[MOD HELP] How do you download a mod that is in a RAR file?

[Butterrobber202]

Just needed some help because they tend to malfunction for me.

1. (Steps)
2. (would be)
3. (Helpful)

[Raccoon]

Wait wat? You cant download the file? Or you cant open the file?

http://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0
http://www.eagleget.com if you cant download anything

Step 1
Download WinRar if you cant open the File
Step 2
Install WinRar
Step 3
Open InsertNamehere.rar
Step 4
Copy the Files into your /rimworld/mods/
Step 5
Open Rimworld
Step 6
Press on Mods and enable them
Step 7
Restart Rimworld
Step 8 Have Fun in DarkNet

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Make sure when downloading it that you are saving it to your computer, and not opening it.
To open a .rar, get a program that works with that filetype.
  For windows I recommend 7zip. http://www.7-zip.org/
  For other OS do an internet search and see what is available.
From there open the .rar file and extract it to the mods folder of your RimWorld folder.

[DariusWolfe]

I second 7-zip as an alternative to WinRAR.

[Fluffy (l2032)]

personally I swear by winRar (I may even but it one of these days), tried 7zip for a while, but there's some quirks with drag and drop functionality that really irk me.

Supposedly 7zip is faster, but I'm guessing for most of us that's hardly going to matter - as you'd need a pretty fast (file)system and some really large archives to really notice.

[skullywag]

Most people who use 7zip for some reason use v9 which is 6 years old, v16 is waaaaay better.

[DariusWolfe]

I use ninite.com whenever I build a computer, so I get whatever version is current then. I even occasionally re-run the installer to update the programs, but most of the time, I forget to do that. Either way, the purchase nag of WinRAR bugs me; It's a good program, but there are free programs that do the same or better.

[milon]

I also use and recommend 7-Zip.  There's just something about quality FOSS that can't be beat (opinion).

...tried 7zip for a while, but there's some quirks with drag and drop functionality that really irk me.

Most people who use 7zip for some reason use v9 which is 6 years old, v16 is waaaaay better.

This.  There's no more issues with drag and drop.  Works great even in Win10.

Anyway, back to OP's question: a .rar file (like a .zip, .7z, .tar, etc) is one or more files compressed together into a smaller package.  You can't use the files in the compressed package until you "extract" them.  Windows now supports opening .zip files on its own, but for anything else you need a program designed to work with those compressed pacakges (like the already mentioned 7-Zip, WinRAR, etc).