# How do I copy a mod **URL:** \ **Category:** IV - Modding\ **Created:** [November 8, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-mod/281695 "2025-11-08T15:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BCDDD02](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/bcddd02/32/146888_2.png) [@BCDDD02](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/BCDDD02)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-mod/281695/1 "2025-11-08T15:29:12Z")
How do I copy a mod I have made so that I can alter it and make a new mod? For example, I have created a mod that alters max pop and most units individual pop. I want to keep this mod as is, but I also want a mod that uses those same values but where I alter many units other values, but I don’t want to have to rebuild the original mod. Every way I have tried ends up making my original mod not work. ---
**Author:** ![DeathDisk](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/deathdisk/32/202523_2.png) [@DeathDisk](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/DeathDisk)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-mod/281695/2 "2025-11-11T21:14:51Z")
Open your mod in EssenceEditor (Content Editor). Then click File → Save As → Save as a new mod and build to that one, should be a different build now. ---
**Author:** ![BCDDD02](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/bcddd02/32/146888_2.png) [@BCDDD02](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/BCDDD02)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-mod/281695/3 "2025-11-29T16:07:44Z")
this doesn’t seem to work for me, or maybe I’m doing something wrong. When I do that, the new mod doesn’t populate on the list of mods in the Content Editor, and it also doesn’t populate in the in game mod list.