Workshop & Galleries

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The workshop is where you can upload and find others Blueprints.

Steam Workshop

How to create custom workshop thumbnails

1. Create the thumbnail (must be <1 MB in size)
2. Create a txt file, then rename it to have a .vdf extension and open it with notepad. On that file write this, replacing workshopid with the id of the blueprint you want to update (the number at the end of the workshop link after ?id=) and C:\\path\\to\\thumbnail.png with the path to your thumbnail file (using \\ as folder separators)

   "workshopitem"
   {
     "appid" "585420"
     "publishedfileid" "workshopid"
     "previewfile" "C:\\path\\to\\thumbnail.png"
   }
   

3. Download steamcmd (a command line version of the steam client made by valve) and extract it into a folder
4. Go to that folder with cmd and run it (type steamcmd on the path bar while on the same folder), this will update it and start it.
5. Type login username password steamGuardCode (if you don't use steam guard 2FA you can skip that). This might log you out of the normal steam client
6. Type workshop_build_item "C:\\path\\to\\file.vdf", replacing C:\\path\\to\\file.vdf with the path to the txt file
7. Quit the program by typing quit

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Troubleshooting

ERROR! Failed to load build config file

The program can't find your txt file. Make sure you wrote the file path in the command correctly, using \\ as folder separator and inside of quotes

Make sure you correctly changed the file extension of the txt file. By default, windows hides file extensions, and you can't change it without enabling them. If when you create a new txt file you don't see the name end in .txt, you need to enable the file extensions under the view menu at the top bar of the file explorer, then change the extension of the file again

ERROR! Failed to parse build config file

The program couldn't process your txt file correctly. This can be caused by many things, make sure its content are exactly as described with only the modifications mentioned

ERROR! Failed to update workshop item (Limit exceeded)

Your thumbnail is too big. Make sure it's smaller than 1MB