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Building NoLeaves from source requires a working Gorilla Tag installation and BepInEx 5. The project is a single-assembly .NET 4.8 mod whose output path is configured to drop the compiled DLL directly into the game’s plugin directory, so there is no manual copy step after a successful build.

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Prerequisites

  • Visual Studio 2022 (any edition) with the .NET desktop development workload, or the .NET SDK with the .NET Framework 4.8 targeting pack installed separately
  • Gorilla Tag installed via Steam at the default path (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gorilla Tag\) — the .csproj references game and BepInEx DLLs using absolute paths from that location
  • BepInEx 5 installed inside the Gorilla Tag directory so that BepInEx/core/BepInEx.dll and BepInEx/core/0Harmony.dll exist
The HintPath entries in NoLeaves.ASTRA.csproj are absolute Windows paths pointing to the default Steam install location. If you installed Gorilla Tag to a different drive or directory, or if you are on a non-default Steam library, you must open the .csproj and update every HintPath to match your actual installation path before building.

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Build steps

1

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ASTRA228b/NoLeaves.ASTRA-V2.git
This creates a NoLeaves.ASTRA-V2 directory containing the solution, project file, and plugin.cs.
2

Open the solution

Open NoLeaves.ASTRA.sln in Visual Studio 2022, or build directly from the command line using the .NET SDK (see the code block below).If you are using Visual Studio, select Build > Build Solution (or press Ctrl+Shift+B).
3

Verify DLL references resolve

The .csproj references the following DLLs by absolute path:
  • BepInEx/core/BepInEx.dll
  • BepInEx/core/0Harmony.dll
  • Gorilla Tag_Data/Managed/UnityEngine.dll
  • Gorilla Tag_Data/Managed/UnityEngine.CoreModule.dll
If Visual Studio shows unresolved reference warnings, confirm that Gorilla Tag is installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gorilla Tag\ and that BepInEx 5 is present. Otherwise, update the HintPath values in the .csproj to match your install location.
4

Build the project

dotnet build NoLeaves.ASTRA.sln
The compiled NoLeaves.ASTRA.dll is written directly to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gorilla Tag\BepInEx\plugins\MO\
Because AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath is set to false in the .csproj, the DLL lands in that folder without a net48 subfolder.
5

Launch Gorilla Tag to test

Start Gorilla Tag through Steam. BepInEx will load NoLeaves.ASTRA.dll automatically from the plugins/MO/ directory. Check the BepInEx console or log file to confirm the plugin loaded without errors.

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Building from the command line

If you prefer not to open Visual Studio, the .NET SDK can build the project directly: 
dotnet build NoLeaves.ASTRA.sln --configuration Release
The output path is defined in the .csproj and does not change based on the build configuration, so Debug and Release both write to the same BepInEx/plugins/MO/ directory.

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