Modding Guidelines & Rules
All modders are welcome to make suggestions Modding is a privilege extended to the community in good faith.
Hard rules are non-negotiable. A mod that breaks any of them may be removed from official channels. Depending on the severity of the offense, the mod's author may also be banned from the community.
Best practices are entirely at your own discretion. They exist only because they tend to make a mod easier to trust, install, and maintain.
Hard rules
Respect players
Do not include malicious code of any kind in your mod.
Do not transmit any player data.
Do not redistribute game's source code or game assets (sprites, sounds, localization tables, scenes) in any form.
Do not unlock, expose, or enable unreleased content from the official game.
Do not display misleading information or impersonate the base game.
Do not intentionally cause crashes, freezes, or performance degradation.
Respect other creators
Do not redistribute another mod author's work or assets without their explicit permission.
Do not create mods designed to break or conflict with another mod on purpose.
Keep content appropriate
Do not host NSFW mods on the Discord.
Do not include content that is hateful, discriminatory, or targeted at any individual or group.
Best practices
Everything in this section is optional but highly recommended. Be transparent
Accurately describe what your mod does in manifest.xml and any accompanying documentation. A description that is deliberately misleading falls under the hard rules above.
Clearly disclose if your mod modifies saves, the game economy, or other systems that affect the player's experience.
Note any known conflicts with other popular mods in your description so players can plan their load order.
Consider publishing your mod's source code under an open-source license. Our community encourages open-source mod development: it lets players verify what a mod does and confirm it is safe to run, helps other authors learn from your work, and makes it possible for someone to keep a mod alive if you move on. Closed-source mods are still welcome.