Manual Setup

Before you follow these steps, please make sure you've reset Phoenix Point. Resetting Phoenix Point and disabling anti-virus may allow you to use the Installer and avoid manual setup.

Manual setup requires a certain level of computer literacy.

1. Find game folder. For example C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Phoenix Point.
2. Open %UserProfile%\Documents, create My Games\Phoenix Point\Mods. This is the "mod folder".
3. Download a manual setup package and extract somewhere.
4. Move extracted "Modnix.exe" and "Modnix.config" to mod folder.
5. Find a few files in the extracted PhoenixPoint folder, and move them to game folder. (The game's root folder, the one with exe, not dlls.)

Basic installation is complete. You may now put mods in the mod folder.

Some mods may read or write to the game's Mods folder, such as PPDefModifier. For compatibility with these mods, you can create a symbolic link.

Symbolic link

A symbolic link can "connect" folders at the OS level, allowing one folder to appears at multiple locations. Like making the mod folder, under Documents, magically shows up under the game folder.

To create a symbolic link:

1. Right click Start Menu, select "Command Prompt (Admin)" (PowerShell users, see note below)
2. Navigate to game root folder, e.g. cd "\Program Files\Epic Games\PhoenixPoint\"
3. Run this command: mklink /d Mods "%UserProfile%\My Games\Phoenix Point\Mods"

Note: Because mklink is a not an executable, PowerShell must call it through cmd, e.g.

    cmd /c mklink /d Mods "%UserProfile%\My Games\Phoenix Point\Mods"

Legacy Loaders

It is possible to manually install multiple mod loader though manual install, like run both PPML and Modnix. The modding community have moved on, so you shouldn't do this, since it may cause a mod to be loaded twice, and it is unlikely to revive an outdated mod that fails to work.