Concepts

These pages say how the loader and a mod work together. Read them once before the chapters on writing a mod; each is short.

• The loader and the ABI: how the loader starts, how it finds mods, the binary contract between them, and the manifest.
• The life of a mod: query, resolve, init, arm and ready, and what happens when a mod fails.
• Sides and hosting: the dedicated server, the client, and the server a client runs while it hosts a game.
• The join check: how a server and its players agree on a mod set.
• Threads: which thread runs what, and what may be called where.