You don’t download it, I’m gonna explain a bit of lengthy instructions, I’m not the best but managed to help others. The first task is to trick the coding and your PC that the game has already ran at least once. So follow this instructions closely:
Go to your Steam\steamapps\common\Stonehearth folder, click the user_settings.JSON file. Copy or write down your user ID inbetween the " in a separate notepad. Then once you have that small line of letters, numbers and - saved and written down, copy and paste this in the file, replacing “your_user_id” with the one that already exists in the file (the Id I said to write down/copy somewhere).
{
“user_id” : “your_user_id”,
“alpha_welcome” : {
“hide” : true
},
“enable_auto_save” : false,
“renderer” : {
“run_once” : true,
“use_high_quality” : false,
“enable_ssao” : false,
“enable_shadows” : true,
“msaa_samples” : 0,
“shadow_quality” : 1,
“max_lights” : 50,
“enable_vsync” : false,
“enable_fullscreen” : false,
“screen_width” : 1920,
“screen_height” : 1018,
“draw_distance” : 1000,
“last_window_x” : -8,
“last_window_y” : -8,
“last_screen_x” : 8,
“last_screen_y” : 52
},
“audio” : {
“bgm_volume” : 0,
“efx_volume” : 1
},
“force_32_bit” : false,
“language” : “en”,
“enable_auto_save” : false,
“tutorial” : {
“hideStartingTutorial” : true
}
}
Try launching the game. IT WILL FAIL but it will trick steam into thinking it launched once and finally give the files needed to fix the issue. Once it fails click back on the same file user_settings.JSON and you will see it’s changed. Scroll down to the bottom part and you should now finally see “force_32_bit” : false, CHANGE false, to true, then try launching the game again, the 64 bit has issues with something in windows 10s but the 32 bit is fine, there isn’t much difference in the games other than how fast it takes to load a save.
I do suck at explaining things, if what I explained is not good enough, I can and happily can screen share it through discord to show you what I mean and how I did it. It’s important you copied/written down your original user ID because that being wrong in the slightest is what will make it go wrong, I’ve had 3 people not copy all of it, or ‘fat-fingered’ and added numbers to it the last couple of days (been helping on the steam discussion pages). Let me know if it doesn’t work or if it does! I’ve now been chatting with people about this issue and how it’s different answers depending on if you own a laptop or an actual desktop.