god_ferny

np! enjoy!

thank you! i’ll add it to the guide as soon as i’m home tonight!

setting up sudo on a steam deck is incredibly easy. infact this is the method i used on my deck and main pc. i would suggest doing a quick google search on how to use sudo on a deck

first time writing a guide so this might be sloppy but i will continue to edit it with updated information and a cleaner layout first things first download the flatpak vintage story image from the flatpak repo: the offical link next navigate to the flatpak install folder default on debain based systems /var/lib/flatpak the navigate to the vintage story files /app/at.vinstagestory.VintageStory now we need to find the actual game files, which is very hidden and kinda annoying to get to so here is MY full path /var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra now you could delete the outdated vs files by running BE CAREFUL WITH RM -RF WITH AS SUDO IT CAN IRREVERSIBLY DELETE THINGS WITHOUT WARNING sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra/vintagestory then extracting the client tar in its place (thank you @Salzor) sudo tar -xvzf /path/to/vs_client_linux-x64_*.tar.gz -C /var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra/ you can get the zip from the downloads portal and this guide should work for any version of VS remeber to change "/path/to/vs_client/" to the path of your downloaded tar usually located in "~/Downloads/" make sure your game is now installed to /var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra/ done! now the vintage story flatpak shortcut should open v1.20.0-rc.1 or any other verison, this doesn't need to be a 20.0 specific guide here is a simple shell script to do everything automatically, to use it simple just create a .sh file and paste this in, then chmod +x name.sh my github to the script for anyone who wants to download it directly #! /bin/bash #Defined Vars REMOTE_FILE_URL="https://cdn.vintagestory.at/gamefiles/unstable/vs_client_linux-x64_1.20.0-rc.6.tar.gz" # URL of the remote file REMOTE_FILE_DOWNLOAD="/home/$USER/Downloads/vs_client.tar.gz" # Local path to save the file VS_FLATPAK_DIR="var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra/vintagestory/" if [ -d "$VS_FLATPAK_DIR" ]; then echo "please input your password when asked to delete the required files, make sure you backup everything vs related" echo "deleting vs data" sudo rm -rf VS_FLATPAK_DIR wget "$REMOTE_FILE_URL" -O "$REMOTE_FILE_DOWNLOAD" echo "now extracting the tar in its place" sudo tar -xvzf /home/$USER/Downloads/vs_client.tar.gz -C /var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra/ echo "vs should now be installed! enjoy~" else echo "vs is not installed via flatpak" fi rm table r - recursive f - force without asking tar table x - extract files from an archive v - verbosely list files processed z - filter the archive through gzip f - use archive file or device ARCHIVE C - change to directory DIR

so little hacky way to install it but it works so /shrug download the zip from the website install the flatpack version navigate to cd var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra rm -rf vintagestory then copy and paste the zip file with 20.0 in its place