owet41 Posted April 22 Report Posted April 22 Hello, I'm trying to update my game to 1.22 and it will not let me. I'm on M3 Mac and when i try to open the VS application it doesn't let me, Says the file is "damaged". Will not let me "open anyways" in security settings, need some help. I might be doing the install steps backwards. Please help
LadyWYT Posted April 22 Report Posted April 22 Have you tried looking through the information on this page? https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Installing_the_game_on_MacOS#Known_issues_generally_on_macOS:
Kanenas Posted April 23 Report Posted April 23 I had the same problem and fixed it by downloading .net 10 as opposed to .net 8 that was used before. The wiki hasnt been updated on the change. Make sure to use the x64 rather than the version made for apple silicon chips Im on an m4 macbook air and made the mistake of downoading the arm64 version first
Kanenas Posted April 23 Report Posted April 23 9 hours ago, LadyWYT said: Have you tried looking through the information on this page? https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Installing_the_game_on_MacOS#Known_issues_generally_on_macOS: .net 8 from the direct download link doesnt seem to work for the new update, .net 10 works perfectly for me, the wiki just hasnt been updated on it yet
beyto Posted April 29 Report Posted April 29 (edited) I had the same problem. If updating .net 10 doesn't work, you need to remove macOS's quarantine attribute from the app. Open the terminal and run this command: sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <game-path> For me it was like this: sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Vintage\ Story.app Then it will ask for your login password, just type and press enter (your password won't show up when typing) and that should do it. Edited April 30 by beyto 1 2
Erick Galvan Posted May 7 Report Posted May 7 On 4/22/2026 at 8:14 PM, Kanenas said: I had the same problem and fixed it by downloading .net 10 as opposed to .net 8 that was used before. The wiki hasnt been updated on the change. Make sure to use the x64 rather than the version made for apple silicon chips Im on an m4 macbook air and made the mistake of downoading the arm64 version first Thank you so much!! This worked for me. 1
topazcurse Posted June 29 Report Posted June 29 On 4/29/2026 at 7:28 PM, beyto said: I had the same problem. If updating .net 10 doesn't work, you need to remove macOS's quarantine attribute from the app. Open the terminal and run this command: sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <game-path> For me it was like this: sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Vintage\ Story.app Then it will ask for your login password, just type and press enter (your password won't show up when typing) and that should do it. i love you this fixed it 1
monafied Posted August 7 Report Posted August 7 what's the command for vintage story 2 because if I run the usual command it tells me no such file exists. (which I know it doesn't I just don't know what to type instead)
Diff Posted August 7 Report Posted August 7 (edited) 47 minutes ago, minaboat said: what's the command for vintage story 2 because if I run the usual command it tells me no such file exists. (which I know it doesn't I just don't know what to type instead) just do "sudo xattr -rc " make sure to leave a space at the end, then drag and drop the vintage story app into the terminal and hit enter. Video here: https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/20855-122-download/#findComment-111104 Edited August 7 by Diff 2
liameno Posted September 14 Report Posted September 14 On 8/7/2026 at 2:05 PM, Diff said: just do "sudo xattr -rc " make sure to leave a space at the end, then drag and drop the vintage story app into the terminal and hit enter. Video here: https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/20855-122-download/#findComment-111104 thank you so much this worked for me on my intel mac
ozoluskreyu Posted yesterday at 02:54 AM Report Posted yesterday at 02:54 AM sadly this took more of my time than i wanted it to. Unfortunately not documented well in the download page. this is dependent on whether you're running on an INTEL mac or an APPLE SILICON mac. if you're running on intel, download the x64 versions of both the game and the dotnet runtime. if you're running on apple silicon, make sure you download both the arm64 version for the dotnet runtime, AND the game. to be clear: on apple silicon, the files should be called arm64, on intel, the files should be called x64. You may have to click the "mirror" button on the vintagestory download page to make sure you download the right version for your architecture. Then you must run this command: sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <game-path> This is what workd for me. the reason why it took so long for me to figure out was because the major download link for macos on the vintagestory download is for intel macs only, unless you click the 'mirror' button. "mirror" typically implies mirrored files from mirrors, not files compiled for different architectures, this is what confused me. Follow these steps and it should work for apple silicon macs.
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