Examples

Every example is a complete mod, and a test loads each one on every change to the game. Copy a folder into mods/ to try it, or use it as the start of your own.

Mod	Kind	What it does
Arsenal	Data only	A data-only weapons mod: a nail gun on the machine gun's pattern with its own upgrade card, a nest of three wasp drones on the drone rack's, and a wider exhaust gun.
Smuggler's Atoll	Lua code	A map on an island of its own: a small atoll of slums and villas, with no canal, no trains and no used-car lots, on sun-bleached streets at golden hour. Its finale is code: after the five-star minute a seaplane waits at the north-east dock. Miss it, and the Collector comes.
Blackout	Data only	A new map on the City's streets during a power cut: darker roads, street lamps that fade as the heat rises, thin traffic and cable-cutter bikes that only ride there. After the five-star minute the Lineman replaces the Collector. Escaping once earns the LIVE WIRE paint.
Dashboard	Lua code	A Lua-only HUD mod: a run panel with the time, wrecks and best streak, a marker on the nearest enemy, and settings to place, fade or hide them.
Français	Data only	A French translation of the game's interface, the difficulty ladder, the run modifiers, the map names and the announcer's first line. Choose FRANÇAIS under Settings > ACCESSIBILITY > LANGUAGE and start the game again. Cards, cars, parts and paints keep their English names, which a translation can add.
Green attack bikes	Data and art	A skin: replaces the attack bike sprite with a same-size PNG. Art only.
Hard mode	Data only	Wanted levels climb twice as fast, cop cars take more hits and pay less, and laundromat upgrades cost more. Balance data only.
Nightmare difficulty	Data only	A sixth difficulty above DEATH AND TAXES!, and a gentler first step. Data only.
Rush hour modifiers	Data only	Two run modifiers for the setup page, and a better rate for DOUBLE CASH. Data only.
Scrapyard	Lua code	A Lua-only mod: a charging scrap truck the announcer counts, a card that pulls cash from wrecks, a difficulty with its own rule, a run modifier, a weapon that fires a ring of scrap and shows its reach, a new trait for the game's drone rack, and a Safehouse line with code.
Sniper cars	Data only	A cop car that keeps its distance and fires three-round fans. Data only.
Taxi	Data and art	A light, quick car with its own art (sprites/), and a taxi yellow paint. Data only.
Warlord	Lua code	A boss fight: the Warlord, a tank with two health phases, its own boss bar and music, who calls in riflemen on foot. Gunships escort it at high heat. It announces itself on the radio with a face of its own. Wrecking it three times earns a paint, and lockboxes can hold its WAR BONDS Safehouse line.