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Hi Runey,

still love this project. I do have a question that I can't seem to find the answer to though. Whenever a new version is released, how should one update the game?

Since you said, copying save files from one version to the next is problematic, is there a way to update the game while keeping the saves? If not, then it should be a thing to keep in mind before version 1.0.

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Updating is simple - previously, you had to merely download the new file and delete the old. Simplicity itself, but as each update added more content, this got tedious for download times.
As the patch notes for 0.13.2 say, they added the framework to add just the update alone to your existing game. Again quite simple - there's a readme file within the patch, that explains all you have to do is delete a couple files then replace em with ones of the same name from the patch. Couldn't be easier, in fact Runey could potentially make an executable file to do it for you, since a surprising amount of people have difficulty with merely "delete and replace a few files".


As for the saves, that's been answered literally every day in the Discord, and on rare occasion here.
On PC, you don't have to do anything. Your saves are stored separate from the game, in AppData, and are thus always safe.
On Android, they seem to be stored within the game folder, so unless using the patching process described above, all you need do is manually move your saves from the old game folder to the new one before deleting the old game folder. Since y'know, deleting where your saves are stored will delete the saves, unsurprisingly.
The patching process does not involve deleting the folder, so now that step is removed too.