How To Install World Of Warcraft Mods
'World of Warcraft' supports the use of add-ons, user-created tools to enhance your gameplay. Whether you're installing a boss mod to warn you of dangerous boss mechanics or an RP-enhancing tool to flesh out your character's history and personality in-game, add-ons are all installed to the same folder. You can install add-ons manually, or use an add-on client to install them for you.
How to Install WoW Addons. Exit World of Warcraft completely. Download the addon you want to install. Extract the file – commonly known as 'unzipping' – Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME! Verify your WoW Installation Path. Move to the Addon folder. Start World of Warcraft. Make sure AddOns are installed. Addons open up a whole new world of possibilities for your user interface (UI) in WoW - the question is, how can you start downloading them. C: Program Files (x86) World of Warcraft Once you have found your WoW folder, navigate to the Interface folder and then into the Addons folder within. Once there, simply drag the file that you extracted earlier into the Addons folder and then load up your WoW client to test it out.
Manual Installation
Download the add-on you wish to install to your desktop. Unzip the folder by right-clicking it and selecting 'Extract All.' Copy the extracted folder and paste it into the Add-Ons folder for WoW's program files. The file path should look like the following:
C:Program FilesWorld of WarcraftInterfaceAddOns
Once pasted, the add-ons only need to be activated in-game to be ready for use.
Client-based Installation
Add-on clients simplify the installation and updating of add-ons by automating the process. Typically, you download and install the client, then select add-ons from their website and install using their 'Install via client' option. Some clients instead require you to install the add-on manually, then update via the client. Curse Client, WowMatrix and Wootbit Client are some commonly used add-on clients. Some groups, like Tukui, use a proprietary client to update add-ons they produce, like the Tukui and ElvUI user interface add-ons.
Activating Add-Ons
To activate your add-ons, click the 'AddOns' button on the character selection screen. You can select which add-ons are active for which character by selecting the character name from the drop-down list and checking the check-boxes for add-ons you want to use. Check the 'Load Out-of-Date AddOns' check-box to enable add-ons listed as 'out-of-date,' which are often still useful. When you log in, your add-ons will be active.
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Installation steps Edit
On Windows Edit
- Exit World of Warcraft completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called 'My Mods'
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically 'opens' it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and 'save as...' or 'Save Target As'.
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
- Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the 'My Mods' folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select 'Extract Here'
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to 'Use Folder Names' is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- 7-Zip: Right click the file, select '7-Zip' then click 'Extract to Addonnames
- Windows
- on windows ten it's found at
- C:Program Files (x86)World of WarcraftInterfaceAddOns or
- C:Program Files World of WarcraftInterfaceAddOns
- Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
Mac OS X Edit
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
- That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is /Applications/World of Warcraft/)
- Go into the 'Interface' folder.
- Go into the 'AddOns' folder.
- In a new window, open the 'My Mods' folder.
- The 'My Mods' folder should have the 'Addonname' folder in it.
- Move the 'Addonname' folder into the 'AddOns' folder.
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in.
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the 'addons' button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure 'load out of date addons' is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations Edit
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called 'Localizations'.
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods) Edit
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be 'out of date' unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatible addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the 'character select' screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the 'addons' button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says 'Load Out of Date AddOns'. You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About 'Out Of Date AddOns'Mac Support.
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.