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It would be nice to add

StartupWMClass=Vintage Story

to .desktop file. To ensure that the game icon is displayed properly in the panel/dash in a Wayland session.

In version 1.18.8, the developers switched from Mono to .NET 7. I believe I've updated the package properly to reflect that, but if you have any issues, let me know.

If you edited your launcher for the game like I did, you might have to delete ~/.local/share/applications/vintagestory.desktop for the globally installed one to take effect again. (Or apply the changes yourself as you see fit.)

@copygirl After testing things out i found out the error is because my .cache folder is a zfs dataset. When it's on a normal partition it works. Maybe an inherent flaw of zfs or a misconfiguration. I haven't investigated further.

@RedSkuller That line from the PKGBUILD has worked for me and others since the package was first created. I also confirmed the latest version of the package still builds and the game runs for me. Could it be caused by something else?

vintage story fails to install.

==> Starting package()...
install: cannot stat 'vintagestory/assets/gameicon.xpm': Too many levels of symbolic links
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: vintagestory-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
vintagestory - exit status 4

@copygirl Easiest way to navigate that problem would probably be to ship two .desktop files. One just called vintagestory.desktop with glthread enabled as default, and vintagestory-compat.desktop or vintagestory-fallback.desktop with a different Name or Comment field and glthread explicitly disabled.

The developers reverted the change to their launch script again in version 1.18.4, and instead ask the user if they want to enable mesa_glthread in their own install script – which this package doesn't use.

I don't want to push a change that could potentially cause users issues depending on their specific setup. I'm not sure if the check works for everyone, or causes freezes as some have reported on the forums. So for now I'll leave things as they were before.

@Athemis Thank you. I would not have noticed this without your input. I ended up changing the included launch script to just cd and call the run.sh provided by the developers. I'm thinking of waiting for the next release to include this change.

Vintagestory since 1.18.2 will set "mesa_glthread=true" for improved performance when launched using the provided run.sh and detecting both a X11 session and Intel/AMD drivers. See below snippet from run.sh for further details:

# if the user has a Intel or AMD Graphics we enable mesa_glthread which should give a performance boost
# we assume when having AMD that they are using the newer mesa driver (not AMD Catalyst driver) since that should be the default and recommended by AMD anyways
# intel has always been mesa
# note: we advise against using the Nouveau on NVIDIA (mesa) since it is no where near the proprietary drivers performance
# further we ran into issues when setting mesa_glthread on wayland (game freezing) so we are only setting it for x11 display server

if [ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "x11" ] && lspci -vnn | grep VGA | grep -q "AMD\|Intel"; then
  export mesa_glthread=true
fi

I can confirm occasional freezes when loading or within the main menu when setting mesa_glthread=true using a wayland session. However, including the above code into vintagestory.sh provided by this packages seems to be safe.

A little bit of "help" with starting to install server.sh to bin (posting this here because it could be useful, but I gave up partway through figuring things out): Adding install -Dm755 "$pkgname"/server.sh "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/"$pkgname"-server to the PKGBUILD installs the server shell file to vintagestory-server.