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i just got the information where the mods are placed for the steam version.
here:
"C:/Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/mods"

well. im kinda dissapointed or such. cant really tell what i feel about that.

as people probably know (i hope so) is that you can change the directory of steam to wherever you like it to be.

be it on C:/, D:/ or which ever place

well i really like this system, and i dont like it that items are "unnessesarily" placed in my C:/ windows partition.
i put that in quotes because its problably easier then in the future for steam-workshop support (which i really, really like, to say the least)

i got a special place for my steam and its directories, on a fully dedicated games HDD. and i would like to be able to place my mods there as well.
like i can place my stand-alone factorio zip on this games drive, and install my mods INSIDE this game folder then.

oh boy...

just my little rant, because i want to mod my steam version, but i dont want to clutter my windows partition full of stuff ... even if its just a few megabytes of data. (you have no idea (probably ;D ) how much space 100+mods for space engineers eat, and i didnt knew also at this time that steam-workshop just places anything related into "/appdata" )

This is the most common location and considered the legit place for it by Microsoft. More and more games are doing it. Though you could always ask if they consider allowing you to modify the location. You could also do a Symbolic link.

You can change the write-data path in config.ini to whatever you want, that's also where mods are going.

Or you can be smart

prg wrote:You can change the write-data path in config.ini to whatever you want, that's also where mods are going.

Exactly

maybe that help: https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... _directory

With adminitrator rights, you kan make a symbolic link (possible since vista )

Move your Factorio folder anywhere you want and link to it.

syntax is (you MUST HAVE ADMIN RIGHTS) where Destination is the full path to the (new) Factorio-Folder

nobodx wrote:With adminitrator rights, you kan make a symbolic link (possible since vista )

Move your Factorio folder anywhere you want and link to it.

syntax is (you MUST HAVE ADMIN RIGHTS)

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mklink /d %appdata%\factorio DESTINATION

where Destination is the full path to the (new) Factorio-Folder

But why? Why to make a link, when you can just change the path in the config?

I got used to this

Usually games don't offer that, so I made a batch-script for that.