---
title: "BeamNG.drive support"
description: "How far Evil Engine's passthrough modding support for BeamNG.drive gets today. Mounts from your own install, reading straight out of its content archives, with your mods on top. Nothing converts or shows on screen yet."
url: "https://evil-engine.com/games/beamng"
modified: "2026-11-01T19:00:00.000Z"
site: "Evil Engine"
about: "Evil Engine, the passthrough modding engine"
---

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Mounts BeamNG 

# BeamNG.drive

Mounts from your own install, reading straight out of its content archives, with your mods on top. Nothing converts or shows on screen yet.

- **Ticket**: #019
- **Checked on**: Steam
- **Last checked**: November 1, 2026
- **Mount**: `beamng-drive/pc/0.40.4.0.296339`

## Mounting

4 of 4 done

- Done  

**Finds your copy**  
Picks up the install on its own, from Steam or wherever it lives.
- Done  

**Reads every file**  
Every file but one encrypted sound archive, which is listed and left shut.
- Done  

**Matches players' copies**  
Your copy is fingerprinted from its own files, so a server can check everyone's match without sending any game content.
- Done  

**Brings its mods**  
Zipped and unpacked mods from your mods folder. Checked on test installs, since the checked copy had none.

## Converting

0 of 4 done

- To do  

**Models**  
Its models turn into Evil Engine models.
- To do  

**Textures and materials**  
Its textures and materials turn into Evil Engine's own.
- To do  

**Maps**  
Its levels turn into Evil Engine maps.
- To do  

**Sounds**  
Engine, gearbox, turbo and surface sounds sit in the encrypted archive, so those won't come across.

## In game

0 of 3 done

- To do  

**Shows on screen**  
Converted content actually draws in Evil Engine.
- To do  

**In the spawn menu**  
Its props and models land in your spawn menu, no Plugin needed.
- To do  

**Maps you can visit**  
Pick one of its maps from the menu and fly around inside it.

## Where it stands

Evil Engine finds BeamNG.drive on its own and reads it the way the game does: all 173 of its content archives are laid over the install, so a vehicle, a level or a shared texture reads from wherever it’s packed. It also follows the game’s own ways of finding files, like textures named as PNG that ship as DDS, and small redirect files that stand in for another file.

Your copy is fingerprinted in parts: each of the 125 vehicles, the props, each of the 21 levels, and the scripts, gameplay, interface, settings and sounds. Files inside archives are checked against the archives’ own checksums, so checking a 6 GB level only means reading its archive’s index, and every file matched. Opening the mount takes about a quarter of a second, and each vehicle or level works out its files the first time something asks for them.

## Known issues

- The game’s engine, gearbox, turbo and surface sounds are in an encrypted archive. Evil Engine names it and leaves it shut.
- Every mod in your mods folder mounts as on. Mods you’ve turned off in the game’s own mod manager aren’t read as off yet.
- How the game picks a file when there’s more than one candidate has been worked out from its files, not checked against the game loading them.

## Next up

- Checking how files are found against what the game itself loads.
- Mods, once a few are installed: what they carry, and which wins when two change the same file.
- Converting its meshes, vehicle parts, materials, terrain and levels.

## About Evil Engine

Evil Engine is a **passthrough modding** engine by Pushbar Interactive. Modding through the games you already own instead of around them: the content comes from each player's own copy and is never extracted, ported or redistributed. The term took off in September 2026 with mods that run two games at once and wire them together by hand, one pair at a time. Evil Engine comes from that lineage and makes the process repeatable: it learns each engine once, maps each game onto shared vocabularies once, and gives mods one API, so every mounted game works with every other. More: https://evil-engine.com/passthrough-modding

- Every page, for agents: https://evil-engine.com/llms.txt
- Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3731310/Evil_Engine