Every time you launch 7 Days to Die, you’re greeted by the same title screen. “Random Mainmenu Background” appears to be a MOD that lets you register multiple background images and logos, then randomly picks and displays one each time the game starts. The author is closererex, and the category is Utilities.
What kind of MOD is it?
It’s easiest to think of this MOD as providing a foundation that makes the main menu’s background elements “swappable.” Used on its own, you can enjoy a rotation of backgrounds to your own taste, and other MODs sometimes rely on it as the underlying mechanism for their own “random background” features.
According to the author, this is basically a client only MOD. Even if another MOD requires it, as long as you’re fine with the standard background, removing this MOD is very unlikely to break your game. The low barrier to installing and removing it is reassuring.
Main features
- Randomly selects a background and logo each time the game launches (if nothing is registered, the standard ones are loaded)
- Lets you register multiple backgrounds and logos individually
- The setup appears to be self-contained on the client side, so there’s basically no impact on the server
Installation tips
As with a typical MOD, you extract and place it into the Mods folder. From there, you need to register the images you want to display: in XUi_Menu/xui.xml, add a window_group named menuBackground plus an arbitrary identifier for backgrounds, and mainMenuLogo plus an arbitrary identifier for logos. Then, in XUi_Menu/windows.xml, define the actual window (image texture) in the same way as the normal background and logo. That’s the flow described. One of the registered candidates is chosen at random, and if there are no candidates, it falls back to the standard background.
Since this work assumes some familiarity with editing XML and swapping textures, if it’s your first time, the safest approach is to start by copying the author’s sample entries exactly as they are.
Who is it for?
- Anyone a little tired of the same title screen every time who wants to change the mood
- Anyone who wants to bring their own custom or favorite background images into the game
- Anyone who needs to install it as a prerequisite for another MOD that uses random backgrounds
Since it’s a lightweight customization MOD that adds visual flair, it’s a title you can try casually without affecting game balance.