[Tutorial] Make Workshop Test Mods

Development Modding ARK: Survival Evolved
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Before uploading reset publisher

Upload and test your mod

Now you have an identical test mod under a new ID

Want to upload your main mod? Close the dev kit, copy the id off your main mod and open mod.db

Replace ID and save, you can do this back and forth between any mods in the Mods.db file

Save and open the dev kit, this file is read only when the dev kit is open.

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Took me a minute to understand why this was useful, but I get it now. It allows you to create a new workshop page to test a mod, while keeping the original mod in the same place in the workshop. Thanks!