Change the Location of Game Mods Folder

[Charmingfox]

How do I change or move the “Game Mods Folder” in Vortex to a different location? Vortex keeps dumping my mods into my game data folder. I would like to change this location. Apparently, this simple idea may have been overlooked, in the possibility that some individuals may need to move this mod folder. Anyway, could please message me, if you should decide to help. I do not often visit the forum for help. Because, I often cannot find my question and the response to it.

[Pickysaurus]

Which game are you talking about?

 

If it's a Bethesda game, most mods go in the Data folder, extracting them to other folders will just cause them not to work.

 

I'm afraid you whole post it too vague for me to offer any meaningful help.

[pdonettes]

For me, I am asking about Baldur's Gate 3. For some reason, Vortex always wants to put everything on my "C:" drive. I managed to figure out how to move the other 2 folders, but the "game mods" folder location is still on my "C:" drive. Baldsur's gate 3, and steam are on my "E:" drive. I run a very small SDD "C:" drive, and I try to only keep the OS on it.

[erinism1312]

I figured it out:

1. Find index.js file in the downloaded or included extension, check these two folders for the game you are trying to modify:
   • C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\
   • C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\
2. **Make a backup of the index.js file, make sure you remember where it goes**
3. Edit the queryModPath option (you can ignore that mine is written on one line
   • for example, you might find this written in your file (this means that your mod files will be placed into the DATA/IMAGES directory):
     • queryModPath() { return path.join("DATA", "IMAGES" ); }
   • so to change it to place mods into the DATA folder directly:
     • queryModPath() { return path.join("DATA"); }
   • to change it to place mods in the DATA/EXTRA/MORE/FOLDERS/MODS folder:
     • queryModPath() { return path.join("DATA", "EXTRA", "MORE", "FOLDERS", "MODS" ); }
4. Launch Vortex, it will warn you that the application 'may' be corrupted, ignore it and continue. If anything breaks you can restore the index file with your backup.
5. Enjoy!

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Troubleshooting:

Generally, check your spelling, make sure there are complete quotes and curly brackets.

If other mods are being placed in the wrong folder, for example:

• in dark souls: prepare to die, the default mod deployment folder is the DATA/dsfix/tex_override/ folder, which is cool, but I have a mod or two that needs to go directly into DATA, if you follow the above steps, and change the deployment folder directly to DATA, now ALL your mods are being placed into the DATA folder, perfect! But wait, this breaks all the other texture mods, now all my png texture files are being deployed to the DATA folder instead of the DATA/dsfix/tex_override folder! They are no longer working!

How do I fix this?

• Set the queryModPath to the "root" folder:
  • queryModPath() { return path.join("DATA", "dsfix", "tex_override"); } --> queryModPath() { return path.join("DATA"); }
• Right click the mods in vortex and select "Open in File Manager"
• Make a backup of the whole folder by turning it into a zip file, just in case
• Change the structure of the mod files to match your needs:
  • here is an example with Dark Souls Flora Overhaul Mod
    • 
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      • notice that I ADDED BACK the folders from the original queryModPath to the mod directly
        • be careful to spell everything right and copy the directory structure you want exactly
• Now, these newly created folders will be deployed to the root directory, and the files that you need will be placed into the correct directory

With this, you should be able to place any file from any mod in any place in the directory structure, as long as it's within the base "game" directory on vortex.

Edited October 24 by erinism1312
big black bar removed lol