TUTORIAL: how to downgrade to update 8 (assuming you want to still do mods) WORKS FOR STEAM ONLY.
WRITTEN FOR WINDOWS 10/11.
So, you still want to play your massive satisfactory plus save game? I got you covered
(also server mods ur welcome to pin this if you think thats useful)
To downgrade your normal steam install to update 8:
1: Open steam console by pressing win+R and entering steam://open/console
2: Paste "download_depot 526870 526871 3476661353313461322" (without the quotation marks) into the steam console and hit enter. This is going to take ages and will NOT show any indicator that it is downloading.
3: When the download is finished, it's going to output a message to the console window that says the file path that it downloaded to. By default it should go to /steamapps/temp in your steam library (if you have more than one steam library, it may go to one of them rather than the normal steam folder)
4: Open that file location in file explorer (or just make a note of it). You need it for step 6
5: Go into your steam library, navigate to Satisfactory and click on the gear icon. Select "Manage", then "Browse local files".
6: Delete everything except the three text files in the main satisfactory folder (pictured in attachment). Copy the files from the folder you opened in step 4 into it
7: At this point, you have successfully downgraded. you may need to rename FactoryGame.exe to FactoryGameSteam.exe or vice versa but you should be able to use SMM to install mods and run the game as normal. I believe SMM checks the game version and installs compatible mods, but as mods update you may need to manually select versions.
if you want to have both update 8 and the 1.0 version at the same time, see the message I sent under this (curse you character limit):
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Files to keep are selected (your folder will look different to mine but it will have these 3 files)
To dual install:
1: Use SMM to add the mods you want. You WILL NOT be able to use SMM to manage mods once this is done, so make sure that you have all the mods you want and that the game runs at a level of stability you're happy with.
2: Pick a folder or make one in a hard drive that has 40ish free gigabytes of space. Copy ALL the contents of the satisfactory folder to this folder.
3: Right click on FactoryGame.exe (or FactoryGameSteam.exe) and select create shortcut. Move that shortcut to your desktop (or wherever you want it i'm not your mom)
4: Right click on that shortcut and select properties. Under the shortcut tab, add -noSteamClient after the file path (for example, mine reads E:\depot_526871\Satisfactory\FactoryGame.exe -noSteamClient)
5: Go back to steam, navigate to satisfactory, open properties, then installed files and select verify integrity of installed files. this will restore the steam install to 1.0.
from now on, if you want to use your modded update 8 game, just click the shortcut on your desktop. if you want to play the 1.0 version, just run through steam like normal. I should note the modded version does not work for multiplayer and I do not know how to do that.
deleted my original message, but for the record the modding site documentation is user contributed, so improving that is probably better than making a thread which will be buried
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i wanted to make an easier to use tutorial, as well as add in how to dual install (since i couldnt finda good tutorial either)
this is also for specifically update 8
so not broadly aplicable (i did the whole finding the right depot for people already
i will also put in a mod docs suggestion, but i figured that would take a bit so this is here for folks if the need it!