Mods help us modify most of our favorite games and add quality-of-life improvements or change how certain mechanics (or everything) work. This can sometimes make an experience more accessible, and such is the case with My Winter Car. If you’re finding the creation from Amistech Games too tough, you can make your survival easier with mods.
Why you would drastically alter a game that focuses on having these tight mechanics is for you to answer. Regardless, if you’re tired of the arbitrary deaths and love aspects of this title but want to change some others, this guide will teach you how to install mods in My Winter Car.
How To Install Mods
First of all, you need to know which mod you would like to install. Enter Nexus Mods, and browse through all the options available to see what’s to your liking. At the time of writing this guide, there are already 182 mods for My Winter Car.
While there can be some differences between the installation of specific mods, most of them are installed in the same way. I will use the mod Noclip by ongk as an example for the rest of the guide. You can download it here.
I strongly recommend this mod since it can let you fly to any point in the whole game, vastly shortening your travel time while driving from one place to the other.
First, download BepInEx, which is a mod loader. Here’s the link to the version 5.4.23.4. This includes a .zip with four files and one folder. You need to copy these to the folder where you have the game installed.
For instance, I had it in Disc\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\My Winter Car.
Next, you need to open Steam and try to open the game. You’ll see that it will try to boot it, but it won’t be able to. This is to generate a few files missing. However, you still won’t be able to open the game.
To fix this, you need to open the new BepInEx.cfg file with a text editor, such as Notepad. Right-click on the file > Open With and select the program. Go to the last section of the file, under “[Preloader.Entrypoint]”, and find the line “Type = Application”. Change it to “Type = MonoBehaviour” (without the quote marks).
Now download the mod file using this link and copy the file (Noclip.dll) inside BepInEx\plugins or BepInEx\core (it depends on which version of BepInEx you’re using; the one in this guide has the folder “core”).
That’s it, you are ready to use this mod for My Winter Car. Most other mods follow the same steps (copying a file and pasting it to the aforementioned BepInEx folder), though some may use other mod loaders or require additional steps. Always read their specific instructions!
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