Cratebug 2026.09.07

Getting new crates in

• Nexus Mods is in! Paste your personal API key in Settings. It stays on this machine, Cratebug never shows it again, and Connect is what makes it real. Premium and free accounts both work. Disclaimer: This is a proof of concept for Nexus to review.
• The download icon in the header wants a Marvel Rivals mod page now, not a mystery file URL. If the page has more than one file, you pick MAIN or OPTIONAL. Cratebug pre-selects the primary file and does not install on its own.
• Premium accounts download through the Nexus API and land in the same install preview as a local archive.
• Free accounts still get the crate! Cratebug opens the Nexus page, you click Mod Manager Download, and Windows hands the link over. If Cratebug is closed, that click launches it. If it is already open, the window pops to the front.
• Turn on "Open Nexus downloads in Cratebug" and the Mod Manager Download button comes here. If another app already owns that button, Cratebug names it and asks before taking over.

Several crates at once

• Check a bunch of mods and use the new Actions menu to enable, disable, move, tag, encrypt, or delete them together. Click a card to look at it. Ctrl+click to add more. Shift+click for a whole stretch. Select all grabs everything in the current folder and search. No little checkboxes parked on every card!

A lock Marvel Rivals can actually open

• Encrypt or decrypt a complete IoStore mod from that same menu. Cratebug rebuilds the bundle with the game's own key so the game can load it, and a lock mark shows which crates are wrapped. Close the game first. Big mods can take a minute!
• Encrypted mods classify like everyone else now. Hero, skin, category, the works. They are not a mysterious Unknown anymore.
• Mods that wander outside character skins will not load until they are encrypted. On first load Cratebug offers to wrap those for you. Say not now if you want, and Refresh will not ask again.

Keeping the crate tidy

• Leftover chunknames and patched_files entries inside a companion .pak crash Marvel Rivals anti-cheat these days. Cratebug spots them on first load and offers to rewrite just those .pak files. The rest of the mod stays put. Install preview warns too, and the cleanup happens before anything lands in the library.

Settling in

• A library scan no longer leaves checks on mods that already left. If it is gone from the crate, it is gone from the checked set too.