Install Visual Studio Code

For developing LUA mods, VS Code offers a fantastic development environment with lots of useful and time saving features. I strongly recommend you set it up and configure a workspace, as it really will make your life so much easier.

Follow these steps to install VS Code and enable the handy LUA helper extension:

  1. Download the Visual Studio code installer and run it.
  2. You can install VS code wherever you like. As it’s not specific to Subnautica mod development, I tend to let it install in the default folder location.
  3. Launch Visual Studio Code.
  4. Go to File > Preferences > Extensions
  5. Search for “LUA” and find the extension by “sumneko”.
  6. Click “Install” next to that extension.
  7. Click “Trust publisher and install”.

That’s all there is to installing VS Code.

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