wtf is ostrasort?

Ostrasort is a mod manager for the game Ostranauts, made by Blue Bottle Games. You run it before launching the game, and it checks your whole set of installed mods, tells you in plain words whether everything looks healthy, and helps you fix problems if there are any. The core issue it solves is that Ostranauts loads mods in a specific order listed in a file, and when two mods change the same thing, the game quietly keeps only one change and drops the other, without warning the player. Sorting that out by hand means reading raw JSON files and guessing at the correct order. Ostrasort shows a health card that answers whether you are okay to play: green means nothing to do, amber lists each issue in plain language with a one click fix, and red means the game itself reported a problem after its last launch, with Ostrasort naming the responsible mod. It scans the base game plus your local, Steam Workshop, and BepInEx mods, figures out what each one actually changes, and suggests a load order with the smallest possible change from your current setup. When two mods genuinely conflict, it can build a small compatibility patch that merges both changes together, for example combining two mods' shop inventories so neither one loses its items, and it walks you through any remaining disagreements with a short guided wizard. Beyond those core features, Ostrasort works as a full mod manager: you can enable, disable, or remove mods, install one from a zip file that never came through the Workshop, save your setup as a named profile, and manage more than one game installation. It keeps a backup of every change with full undo and redo, can read the game's log after a launch to point errors at the specific mod that caused them, and can generate a shareable report or a pre-filled bug report. Every feature is also available from the command line for scripting. The project supports mods installed outside the Steam Workshop, including one called FFU, though it recommends using only Steam Workshop mods since FFU ties itself to one exact game version. The tool is Windows only, in early and admittedly unstable development, and edits your load order file directly, so the author recommends backing up your save first. It is released under the MIT license and is not affiliated with Blue Bottle Games.