Setup Your Environment

These are the minimum required things to properly setup your modding environment: Setup a dedicated 'root' modding folder. This should be something like C:\Modding\TheLongDark\. This insures that any error logs your mod prints does not include personal information.

1. Install .NET6, which is required to run MelonLoader.
2. Install MelonLoader. Please see the footer of this wiki for which version TLD requires.
3. Install Visual Studio into your 'root' modding folder (eg: C:\Modding\VisualStudio\). NOTE: VS will still install parts of itself into a hardcoded folder on the drive where your windows OS is installed. This cant be changed
4. Install something to handle Github. I recommend Github Desktop. This is needed to handle version control and to publish your source code, which is required to be able to post your mod on the Modding Mod List.