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Dear developers,

I want to address one thing that bothers me more and more.
First of all I have to say that I share Factorio with my son (10).

I was wondering if it would be possible to enable mods only for certain maps?

For example, I installed a mod that extends the recipes. I want this challenge.
My son, however, currently wants to play with the standard recipes.

The ability to activate the mod for my map and not my son's would be great.

I don't know how difficult this would be to implement, but I think this is the function that is still missing.

What do you all mean? Useful or not!

Before Load Game, you can sync mods to the ones used in the save game.

Another possibility is to download a separate copy of game as zip file.

Also related:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=95293
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=94826

Or you can use command line option to choose another mod-directory.
https://wiki.factorio.com/Command_line_parameters

See also
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28229 Mod Manager - Profiles or Groups?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=94047 Preset in the mod's ui for different playstyles
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=83688 Mod Folders
Already mentioned:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=94826 Option to update loaded mods only
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=95293 Mod Presets

I think the options mentioned are to difficult.

A easier way is possible...

Create new map -> chose mods you like, e.g. Mod 1, Mod 3, Mod5 -> play
Create anoter new map -> chose mods you like, e.g. Mod2, Mod3 -> play

No Mod Manager, no command line, no zip file copy etc...

Noorphish wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:23 pm I think the options mentioned are to difficult.

There is "sync mods with save" button in the top-right corner of the "load game" window. It's not as convenient as your suggestion, but still just one click to play the save with correct mod set.