Get credited for your mods

BMM shows a “Support the creator” button on mods people already love — here’s how to make sure it points at you.

If you publish on the official BeamNG repository, BMM often finds you automatically — a support link on your resource page comes through with the mod.

If you distribute anywhere else — Patreon, Discord, your own site — BMM has no way to know a mod is yours. The creator marker fixes that: one small file inside your zip, and from your next release onward, every player on BMM 0.8.17 or newer who installs that build sees your support link — automatically. It can't retro-fit copies people downloaded before you added the file.

The template

Save this as bmm.json at the root of your mod's zip — next to your mod's top-level folders, not inside one:

{
  "bmm": 1,
  "user_id": 369484,
  "support": "https://www.patreon.com/YourName"
}

Use your BeamNG forum user id — the number in your forum profile URL, e.g. /members/yourname.369484/ — and/or your support link. A support link works on its own; a user id alone shows the button only once BMM's curated creator listings include you.

The rules

• The bmm field is required, and must be exactly the number 1.
• user_id is your numeric BeamNG forum id (1–10 digits). If BMM's curated creator listings already include you, this lights up your whole catalog — and the curated link always takes precedence over the one in this file.
• support is an https link on one of exactly five platforms: Patreon, Ko-fi, Buy Me a Coffee, Gumroad, or Boosty. Links on any other domain are ignored — BMM never opens anything outside those five.
• Save the file as UTF-8. In Notepad: Save As → Encoding, UTF-8. UTF-16 (“Unicode”) encoding will not be read.
• Malformed or oversized files (over 16 KB) are simply ignored — they never break your mod.
• Unknown extra fields are ignored too, so this format can grow later without breaking older BMM versions.

Questions creators ask