0.6.5 crashes and bugs in mod menu

[hhyyrylainen]

@Cittykat123

This is Thrive version: 0.6.5.0

I corrected the title of your topic as you are actually just playing 0.6.5 and not 0.6.6.

@Cittykat123

ERROR: System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.

ERROR:

ERROR: at System.IO.Path.Combine (System.String path1, System.String path2) [0x00057] in :0

ERROR:

ERROR: at ModManager.LoadModIcon (FullModDetails mod) [0x0002c] in <1c3c8044c2914e508efdbdc51e372f36>:0

I assume you installed a mod through Steam? Could you tell me what the path you have installed Steam into is? The error seems to be about there being an incorrect character in the path that the game doesn’t like.

As 0.6.6 is switching to a different .NET runtime and a much newer version, it might just work. Could you try the new RC early build to see if that works for you:

0.6.6 Release Candidate

Thrive has updated from Godot 3 to Godot 4. This engine upgrade has caused a ton of problems, but the game is now back to working well enough that a new release can be made. This is the usual early testing build before a release. The gameplay should be the same as the previous release but there are some small graphical artifacts on organelles. And there might still sadly be a game lock up problem where the game just freezes and no longer does anything at all (gameplay is frozen and GUI can’t be …

?

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Update: I’ll add some code to the 0.6.6 release which will not load a mod icon if the path creation to the icon file fails, this should prevent the specific error you got, but likely won’t fix the underlying cause.