Is it possible to revert to a previous version of Vintage Story?

[Zarenth]

Apologies if this has already been asked. 

I am wondering if it is possible to revert to a previous version of Vintage Story?

I am hesitant to update to the newer version as I am in a good spot on my current save and not all the mods I use have been updated to work with the newer version. 

I am just wondering if the ability exists to revert to the previous version if everything breaks in my current world. 

[Diff]

@Zarenth Make sure to back up your world in case upgrading breaks it. But yeah you can downgrade. 

[Zarenth]

Thank you, 

How would one go about doing that? 

Just in case. 

 

[dakko]

5 hours ago, Zarenth said:

I am hesitant to update to the newer version as I am in a good spot on my current save and not all the mods I use have been updated to work with the newer version. 

I do not believe you can revert to an earlier version.  (sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking; Diff is correct about getting earlier versions from the client area)

HOWEVER... you can have multiple versions installed and play whichever one you'd like. @Streetwind wrote up a guide on how it is done:

Guide: Multiple Parallel Installations of Vintage Story

Edited 5 hours ago by dakko

[Diff]

1 hour ago, Zarenth said:

Thank you, 

How would one go about doing that? 

Just in case. 

Go about downgrading? Go the client download area and click "(Show all available downloads and mirrors of Vintage Story)" to show older versions. Go about backing up worlds? They're stored in your VintagestoryData folder, copy them somewhere safe, and copy them back if you need to revert. Loading a world in a newer version of the game will update it and can make it incompatible with older versions, so backing up is an important step if you might want to go backwards.

Code mods are all incompatible between 1.21 and 1.22 so you'll get crashes unless you make sure you purge any that don't belong with whatever version you're currently running. It can be a bit of a mess of things to manage, so multiple parallel installations like dakko said is probably a smoother way to test.

Edited 6 hours ago by Diff

[Zarenth]

Thank you both, 

This is very helpful.