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Blobfish  [developer] 29 Sep, 2022 @ 7:12am
Common Issues related to update 1.1 and DLC
Issues related to update 1.1 and DLC

If your game is crashing or you have other weird glitches during a run, unsubscribe from all the mods:
  1. Open your Steam library and select Brotato
  2. Click on "Workshop"
  3. Open the dropdown under "Your Workshop Files" called "Your Files"
  4. Select "Subscribed Items"
  5. Click on the Button "Unsubscribe From All"
  6. Start Brotato again and check if the issue is resolved
  7. If the issue persists, try to uninstall and reinstall the game
  8. If the issue persists either post a message on Discord[discord.gg] in the #pc-bug-reports channel or create a bug report in the game with the button: F8

If your game is crashing and you don't have any mods, try to add a text file next to the game's executable with the game's ID:
  1. Right click Brotato in your library
  2. Select "properties" -> "installed files" -> "browse"
  3. Create a file named "steam_appid.txt", write "1942280" inside and place it next to Brotato.exe
  4. Restart game

If your game is still crashing after the text file fix and you don't have any mods, go on the v1.1.0.0-compat branch:
  1. Right-click Brotato in your Steam library, select "Properties" and under "Betas" select the "v1.1.0.0-compat" branch
  2. Wait until Steam finished the download and try to start Brotato
  3. If the issue persists either post a message on Discord[discord.gg] in the #pc-bug-reports channel or create a bug report in the game with the button: F8

If your progress is missing:
  1. Close the game
  2. Right-click Brotato in your Steam library, select "Properties" and under "General" disable Steam Cloud Saves
  3. Navigate to the "%appdata%/Brotato" folder
  4. In here you should find two folders. One is called "user" and the other a long number which is your Steam-ID
  5. Delete all the data in the Steam-ID folder (backup your files first)
  6. Copy the data from inside the "user" folder into the one with your Steam-ID
  7. Start the game again and check if your progress is back
  8. If the progress is back, you can reenable the Steam Cloud Saves
  9. If the issue persists either post a message on Discord[discord.gg] in the #pc-bug-reports channel or create a bug report in the game with the button: F8

If your progress is missing and there is no "user" folder:
  1. Right-click Brotato in your Steam library, select "Properties" and under "General" disable Steam Cloud Saves
  2. Open a file explorer and navigate to the "%appdata%/Brotato" folder
  3. In here you should find a folder with a long number which is your Steam-ID
  4. Delete any files with "save_v2" in the name
  5. Start the game. Your old savefile is converted into the new v2 format
  6. Quit Brotato and turn Cloud Sync back on. It should complain about being out of sync.
  7. Make sure to upload the local changes to the cloud

If you participated in the beta but now are missing progress that you achieved after you switched back from the beta to the default branch (this will recreate a save from your main branch's current save, so the beta progress will be lost):
  1. Right-click Brotato in your Steam library, select "Properties" and under "General" disable Steam Cloud Saves
  2. Open a file explorer and navigate to the "%appdata%/Brotato" folder (~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1942280/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData
    on Steam Deck)
  3. In here you should find a folder with a long number which is your Steam-ID
  4. Delete any files with "save_v2" in the name (backup your files first)
  5. Start the game. Your old savefile is converted into the new v2 format
  6. Quit Brotato and turn Cloud Sync back on. It should complain about being out of sync.
  7. Make sure to upload the local changes to the cloud

If you have a black screen when launching the game:
  1. Right-click Brotato in your Steam library, select "Properties" and under "General" disable Steam Cloud Saves
  2. Open a file explorer and navigate to the "%appdata%/Brotato" folder (~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1942280/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData
    on Steam Deck)
  3. In here you should find a folder with a long number which is your Steam-ID
  4. Open the file named "save_v2.json", search for "fullscreen". It should look like this: "fullscreen": true, change this to "fullscreen": false, and save it.
  5. Launch the game and see if it's still blackscreen
  6. If it works you can reactivate Steam Cloud

If you're getting the "Mods have been temporarily disabled" multiple times even though you don't have mods installed anymore:
  1. Open a file explorer and navigate to the "%appdata%/Brotato" folder
  2. Go into the "logs" folder
  3. Delete all the files in there
  4. Start the game. It should now work.

If your character doesn't move or has chopped up movement with the keyboard:
  1. Disconnect all your controllers
Last edited by Blobfish; 26 Oct @ 2:10am
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Tarditato 6 Dec, 2023 @ 1:29am 
My save has been deleted, what do I do?
It probably still exists but is not loaded, usually because you changed your method of launching the game OR before v0.5.11c if you went from offline to online. When launching the game from Steam, the save file used will be located in AppData/Roaming/Brotato/<steam_id> but when launching directly from the executable or a shortcut it'll use the save located at AppData/Roaming/Brotato/user.

So try to use the same method as the one you used to make progress. If you want to change your launching method, move the files from one location to the other. Create a backup of the files before making changes and deactivate Steam Cloud while moving the files to avoid issues. (reactivate it afterwards)

My game crashes or freezes often, what do I do?
It might be because of performance issues. You can disable the Visual Effects, Damage Numbers, Explosions and Screen Darkening options which should help with that.

After a crash, you can view more details about the crash by viewing the game's log file:

1. In Windows Explorer, paste
%APPDATA%\Brotato\logs
into the address bar and press enter.

2. Open the
godot.log
file in notepad. Look at the last few lines of this file for details about the crash. These lines are important to include if you are reporting the issue on the steam forums or on discord.

My game crashes after the Godot screen, what do I do?
If you're subscribed to any Steam workshop mod, unsubscribe from all of them, relaunch Steam and launch the game. If that fixes it it means one of the mods you're using is causing a crash.

If the game never worked, try using the "gles2" branch and see if it works there. Right click on Brotato => properties => betas => select "gles2" and launch the game. It's a special branch which uses OpenGL 2 instead of OpenGL 3 which might not be supported by older graphics cards.

I'm on Linux / Proton and my progress doesn't get saved, what do I do?
This seems to be an issue with Godot, @DireYoshi (Discord) has looked into it and has found steps that can be followed to fix the issue:

- navigate into ~/.local/share (if this doesn't exists please 'mkdir' any missing folders.
- Create a symlink to the actual wine windows steam app path
- Example on my system: '/home/yoshi/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/compatdata/1942280/pfx/dosdevices/c:/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Brotato/76561197979248244'
- Note what matters here is finding that AppData Brotato folder
- You'll need to symlink to the base there like so with this example:
yoshi@blueyoshi:~/.local/share$ ln -s /home/yoshi/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/compatdata/1942280/pfx/dosdevices/c:/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Brotato/ Brotato
- you may also need to create a logs folder in the Brotato/76561197979248244 directory by running mkdir logs

Note by @Skye (Discord):
While testing some stuff we had some issues trying to get that fix working with a flatpak install of steam on an affected system so it might be worth mentioning that players may need to switch to the standard apt install version to get the fix working until it can be fixed upstream.

Reply by @inlart (Discord):
I also had the progress not saved in flatpak Steam and figured out how to fix it.
Instead of ~/.local/share (suggest in the common issues channel) the symlink has to be created in the flatpak apps .local/share. For me this was in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share.
The location of the AppData Brotato directory is also different for the flatpak Steam version. As a one-liner something like this might do the trick:
cd ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/ && ln -s $HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1942280/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Brotato/ Brotato
Last edited by Tarditato; 9 Dec, 2023 @ 1:14am
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