Load Order and Priorities

Load Order and Priorities

When several sources have the same content id, one of them wins. The game decides per id, in layers:

Layer	What	Wins over
1. the disc	the game's own content
2. Project Avalanche	the port's own content (markers, skies, the menu's files)	the disc
3. your mods	the switched-on mods on the Mods page	the disc and the port
4. the server	a server's resources, while you are on that server	everything below

Among your mods, the one with the higher priority in its resource.toml wins; on the same priority, the one lower on the Mods page's list (later in mods.toml) wins. A newly installed mod goes to the end of the list, so it wins over the others of its priority. Use Up and Down to change the order.

Patches do not replace each other: every patch of a record applies, in load order, on top of the winning record. Two mods that change different fields of one board both take effect; where they change the same field, the later one wins.

Requirements do not change the order: a mod whose [dependencies] require is missing, switched off or of a version out of range is skipped at the start, with the reason. A mod that changes another mod's content belongs below it on the list (or at a higher priority).

The Mods page's BEFORE PLAY tab lists every conflict with its winner (Installing Mods).