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Server sided mods...

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Hi, i was wondering if it were possible to run mods only on server side, so clients don't have to download the mods to play on the server. I was thinking on mods that don't affect the game, only internal things of the server.

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The game's MP model doesn't support one peer in the MP session having mods different than the rest. So, no.
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He meant that the clients would load the mods from the server, like the savefile
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Loading mods from the server and having mods that run only on the server are two different things.
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Loading mods from the server is something that would be nice although I'm not sure if/when it would happen in the releases.
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one of the big issues with loading mods from the server though is that currently, all assets are loaded when the game loads, to download new mods would require a game restart as the game exists at the moment.
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