Is it possible to make it so that you can install 2 versions of the game on Steam?
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Riamus
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You can install as many as you want, but only one can be loaded from steam. The rest need to be loaded from shortcuts.
Just copy your install folder somewhere and the install the next version from steam. Use a custom user data folder from your shortcut to keep saves and worlds separate.
If I wanted to have the old version, this would be a good option. But I want to have the last stable one and the last experimental one. Since both of them are regularly updated, it will be difficult to keep them up to date with this approach.
Riamus
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Well, only one of those gets updated at a given time. Stable doesn't change during experimental, only after it. But yes, this means reinstalls and redownloads and swapping which one is being updated by Steam. Maybe it'll be an option in the future, but if it is, it probably won't be until after gold. At which point, experimentals will mostly be gone. I know some people here have many versions installed at once. Maybe one of them can give advice for how best to manage it. My thought, and keep in mind that I only use the latest version myself, so this isn't necessarily the best option, would be:
Right now, we're in stable and not experimental. Download the current stable version and keep it updated until experimental comes again. Then move the stable folder and install experimental through Steam. Stable will not be updated during experimental, so leave stable sitting in a separate folder and let Steam keep experimental updated. Once experimental ends and stable comes along again, remove the old stable version and move the most recent experimental to its own folder and then let Steam install the latest stable version. Repeat with each round of experimental. This way, you always have the latest of both versions and only every reinstall when a new experimental version or new stable version comes out in that cycle. Everything else is just a normal update. And you'd be doing the reinstalls for those even if you weren't keeping the latest copies of each anyhow, so really the only extra step is moving the current experimental or stable from Steam to a separate folder each cycle and setting the appropriate user data folder each time.
Last night showed that you are wrong. An update for 1.0 has been released, while 1.1 is being actively tested.
Riamus
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Yes, and that was not normal and due to what they consider a major bug that couldn't wait until 1.1 stable. But even with that, it would be one extra swap of files and would still not require any additional downloads than you'd already be doing if you're keeping the newest of stable and experimental. Just one additional swap of file locations.
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