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RiftLauncher 1.7.0-beta.1

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The first RiftLauncher release. This is a beta for early testers: expect rough edges, and back up your worlds before pointing it at an existing installation.

RiftLauncher is the Stratum team's continuation of VS Launcher, archived by its original author at 1.6.1. Everything the launcher does today started there; since the fork, the team has rebuilt most of what sits under the hood.

What's in the box

  • Install any Vintage Story version, create separate installations with their own mods, worlds and configs, manage backups, browse and install mods from the ModDB.
  • Windows installs no longer hang. The official game installer can freeze silently when an old uninstall entry lingers in the registry. RiftLauncher now reads the installer's archive directly instead of running it, so that freeze cannot happen. Verified on a real Windows machine: 20,084 files extracted, each checked against its embedded hash, with the problematic registry key deliberately present.
  • Login works again, including two-factor accounts. The game's auth server had started rejecting the way the old launcher talked to it.
  • Version downloads follow the current official catalog again on both Windows and Linux, including archives the previous tooling could not unpack.
  • Clear error messages: every failure the launcher can hit now tells you what happened and what to try, instead of failing silently.
  • Under the hood: 1,045 automated tests with coverage enforced above 85%, continuous integration on Windows and Linux, quality tracking on SonarCloud.

Living next to VS Launcher

Installing RiftLauncher does not touch an existing VS Launcher setup: the two coexist. RiftLauncher reads the same data folder VS Launcher used, so your versions, installations and mods appear immediately. Anything you change from RiftLauncher is changed for real (it is the same data), so back up first.

Downloads

  • Windows: riftlauncher-1.7.0-beta.1-setup.exe
  • Linux: the AppImage (auto-updates) or the deb package

macOS is not supported yet. Report anything odd on the issues page or the Stratum Discord.

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