Binding Of Isaac Afterbirth Plus Mods

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Mar 03, 2017  MOST AMAZING SOY MILK RUN EVER! - The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth+ #243 - Duration: 51:00. Sinvicta 482,857 views. In a post on the official blog, The Binding of Isaac developer Edmund McMillen has announced that the game’s latest expansion pack, Afterbirth+, will incorporate the best community mods into the base game. Afterbirth+, an expansion for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, not only adds a number of officially-designed new items, enemies, bosses, and a new ending, but the expansion also includes.

The ease of addition is thanks to Afterbirth+’s in-game dev tools, where modders can mess around with enemy and item values to make their own unique monsters and equipment. With many of these mods being actively shared via Reddit or Twitter, these mod boosters will bring the best and the most enjoyable mods together in curated collections. While the majority of these mods are made by fans, McMillen stated that some of the new items or monsters will be made by him or special guest designers.There are some great items and trinkets in here, including a special card set which has players picking up parody Magic: The Gathering cards and a passive item called the Broken Modem, where enemies will randomly stop moving due to Internet lag. If you make an interesting item, trinket or enemy, it could end up in the next Afterbirth+ booster.In the next booster, McMillen is specifically looking for new bosses, new fan challenges and Angel Room items. For the challenges, McMillen asks that they be runs which “force players to play the game differently than normal”, rather than equipping them with an item set and being done with it. As for bosses and enemies, try to keep them fair to play against and they should have a chance to feature in the next mod booster.All these mod boosters are free of charge for owners of Afterbirth+, with the next one hopefully coming out late next month.

Afterbirth+ is available for, and requires both The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and the accompanying Afterbirth DLC in order to run.

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Modding

Rebirth & Afterbirth

Afterbirth †


Modding is now officially supported in Afterbirth+, enabling users to mod the game using the Lua programming language and to upload their creations to the Steam Workshop.

  • 1Installing Mods
  • 3Ensuring stability

Installing Mods[editedit source]

Mods can be installed in a few different ways, depending on how the author chose to share it. Mods can typically be found in the Steam Workshop or various community sources.

Steam Workshop[editedit source]

Mods found in the Steam Workshop can be installed by navigating to the mod's page and clicking Subscribe. The game must be started to install the mod into the game.

Manual installation[editedit source]

Mods that do not use the Steam Workshop can be installed by downloading them and extracting them to the appropriate location.

OSPath
WindowsDocuments/My Games/Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+ Mods
Linux~/.local/share/binding of isaac afterbirth+ mods
Mac~/Library/Application Support/Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+ Mods

Enabling unlocks[editedit source]

Repair my word. In Afterbirth+, having any enabled mod will disable the ability to unlock any achievements to encourage new players to play the game without any. To enable unlocking achievements with mods enabled, you need to defeat Mom at least once with all of your mods disabled.

Ensuring stability[editedit source]

While introducing official modding support, mods for this game are infamous for not working properly due to how the API was constructed and the lack of suitable, comprehensible documentation.

Save data[editedit source]

Many mods do not or cannot retain save data in a continued game. This could be due to the mod author not knowing how to enable this, or the mod's data being too complicated to save. It is recommended to avoid continuing any saved games if any mods are enabled.

Some mods may have their save data cleared if one of the situations below occurs:

  • The mod was recently updated.
  • The mod was unsubscribed from and then resubscribed to, forcing the mod to be downloaded again.

If any installed mods contain save data that must be kept between runs (for example, custom unlockables) then this would be a big concern, as deleting the mod's save data would remove this progress. Some ways to work around these issues include:

  • Backing up the save.dat files included in the mods after most sessions.
  • Installing the Mod Compatibility Hack, which will back up the saves of other mods within itself.

Assets[editedit source]

Most mod assets do not load properly if one of the situations below occurs:

  • Playing the game after the first time the game has loaded after subscribing to or unsubscribing from a mod on the Steam Workshop.
  • Playing the game after a mod on the Steam Workshop updates.
  • Continuing to play the game after enabling or disabling a mod from within the in-game mods menu. (this can also lead to a crash when leaving the menu).

When this happens, many textures and animation files will not be applied in-game. For example, a custom monster added by a mod affected by this issue may appear invisible. Some ways to work around these issues include:

  • Restarting the game after loading it if a mod was recently subscribed to. If there is a long pause and a black screen when starting the game, the game may be installing the mods. Restart the game after it has finished loading past this screen.
  • When the process of enabling or disabling mods in-game is complete, do not leave the menu. Instead, press Alt+F4 to close the game without ever leaving the menu and risking a crash or improperly loaded assets. Then simply start up the game again.

Download Failures[editedit source]

For larger mods, the game may even fail to install all the files into your game. This can have the same causes as improperly loaded assets have, but some signs that things are not right can include:

  • New characters missing their core mechanics.
  • New items not having any effects.

These kinds of issues are usually caused by the game failing to copy all the mod's files over from Steam's workshop folder into the mod's folder. Performing this process manually by yourself usually fixes this. Steam's workshop folder is included in:

OSPath
WindowsSteam/steamapps/workshop/content/250900

250900 is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's ID on Steam. Inside this folder you will see many more numbered folders, these correspond to the id of each mod. You can see these numbers in links.

Once you have located the problem mod, go into its folder and copy all the files inside over to its true location in the Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+ Mods folder.


Resources[editedit source]

Listed below are resources that can assist you in creating mods.

A built-in console to use various commands to test mods: give items, go to stage x, reload Lua script and so on.

A list of tools that can help in mod creation and debugging (Official and unofficial tools are included).

User updated Doxygen Lua reference for The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth + Lua API based on the official Lua reference, useful when coding mods.

User-made reference for The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth + Lua API hosted on this wiki.

Links to external tutorials about modding, ranging from animations to spriting and Lua programming.

Information about modding XML files. This is needed for examples to add new costumes, items or player types to mods.

Mod Hosts[editedit source]

The official mod repository, these mods only work for Afterbirth+.

A service by the community to host mods created primarily for Rebirth and Afterbirth, though Afterbirth+ mods can be hosted here too.

A section of NexusMods which is home to Isaac mods. Not very active.

Community[editedit source]

Plus

A subreddit to discuss mods and modding.

The main discord server for The Binding of Isaac. The server contains a modding channel.

A Discord server specific to modding The Binding of Isaac.


Modding
Rebirth & Afterbirth Afterbirth †

ReferencesModding Tutorials - XML Modding - Lua Reference - Modding of Isaac Lua Reference
ToolsDebug Console - Modding Tools - Basement Renovator
ReleasesModding of Isaac - Steam Workshop - NexusMods
CommunityModding of Isaac Subreddit - Modding of Isaac Discord Server
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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