How to Install Mods on Your American Truck Simulator Server

To upload mods to your American Truck Simulator server, you first need to activate them locally. Here's how to activate, export, and upload the necessary files to run mods on your new ATS server.

Locally Enabling and Exporting Mods for an ATS Server

If you haven't already, you will need to enable the American Truck Simulator in-game console.

1. Open ATS and under Mods, select the mods you'd like to activate, then click Confirm Changes.
2. Load into a career game, and then open the console with ~.
3. Type export_server_packages and press Enter.
4. Find the exported files by pressing Windows Key + R and entering this:

   %USERPROFILE%\Documents\American Truck Simulator
   

5. Make a copy of server_packages.dat and server_packages.sii, then proceed to the steps below.

Uploading Mods to Your ATS Server

Now that you've enabled and locally exported your server_packages.dat and server_packages.sii files, they just need to be uploaded to your ATS server. Here's how it's done:

1. Access the GhostCap Panel and Stop your ATS server.
2. Go to File Manager.
3. Inside .local/share/American Truck Simulator, delete the existing server_packages.dat and server_packages.sii files.
4. Upload your exported server_packages.dat and server_packages.sii.

.local
└── share
    └── American-Truck-Simulator
        ├── server_packages.dat   ← Uploaded version
        ├── server_packages.sii   ← Uploaded version
        └── ...

5. Start your server.