How To Add Addons To Garry's Mod (Easy Step By Step Guide)

How To Add Addons To Garry's Mod
Updated:
11 May 2021

What’s up guys, today's article is going to be a tutorial on how to add add-ons to Gmod. There is not much philosophy, it’s VERY EASY and all it requires is a steam account and Garry’s Mod installed. Let’s start with the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqTlzDMN2Zk 

And now here’s a step by step guide for downloading add-ons to Gmod:

Step 1: Go to Steam>Steam Library

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Check your games library and click on Garry's Mod!

Step 2: Access the Workshop for Garry’s mod:

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Click on the tab with the Workshop text

Step 3: Accessing the workshop and using the search box:

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After clicking “Workshop”, click on the search box and type the name of the add-on that you want to download(for example, WAC Aircraft).

Step 4: Finding the add-on and downloading it:

After you found the add-on, click Subscribe and wait for it to download. You can check whether it downloaded the add-on by clicking “DOWNLOADS” in the bottom middle of Steam.

Step 5: Launching Garry’s mod/starting new game:

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After you have downloaded the add-on, click on the “Start New Game” tab!

Step 6: Picking a map:

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Pick a map that you want to play on, I suggest picking a map that has a large skybox so that you don’t crash into an invisible wall every 5 seconds!

Step 7: Finding the add-on in single-player

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After you have loaded the map, hold Q and navigate to Entities>WAC Aircraft. You should have a list of aircraft to pick from!

The location of the add-on will depend on the content of the add-on(NPC add-ons will go to the NPC tab, vehicle add-ons to the Vehicle tab, etc).

Step 8: Using the downloaded add-on

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This is me flying a heli on an awesome map called gm_fork!

Step 9: You know what to do now :)

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Thanks for reading this short tutorial on how to install add-ons, Steam Workshop is a very comfortable tool to have, it allows you to download add-ons without doing it manually and it only takes seconds. Try it now!

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