First off, thank you to everyone for taking part in this beta workshop build. It's really awesome that we have all of you to help us iron things out. Sorry for the delay between builds, holidays got in the way but hopefully the fixes and new features make up for it!

With the announcement of Radiant mode, we will be focusing on that for the coming weeks. We aren't dropping Workshop tasks, but our ability to address the next set of requests might take some time. We will still be monitoring the boards and checking for bugs and prioritizing your requests, but our goal is to get Radiant Mode and the features it brings out the door quickly.

We plan the live Workshop deployment to occur right after Radiant Mode. Radiant Mode and the mod prepping also are causing a few files to shift around for the better (e.g. we are splitting effects.darkest into multiple files that can be additive), so some of your mods might require a few tweaks once we get that sorted out as well.

The localization file format has changed (.loc). It's vital that you re-process and re-upload your mods if they contain localization changes. (Please read section below on new localization changes!)

Also, for those who have already experimented with the upload process already, you'll find out that the project files have changed from json to xml to allow more flexibility in item descriptions. The upload tool will still read your .json project file but will immediately save it out as an xml and delete the json file.

• ModDataPath - This is the absolute path, including the drive, to your mod's data folder. This should mimic the game's data folder. (forward slashes only please!)
  
• Title - Title of your mod. This will appear in the UI used to turn on/off mods.
  
• ItemDescriptionShort (new!, optional) - A short, under 512 characters, description seen when your mod is hovered on in the game's mod selection UI.
  
• ItemDescription (optional) - Description seen in the Steam UI. (under 8000 chars)
  
• Tags (optional) - Tags that best define what your mod includes or modifies. This will show up in Steam's UI.
  
• Visibility - Sets who will be able to see your mod in Steam. "private", "friends", or "public"
  
• UploadMode (new!) - This is how you would like the mod to handle the upload process.
  
  • direct_upload - Uploads your mod data folder directly.
    
  • copy_and_upload - If all files in your mod's data folder have been modifed, it uploads the folder directly. If some files haven't been modified, the upload tool will create a "upload" folder in your mod's data directly, copy the modified files in there, run the upload on the "upload" directory and finally delete the files within that directory.
    
  • strip_and_upload - Removes unmodified files from your mod's data directory and proceeds to upload directly.
    
  • dont_submit - Doesn't submit your mod to Steam. This is to run the process without having to be logged on to Steam or upload.
• ModVersionMajor (new!, optional) - The "3" in windows 3.1. If this or ModVersionMinor is non-zero, the version will show up beside your mod's title in the game's UI as "My Title (3.1)"
  
• ModVersionMinor (new!, optional) - The "1" in windows 3.1. If this or ModVersionMajor is non-zero, the version will show up beside your mod's title in the game's UI as "My Title (3.1)"
  
• TargetBuild (new!, optional) - This is the build number that you have tested your mod on. If set to non-zero, it will show up when hovering over your title in the game's mod UI.

Localization is now additive. This means you only have to supply strings you want to add or modify to your .xml files in the localization folder. When your mod is running and the runtime looks for a string, it will check your mod's strings and then look for it in the game's strings. To get localization to compile, you must run the steam_workshop_upload tool. Your loc will not simply show up because you have a .xml file in your localization folder as the game looks for .loc files which come from running the steam_workshop_upload tool.

Once you run the upload process, you will find a steam_workshop_upload.log file in the same directory as your project's xml file. This is a more detailed output of what the process has done.

If you would like to work without Steam or the upload process, you can do so by putting your mod inside the game's data/mods/ folder. One caveat to this is that you must have your project's xml file in your data directory named "project.xml". The steam_workshop_upload tool normally does this for you.

The script/starting_save are now being pulled from mods.

This is still a work in progress so I'm sure there's still issues but keep us posted and we'll try to address them as quickly as we can. Thanks!