Didn't work for me.
-Deleted appdata/roaming/strive
-created appdata/roaming/strive and put mod into folder /blah/scripts/explorationregions.gd
-deleted existing game folder on desktop
-re-extracted/installed new game folder on desktop
-used reset function in-game
-started game up again, applied mods, same issue occurred (menu unclickable/non-functioning) Noteably here: the version displayed changed from 0.5.19c to 0.5.19d
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then I repeated all of the above but skipped the reset function part, same unclickable/non-functioning menu happened.
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then did the following
-Deleted appdata/roaming/strive
-deleted existing game folder on desktop
-re-extracted/installed new game folder to desktop
-opened the game, closed the game (without going to mod menu)
-added mod appdata/roaming/strive
-opened the game, hit apply, restarted the game, nothing happens. (also tried reset/apply/reset/apply in various orders) Mod isn't applied at all and no 'Modded' shows up to the 0.5.19c version number on the menu.
-deleted appdata/strive/mod folder, reopened game. Now reads 0.5.19c 'Modded' (obviously since the file is missing/nothing changed in-game)
-readded mod to /appdata/strive/mod, opened game, still reads modded, but nothing changed in-game.
-reapplying mod nothing happens, reset mod nothing happens, different orders of reset/apply don't work as well when starting from step 1 of this.
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tried all of the above, both in and out of administrator, didn't matter at all-- same results. Repeated all of the above (again) on windows 10 64x laptop, same result, didn't work. I guess I could try the linux version, I don't know of there'd be a difference. Its a mystery.