1.22 Download not working. "Vintage Story is Damaged and can't be opened"

[owet41]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Erick Galvan]

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.