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I screw around with Mods. A lot. I hardly ever end up "finishing" a map, but I have a lot of fun trying to get all the tech unlocked and set up so I can see what the makers of the mod actually did.

Now, If I wanted to get a friend to play a particular mix of mods and also specific settings, Is the only way to do so to send him a text instruction list with basically "go to install mods, get all these, then go into the game under settings->mods and tick/untick all these options" ?

I understand that I could save a Scenario, but does that not "lock" the map?, ie, they would play on whatever map I had saved, and can't generate a new one.

Is there a cheat-y way of like, sending a json or a config file to get around that? The few people I would send it too would have no problem making a another folder copy, and overwriting files on that one.

mod-settings.dat contains all the settings.
WIN+R:

The easiest way ist to create a new save with the mods you want an send the save game to your friends. They then can click on the sync-mods-with-save-button. In Windows your saves are in:
Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/saves

Another way is to just enable all mods you want and then send the mod-list to you friends. In Windows your mod-list.json (and if you want special settings your mod-settings.dat) is in:
Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/mods

ickputzdirwech wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:34 am The easiest way ist to create a new save with the mods you want an send the save game to your friends.

This will not sync any settings. Even joining a multiplayer game only syncs startup settings (and maybe map settings if per-map settings option is disabled). Player settings are never synced.