About Favorites
From Steam WorkshopTired of searching through heaps of weapons/props/NPCs from your 400 addons to find the one you want? Simply press E on any item in your Spawn Menu to add it to the favorites tab! You can unfavorite…
Tired of searching through heaps of weapons/props/NPCs from your 400 addons to find the one you want? Simply press E on any item in your Spawn Menu to add it to the favorites tab!
You can unfavorite a favorited item the same way. Favorited items will be saved to the currently selected category. (The folder on the left.) You may create a category by pressing the "Add Category" button in the bottom left. Clicking "Save Current Weapon" will allow you to save a weapon with all of it's ArcCW attachments. Your favorites are saved on disk in "[Garry's Mod Directory]/garrysmod/data/favorites/".
You can currently favorite these types of items: - Weapons - Props - Ragdolls - NPCs - Vehicles - Entities - Dupes - simfphys Vehicles - LFS Planes - Parakeets's Pill Pack Pills
If you have any suggestions or errors to report, please comment!
CHANGELOG ------------------- 2026-02-02: - Fixed dupes not working. - Added support for glide vehicles. 2023-11-18: - Turkish translation added. 2023-07-09: - Russian translation added. 2023-04-13: - Fixed a bug when dragging a panel with right click. 2023-02-07: Garry broke something and I had to work around it. - Fixed NPCs not spawning with weapons. - Fixed skinned props not spawning with the correct skin. - Added ability to favorite materials. 2023-01-05: - Implemented (relatively) experimental icon reorganization. - Added a button to clear a category's items. 2022-12-29: - Fixed skinned props and ragdolls. (e.g: TF2 mercenaries, those plastic baskets, etc.) 2022-12-28: - Fixed incorrect names on some NPCs. 2022-12-22: - Added support for gDisasters, Parakeets's Pill Pack, and ArcCW Urban Decay. 2022-12-21: - Added support for simfphys vehicles. 2022-12-20: - Added toggle for "+use Mode". This binds the favorites key to +use rather than a keyboard key, (hopefully) ensuring compatibility with controllers. 2022-12-19: - Settings now persist after re-launch. - You may now modify the key from E to whatever you please. - Uninstalled addons *shouldn't* (but might) break fucking everything. - Various bug fixes and performance improvements. 2022-12-18: - HL2 weapons + Physgun now work. - Refactored the code to be much nicer. 2022-12-17: - Fixed a bug involving pressing E without a hovered panel. 2022-12-16: - Added categories, tutorial, various bug fixes.
The source code may be found at: https://github.com/ret-0/gmod_favorites Feel free to contribute!
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 9 mo ago.
Favorites on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Garry's Mod servers. We download it from Steam Workshop, place it, and restart the server.
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Garry's Mod — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2026-02-03, released 2026-02-03
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of Favorites.
Run Favorites on a Garry's Mod server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Compatibility
- Game
- Garry's Mod
Verified at the source
- ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
- ✓AuthorXTREMEVIOLENCEMASTER420, as published on Steam Workshop
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
