diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/Steam.cs b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/Steam.cs
index 57516875b56..629e425fda9 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/Steam.cs
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/Steam.cs
@@ -44,11 +44,12 @@ internal class Steam
 		}
 
 		internal static void SetAppId(AppId_t appId) {
-			Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("STEAMGAMEID", appId.ToString());
-			Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("STEAMOVERLAYGAMEID", appId.ToString());
-			Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("STEAMAPPID", appId.ToString());
-			//File.WriteAllText("steam_appid.txt", appId.ToString());
-			File.Delete("steam_appid.txt");
+			if (Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SteamClientLaunch") != "1") {
+				File.WriteAllText("steam_appid.txt", appId.ToString());
+			}
+			else if (Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SteamAppId") != appId.ToString()) {
+				throw new Exception("Cannot overwrite steam env. SteamAppId=" + Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SteamAppId"));
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/TerrariaSteamClient.cs b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/TerrariaSteamClient.cs
index 7302c140996..5807e3f52bb 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/TerrariaSteamClient.cs
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/ModLoader/Engine/TerrariaSteamClient.cs
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 using log4net;
 using Steamworks;
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.IO;
 using System.IO.Pipes;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
 using System.Threading;
 
 namespace Terraria.ModLoader.Engine
@@ -28,20 +31,29 @@ public enum LaunchResult
 		}
 
 		internal static LaunchResult Launch() {
-			if (Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("STEAMCLIENTLAUNCH") != "1") {
+			if (Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SteamClientLaunch") != "1") {
 				Logger.Debug("Disabled. Launched outside steam client.");
 				return LaunchResult.Ok;
 			}
 
 			serverPipe = new AnonymousPipeServerStream(PipeDirection.Out, HandleInheritability.Inheritable);
+			var tMLName = Path.GetFileName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
 			var proc = new Process() {
 				StartInfo = {
 					FileName = Environment.ProcessPath,
-					Arguments = $"tmodloader.dll -terrariasteamclient {serverPipe.GetClientHandleAsString()}",
+					Arguments = $"{tMLName} -terrariasteamclient {serverPipe.GetClientHandleAsString()}",
 					UseShellExecute = false,
 					RedirectStandardOutput = true
 				}
 			};
+
+			// clear steam env vars
+			foreach (var k in ((IEnumerable<string>)proc.StartInfo.EnvironmentVariables.Keys).ToArray()) {
+				if (k.StartsWith("steam", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) {
+					proc.StartInfo.EnvironmentVariables.Remove(k);
+				}
+			}
+
 			proc.Start();
 
 			while (true) {
diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/BashUtils.sh b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/BashUtils.sh
index 9acae888902..1540cc19c26 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/BashUtils.sh
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/BashUtils.sh
@@ -28,5 +28,7 @@ file_download() {
 # Call a script setting its permission right for execution
 run_script() {
 	chmod a+x "$1"
-	"$@"
+
+	# LD_PRELOAD="" fixes error messages from steams library linking polluting the stdout of all programs(in tree) run by run_script
+	LD_PRELOAD="" "$@"
 }
diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/InstallNetFramework.sh b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/InstallNetFramework.sh
index 2088ace31db..62959ba3e6d 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/InstallNetFramework.sh
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/InstallNetFramework.sh
@@ -78,14 +78,12 @@ if [[ ! -f "$install_dir/dotnet" && ! -f "$install_dir/dotnet.exe" ]]; then
 		# *nix binaries are various and not worth detecting the required one here, always use "on-the-fly" script install
 		file_download dotnet-install.sh https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh
 
-		run_script ./dotnet-install.sh --channel "$channel" --install-dir "$install_dir" --runtime "dotnet" --version "$dotnet_version"
+		run_script ./dotnet-install.sh --channel "$channel" --install-dir "$install_dir" --runtime "dotnet" --version "$dotnet_version" --verbose
 	fi
 fi
 
 echo "Dotnet should be present in \"$install_dir\""
-# @TODO: Re-evaluate if this needed
 if [[ ! -f "$install_dir/dotnet" && ! -f "$install_dir/dotnet.exe" ]]; then
 	echo -e "${TXTCOLOR_RED}Download of portable dotnet runtime seems to have failed,${TXTCOLOR_NC}"
-	echo -e "${TXTCOLOR_RED}proceeding will probably use system wide installed runtime${TXTCOLOR_NC}"
-	read -p "Please press Enter to try to run the game anyway... "
+	echo -e "${TXTCOLOR_RED}Proceeding will probably fall back to system wide installed runtime${TXTCOLOR_NC}"
 fi
diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh
index 1506342339a..e36ae08202f 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh
@@ -65,20 +65,25 @@ echo "Attempting Launch..."
 # Move to the root folder
 cd "$root_dir"
 
-export STEAMGAMEID=""
-export STEAMOVERLAYGAMEID=""
-export STEAMAPPID=""
-
 if [[ "$_uname" == *"_NT"* ]]; then
 	# Replace / with \\ in WINDIR env var to not confuse MonoMod about the current platform
 	# somehow busybox-w64 replaces paths in envs with normalized paths (no clue why..., maybe open an issue there?)
 	export WINDIR=${WINDIR////\\}
+
+	clear
+	sleep 1 # wait a little extra time for steam to realise that our parent process has exited
+else
+	# Kill the Steam reaper process on Linux/Mac?
+	# Sed replace all null bytes(and spaces) with spaces, grep for reaper marker.
+	if $(sed 's/\x0/ /g' /proc/$PPID/cmdline | grep -q "reaper SteamLaunch AppId=1281930"); then
+		echo "Running under Steam reaper process. Killing.." 2>&1 | tee -a "$LogFile"
+		kill -9 $PPID # _yeet_
+	fi
 fi
 
-clear
 if [[ -f "$install_dir/dotnet" || -f "$install_dir/dotnet.exe" ]]; then
 	echo "Launched Using Local Dotnet"  2>&1 | tee -a "$LogFile"
-	chmod a+x "$install_dir/dotnet"
+	[[ -f "$install_dir/dotnet" ]] && chmod a+x "$install_dir/dotnet"
 	exec "$install_dir/dotnet" tModLoader.dll "$@" 2>"$NativeLog"
 else
 	echo "Launched Using System Dotnet"  2>&1 | tee -a "$LogFile"
diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoader.sh b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoader.sh
index dbf00287f78..634dde0e3b4 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoader.sh
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoader.sh
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
 chmod a+x ./LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh
-./LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh "$@" &
-disown -r
+# forward our parent process id to the child in case ScriptCaller needs to kill the parent to break free of steam's process lifetime tracker (reaper)
+PPID=$PPID ./LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh "$@" &
diff --git a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoaderServer.sh b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoaderServer.sh
index 93228c083f2..d20bdeefa6e 100644
--- a/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoaderServer.sh
+++ b/patches/tModLoader/Terraria/release_extras/start-tModLoaderServer.sh
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ if [ $steam = "y" ]; then
 fi
 
 chmod +x ./LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh
-./start-tModLoader.sh $launch_args
\ No newline at end of file
+./LaunchUtils/ScriptCaller.sh $launch_args