Modding guide

This comes up repeatedly here, so I wrote up a detailed guide that will hopefully help you get as modded up as you want, should you wish to explore that route.

All of this is assuming you're on a Windows machine:

  1. Go here: https://www.nexusmods.com/
  2. If you're not registered at Nexus Mods, create an account, it's free, then go here: https://www.nexusmods.com/supermarketsimulator/mods/9
  3. Click on the "Files" tab.
  4. Click on "Manual Download"
  5. Click on "Slow download"
  6. Wait the 5 seconds and the .zip file will download to wherever your browser downloads files.
  7. Double click the zipped folder. Click on "Extract all"; choose where to extract them and click "Extract" or "Open" or whatever the confirmation button says.
  8. A new folder containing the unzipped files will appear wherever you told it to extract to. Open that folder and Ctrl-A to select everything in that folder and Ctrl-C to copy them.
  9. Open your Supermarket Simulator game folder in a Windows Explorer window. This is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Supermarket Simulator
  10. Alternatively, you can Right-click on the game in your Steam Library, click on "Properties...," click on the "Installed Files" tab, then click on "Browse..." which should open the Supermarket Simulator game folder in a new Windows Explorer window or tab.
  11. Ctrl-V to paste all the files you downloaded to the game folder. Do not create a new folder, paste them directly into the game folder, files and folders and all. You shouldn't, but if you get a dialogue box asking about duplicate files, click the "Replace files" option.
  12. Now you should have new folders in your game folder labeled "BepInEx" and "MLLoader" (MelonLoader), and possibly a couple of new readme and log files and such.
  13. Run the game, then Quit to Desktop. This should have created some new folders within the BepInEx and MLLoader folders labeled "plugins" and "Mods," respectively, if they didn't exist before. If they still don't, go ahead and just create them.
  14. When you download mods, what will download is usually just a .dll file. (You will probably get prompted to download "Tobey's BepInEx x MelonLoader Pack for Supermarket Simulator" but you just did that above; just click on "Download" to continue to the actual download page) Extract it from the zipped folder as you did above and place it in either the "plugins" folder inside the BepInEx folder or the "Mods" folder inside the MLLoader folder, unless otherwise specified. In the description tab for each individual mod it will specify whether it works for BepInEx or MelonLoader. If it installs in any other way, the description should include detailed instructions.
  15. If a mod has user-adjustable settings, they will be files in either the "config" folder inside the BepInEx folder or the "UserData" folder inside the MLLoader folder. Open them in Notepad and make your adjustments according to the instructions on the individual mods' description tab.