Support for space exploration mod with the new expansion?

[SWINKA PEPPA]

Hi folks, I'm curious to get an answer on support for existing mods with the new expansion.
I've just purchased and installed the expansion and upon launching the game, a lot of mods where marked as incompatible with the new version. That makes sense, my question is

how can I turn off the space age expansion to keep playing the older version of factorio with space exploration mod? I feel that I would like to come back to that older save some time in the future and wondering what the suggested steps are.

[Scipione]

right click your game -> settings -> beta -> change to old version

[Fel]

You need to do more than turning off space age, you will need to go back to 1.1.110 through the steam properties for the game (right click the game in your library), then in the "beta" tab.

[Qwazzy]

It might be possible to keep a separate older version in another folder by downloading the standalone game from the factorio website instead of steam, assuming they let you do that.

I play Factorio on Archipelago Multiworld sometimes, which requires a second instance of Factorio to run as a "server" controlling unlocks and item transfers, so my second instance is another copy of the game running standalone that I downloaded from the factorio site.

Not sure how viable this would be if they already updated though, I don't know if they allow you to download older builds.

[Khaylain]

Originally posted by Qwazzy:

It might be possible to keep a separate older version in another folder by downloading the standalone game from the factorio website instead of steam, assuming they let you do that.

I play Factorio on Archipelago Multiworld sometimes, which requires a second instance of Factorio to run as a "server" controlling unlocks and item transfers, so my second instance is another copy of the game running standalone that I downloaded from the factorio site.

Not sure how viable this would be if they already updated though, I don't know if they allow you to download older builds.

They do allow you to download quite a few older builds from factorio.com, but there's also a fair few older versions in the Steam Beta tab for the game as Fel described too

[andy-scull]

As discussed in other threads, you can get a separate version of factorio with it's own saves/mods/config.
Just download it from the original site, select "Download old releases" and then 1.x and the "zip" windows alternative package. This version should keep all saves/mods inside the folder where you unpack it instead of central location which steam version uses.
For linux/mac sorry don't know if their installs are 'portable' by default.
Actually used this with my SE game, maybe I'll continue it sometimes if SE won't be updated for DLC anymore.

p.s. run the game once, it will create the folder for mods, so you know where to copy yor mods and saves folders. Don't copy over config, it keeps some path settings and will break the standalone setup. Copying whole mods and saves folder from original save location in appdata let me just continue my SE game like nothing changed

[SWINKA PEPPA]

I'll try this out. Many thanks!