Hey all - IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

Subscribe to the steam_workshop BETA branch by right clicking on Darkest Dungeon in your library, choose PROPERTIES, choose the BETAS tab, and enter this password: Please keep this password confidential to this group. Thank you. :)

Note: after you enter the password, you still need to select the steam_workshop Beta branch from the BETAs tab.

I'm about to turn the Official Modding Guide live, but it's very much WIP. However, look at the section "Uploading your Mod to Steam Workshop."

The goal of this closed group beta is twofold:

1. to try out this pipeline and ensure everything is working before turning things live to the broader community.
   
2. to populate the workshop with some initial content. Congrats--you all get first crack at this! :)

To that end, please let us know pain points, problems, and other feedback. Use this forum, as it will help us all coordinate.

A few specific notes:

• Localization modding is also very much WIP. Currently, in order to mod strings/loc, you need to make changes to the .xmls in the core game
  /Darkest Dungeon/localization
  folder and then run localization.bat in that folder before taking the .loc data files over to where your mod is located. We are working on a system whereby you can just add strings instead of having to replace the entire data files.
  
• We are in the process of exposing a bunch more tunable settings to do with core rules in the game (e.g. combat crit multipliers, torchlight settings, and lots more) but wanted to skip that for this initial beta build just so we can test the workshop pipeline.

We haven't decided when we will turn Workshop live just yet, but we *may* wait until after we ship our Radiant mode in January. Stay tuned.

Thanks so much for your participation!

Final note: BACK UP YOUR SAVES before tinkering.

Through this group we will be giving access to the workshop features as we build them. This is also where you can discuss what you would like to see us build out a feature, or give us feedback on how to help mod creation with the current set up or potential improvements.

We have not enabled the workshop yet, but we will post an announcement when we do!