How to post a mod on Steam?

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

My mod project is almost near a finish line. a few bug hunt and fix and then it will be ready to publish
1. How to post a mod on Steam?
2. Does it has a fee? In addition to steam account (Yes i've bought Civ6 and RF expansions there!) and the very mod itself What else shall I need?

 

[Wolfdog]

You just use the development tools that you download from Steam. The mod uploader is part of that and does not cost anything.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

This one?

And does it has uploading quota allocated to users and how many bytes allocated?

 

[Wolfdog]

Yes that's the one. Sometimes it will not report finished uploading but if you check on Steam it will be there. There is no upload quota that I have hit and my mod is over 1GB in size now.

 

[LeeS]

I don't know that anyone's hit the size allocation limit for a single mod as yet for Civ6 -- Steam seems to have rectified that issue for 6 at least.

In Civ5 the packaged size limit for a single mod was just under 100MB for the civ5mod archive. But once extracted back out of the archive format a 100MB package could translate into something like a 1 G mod.

In neither of Civ5 nor Civ6 is there a limit to how many mods a single user can upload, but there was a requirement added during the lifecycle of civ five that a user had to have purchased at least $5US (I think it was $5) directly on Steam. I don't remember that this was specific to Civ though, I think it applied to all the games on Steam that had a Workshop.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

Still recommend hosting my mod there?

 

[LeeS]

It's the best place to post your mod really if you want the widest possible audience to see and try it. The Civ6 Workshop in general works much better than the Civ5 workshop did, so a lot of the issues that mod-creators had to deal with on the "Five" Workshop no longer apply.

The workshop is free so long as you've purchased just about anything directly from Steam
There's no limit to how many mods you can post to the Workshop
The widest possible audience is available on the Steam Workshop. Many times you get really useful balance and "buggery" feedback on your mod.

The only real downside to Steam Workshop is that it is like all the rest of the internet -- there are lots of users who are really great and there are lots of Steam Workshop mod-users who are, well, there's a reason "Steamies!" is often used as a curseword by mod-makers.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

OK i'm uploading my mod.
but 'committing changes took longer than it should'

no finish is possible.
so it takes THIS long to host a mod?

EDIT: Can anyone check if i did it correctly? Also How can I add teaser pictures to attract more downloaders? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1974996854

 

[LeeS]

As Wolfdog mentioned the uploader sometimes (often ?) does not report that the process finished even though it did.

As the creator of the mod you are always free to edit the title and description of the mod. Clicking on the link for this will also allow you to add images to the mod page. As a general rule you will not want to edit the title of the mod, but you will very often want to add more detail to the Steam description. And you will want to add images (jpg etc) to the mod page.