Frequently Asked Questions

See the directions on here to install Satisfactory Mod Manager and use it to install mods.

Or: 'How do I disable mods?'

Or: 'How do I uninstall my mods?'

Or: 'How do I go back to play the vanilla game?'

The mod manager handles putting mod files in the relevant locations in your game install. If you launch the game outside of the mod manager, those files will still be in those folders, so you will still have your mods loaded. If you want to turn off mods, you must disable them from the mod manager so the files get removed.

If you want to turn off a single mod, press the pause button next to its name in the mod list.

To turn off mods entirely, flip the "Mods" switch in the top left corner of the mod manager.

If this fails for some reason, go to %appdata%\SatisfactoryModManager\profiles and delete the vanilla folder, then restart SMM and turn mods on and back off.

If for some reason this still doesn’t work, delete the "Mods" folder from your game’s install directory.

Do note uninstalling the mod manager will not uninstall mods from your game. If you did that, you should reinstall the mod manager and turn the mods off using the above approach.

If you’re trying to remove a specific mod from your mod manager profile and it’s not working, try creating a new profile. You could also try exporting your profile, editing the file to delete the mod listing, then importing it again.

You might see error messages like:

SMM queries the APIs of the Epic and Steam game store apps to determine where your game is. If you manually moved the game files after installation, your installer client will not know where it is. We do not support pirated copies of the game.

If you’re playing on Steam, you need to point Steam to the new library folder. To do that in the top left click "Steam", select "Settings", in "Downloads" tab press "Steam library folders" and add the folder that you moved your game files to. More information can be found on this Steam help page.

If you’re playing on Epic Games, you have to reinstall the game as Epic Games Launcher does not have an option to locate the game files.

Moving or reinstalling will not affect your save files.

It varies depending on the mod, but in general, yes, this is totally fine. The mod should say on its mod page on ficsit.app if it can’t be added to an in-progress game.

It is up to the mod developer to support multiplayer. Check the mod’s page on ficsit.app for information about multiplayer support.

If the mod page doesn’t say, try it out yourself and see!

Or: 'Why does Satisfactory Mod Manager trigger my antivirus?'

Using Satisfactory mods is safe, as long as you only download mods from ficsit.app and install them via the Mod Manager.

All files uploaded to ficsit.app are tested for malware and such before they are approved for download.

Your computer may claim that the Mod Manager is unsafe when you try to open it. This is because the mod manager does not have a signing certificate. The certificate costs hundreds per year. It’s completely unnecessary for normal operation, and not worth it to pay for it.

But rest assured, this community created Satisfactory Mod Manager from scratch. We all use it. Provided you only download it from https://smm.ficsit.app/ or its GitHub releases page we can assure you it is safe. You can find the source code for it here: https://github.com/satisfactorymodding/SatisfactoryModManager

See the welcome guide.

If a major update has recently released to Experimental, there’s a good chance NO mods will work on the Experimental branch! Check the Discord’s #announcements channel for more up-to-date status information.

It is up to the mod developer to support Satisfactory’s experimental branch. Check the mod’s page on ficsit.app, or the mod manager extended details, for support.

Once you’re on the page, check mods' Compatibility via two stickers found in the description. The rocket icon indicates Early Access and the flask icon is for Experimental.

In the Mod Manager:

On ficsit.app:

You can hover over the sticker for any notes that may have been left by the author. They may indicate a version to use, which you can change to in the Mod Manager with the dropdown right above the stickers.

Please note, these are updated manually, and may be slightly out of date. If you find a mod that is missing its stickers or ones that seem to be incorrect, please let us know in the Discord (including a SMM debug zip if it does not work is useful as well!) and we will investigate and update the info if necessary.

In general, yes, but exact support will vary depending on the mod. See Installing Mods on Dedicated Servers for more details. The Installing Mods section describes how to tell if an individual mod supports Dedicated Servers.

The program’s window somehow got offscreen. We’re still not sure what causes this. To fix it you need to edit the %appdata%\SatisfactoryModManager\settings.json file and within the windowLocation property, set the x and y to 0 to bring the window back on the screen.

Restart SMM after you do that.

We try to keep everything we work on organized through the ficsit.app mod portal. If you need help with something that isn’t there, check the mod’s information page for a mod-specific discord to join, or ask nicely in the #help-using-mods discord channel.

If you were to load up a save file without mods, all of the content from those mods will simply vanish from the save, and the game should load just fine with no modded content.

Keep in mind that after saving the game after loading it with no mods, the modded content would be permanently gone from that point on. So, if you want to keep modded content, don’t play in that save without your mods installed!

If you ever load a save without mods by accident, just quit the game without saving and launch the game with your mods, your content should still be there.

Check out this section of the home page for more information.

You can use the Mod Manager’s profile import/export functionality.

The easiest way to gather logs is the Mod Manager’s "generate debug info" feature, since it gathers game, SML, and Mod Manager logs for you.

The location of these files is mentioned above.

On Steam:

On Epic:

You might see messages like:

Something is causing the download to be cut off early. It could sometimes be due to your internet speed or interruptions in the connection. Mod files are hosted on Backblaze B2 and SML releases are hosted on GitHub. Try disabling the mod manager’s timeout as shown below.

If that still doesn’t work, try this approach instead.

You might see error messages like:

Internet restrictions, and sometimes VPNs and proxies, mess with our services. To work around this, download the mod files mentioned in the error message from SMR manually. If they are named [ModName].zip rename them to [ModName].smod

If the mod you downloaded is SML, then place the file into %localappdata%\SatisfactoryModManager\downloadCache\smlVersions\[the SML version you need], otherwise, place the file into %localappdata%\SatisfactoryModManager\downloadCache\mods.

You can also try using a proxy or VPN.

The easiest way to gather logs is the Mod Manager’s "generate debug info" feature and send the file on the Modding Discord’s #help-using-mods discord channel.

You can also follow this process to track down which mod(s) you have installed are leading to a crash (or other undesired behavior):

Consider using the TFIT - The Ficsit Information Tool and MAM Enhancer mods, which add tools to help you identify content.

If you’re having trouble with VRAM usage it’s important to understand the two things that are the biggest contributions: graphics settings and texture content. Other things contribute, but there are a smaller fraction than these. Additionally, with multiple monitors and/or other programs running, they will also eat up available VRAM, so consider closing extraneous programs especially things that are highly dynamic like streaming apps.

The more mods you use that add more texture content, the more they will eat up your VRAM. This is a direct relationship that can’t be change by any settings or details from the user’s end. It is unlikely to be a single mod causing the problem. It is a death by a thousand small cuts and every mod author has to do their best, but more content means more space is used.

If removing mod content is not desirable the other option is to adjust your graphics settings. Even at minimum there are extensive options Unreal provides for you to tune it even lower. These may cause unforeseen glitches and issues so be careful with them.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/can-you-change-graphics-settings-with-console-commands/308720

In order to change the location where SMM caches the downloaded mod files you need to create a symlink for the SMM cache folder.

No particular mod causes your textures to be low resolution - it’s a base/engine game bug that can be exacerbated by mods. Unreal engine "streams" in low resolution textures at first and then gradually loads better versions. This process is getting stuck and thus some textures stay low resolution. In terms of fixing it there’s three different things you can try.

Launch arguments are special options passed to the game at startup to control its behavior.

The process for specifying them depends on how you are launching the game:

Note that you may have to turn off your mods for the game to launch after you switch branches, especially after a major update.

On Steam, right click the game, select properties, select the betas tab and opt into Experimental in the dropdown list. "None" is Early Access and "experimental - experimental" is Experimental.

In the Epic Games Launcher they should be available as separate games. If either is not there, try restarting the launcher.

You may wish to download an older version of the game in order to play with mods that are not yet updated.

Or: 'Where are my save files stored?'

It is suggested to routinely backup your save files, especially when the game updates. You may copy them to the same disk/drive, a USB stick, the cloud, or anywhere you feel would make your save files be safe.

Both Steam and Epic Games version use the same PATH depending on OS used. Note that "{Your ID}" in the below examples refers to a unique user ID number, not the literal text "{Your ID}".