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Conan mod-list switcher

One command to swap Conan Exiles' active mod list between servers, instead of re-detecting mods every time I change servers.

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status
live
group
games
stack
Bash
since
2026-09

readme

Conan Exiles reads one modlist.txt. I play on more than one server, and each needs a different set of mods (or none). Switching used to mean letting the game re-detect mods, every time.

switch-modlist comfy      # a modded community server's full list
switch-modlist knights    # another server's list
switch-modlist none       # unmodded servers

Each profile is a saved modlist.txt in the project. Adding a server means adding a file and one line. The script only ever touches the file, never the running game: if Conan is open, the change applies the next time it starts, the same as any other mod-list edit.

Small, but it removed a few minutes of friction from every server change, and it's the kind of tool I end up writing most often.