What is SteonMod?
SteonMod lets you fuse the games you own: play Minecraft's character in another game's world, drop one game's creatures into a playground, or build a whole new game out of pieces of several. It's like Garry's Mod, but the pieces come from your real games, running on your PC.
The program you run is called Fusion. SteonMod is the whole project: Fusion, the routers, the docs and this website.
How it works, in one picture¶
Fusion starts your games itself, hidden in the background, and asks each one for a piece: the world it draws, a character, its creatures. Then it puts the pieces together on one screen. Each game still runs its own world, physics and animations; Fusion only connects them. Nothing is copied out of your games, and nothing of theirs is rebuilt.
The words you'll see¶
| Word | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Router | A small free add-on that teaches Fusion one game: how to start it, where its player is, what its creatures are. One per game. | VEIN's router |
| Block | One piece a router offers. | VEIN's World, Minecraft's Player, The Long Dark's Wolves |
| Scenario | A list of blocks played together, made with cards. | "Minecraft's player in VEIN's world" |
| Experience | A finished scenario with a title screen, goals and an ending: a small game. | "Beacon Run" |
| Device | A no-code gadget you place in the world: a timer, a score counter, a trigger zone. | A countdown that ends the round |
| Stack | Several Experiences and addons played together, top one first. | An Experience plus a "low gravity" addon |
| Package | One .fusion file holding routers, scenarios, addons or Devices, to share. | zombie-arena.fusion |
What you can do¶
- Play scenarios and Experiences others made: Your first fusion.
- Build your own with cards, no coding: Building with cards.
- Mess around in any plain scenario with the spawn menu and tools: The sandbox.
- Share what you made as one file, or get things others made: Getting content.
- Make a router for a game you love (it's mostly data, and your AI agent can help): Making routers.
What it isn't¶
- Not a cheat tool. Fusion refuses to attach to a game whose anti-cheat is running, and games with online anti-cheat only work through their own official offline mode.
- Not a way to get games. Fusion only uses games installed on your PC, and never shares their files.
- Not finished. SteonMod is in its first test; expect rough edges, and tell us what broke.