Beat Saber Custom Songs Rift

Beat Saber is i of the most popular VR games around. Still, not merely is the rhythm game pop for its base game and DLC tracks, only also for its huge custom map community.

There's a wealth of great community maps available online, and with a picayune bit of tinkering you tin showtime playing some fantastic custom maps in Beat Saber. Hither's our guide on how to get started.

The following guide is for the PC VR version of Beat Saber only. Modifying the game doesn't seem to be possible on PSVR and the Oculus Quest has a very different procedure that changes regularly, depending on which tools are currently available.

This guide is up to appointment as of February 2021 for version i.xiii.2 of Beat Saber. Nosotros'll try to keep this guide up to date as much as possible, but sometimes it can be hard to keep upward with all the patches and changes to the modding tools.

If you're using a newer version of Vanquish Saber and this article hasn't been updated, information technology'southward likely that the process remains exactly the aforementioned. If non, let us know in the comments and go on an centre out for an update.

Tools and Sites

There are a bunch of dissimilar tools and sites you can apply for Beat Saber modification. For the purposes of this tutorial, nosotros'll be using Mod Assistant for installation and beginning-time setup and the site Beast Saber to find and download custom maps.

Although we won't cover it here, if you want to read up on an alternative for managing your custom maps, cheque out BeatDrop ii.

While we adopt using Mod Banana to proceed things simple, it is possible to manually download and install custom maps yourself, without any external tools. To run into how, scroll to the lesser of this guide.

Setting Upward

Before getting started, we advise making an account on Beast Saber and downloading the latest release of Modern Assistant from GitHub.

You might also need to know the install location of Beat Saber on your system. If you simply installed the game through Oculus or Steam on your standard C:// drive in the default location, and so y'all shouldn't demand to worry. Notwithstanding, if y'all take your games installed in a custom location or you have multiple drives with different programs installed across them, y'all might want to locate your Beat Saber install folder location now (you lot should be able to employ the Oculus app or Steam to observe the location). In this instance, the folder you lot want to select is the ane called 'hyperbolic-magnetism-crush-saber'.

Also, make certain yous've run/played Beat Saber at to the lowest degree one time on your system before proceeding or installing whatsoever mods.

First Time Install

If you lot've never installed custom maps on your copy of Beat Saber, you'll need to install some plugins and mods that enable third-political party map support in-game. When Beat Saber updates, your custom maps may or may not be intact/enabled. For case, previous updates (such as going from 1.6 to 1.vii of Beat Saber) did non disable or remove any custom maps. Nonetheless, patches and updates exercise have the potential to break mod back up, so yous'll have to check on a case-past-case ground with each new update.

In this event, a new version of ModAssistant will exist released to work with the new patch. As of the near recent one.13 patch of Beat Saber, ModAssistant is up-to-date and should work with Beat Saber.

For future updates, there's a take chances you may accept to repeat these steps again, perhaps with some changes to accommodate for a new patch.

To prepare a outset-time install or update your modded Beat Saber after a new patch:

1. Open ModAssistant.exe and agree to the terms of apply.

You don't need to install Modern Assistant — you lot tin can place information technology anywhere and open information technology from wherever, whenever you want to use information technology.

If Modernistic Assistant tin't detect you lot Trounce Saber install folder, information technology will enquire you to locate it. Point it toward the folder you lot located earlier, if and so.

2. Open upwards the Mods tab.

When yous open up the mods tab, all of the prerequisite mods for custom maps should exist automatically ticked. At that place are a whole bunch of others you lot can install, but for the purposes of this tutorial, simply click the "Install or Update" button in the bottom correct for now. You only need to install the basic, pre-selected mods to play and install custom maps.

NOTE: On the left hand side, y'all'll see a driblet downwards menu indicating your Crush Saber version. Sometimes, afterward an update, the latest release of Mod Assistant might not technically support the latest version of Crush Saber. In this case, Modernistic Assistant should warn you lot that your Beat Saber version is newer than what the program supports. Information technology should also ask if y'all want to keep anyhow. In the past, we've successfully been able to proceed anyway and just continue the process with the about recent supported version of Crush Saber selected in Modernistic Assistant, even if it doesn't completely friction match the version we have installed. While we didn't run into whatsoever problems, this might vary on a patch-by-patch footing or might change in the future.

three. Wait for mods to finish installing.

In one case mods are finished installing, you're set to install some custom maps.

Install Custom Maps

If you didn't change any of the preset mod installs, then Mod Assistant should have installed a tool that will allow yous to search for and install custom maps in-game. You tin can find this on the left hand side of the Beat Saber main menu next to release notes. There will be a tab reading "Mods". Clicking on that tab volition offering the option "More Songs".

If you would rather install maps from your desktop and then hop into VR afterward to play them, become back to Mod Assistant and get the options tab. Under "Enable One Click Installs," tick Animal Saber (You should only need to do this once, just to turn the feature on). Then, while browsing maps on Beast Saber, y'all tin simply click the cloud-install button (pictured below) to install a map (you may need to be logged into Beast Saber, yous can annals a free business relationship).

beast saver buttons — The cloud download push button, third from the right, will install the maps from Beast Saber via Mod Banana.

When you become to one-click install a map from Beast Saber, your browser might ask if you desire to allow the site to open Mod Assistant — click aye. This will bring upwardly a Mod Assistant window showing the install progress — it will say 'Done' when the install is complete.

After downloading and installing maps, either in-game or on your desktop, they should appear in-game under a custom songs tab. Become get slicing!

Installing Without Mods

Mod Banana is an easy one-click solution when used with Creature Saber. However, if you'd rather avoid modding tools all together, you tin manually install custom songs yourself without modifying Beat Saber at all.

Simply download your custom song from Fauna Saber (or elsewhere), which should come as a Cipher file. Unzip it and copy the resulting folder. Navigate to your Shell Saber install location, then go to Crush Saber_Data\CustomLevels. Paste the unzipped custom vocal binder into your Custom Levels binder and y'all're adept to go.

That should be everything y'all need to start installing custom maps on Beat Saber for PC VR. If y'all have any questions or issues, comment below and we'll try our best to help you out.

This article was initially published in 2018 with a different, now outdated, procedure. This guide has been updated several times, almost recently on the 15th of December 2020, to reflect current methods and remove outdated ones. If you'd like to see an annal of past methods and the previous article content, check out this archive postal service here.

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Harry Baker

Harry is a gaming and tech journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. While he started his journalism career in the competitive Overwatch and esports scenes, he couldn't resist getting into the ever-evolving industry of virtual reality. Harry started with UploadVR every bit the Community Moderator before joining the full-fourth dimension staff every bit a News Writer.

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