Hi, Terasology is a free open-source minecraft inspired game.
For me Terasology is the best free alternative to minecraft, especially for those of us who do not wish to pay for PC games. I was wondering, if possible could a portable version of Terasology be made.
Using the Launcher you are able to save your gamefiles, and information in a specific folder, but it leaves a lot of junk behind in %appdata%.
Thanks for reading and (hopefully) helping out, best regards.
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even so i dont know how to make terasology portable like portableapps do it but i know how to make terasology save it own stuff in game folder instad of appdata
you need to create txt file on destkop and than paste inside this
@echo off
Title Terasology
set APPDATA=%CD%\
start "%CD%" Terasology.jar
than you click file>save as
and on bottom of window choose all file types
and save it to terasology.bat
place it in terasology game folder and launch it via that bat
or download that file i made from here
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/71306555/file.html
Terasology.jar will save in a "portable" fashion, but the problem is it starts other jar files that don't have the name Terasology.jar, etc.
Anway, I know, that all instances started by Terasology.jar will be sent to the current directory (I know enough about batch scripts to get that), the problem is that when I start it Terasology, I have to reinstall the whole thing to get it to work, each and every time. It doesn't even say it can't find the game directory, it just starts to reinstall
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My best guess would be that not all of Terasology file's are saved in %appdata%, like minecraft. I'm 90% sure that it's not just my computer's problem/or the way I installed it.
The other way in which case the game would have to reinstall is that, all of Terasology file's are stored in %appdata% (and I will confirm this by reinstalling the game in Sandboxie, and seeing what folders are made), but an error on starting Terasology jar file would "unset" the local setting and cause it not to recognize %CD%, in which case it would attempt to install at the true %appdata% location, but it would rewrite or delete all files do to that error.
Although the above is unlikely I've seen it happen to a few old xp computers when people tried to make minecraft.jar portable. I honestly have no idea why, I am not a good programmer. The limits of my programming are pretty much 2d games, and creating backup batch file scripts. (sad, I know).