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I have gotten decent into darkness but it is not a .ftl file so I don't know how to put it in my game (I have Groganks mod manager) so how do you do it?

The link is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10169750/athena.ftl so the file is an .ftl file. Probably you have the Windows option "Hide extensions for known file types" enabled. This option doesnt show the .ftl part following a filename.

Copy the downloaded file (athena.ftl) into your FTL/mods folder and run GMM (run modman.exe or main.py if that doesnt work). GMM will find the file in the FTL/mods folder and it will be in the list of mods. Select Descent into darkness mod, click on patch, and after a few seconds you can start FTL with the mod running.

For extra help, check out the Descent into Darkness and GMM threads.

The file I download is a .zip not a .ftl

Shockwave88 wrote:The file I download is a .zip not a .ftl

That's because Windows hates you.

Go into Explorer. Find "Folder Options" which is in a different place in every single version of Windows (Because Windows hates you). In Windows 7 it's in "Organize" which makes perfect sense ( )

In there, go into "View" and look through the list of 10,000 options. One of them is "Hide file extensions." Uncheck that. Never ever go back and check it again. Windows has it unchecked by default because it hates you. Click OK.

Go look at your file again. It will look one of two ways:

filename.ftl: You're good. Copy it into the directory UltraMantis said and mod away.
filename.zip: Windows hates you. Click that file, hit f2, and edit the name so it's filename.ftl. Windows will throw up a warning trying to trick you into not renaming the file, but that's because (you guessed it) it hates you. Click "yes" or "OK" or whatever will cause Windows to do what you told it to do instead of what it thinks is best. Then copy the file where UltraMantis said to copy it and mod away.

I guess i know what's going on... see .ftl files actually are .zip files but to avoid confusion and opening them with archive managers they are renamed into .ftl Windows actually recognises the filetype and automatically renames it for you. Probably to secure against malware being renamed to fool people.

As long as you can rename the file and place it in the /mods folder, GMM will have no problem using it. Sorry for the confusion.