[GS] How to install Steam Workshop Mods in the Epic Game Store version

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Hi! So not long ago the Platinum Edition of Civilization VI was available for free on the Epic Game Store (which I updated to the Anthology version since I'm loving the game so much!), and watching Potato McWhiskey's videos I noticed he uses several very useful UI mods that I wanted to use for myself.

The problem is that those mods seem to be only available on the Steam Workshop (or at least some of them are), which doesn't have an equivalent in the Epic Games launcher. So, I had to do some digging into how to actually download the mods, and after finding an effective way to do it I decided to make a thread for everyone else's convenience!

So, there seem to be two ways to achieve this, but I only managed to make one of them work.

1. Adding the game as an available program on Steam: this one should be simple enough, you just need to go to "Games" on the upper left menu, go down to "Add a non-Steam game to my Library", and there should be the option to add Civilization VI. The problem I had is that the game doesn't appear as one of the options, and when I check the direct access on the Desktop for the location of the .exe it doesn't tell me, since the link simply tells Epic Games to launch the game. Therefore, while this method should work, I cannot totally vouch for it, which is why I will now explain a second method that actually worked for me.
2. Using WorkshopDL: the only other way I found to download the mods from the Workshop is to use a third-party program that I found on GitHub called "WorkshopDL". I am not really a programmer and I hadn't heard of this tool beforehand, but I don't have any particular reason to mistrust it since it's been quite a few days since I installed and used it and nothing has happened in my computer and Windows hasn't detected any sort of threat. The source code is freely available so one could in principle check how it works, but I cannot do this effectively, so you'll have to either trust this third-party or check for yourself.
   As to how to use it, it is relatively simple: first you install it, whether that be by using the installer .exe linked in the GitHub page or by building from the source code if you're on Linux, and then once you open it you will see that there are several options available on the right. You need to use GGNetwork, since at least for me SteamCMD gave me errors (it seems not all games are supported through this option, there is a list linked on the GitHub). Then you simply copy the link for whatever Steam Workshop mod you want to download (for example https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2428969051, which is Detailed Map Tacks, a mod I definitely recommend!), you paste it on the "Workshop mod url" box, you click on the "Auto-find homepage" button (it might not be highlighted as if it were not clickable, but it is), it will find out that the Workshop Homepage for Civilization VI is 289070 (which you can write yourself if you want), and then you simply click "Download". It will download a .zip file, inside of which is a folder with all the mod contents!
   Now, a problem this method has is that apparently GGNetwork does not support downloading a list of mods in bulk, which means that if you want to download a bunch of mods you will have to go through each one of them one by one, which is tedious, but there doesn't seem to be any workaround.

So that's how it's done, now you can enjoy whatever mods you want even if you don't have the game on Steam! I will mention though that sometimes when I first load into a game the mods will not be active, so I will need to first go into the "Mods" menu, change away from the mod list I am using, change it back to the one I want to use, and then go back and load into the game. I don't know if this is a problem with Civilization VI in general or just my version in particular or the Epic Games version, but otherwise everything is working as intended and I'm having no other issues after a week or so of playing!