Please be sure to read the instructions for the Debug mod. It explicitly states that it is a manual patch and not installed using the mod system, so selecting it in the Mods menu will have no effect.
From what I can make out from the screenshot your "AricsExpansion" is spelled correctly, so you have some other issue.
Also, the mods are essentially always source code as the game is open source and the mod system works by editing the game's code to include the mod's code.
oh that explains it! i didn't realize that's how debug mode worked ^^' unselected it in the mod menu + put it in the right spot and everything's working fine now! my guess is the first go around was the aricsexpansion-main issue and then i was a dunderhead with debug mode, thank you so much! (misunderstood the ingame instructions of debug as it not being visible right away/in the mod menu, not that it wouldn't be in the mod folder until i looked at the txt file)
