Factorio Installs - mulltiple versions

[Thayler]

Hope Im not njust being dumb but is it possible to preserve your existing version of the game (Im using 1.110).
Ive purchased 2.08 with Space Age and Id like to make a separate install if possible to be able to migrate old designs.

Thanks in advance
Thayler

[vinzenz]

Yes you can download previous versions from our website.

[Thayler]

DIdnt quite explain myself properly. Yes im aware of downloading prior versions but what id like to do is install Space Age separately to my existing game so that I can switch between the versions, ie have both available

[Sanqui]

If you download the ".zip" version, you can have the old version of the game contained in a single directory without overwriting your existing install.

[Zothar]

Using the .zip or tarball (depending on platform) downloads from the website, they run self-contained in the directory the archive is expanded/unpacked/unzipped into. I've done this a number of times to both have different versions installed and to even run more than one instance of the same version simultaneously. If you want to copy your save games and configs from an existing instance to a newly expanded/unpacked/unzipped instance, you should be able to copy all of the files and directories, that aren't already in the destination instance, in the top level directory of your source instance into the destination instance. At least on Linux (and probably Windows; macOS might be more complicated: see the last link in this post), one can clone an existing instance to a new directory by just making a copy of the entire directory tree with a new name of the destination directory, and then independently upgrade or re-configure the new instance through the GUI, etc.

viewtopic.php?f=49&t=12819 also talks about it; most of it is a few years old, but I would assume still applies. That topic also recently had this post talking about V1, but should still apply to V2: viewtopic.php?p=620892#p620892

https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... _directory may also be helpful.

[AntoninKyrene]

I’ve got 1.1.110 and 2.0.8 coexisting without issue on the same OS load. Mods appear to be a whole different story, but not a total surprise.

only tested to make sure the game would wake up, but it looks like most of my 1.x maps will not work correctly in 2.X space because some of the mods are not yet updated. (Specifically, Warheads threw an error that prevented the game from starting in 2.x, but that could be user error on my part.)