Wayward Modding Guide

Learn how to mod Wayward.

➡ New Modders Start Here! ⬅

Documentation

• +mod create & +mod update — Documentation on the commands used to generate starter files for modding, and updating script mods.
• mod.json — Documentation on what all can be declared in the main mod metadata file.
• Extracting assets — A guide on extracting textures, sounds, and more from Wayward.

Mod Content

• Scripts — Create mods that change the functionality of the game, or add new content
• Languages & Extensions — Adding new languages to Wayward, or adding translatable strings to mods.
• Customizations — Adding new hair styles, hair colours, and skin tones
• Image Overrides — Replacing default sprites & textures
• Stylesheets — Changing the appearance of the UI

Other Useful Links

Wayward Types Viewer

A pretty, searchable list of all the type definitions in Wayward. For the raw form of these type definitions, see the types repository on GitHub.

Modding Examples

Every official mod created for Wayward, and some other Wayward-related projects.

Steam Workshop

Where Wayward mods are published.