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Breathing New Life Into Your Colony: A Guide to Manually Installing Mods in Oxygen Not Included

Oxygen Not Included (ONI) is a deep, complex colony sim where failure is a learning experience. While the base game offers hundreds of hours of challenge, the modding community has created a wealth of additions—from quality-of-life tweaks (like the beloved "Pliers" mod) to entirely new buildings, critters, and world traits. While the Steam Workshop offers one-click installation, there are several reasons you might need to install mods manually: you own the game on a different storefront (Epic, GOG), you want to use a mod that isn't on the Workshop, or you need to troubleshoot a broken mod. This essay provides a clear, methodical guide to manual mod installation.

Download your desired mod (usually as a .zip file) from a source like GitHub or Nexus Mods. oxygen not included how to install mods manually

  1. Navigate to mods\Local.
  2. Move the suspected mod folder to your Desktop.
  3. Launch the game. If it works, the mod is broken or outdated.
  4. Check if the mod requires Mod Manager (a prerequisite mod for many advanced mods).

: Unzip the contents into a new, dedicated folder named after the mod. Verify Structure : Open your new mod folder. You should see a mod_info.yaml file, and typically a : Avoid "double-nesting" (e.g., mods/Local/MyMod/MyMod/files Breathing New Life Into Your Colony: A Guide

Find your manually added mod in the list and click the Enable button. Restart the game to apply the changes. Community Tips Navigate to mods\Local

Now that your mods are set up, you can get back to the real challenge: figuring out where all that carbon dioxide is coming from.

Update Regularly

Manual mods do not auto-update. You must periodically check the mod's source (GitHub, Discord, forums) for new versions, especially after a major game update.

From GitHub: Download the mod as a ZIP file (often via the "Clone or download" button).