Setting up your environment

^{Learn how to set up your environment for modding Among Us.}

Note

This page covers setting up BepInEx for users, for making mods, see Setting up your developer environment for modding Among Us.

Among Us is a Unity Il2cpp Game. As so, BepInEx is used as a mod loader for the game.

Tip

Mod managers like Starlight PC and Bean Manager handle setting up BepInEx automatically.

Manual Installation Steps

1. Download BepInEx based on your platform: Steam, Microsoft Store and Epic Games: BepInEx-Unity.IL2CPP-win-x64-6.0.0-be.752+dd0655f.zip Itch: BepInEx-Unity.IL2CPP-win-x86-6.0.0-be.752+dd0655f.zip
2. Find your game install directory, and copy its contents to a new folder, this will be used to distinguish between your modded and un-modded game installations.
3. Unzip the BepInEx zip file into your new folder.
4. Launch the game by opening the executable (Among Us.exe), it may take some time on first launch as it downloads the required files.
5. After the first launch, a new directory will be created at BepInEx/plugins, this is where your mods will need to be placed.
6. Download mods online, most commonly GitHub. Mods are shared as DLL files, so make sure to put your DLLs inside the BepInEx/plugins folder.