Grounded Mod Manager

This Grounded Mod Manager is a tool that helps you manage the mods you download for Grounded. With this tool, you have all of your Grounded mods in one place. You can select which mods you wish to install, after which you can pack the different files into one mod file. This makes it easy to install/uninstall mods in your Grounded game!

Instructions on how to use the Grounded Mod Manager are provided below, or you can watch this video.pBArZHNIXzk

What does this mod manager consist of?

The mod consists of an executable file (groundedModManager.exe) and a folder (src/) with three files. The icon.png and refresh.png are icons used within the tool. The icon is also displayed in the taskbar. The menvMods_P.pak file is required by Unreal Engine (the game engine on which Grounded runs) and is used to build the mod.

Installing the Grounded Mod Manager and First Use

To install the Grounded Mod Manager, simply extract the .zip file that you can download in the file section of this mod. To fully install it, please run the executable for the first time. When you run the program, it creates a config.json file with a few configurations to save the state of the mod manager, and it creates the Mods/ directory. This Mods/ directory is the place where you will install your Grounded mods. Upon execution, the program opens a Windows terminal window, where it downloads "qtbox". This is the Qt graphical user interface library that is required to use this tool. These files will be downloaded and stored in the same directory as the executable and only have to be downloaded on first use. Once qtbox has been downloaded, the tool is shown. If you close the Windows terminal window, the tool will stop responding and it needs to be restarted.

Downloading Mods

Before you can use the Grounded Mod Manager, you first need to install mods that have been created for this tool. These mods consist of a .menv file and a directory with one or more files. Simply download these files from NexusMods and extract them to your Mods/ directory. If the mod is listed in the Grounded Mod Manager, the files have been properly recognized.

Installing Mods

Now that you have downloaded a few mods, you probably want to install them. First of all, make sure that you select the Maine-WindowsNoEditor.ucas file on your system. This way, the mod manager knows where the mods have to be installed. When doing this, the program creates a new folder called Runtime, which contains a few files that are required to build your mod.

For a default Steam installation on Windows 10, the file location is "C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Grounded/Maine/Content/Paks/".

To install the mods, simply select the mods you wish to install and press the "Build Mod" button. Once the mod manager states that the build was successful, you can start Grounded normall