Setup Guide for Civilization VI Archipelago

This guide is meant to help you get up and running with Civilization VI in Archipelago. Note that this requires you to have both Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm installed. This will not work unless both of those DLCs are enabled.

Requirements

The following are required in order to play Civ VI in Archipelago:

• Windows OS (Firaxis does not support the necessary tooling for Mac, or Linux).

• Installed Archipelago.

• The latest version of the Civ VI AP Mod.

• A copy of the game Civilization VI including the two expansions Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm (both the Steam and Epic version should work).

Mod Installation

1. Download and unzip the latest release of the mod from GitHub.

2. Copy the folder containing the mod files to your Civ VI mods folder. On Windows, this is usually located at C:\Users\YOUR_USER\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Mods. If you use OneDrive, check if the folder is instead located in your OneDrive file structure, and use that path when relevant in future steps.

3. After the Archipelago host generates a game, you should be given a .apcivvi file. You can open it as a zip file, you can do this by either right clicking it and opening it with a program that handles zip files (if you associate that file with the program it will open it with that program in the future by double clicking it), or by right clicking and renaming the file extension from apcivvi to zip (only works if you are displaying file extensions). You can also associate the file with the Archipelago Launcher and double click it and it will create a folder with the mod files inside of it.

4. Copy the contents of the zip file or folder it generated (the name of the folder should be the same as the apcivvi file) into your Civilization VI Archipelago Mod folder (there should be five files placed there from the .apcivvi file, overwrite if asked).

5. Your mod path should look something like C:\Users\YOUR_USER\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Mods\civilization_archipelago_mod. If everything was done correctly you can now connect to the game.

Connecting to a game

1. In the main menu, navigate to the "Game Options" page. On the "Game" menu, make sure that "Tuner (disables achievements)" is enabled.

2. In the main menu, navigate to the "Additional Content" page, then go to "Mods" and make sure the Archipelago mod is enabled.

3. When starting the game make sure you are on the Gathering Storm ruleset in a Single Player game. Additionally you must start in the ancient era, other settings and game modes can be customised to your own liking. An important thing to note is that settings preset saves the mod list from when you created it, so if you want to use a setting preset with this you must create it after installing the Archipelago mod.

4. To connect to the room open the Archipelago Launcher, from within the launcher open the Civ6 client and connect to the room. Once connected to the room enter your slot name and if everything went right you should now be connected.

Troubleshooting

• If you have troubles with file extension related stuff, make sure Windows shows file extensions as they are turned off by default. If you don't know how to turn them on it is just a quick google search away.

• If you are getting an error: "The remote computer refused the network connection", or something else related to the client (or tuner) not being able to connect, it likely indicates the tuner is not actually enabled. One simple way to verify that it is enabled is, after completing the setup steps, go to Main Menu → Options → Look for an option named "Tuner" and verify it is set to "Enabled"

• If your game gets in a state where someone has sent you items or you have sent locations but these are not correctly sent to the multiworld, you can run /resync from the Civ 6 client. This may take up to a minute depending on how many items there are. This can resend certain items to you, like one time bonuses.

• If the archipelago mod does not appear in the mod selector in the game, make sure the mod is correctly placed as a folder in the Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Mods folder, there should not be any loose files in there only folders. As in the path should look something like C:\Users\YOUR_USER\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Mods\civilization_archipelago_mod.

• If it still does not appear make sure you have the right folder, one way to verify you are in the right place is to find the general folder area where your Civ VI save files are located.

• If you get an error when trying to start a game saying Error - One or more Mods failed to load content, make sure the files from the .apcivvi are placed into the civilization_archipelago_mod as loose files and not as a folder.

• If you still have any errors make sure the two expansions Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm are active in the mod selector (all the official DLC works without issues but Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm are required for the mod).

• If boostsanity is enabled and those items are not being sent out but regular techs are, make sure you placed the files from your new room in the mod folder.

• If you are neither receiving or sending items, make sure you have the correct client open. The client should be the Civ6 and NOT the Text Client.

• This should be compatible with a lot of other mods, but if you are having issues try disabling all mods other than the Archipelago mod and see if the problem still persists.