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Hi all

As you may have seen over at the mod tools forum, I'm making a mod manager / game launcher. For some of the extra features I would implement, I was thinking of adding fields to the About.xml file in the mods (like <modVersion> and <modSettings>). I tested this and the game doesn't seem to make a big deal out of it (it runs just like normal) but in the debug log I can see XML error messages appear because of the extra fields.



Could this potentially break a mod / the game or should it be okay to include the extra properties in About.xml?

The game seems to work just fine, and I know that in general XML should be scalable like this, but upon seeing the errors I thought I would ask if anyone knows more (I'm not very familiar with RW modding itself).

[EDIT2: Download the latest version now at http://rwlauncher.woubuc.be/]

Hi all

I'm thinking of making a little program that will list all existing RimWorld mods, downloads the ones you want and updates them when necessary. Would anyone be interested in using it? And, more importantly, would you guys who make the mods be interested in adding your mod to yet another database?

EDIT2: Download the latest version now at http://rwlauncher.woubuc.be/ (v0.1)

EDIT: You can find the ideas and the progress of the tool at the Trello board: https://trello.com/b/DeIEWPC2

Current ideas:
- Mod database listing all mods, with screenshot(s) and description
- Upload function for mod makers to add their own mods
- Mod versioning per alpha version, so that people who play earlier alphas can still use the tool (but only mods compatible with your version of the game will be shown, so no sifting through lots of mods for different versions like what happens here on the forums)
- Downloader that automatically downloads the mods to the RW mods folder
- Automatic updater that keeps your mods updated
- Activated mods manager + option to change mod order
- Function to flag incompatibility / clashes between mods

But of course this won't get anywhere if you guys don't think it is a good idea. Especially mod makers, I need your opinions because without your support the database would be empty and useless. So please let me know what you think.