In order to use "Cooked" file mods you must first. These types of mods will not work on mac

1.Unhide App extensions

For Windows 11
Open File Explorer from the taskbar.
Select the VIEW tab go to the show options and select HIDDEN ITEMS

For Windows 10
Open FILE EXPLORER from the taskbar.
Select the VIEW Tab go to OPTIONS and select the change folder and search options
Select the VIEW tab, in advanced settings select show hidden folders, files, and drives
Select Ok2. Find the sfpaks folder ( must be using the steam version)
Open FIle Explorer and select you main drive that your game is stored on should look like Windows (C):
Open PROGRAM FILES (x86)
Scroll down and open STEAM
Scroll down and select STEAMAPPS
Open COMMON
Open DAYS GONE
Open BENDGAME
Open CONTENT
Rename sfpaks to sfpakss by clicking the folder, pause a second then click it again and will allow you to alter the name of the folder
3. (This is where unhiding the app extensions comes into play) Open the folder for whatever you computer is named mine is Ryan ******
If you don't know the name of your computer go to and open your main windows drive should look like WINDOWS (C):
Select users
It should be fairly obvious which one is the computers name open that
Open APPDATA it should be a lighter colored folder name than the rest
Open LOCAL folder
Open BENDGAME

4. Drag the COOKED folder from the mod from wherever you saved the mod into the opened folder showing a long number, config, config, cooked, logs, paks
It will ask you if you want to merge the folders , select merge
Now the mod is saved into your game. You can remove it at any time by going into the cooked folder and deleting any files that show up in there
(Notes) if you are having an issue with removing a mod and it doesnt appear to get removed from your game whenever you want to remove it it may be the type of mod that gets baked into your specific save permanently i don't know which of my mods do this at this time.For ones that can be removed You can VERIFY INTEGRITY of the games files and it will remove all mods from your game. If you are using vortex for other pak mods the mods will be there but theyve just been disconnected from the game. All you have to do is redeploy the mods on vortex. You may have to go back and rename sfpaks to sfpakss again im not sure.
To verify integrity of the game open steam app
Open Library
Right click on Days Gone and open properties
Select Local Files then click verify integrity of game files


This is the best way to go about removing every mod instead of having to manually delete every mod or removing them all on vortex one at a time which is a pain ( if you ever want to quickly disconnect but not remove all mods on vortex select purge mods option above the mod list