Modding Monster Train - Basics and Introduction

June 21, 2021

Modding

Monster Train

Title: Monster Train - Shiny Mark mades mods
By: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Youtube - Tutorial #1
Description: Extremely basic introduction to setting up a C# project for modding Monster Train (slightly outdated).

Title: Monster Train Modding Card Creation Tutorial Mod
By: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Youtube - Tutorial #2
Description: Introduction to using the Trainworks API, a modding tool for Monster Train geared towards adding new content.

Title: Getting Started with Trainworks Modding Tools
By: KittenAqua
Github - Wiki
Description: More detailed and indepth documentation on properly setting up a C# project for modding Monster Train as well as examples for modding various content.

Overview

Monster Train is a game I have played a lot and really enjoyed, and it recently put out some modding support in the last year. Being a Unity-based game, I figured I could use some of my Unity and C# knowledge to take a crack at modding in some content of my own to play around with and possibly add to the community.

It is not the most straight forward process, and there was recently a large DLC added to the game that makes parts of the old modding tutorials different or completely obsolete, but I still think there enough to sift through to make a base for starting a mod going. I think there is also a decently strong community that would appreciate some mod content since it is rather lacking, so it could also just be a nice place to implement some game design practices and create some new stuff for others to play with.

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