About Meaningful Upgrades (Fork)
From Steam Workshop**NOTE** Since making this I've had a few requests to post the code on Github, or otherwise make it public for other people to update on their own. Good news! After installing this mod, go to…
**NOTE** Since making this I've had a few requests to post the code on Github, or otherwise make it public for other people to update on their own. Good news! After installing this mod, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\602960\ and sort by most recent, it'll be the topmost mod. Barotrauma mods outside of lua are stored in human-readable, unencrypted XML files and are very easy to update. It's how I made this fork originally! Happy 3 year anniversary of no updates! Let me know what you'd like to see added or changed! **END NOTE**
This is a fork of Meaningful Upgrades that adjusts it to be closer to vanilla balance, still functioning on the latest version. This description was taken from the original workshop page, however has been changed in some places. Please read below.
Upgrade cost follows vanilla price scaling. More incentive to max out an upgrade category instead of buying a different sub.
Some Items can be upgraded to +50% or +100% efficiency.
The level-cap of hull strength upgrades have been increased to allow investment in late-game survivability.
Max level amounts have been increased or decreased, compressing items with un-needed levels into fewer upgrades and expanding items which did not have enough levels into more upgrades.
Adds new unique upgrades for: Sonar Range, Turret Firerate, Discharge Coil Range, and Discharge Coil Efficiency.
Pumps and Engines have been given high max limits, this is to facilitate 'certain types' of submarines. If you manage to max-upgrade a submarine which is 'already upgraded' it will be extremely broken. - upgrade responsibly.
*Note: All currently supported EK submarines are now handling-stat compatible with engine speed upgrades, speed increases with more upgrades should now be more linear speed increase instead of exponential.
Original mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2183524355
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
A 673 KB download, rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 7 mo ago.
Meaningful Upgrades (Fork) on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Not available. One-click install isn't available for this game's mods yet. Download it and upload it to your server in Files.
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Barotrauma — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2026-03-11, released 2026-03-11, 673 KB
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of Meaningful Upgrades (Fork).
Run Meaningful Upgrades (Fork) on a Barotrauma server
Deploy a server above, then upload the file in Files.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWorkshop
Its source category doesn’t say more about what it does, so NxLabs lists it under Other.
Compatibility
- Game
- Barotrauma
- File size
- 673 KB
Verified at the source
- ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
- ✓Authorlopezlopezlopez, as published on Steam Workshop
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
