by category: trucks, trailers, traffic, paint jobs, sounds, graphics, maps and UI, how to tell a mod's game from its page or its zip, and what happens if you get it wrong.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 and ATS
ETS2 Convoy vs TruckersMP: Which Mods Work
The official Convoy mode runs any mods if all eight players match them exactly; TruckersMP runs hundreds of players with cosmetic mods only and lags behind game updates. Two profiles solve it.
Mod basics
How to Report a Broken Mod So It Gets Fixed
Rule out the download and the game version first, then send the version, the file, the steps, the expected result and ten log lines. Which problems go to the author and which go through the Report link here.
BeamNG.drive
BeamMP and Mods: How Multiplayer Mods Work
BeamNG has no official online mode; BeamMP fills the gap and changes how mods work: the server decides the mod list, your own vehicles stay home, and game updates break it for a few days.
BeamNG.drive
JBeam Explained: BeamNG Soft-Body Physics
Nodes, beams and the text files that describe them, in ten minutes for drivers: what makes a mod feel right, why files are big, why updates break some mods and not others, and where an author's name hides.
BeamNG.drive
How to Check a BeamNG Mod Zip Before Installing
Thirty seconds in 7-Zip tells you what a BeamNG mod is, whether it is complete and whether it will fight a mod you already run. The folder names, the file types and the signs of a healthy archive.
Mod basics
Why Mods Break After Game Updates
Material systems, map reworks, removed functions, version checks and fixed bugs: the five ways an update breaks a mod, across BeamNG, the SCS truck games and Farming Simulator, and a patch-day routine.
Mod basics
Why Are Game Mod Files So Big?
Mod archives run to gigabytes because of 4K texture sets, meshes that ship several times over and audio sampled across the rev range. Zip cannot shrink any of it. Here is what that means when you download one.