

Mods in Documents takes precedence over game install directory, meaning if you have a mods folder in the documents location mods will no longer be loaded from the game directory.įor more experienced users symlinks made with mklink will be followd (resulting in an easier way to manage different reposetories of mods).Ī short introduction for mod creation with the mod loader is given below. You can access this using Win + R and entering shell:Personal\Anno 1800

Mods will always be loaded in alphabetical order. You probably also need the VS 2019 Redist

You will be asked to overwrite python35.dll, just accept that. Uplay default path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Anno 1800\Bin\Win64 Unzip the contents to the location where Anno1800.exe is Head over to the releases page and download the loader.zip from the latest release. Short shitty video to show how easy it is to install the loader. This changes the games XML files using XPath, this makes it easy and possible to only have the changes in a mod that you absolutely need instead of handling megabytes of XML files. Less likely to break after updates (in general a mod should continue to work after every update, YMMV). The one and only mod loader for Anno 1800, supports loading of unpacked RDA files, XML auto merging and DLL based mods.
