Did you ever figure this bug out by chance? I attempted the same thing, and my game locked up the two times I've done it. I only now came to this page and read that it does everything automatically and there was no need for me to do anything, haha. But, I read the comments as well and saw the last few.

For added context, I'm using 99% of Ferny's Progression collection/modpack 1.5 and some other mods not in his collection. I took out all Anomaly mods and a few others from the collection as well.

Sure, I don't mind helping out. Sec, lemme get on my PC.

The base assumption is that you're loading the preset because you're following a modlist or steam collection that the preset is designed for. In fact, the follow-up project I did (that I don't think anyone's used yet) is a way for creators to package entire modpacks into a single mod. That project allows a single mod to contain the steam workshop mod list (and auto-download them in game rather than going through steam the workshop yourself), a preset config list and a save file to quickly jump into a predefined scenario.

Hopefully that gives you an idea of the intention for this mod. I'd love to have a chat with you and gather more information so that I can sort out this bug though

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Hey, thanks for the bug report! No, that's very unexpected, the process should be really quick. Usually within seconds. Can you tell me what mod you were using that had the preset, so I can test it?

As for how mod discrepancies work, the preset doesn't look into what mods you have, it just sets all the configs that are shipped with that preset. If it comes with configs for mods that you don't have, you'll end up with some extra config files that go un-used. If you have mods that the preset doesn't, it won't touch those.

What it does do is when the preset is updated through the workshop it'll do a diff against the settings for the configs you already have and the incoming update to try and safely apply updates without overwriting your settings.

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Say, what happens if I'm missing some mods the creator of a preset had, and conversely, if I have several mods they didn't? Does Auto Mod Config handle that kind of thing well?

I'm asking because, as far as I can tell from comparing five or six .xml mod setting files, your mod did indeed copy over preset settings. But, so far, if I interact with Auto Mod Config in the mod settings menu, it quickly locks up the game. I can't basically use your mod beyond whatever it might be doing automatically.

If the mod isn't yet handling discrepancies in mod presence between the preset and the mods the user has loaded, that's probably a feature you'll very much want in here.^^

Hmm. I have about 550 mods, and I just clicked "Reset to Preset" (and chose the preset after that), wanting to make sure I got the settings actually loaded according to the Preset.

It's been...probably twenty minutes, and RimWorld's still all frozen. I'm gonna leave it running until it recovers, obviously, but is that normal?

Man, im still in doubt... is this a preset for, like, rimpy mod organizer and load order, or is this a presed for mod configuation ingame?

Er, what happens to the user's existing settings? This seems ... dangerous.

Hopefully you've integrated a restore mechanism 🙈

Presets work per mod-group, if that's what you want. When creating a preset, you paste the configs you want to have part of it into a folder inside your preset mod, and then it will apply the config for those specific mods. So if you have a modlist ABC...XYZ , but you want to create one preset for ABCD and one preset for XYZ, you absolutely can do that

do the preset work per mods or mod group? Or do you create them for your entire modlist?
Like, can you make a preset for mod X,Y and Z only so that you can share for only these three mods?

HOW IS THIS MOD NOT EXPLODING ITS LITERALLY A MUST HAVE ESSENTIAL MOD

Hope this actually goes used. If some bigger content creator makes a video on it like Roll1D2 (I prefer that name rather than Samuel Streamer) or most likely Noobert then this can seriously improve the modding community.

This is really huge, a must for every collection.

Blessed be the presets