In case of you were feeling that urge to partake in the flavor of the month and don’t want to waste money, the linked thread already has the clean files and crack in multiple posts with multiple DL options.
Repeat after me: Our local Hexbear devs are the only ones that you shouldn’t steal from.
Hope y’all enjpy the free game. It’s like ark, but for people who value their time.
Just some information about the cracked game.
I’d recommend using the Goldberg steam emulator to play and make sure to change your account id to something other than the emulator default if you’re planning to play online otherwise you’ll have issues with other people playing cracked versions with the same emulated steam account id set if you connect to the same server at the same time.
You can find this at: C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Goldberg SteamEmu Saves\settings
To find the appdata folder press the windows button and type %appdata% then hit enter
This game seemingly has no check about ownership post gamelaunch (bypassed with Goldberg + Steamless) so you can play on official servers with cracked game versions. This will probably change in the future so it may be worth sticking to user-hosted dedicated servers and I’d also be wary about auto-updating the server software because of changes in future ownership checks. I’d also apply that same “read before you update files approach” to the client as well for the same reasons.
Good stuff!