Third Party Mods

Hello,
I'm fairly new to mods in this game, and I'm wondering if people have suggestions for safe and reliable third party websites for installing mods.
Thanks!

 

pro tip: dont

 

Welcome to the forums!
I do not recommend any, but definitely check out the Land Vehicles section of the forums. Any of the threads that say WIP Beta Released or just released you can download. If they say Experimental it may not have a download. If it says WIP, On Hold, or cancelled, it usually means that there is not a download available. If it says Outdated, There is a download (usually) but it may not work as advertised.
Also, do not "bump" threads. that means to post a reply to a thread that has had little to no activity in months.
Please also read the forum's rules.

 

Youtube

 

Don't, the third party mods suck a lot and "they may" contain viruses. Not worth it man....

 

Yeah, I was given a link to modland that was a Toyota supra mesh on the wigeon. The description is now my pfp because it was beautiful

 

dont!

 

There's a reason they aren't posted to the official forums.

 

download mods from here: https://beamng.com/resources/

 

Or here: https://www.beamng.com/find-new/421033033/posts

 

Here is a list of bad websites
1. www.modland.net
2. https://beamngdrivemods.com

3. https://www.worldofmods.com
these three are the main ones you should not go too

 

I would rather go to beamngdrivemods instead of 2fartracing

Worldofmods is a big no, it has exe virus

 

4. https://modsgaming.ru

 

Thanks and there is a good Russian website version.com
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Autocorrect and it vk.com I found out about it thanks to @BNGF and his distracted driver 3 video in the comment section.
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Is a bad website right?

 

it's not that everything outside of the repository is a virus, people are simply going off their experiences. Make sure to download only the ZIP file and check the ZIP file to make sure there aren't EXE files in it. Also make sure to scan the ZIP file with your antivirus. Take those safety measures and the third party websites won't be so bad to download from.

Tip: if you don't want to install meshlaps, don't go to worldofmods, downloaded a bus mod and it had the wentward's JBeam and configurations.

 

yes it is

 

also check the 3d model of it cuz it might be a RICKROLLL

 

Welcome to the forums
Third party websites are a very...sensitive topic on most BeamNG related media, as you can probably tell.
This is my take on the whole thing, some might think this is very wrong, but after all you're allowed to have different opinions.

There is a slight chance of getting a ransomware or a virus by downloading from any of the above listed websites, however you're not going to be under a large risk as long as these files are compressed zip files, or rar files. If it's an exe, I wouldn't even bother. For example: the world of mods installer. If I remember correctly, this is an actual virus and contains malicious code.

The main reason why 3rd party websites are despised is because of the way they operate: they take someone else's work from wherever, the repository, the forums, sometimes even from another 3rd party website, upload it to their's and make money off the ads on their site. And when I say from wherever, I mean wherever. A large amount of the time modders might even find their unreleased or private mods leaked onto one of those websites, sometimes with and sometimes without credit. Nobody likes having their work or themselves disrespected in such a way.

TL;DR:
3rd party sites are bad not because of possible viruses, but because they make money off of other people's work, while said people get nothing from it.

The best sources of mods are the repository, the forums, and the discord/YouTube of the creator.
Hope this clears things up

 

Sometimes though, they make actually good mods themselves