Vanilla Raft runs fine. From steam, I set it to run with compatibility layer Proton 9.0-4.

When I follow the modding site’s instructions here, Bottles launches steam, which launches the mod loader, which asks me to find steam’s Raft folder for it. But I can’t find it.
Within the file navigation window that pops up, I go to Z:\ drive, then \mnt\thatoneHDDfullofsteamgames\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Raft, but the Raft exe isn’t shown.

What should I do? Or is there another way I should try?

I’m sending this from my phone, so I apologize I’m not sure what the best way to provide clear screenshots is

  • -> @[email protected]@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I had written about this in their Discord in a thread:

    using this shim script I made, do the following:

    1. Install Raft with Proton 9.0-# prefix
    2. Place the shim file into the game directory
    3. Mark the shim as executable
    4. Set Steam launch options to: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp.dll=n,b" ./shim %command%
    5. Launch Raft once
    6. Place RMLLauncher.exe into Raft game directory
    7. Look for a plain text target file that should have been created in the raft directory,
    8. Right click RMLLauncher.exe copy location
    9. Paste this location into a that target note file & save
    10. Launch Raft
    11. Go through RMLLauncher first-time steps
    12. Press Play
    13. Stop the game and add mods into Raft mods folder.
    14. Launch the game and load the mods in-game
    15. Play Raft modded through Proton

    (Instructions adapted from both mine and user YumiChi’s)

    This method doesnt require custom installations, messing with bottles, nor wine runtimes other than Proton.

    • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I forgot to mention I use mint cinnamon, btw.

      I downloaded the shim file, moved it to my Raft folder, right-clicked the shim file, Properties > Permissions > Allow executing file as program.

      I followed the rest of the steps up til step 9. At step 9, I replaced the text in the target file with the the file path to RaftModloader exe, but had to add the RMLLauncher.exe file name to the end. Otherwise I got a “File ‘target’ contains invalid or nonexistent file path.” message.

      I followed the rest of the steps, and - it worked! Thank you

      Edit: thank you for making the process feel so much more elegant ;. ;