Side-by-side installs

[i.be.Reese]

First, I'm not sure if this is the right sub-forum for this so if not let me know where to go.

Right now I'm playing a significantly modded steam install of the game (.21.1). I'm really looking forward to starting a new save for career mode in .22 and know steam auto-updates, but I also would like to still work on the sandbox projects I have now without worrying about save and mod backwards compatibility. Does anyone know of a way to legally have separate installs of .21 and .22 on the same machine, each with their own mods and saves?

[UbioZur]

scott manley did a video on it for the last update:

It will be the same for the next one.

[i.be.Reese]

scott manley did a video on it for the last update:

It will be the same for the next one.

I suspected that might work, thanks for the link!

[Stone Blue]

I currently have three installs, all in separate, appropriately named folders: Modded, Stock, and Test....No issues between them...As to save breaking autoupdates, I just block KSP from contacting the web with my firewall....I dont want to be "surprised" by three different game breaking installs...Though I'm not running Steam either...

[Guest]

I, too, have three seperate installs. Just install stock, make a backup of the install folder, and then clone it as needed.

[Specialist290]

For the benefit of those who (like me) still have the Store version: Hang on to your .zip files. You can just unzip the game again into a different directory.