Where Is the BeamNG Mods Folder? (2026 Paths)

BeamNG.drive keeps mods in its user folder, a separate folder from the one the game is installed in. Once you know where that is, the mods folder is two clicks away.

The short version

1. Start the BeamNG.drive launcher.
2. Choose Manage User Folder.
3. Choose Open in Explorer.
4. Open the current folder, then the mods folder inside it.

That is the folder the game reads mods from. If there is no mods folder inside current, create one with that exact name. The official install guide tells you to do the same.

The exact path on Windows

If you would rather go straight there, the user folder sits inside your local AppData. Recent installs use:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BeamNG\BeamNG.drive

Older installs used a slightly different folder, without the extra BeamNG level:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BeamNG.drive

%LOCALAPPDATA% is a Windows shortcut for C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Local. You do not need to type your user name.

To get there quickly:

1. Open File Explorer.
2. Click the address bar at the top.
3. Paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\BeamNG and press Enter.
4. Open BeamNG.drive.

If step 3 says the folder does not exist, try %LOCALAPPDATA%\BeamNG.drive instead. You have the older layout.

Inside the user folder, open current. That’s the folder for the game you play now, so always use it. Older versions of the game also kept numbered folders such as 0.37 next to it. You can ignore those. They don’t affect the game you’re playing today.

Your mods folder is therefore:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BeamNG\BeamNG.drive\current\mods

Mods you subscribe to in the in-game Repository are downloaded into a subfolder of it:

...\current\mods\repo

Leave the repo folder alone. The game manages it, and files you add or remove there by hand can be overwritten on the next update. Mods you install yourself go directly in mods, not in repo.

Why it isn’t in Documents or the Steam folder anymore

A lot of older guides and forum posts point you to Documents\BeamNG.drive. That was the user folder location in older versions of the game. Current versions use AppData, as above. If you followed an old guide, your mods may be sitting in a folder the game no longer reads.

The game’s install folder, for example the one under steamapps\common, is not where mods go either. BeamNG’s own documentation warns against keeping your user folder there: Steam can delete files it does not recognise when it updates, verifies or reinstalls the game. Anything you put in the install folder can disappear without warning.

The OneDrive trap

If OneDrive backs up your Documents folder, you can end up with two copies of things that look the same: one inside OneDrive\Documents and one in the normal Documents folder. Players on the official forum have lost time adding mods to the OneDrive copy while the game was reading somewhere else.

The fix is simple: do not guess. Use Manage User Folder → Open in Explorer in the launcher and put mods in the folder it opens. Whatever that folder is, it is the one the game actually uses.

If you find an old BeamNG.drive folder under OneDrive that the launcher does not point to, move the mod zips you want out of it and into the real current\mods folder.

Moving the user folder

If your system drive is short on space, you can put the user folder on another drive. The launcher’s Manage User Folder screen is where the location is set.

A few rules of thumb:

1. Close the game before you change anything.
2. Pick a folder on a normal local drive, not inside the game’s install folder and not inside a cloud-synced folder.
3. After the change, open the folder through the launcher again so you know where current\mods now is.

Some players have reported that other tools, BeamMP among them, can have trouble with a user folder in a non-default place. If something stops working after a move, try the default location first.

Also note: when a major game update arrives, the game cleans up the user folder automatically and backs up files it does not recognise into a dated folder next to current. If mods vanish right after a big update, look there.

Still can’t find it?

If you are in the right folder and your mods still don’t appear in the game, the problem is something else: an unzipped mod, a disabled mod or an outdated one. Work through BeamNG mods not showing up, which covers every common cause in order. To add new mods the right way, see how to install BeamNG mods.