How to download

A download from ModsDrop takes two pages and no detours. There is nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, no survey, and no page that pretends to be the download button. The whole wait is five seconds, and it is the same five seconds for everybody.

Step 1 — open the file page

A mod page sends you to an address that looks like modsdrop.com/f/abcd1234/. That page shows the file name, its size, when it was uploaded, how many times it has been downloaded, and the result of its virus scan. Read that before you click anything: if the scan says something other than clean, the page says so plainly.

What the file page tells you

The small facts under the file name are the file type, the size and how long ago it was uploaded. Next to them, Report Abuse jumps to the report form at the foot of the same page.

Under those is the scan result. A green band — No viruses found, with the number of antivirus engines that looked — means VirusTotal has a verdict for this file and nothing was flagged. The question mark beside it opens the full report on VirusTotal, so you need not take our word for it.

On the right, Downloads counts one download per file per address per hour, so pressing the button twice in an afternoon does not move it. The page also shows the file’s SHA-256, if you want to check that what you saved is what we hold.

Step 2 — the countdown, then the file

The orange button starts a five-second countdown, shown as a ring that empties. When it finishes, the button turns green and reads Continue: press it and you land on a short second page with one big Download button. That press starts the file. It comes straight from our storage in Germany, so the speed is whatever your own line can take.

The link the button hands you is personal and stops working after six hours. That is why you should share the file page, never the download link itself — a copied link will be dead for whoever you send it to.

What the button actually does

Press it and the button is replaced by a ring that empties over five seconds, with the seconds counting down inside it. Nothing is being decided in that time and nothing is being checked about you — it is simply a wait, the same one for everybody.

When it reaches zero the ring goes and the button comes back, green, reading Continue. That takes you to the second page: the file’s name, its size, the scan result, and one button. Press it and the download starts. The line underneath offers a click here link — the same link, for the case where your browser did not start it by itself.

The second page is reached with a ticket that lasts fifteen minutes and belongs to that one file, so the address cannot be shared or typed straight in. If you arrive without one, you simply land back on the file page.

With JavaScript turned off the two steps are two plain form posts, without the countdown: press, land on the second page, press again, and the server sends your browser to the file.

The name the file arrives under

The file lands in your downloads folder with _modsdrop added before the extension: something listed as bigtractor.zip saves as bigtractor_modsdrop.zip. Only the name changes. The bytes are the archive exactly as it was uploaded here, and the SHA-256 printed on the file page is of that same archive.

If a game or a mod manager expects a particular file name, rename it back to the name printed on the file page.

If the download stops halfway

Downloads are resumable. If your connection drops during a multi-gigabyte mod, your browser or download manager can pick it up where it left off. If the link has expired by then, open the file page again and press Download once more.

How fast it is, and how many at once

The first 25 MB come as fast as your line can take them. After that each download is held to 6 MB/s — about 50 Mbit/s, which still finishes a one-gigabyte mod in roughly three minutes. The storage behind the files has a ceiling of its own and is shared, so the cap is what stops one visitor taking all of it.

Four downloads can run at the same time from one address. A fifth is not queued: the server turns it away until one of the four has finished.

Resuming works: a request for one part of a file is answered as normal, which is how your browser or download manager picks up where it stopped. A request for several parts at once is not — the server sends the whole file instead — so plain resuming beats splitting into eight connections here.

The caps are the same for everyone. No account and no payment lifts them, and neither does anything on the second page — nothing in the download path looks at who you are.

Common problems

• Nothing happens when I press Download. An ad blocker will not break this site, but a script blocker can. If the button does nothing, the page also works without JavaScript — it simply starts the download when you press the button.
• “Too many downloads from your network.” There is a limit per network so that one person cannot take the whole server. Wait a few minutes.
• The link says it has expired. Six hours have passed since it was created. Open the file page and press Download again.
• The file will not open in the game. That is between you and the mod — ModsDrop only stores the file. The mod’s own page has the install instructions. For BeamNG.drive, the first thing to check when a mod never appears in the game is the version folder the zip sits in.

When the site says you have hit a limit

Too many downloads from your network. Please wait a few minutes. means more than forty download links were asked for from your address inside one ten-minute stretch. The count is per address, not per person: everybody behind the same router, school or office connection shares it. The ten minutes are a fixed slot rather than a rolling window, so the count clears by itself — waiting really is the fix.

A download link lasts six hours. After that the server answers it with a bare 410 page, and a link that has been edited or typed by hand gets a bare 403. Neither means the file is gone: open the file page again and press the button for a new link.

Is it safe?

Files are scanned with VirusTotal, which runs 60+ antivirus engines, and the file page always shows the result. A file is not published until that result comes back, so a page you can open is a page whose scan has run. Files above VirusTotal’s 650 MB limit cannot be sent to it at all; such a file stays off the site until someone checks it by hand. Mods are code: install them from sources you trust, and keep a backup of your save files. A clean result rules out what the engines already recognise and nothing more — what that check does and does not prove sets out the rest.

Something wrong with a file?

Every file page has a Report this file link. Use it for a broken file, for malware, or if the file is your work and you did not agree to it being shared. Copyright and malware reports are dealt with first — see the Copyright and content complaints page.