How To Install Steam Workshop Mods On Your Quake Live Server

Since Quake Live doesn't support FastDL, you are required to use the Steam Workshop for downloading custom content. The benefit of this is your server and players will always have the same content.

Using the Steam Workshop Installer Recommended

The easiest way to install workshop mods is directly through the panel. It adds the mod to workshop.txt so your server downloads it, and adds it to the qlx_workshopReferences line in server.cfg so players download it too. If MinQLX isn't enabled yet, the panel will ask you to turn it on.

1. 1
   Log in to Bropanel and select your Quake Live server.
2. 2
   In the sidebar, go to Mods and open the Browse tab.
3. 3
   Search for the mod you want and click Install.
4. 4
   Restart your server.

Removing a mod from the Mods page takes it out of both files the same way.

Manually Installing Workshop Mods

As an alternative, you can add workshop mods by editing your server files. For this example, we will be adding this killstreak sound mod to our server: Workshop Mod

1. 1
   Log in to Bropanel and select your Quake Live server.
2. 2
   Make sure MinQLX is installed on your server using this guide
3. 3
   In the sidebar, go to Files.
4. 4
   Select the baseq3 folder.
5. 5
   Open the workshop.txt file and add your workshop IDs to the bottom of the file. This downloads the mods to the server itself.
6. 6
   Open server.cfg and add the line set qlx_workshopReferences 701783942 to the bottom of the file (replace the ID with your own). This forces the client to download the workshop mods.
7. 7
   Restart your server.

If you want to add multiple workshop mods, you MUST add all the IDs to the workshop.txt file (one ID each line) and to the server.cfg qlx_workshopReferences line (comma separated).