How do you do it? assume that I’m stupid, I won’
t be offended if you include every single keystroke in the description 
As Tuhalu replied here,
We’ll let this topic open so other people can see it too.
In Steam you’d have to go to a path similar to this one:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common
and there delete the Stonehearth folder.
I did exactly what both of you said. Now I cannot open Stonehearth at all. My Steam account is now completely dysfunctional and I can’t play any of my games. any further instructions on how to actually reinstall Stonehearth would be appreciated. I went back to the original purchase authorization and reloaded from HumbleBundle… but the game still says… a very long error message… basically saying the stonehearth.json file doesn’t exist.
If you’re having issues with Steam, you might want to try uninstalling and reinstalling that, since that could be part of the problem. After you’ve done that, or if you get it working again some other way, you should be able to right click on Stonehearth in the Steam Library and “delete local content,” and from there you should also be able to reinstall the game once its been successfully uninstalled.
that is the same kind of scattershot approach that killed my Steam account. Do you have empirical proof that ‘trying’ that will correct the problem?
I actually asked… originally… how do you do a clean installation of Stonehearth. Now I am doing all kinds of weird experimentation on Steam. I asked for complete instructions. I got incomplete instructions and I screwed up a game I liked to play. I cant play it now, and I cant play any other games on my Steam account cuz I followed advice from 2 experts. One who works for Stonehearth as a community helper.
A clean installation would require you to uninstall and then reinstall Stonehearth. I’m not sure exactly what else you might have removed when you tried to do that, nor do I know exactly how you went about doing so. All that I know is that Stonehearth wasn’t working for you, and now Steam isn’t, which leads me to believe that either there was a larger problem beforehand, or something happened between you deleting the Stonehearth files and trying to reinstall it. From that, the best that I can recommend you to do is reinstall Steam, and then from there you should be able to easily reinstall Stonehearth. I say “try” uninstalling because I don’t know exactly what the problem is, or how its caused, so this is the best that I can suggest, and if that doesn’t work then you’ll have more information to work off of and narrow down your problems.
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@THEGREATGRUMPY
Where do you have your Steam installed?
If you installed Steam on default location, you should have a folder in a path like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\
Then, inside that common folder, there should be all of your downloaded Steam games:
I usually close Steam before deleting the game folder. But I guess it shouldn’t matter, or else Steam would have warned the users about it.
After deleting that folder, when you go to your Steam library, you should see again the option to download the game in order to play it.
This shouldn’t have affected your other games at all.
And there were issues in the past when you have several Stonehearth installations on your computer, for example one from Steam and another one from Humble Bundle.
The error about stonehearth.json has also been mentioned in the forum in the past, I will search for it to see what did people do in the end. I will ask you again in a while. I think th Humble Bundle installer can make the stonehearth.json appear at a different directory.
Edit: I’m back. This thread discusses the problems that one user had when installing Stonehearth on Steam having already a Humble Bundle installation from before. It’s lengthy but has good points (in fact I just changed the category to performance to be able to find it easily later) :
You don’t have to read it if you don’t want, it’s just for the purpose of this topic. To clarify, the first time after buying Stonehearth, you just grabbed the key and used it in Steam, right? You downloaded the game from Steam this way or downloaded from Humble Bundle and then updated via Steam?
Have you tried logging out of Steam and logging it again? How does your Steam library look like, the games are still installed, right? I can’t believe that you can’t play any of your games if you ONLY deleted the Stonehearth folder. Because many people of the forum (myself included) have done it in the past and we didn’t have your issue.
On the other hand, if you could paste the error where it complains about the stonehearth.json not existing, we might be able to figure out what it’s happening. I want to know where is it trying to search it, if in some folder from Steam or in another folder from your computer.
The Humble Bundle installation leaves some settings files here, you can check it because your last installation using the humble bundle download might have left some files there:
C:\Users\YourWindowsUserNameHere\AppData\Local\stonehearth\
And sorry if my wording is sounding rude sometimes, it’s not my intention at all. I just wanna help, and I make many questions to clarify things and have all the information. My work in the forum is completely voluntary, so yes, I “work” for Stonehearth, but not for Radiant. (Though I don’t discard applying in the future >_> I love so much this game…)
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