Conan Exiles: Workshop mods, the Enhanced-only rule, and updates

Haptic runs Conan Exiles Enhanced, the Unreal Engine 5 version. Mods built for the old Legacy (UE4) game do not just misbehave on it, they crash dedicated servers.

So we only accept Workshop items tagged Enhanced. Paste a Legacy mod and you get a refusal saying the mod hasn't been updated for Conan Exiles Enhanced and that only items tagged "Enhanced" are supported. Paste a collection that mixes the two and it is not all or nothing: the Enhanced items install and the Legacy ones are marked Excluded, each with its own reason.

A lot of well-known mods have not been rebuilt for Enhanced yet. There is no toggle on our side that lets a Legacy mod through, and we do not offer the Legacy branch of the game. Your options are to ask the author to republish through the Enhanced modkit, or pick a mod that already carries the tag. Workshop pages show their tags in the sidebar, so you can check before you paste.

Conan handles the client side for you. When someone joins a modded server, their game downloads the mods automatically. Conan Exiles then restarts their game once after the download, which looks alarming the first time but is normal, and they land back on your server afterwards.

Console players cannot join at all, modded or not: see Conan Exiles: can console friends join your server?.

Haptic watches the Workshop and downloads new versions of your installed mods automatically. Your server keeps running the version it booted with until it restarts, and the affected mods switch to a Pending restart clock in the Mods card.

That gap is what causes "mod mismatch" reports: a player's client picks up the new version before your server has restarted onto it. Restarting clears it.

To stop it happening while you sleep, use the Restart on mod updates dropdown, just below Auto Restart in the expanded Overview card:

• Off, just notify me: the default, you restart when it suits you.

• When the server is empty: the restart waits until nobody is online.

• After a 5-minute warning: players get warnings 5 minutes and 1 minute ahead, then the server restarts.

This one applies as soon as you save it, no restart needed.

Conan loads mods top to bottom, and we write that same order into the server's modlist.txt at every boot. Once you have two or more installed and enabled mods, a Load order button appears at the top of the Mods card. Open it, drag the rows or use the Move to top / up / down / bottom arrows, then press Save order. The new order applies at the next restart. Mod load order and toggles covers the dialog in full.

If your server fails to start after adding a mod, the status message tells you to remove the most recently added mod and restart. That is usually a broken or incomplete .pak, and removing it puts you straight back where you were.

• Uploading .pak files over SFTP. The mods folder is rebuilt from your dashboard mod list every time the server boots, so hand-placed files vanish on the next start. This is the most common "my mod disappeared" report. Install through the Mods card instead.

• Requesting a Legacy mod again. The answer comes from the mod's own Workshop tags, so it will not change until the author republishes.

Reach us on Discord or at support@haptic.gg. Include your server name, the Workshop link, and a screenshot of any refusal or startup message you saw.