Expanded Configuration Loader
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #15 of 114 User Interface mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Description
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[]Wider dialog: allowing for displaying of much longer names without cutting off.
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]Groups: Organize your presets by including a delimiter character in the name, which this new dialog will use create a pseudo folder structure. You can thereby organize stations by mods, factions, production type, or whatever you like.[]Search: Quickly find what you're looking for by typing part of it's name.
[]Production module filter: Filter stations by what production modules are included.
[]Ship race filter: Now you can easily find the boron ships in your long list of blueprints.
[]Disable mod by menu: Don't like the new dialog for a specific menu (station plans, module loadout, ship loadout)? You can disable them individually.
[]Custom auto-generated loadout presets: Generate loadouts based on custom criteria, so you don't have to build every loadout from scratch.
[]Partial loading: Allows you to load ship presets that you would not normally be able to due to missing blueprints.
Groups?
Let's say you have three station plans:
- ARG/EnergyCells/The First
- ARG/EnergyCells/The Second
- ARG/Wharf/Big Boy
If we enable groups, and set the delimiter to slash '/', then the list will reorganize into the follwing structure:
- [-] ARG <-- collapsible group
- [-] EnergyCells
- The First <-- station plan
- The Second
- [-] Wharf
'Flatten one-item group' option
In the example in the previous section, we can see that "ARG/Wharf/Big Boy" takes up two rows when organized into groups, which is double of what it did without grouping. We could collapse the group, but this would still be strictly worse than ungrouped because we now can't see what the group contains.
The option 'Flatten one-item group' just ungroups these items. Meaning that it would result in following structure:
- [-] EnergyCells
- The First
- The Second
- Wharf/Big Boy
The 'EnergyCells' group is left untouched because it contains more than one item. Note that 'Flatten one-item group' is recursive, meaning that if the group ARG also contained just one item after applying it, it too would be ungrouped.
Custom Auto-generated Preset
You know those default loadout presets called "High Preset", "Medium Preset", etc? Have you ever wanted something like that, but with more freedom to define exactly how it chooses each loadout module? For example "High Preset, but only Argon modules". That's what this feature seeks to accomplish.
Expanded Configuration Loader replaces the simple dropdown for loading stations, ships, or loadouts with a bigger, feature-rich dialog. It's a UI enhancement for players who want more control and visibility when managing configurations. With 117 endorsements and 9,172 downloads, it's a moderately popular quality-of-life mod.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid community support with 117 endorsements and over 9k downloads.
- Directly improves a clunky UI element, making configuration management smoother.
- Lightweight and focused—does one thing and does it well.
⚠️ Cons
- Only affects the loading dialog; no other UI improvements.
- May conflict with other UI overhaul mods that modify the same dropdown.
- Limited to the game's configuration loading—won't help with other menus.
For players who frequently switch between stations, ships, or loadouts and find the default dropdown limiting. If you're a UI purist who wants more screen space and clarity when picking configurations, this is for you. Skip if you're happy with the vanilla dropdown or prefer minimal UI changes.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you use a mod manager, install this mod through it to keep your load order clean.
- Check for compatibility with other UI mods you have installed, as they might conflict.
- After installing, launch the game and open the configuration dialog to see the new interface.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- X4foundations Mods
- Author
- Runekn
- Version
- 1.6.0
- Downloads
- 9,172
- Endorsements
- 117
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 9/12/2024
- Updated
- 6/7/2026
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