Character Select

Choose your player appearance in Sons of the Forest and keep it across sessions.

Sons of the Forest gives you a random appearance out of eight every time you join a server, and there is no way to choose. This mod lets you pick the one you want and puts it back on every spawn, so you stay the same character.

Multiplayer

Client side only. Nothing gets installed on a dedicated server.

Your appearance replicates through normal game networking, so other players see your choice even if they do not have the mod installed.

Requirements

RedLoader

Installation

Download CharacterSelect.zip from the latest release
Open the Mods folder inside your Sons of the Forest install, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sons Of The Forest\Mods
Extract the contents of the zip into that Mods folder

When you are done it should look like this:

Sons Of The Forest/
  Mods/
    CharacterSelect.dll
    CharacterSelect/
      manifest.json

The Mods folder is created by RedLoader, so install RedLoader first if it is not there.

Usage

Once you are in the world, press F9 to cycle through the eight appearances. The current one is shown on screen as you cycle.

Your choice is saved to _RedLoader/UserData/CharacterSelect.txt and applied automatically every time you spawn.

Value	Name
0	White
1	Black
2	Latin
3	Asian
4	BlackA
5	WhiteA
6	BlackB
7	LatinA

Building

Requires the .NET 8 SDK and a RedLoader install that has been launched at least once, so the interop assemblies exist. The build script offers to install both if they are missing.

.\build.ps1 -Install

The game folder is found through Steam. Override it with -GameDir "path" or the SOTF_PATH environment variable.

To produce a release zip:

.\build.ps1 -Package

Credits

Built against RedLoader by Toni Macaroni. The player race system was found by reading the source of ArmorMod by clairenheit.

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