Mod Presets

[ryani]

TL;DR

A way to quickly switch between sets of enabled mods

What ?

In the mod menu, allow creation and use of presets. Feature components
* Create a named preset
* Select a preset
* Rename the selected preset
* Update the selected preset to match the mods currently checked
* Switch the set of active mods to match the selected preset

Why ?

For switching to "all the mods", or back to Vanilla, it's currently easy, you just use the "select all" checkbox. But I have several games in progress -- a single player vanilla megabase, a game with my dad with just Bottleneck, a game with some friends with a full Krastorio 2 / Space Exploration / AAI setup, a single player game on Industrial Revolution 2, an old Pyanodon save, and so on. These all require different sets of mods, and going through and remembering which ones I want to enable is time consuming. I currently feel discouraged from experimenting with different mods because it will clutter up the menu and make it more difficult to switch to the set I want to use.

[Silari]

Already been suggested in many other threads, like viewtopic.php?f=66&t=53696

Note that you can already quickly match your mod list and settings to a saved game by using the 'Sync mods with save' button in the top right of the Load Game window.

[Koub]

The alternative way is to have a separate installs for each mod set (downloaded from Factorio's website in zip form, extracted, and you have a totally independent install).
Takes some disk space, but it's user friendly (I don't have to restart after enabling or disabling mods).

[ssilk]

And enables also to have different versions of mods for each set.

Implementing a mod-repository would additionally add, that the mod is stored only once, but distributed to the mod-dirs.