Steam Deck - Mods

[Ariii]

Curious if anyone knows how to run the game with mods on the Steam Deck? Everytime I run it, the gray screen doesn't allow me to hit play and just get stuck in the back screen mode.

[Superstarsage]

modthespire runs in java iirc. So you'd need that in the Proton environment. After that, I dunno because I do not have a steamdeck. Might have to cave and do it in windows w/ java installed.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Slay the Spire is native, you shouldn't be running it through Proton. And Spire itself is also Java, all dependences are packaged with it or else the game wouldn't run at all.

I'm still waiting on my Deck, Q2 gang, so I can't help you. Does the SteamOS UI bring up the launch dialog to choose Slay the Spire/Slay the Spire with Mods? I know Steam can be a little annoying with skipping those dialogs depending on how you launch your games.

[Phosphophyllite]

I have the same problems. The mod window at the start of the game load but is black. It flickers when you click.

[Ariii]

Originally posted by Mega Missingno.:

Slay the Spire is native, you shouldn't be running it through Proton. And Spire itself is also Java, all dependences are packaged with it or else the game wouldn't run at all.

I'm still waiting on my Deck, Q2 gang, so I can't help you. Does the SteamOS UI bring up the launch dialog to choose Slay the Spire/Slay the Spire with Mods? I know Steam can be a little annoying with skipping those dialogs depending on how you launch your games.

Q2 as well, just received mine on 4/14. Took like a week between receiving the email and shipping.

But yes, it'll show the launch dialog, however no way to select it and then automatically goes to black screen like it is loading.

[Germican]

I hope that as the amount of delivered steam decks increases, the pressure for a steam deck mod compatibility mode rises as well. If I knew how to program it myself, I´d have done it already :(

[Memorable]

Hey guys, if you launch StS with mods on SD, 1) use beta branch for controls to work and 2) use the touchscreen to change the order of the mods on the left side once you reach the black screen upon launching with mods. It will flicker and is very buggy, but you can get it to work like that.

Good luck, hope this helps someone. Had mine working through this method for a long while now I'm having the issue that the ModTheSpire console is showing up while the game with mods are on, flickering between StS and MtS and rendering the game unplayable. But it DID work for a long while, lol.

[Ariii]

Originally posted by Memorable:

Hey guys, if you launch StS with mods on SD, 1) use beta branch for controls to work and 2) use the touchscreen to change the order of the mods on the left side once you reach the black screen upon launching with mods. It will flicker and is very buggy, but you can get it to work like that.

Good luck, hope this helps someone. Had mine working through this method for a long while now I'm having the issue that the ModTheSpire console is showing up while the game with mods are on, flickering between StS and MtS and rendering the game unplayable. But it DID work for a long while, lol.

Thank you! A little annoying with the whole screen flickering, but at least I can use mods!

[Legion King]

I got mine to work i went into properies and changed the proton version to the bottom one 3.7 8 or some ish and it takes a couple tries to get past the flickering mod launch screen then it has no issues other than having to use touch screen / track pad.

If that doesnt work start at the bottom option then go through them till u get to the bottom proton and it should work.
Just mess with it if you want it to work that bad
You may have to switch them around again when adding more mods but i hope this helps someone.

[Nick]

Bumping this as it's still a super janky experience to get mods enabled. (I eventually got it as describe above with the flickering.)

A more-Deck-compatible mod UI would be great. Thanks!