2026.08.33

Pick where your data lives

Linux and macOS installs are no longer stuck with ~/.local/share/BetterTroveTools. Settings → Directories → Data Folder points settings, caches and downloads anywhere you like — a second drive, a larger partition, a path your distribution's sandbox actually allows.

The choice can't live in settings.json (that file sits inside the folder being moved), so it's kept in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/BetterTroveTools/data_dir. Prefer environment variables, or setting it before the app ever starts? BTT_DATA_DIR does the same job and takes priority over the setting. Either way the path is created and write-tested before it's accepted, files already saved stay where they are, and the new location is used from the next launch.

Windows keeps %APPDATA%/Trove and doesn't show the setting — the game itself reads mod configs from that folder, so moving it would quietly break them.