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emousedhm01/ffw-mods

12JavaScriptAudience · generalComplexity · 1/5ActiveSetup · easy

TLDR

GitHub mirror of one modder's Far Far West game modifications, with each mod shipped as Unreal pak files to drop into the game's mods folder.

Mindmap

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  root((FFW-Mods))
    Inputs
      Mod folders
      ModBuild paks
      Game install path
    Outputs
      Installed mods
      Game behaviour changes
      Pak files
    Use Cases
      Install game mods
      Bigger lobbies
      Tweak jokers
    Tech Stack
      Unreal Engine
      Pak files
      JavaScript

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Install a Far Far West mod by copying pak files into the game's ~mods folder

USE CASE 2

Try lobby, enemy count, and joker tweaks bundled in one repo

USE CASE 3

Mirror Nexus Mods uploads to GitHub so players have one organised source

USE CASE 4

Rebuild Unreal pak files from source using the included build scripts

Tech stack

UnrealJavaScript

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

No installer; player copies a set of pak, ucas, and utoc files together into FarFarWest/Content/Paks/~mods.

In plain English

FFW-Mods is a small repository that collects game modifications for Far Far West, a video game built on Unreal Engine. The maintainer, EmoUsedHM01, has bundled several mods that he uploaded to Nexus Mods (a popular community site for game mods) into one place on GitHub so players can grab them all from a single repo. Each mod lives in its own folder. Inside that folder is a ModBuild directory that holds the ready-to-use files for the player. The README does not describe what each individual mod changes; it only lists their names. The names give some hint at the intent: AllSpells, AlwaysHitWeakpoint, BiggerLobbies, CheaperJokers, CheapJokers, MergedJokers, MoreEnemies, NoFriendlyFire, NoJokerCaps, UncappedStatPoints, and UnrestrictiveJokers. Several look like they relax in-game limits, change enemy or lobby counts, or alter how the game's joker items work, but the README itself does not spell out the exact behaviour of any single mod. Installing a mod is a manual file copy. The player opens the folder for the mod they want, opens its ModBuild subfolder, and copies the contents into the game's mod folder at FarFarWest/Content/Paks/~mods. If the ~mods folder does not yet exist, the player creates it. The README warns that each mod's files (typical Unreal pak and io store files with .pak.ucas, and .utoc extensions) must be copied together as a set so the game can load them properly. Uninstalling is the same in reverse: delete those files from the ~mods folder. The README also notes that the source, staging, and build helper files in the repository are not needed for normal installation. Those exist so the maintainer can rebuild the pak files from source, and they are presumably what justifies the JavaScript language tag on the GitHub project (the build scripts that package each mod). There is no licence statement in the README, no list of supported game versions, no description of which Far Far West release each mod targets, and no contribution guide. The repository works as a personal distribution channel, mirrored on GitHub to keep the maintainer's Nexus uploads available in one organised place.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through installing the BiggerLobbies mod from FFW-Mods into FarFarWest/Content/Paks/~mods including creating the folder.
Prompt 2
Explain which files (.pak.ucas.utoc) must be copied together for a Far Far West mod to load properly.
Prompt 3
Show me how to uninstall the UncappedStatPoints mod cleanly without breaking the other FFW-Mods I have installed.
Prompt 4
Compare the CheapJokers and CheaperJokers folders in FFW-Mods and guess what each one changes from the names.
Prompt 5
Help me read the JavaScript build scripts in FFW-Mods so I can rebuild a pak file from the source folder.
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