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UKMM ('''UK'''ing '''M'''od '''M'''anager) is an updated mod manager for BotW. It is used to install and uninstall mods, and solves many mod conflicts. It was created to solve bugs that fundamentally couldn't be solved by BCML, due either to limitations in the Python programming language or early design choices in BCML. | UKMM ('''UK'''ing '''M'''od '''M'''anager) is an updated mod manager for BotW. It is used to install and uninstall mods, and solves many mod conflicts. It was created to solve bugs that fundamentally couldn't be solved by BCML, due either to limitations in the Python programming language or early design choices in BCML. | ||
==Why Use a Mod Manager?== | |||
BotW contains about 17,000 archives in its standard form. When those archives are fully and completely decompressed and extracted, the game contains roughly 200,000 files. Most of those 200,000 files contain dozens, even hundreds, of parameters. | |||
If a mod edits just one of those parameters, in one of those files, in one of those archives, then, without a mod manager, that mod will override every other mod that you have that contains that archive. Given that an archive may contain an average of several thousand parameters, you can see how often mods will conflict. | |||
This isn’t even taking into account a special file that BotW has, called the RSTB. The RSTB contains data on almost every one of those 200,000 files, and so almost every mod needs to edit the RSTB. Most mods rely on a mod manager to edit the RSTB, so even if you don’t want to install more than one mod, the odds are still good that the mod you’re installing is assuming you’ll use a mod manager to make it work. | |||
And to top it all off, even if the one mod you want to use includes its own RSTB? That RSTB was probably made automatically, using an outdated tool that generates bad edits for the RSTB. And nobody has ever fixed that tool, because UKMM contains a much more accurate tool for it, that everyone is using anyway. | |||
BotW is not like other games. Manually installing mods is not a simple process for it, 99% of the time. You ''need'' a mod manager. | |||
==BCML or UKMM?== | ==BCML or UKMM?== |