Avorion is a space-exploration and crafting game in which players can build their ships out of nearly any material. In addition to creating these custom ships, they can be shared among other users as mods on the Steam Workshop. This allows players to enhance their servers with extravagant ships, new systems, or helpful quality-of-life improvements. Generally speaking, mods should be installed on new galaxies to prevent saves from potentially being corrupted.

Note: Mods can also be installed using a Steam Workshop collection. Learn how to here.

How to Install Mods on an Avorion Server

1. From Steam, select Avorion and open the Workshop.

2. Take note of the Workshop ID from the desired mod. The ID number is at the end of the workshop link.

3. Log in to the BisectHosting Starbase panel.

4. Stop the server.

5. Go to the Files tab.

6. Find the following directory: /home/container/galaxy/<WorldName>

7. Click Create and choose Create File.

8. Paste the following template:

modLocation = ""
forceEnabling = false
mods =
{
     {workshopid = "STEAMWORKSHOPID1"},
     {workshopid = "STEAMWORKSHOPID2"}
}

Note: Add multiple mods by duplicating the {workshopid=""}, line. The last line should not have a comma.

9. Paste the Workshop ID from step 2 between the quotation marks.

10. Press the Create File button.

11. Name the file modconfig.lua.

12. Start the server.