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🕹️✨ Ultimate Guide: Roll Back Wuchang: Fallen Feathers to v1.4.1 (and Keep It There) ✨🕹️

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This is the **ultimate step-by-step guide** for downgrading Wuchang: Fallen Feathers to version 1.4.1 and keeping it there permanently.

Inside you’ll find:
✅ Clear, beginner-friendly instructions
✅ Safe save-file backup methods
✅ Exact depot & manifest IDs
✅ Console commands that work right away
✅ Tips to avoid auto-updates & save corruption

Whether you’re rolling back due to bugs, performance issues, or personal preference, this guide will ensure your game stays rock-solid on patch 1.4.1. Based on the original steps shared by Amene, but expanded, polished, and fully explained for maximum clarity.

Note: You require at least 45,1 GB to download using this method.

This expanded, deluxe guide is based on the original instructions shared by Amene.
Their post was the foundation for this walkthrough — full credit to them!

👉 View Amene’s Original Thread

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指南索引

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🌟 Introduction

📂 Step 0: Locate Your Save Games

💾 Step 1: Back Up Your Save Games

🔧 Step 2: Enable Steam Console Mode

⬇️ Step 3: Download the 1.4.1 Depot

⏳ Step 4: Verify and Collect Downloaded Files

📝 Step 5: Create steam_appid.txt

☁️ Step 6 (Optional): Restore Steam Cloud Sync

🎮 Step 7: Launch the Downgraded Game

📝 Notes, Tips & Troubleshooting

📌 Credits & Original Source

留言

🌟 Introduction

Welcome, traveler! 👋

This guide is here to help you safely roll back Wuchang: Fallen Feathers to version 1.4.1 — a patch many players prefer for stability, performance, or personal gameplay reasons.

Newer patches can sometimes introduce bugs, performance drops, or changes you might not like. With the steps in this guide, you’ll be able to:

Downgrade the game to a stable version (v1.4.1).
Protect and back up your save files.
Prevent Steam from forcing automatic updates.
(Optional) Re-enable Steam Cloud if you want it.

💡 Important: This guide is written with beginners in mind — you don’t need technical knowledge. Every step is explained clearly, with references and links for extra help.

Let’s get started! 🚀

📂 Step 0: Locate Your Save Games

Before making any changes to the game, you must know where your save files are located. This ensures you don’t lose progress if something goes wrong.

Default save path (replace [Your Windows Username] and [Steam ID]):

C:\Users\[Your Windows Username]\AppData\Local\Project_Plague\Saved\[Steam ID]\GameSlots\maingame0

💡 Why this matters: Your saves are stored separately from the game files. Downgrading the game version won’t touch them directly, but mismatched versions can sometimes corrupt progress. By knowing this location, you can back them up and restore them safely.

🔎 More info:
Prima Games Guide[primagames.com] | ClawSomeGamer[clawsomegamer.com]

💾 Step 1: Back Up Your Save Games

Now that you know where your saves are, it’s time to make a backup. This is the single most important step before touching the game files.

Navigate to the save path from Step 0.
Copy the entire
Project_Plague
folder (or at least the
GameSlots\maingameX
subfolder for your main profile).
Paste it somewhere safe — such as a USB stick, an external hard drive, a cloud folder, or a backup directory on your PC.

✅ Why this matters: If anything goes wrong during the rollback, you can restore your progress instantly by replacing the files with your backup.

Reference: ClawSomeGamer Save Guide[clawsomegamer.com]

🔧 Step 2: Enable Steam Console Mode

To roll back to an older version, you’ll need to access Steam’s hidden Console Mode.
This special tool lets you directly download specific depots (older builds) of any game.

Here’s how to open it:

Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the Windows Run dialog.
Copy and paste this command:
steam://open/console
Hit Enter. Steam will launch with a new tab called Console at the top.

💡 Tip: You only need to enable this once. After it’s unlocked, the Console tab will stay visible until you restart Steam.

🎥 Video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJoVcSCxmxk

⬇️ Step 3: Download the 1.4.1 Depot

Now that the Steam Console is open, you can use it to download the exact older version of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.

Paste this command into the Steam Console and press Enter:

download_depot 2277560 2277561 2647147609698210830

What each number means:

Purpose

2277560

App ID → Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

2277561

Depot ID → Main Game Files

2647147609698210830

Manifest ID → Version 1.4.1 (Released Aug 3, 2025)

💡 Tip: This will only download the specified version (1.4.1). It won’t affect your current install yet.

🔗 More details here: SteamDB Depot Page[steamdb.info]

⏳ Step 4: Verify and Collect Downloaded Files

After running the depot download command, Steam will begin pulling the older version files in the background.

By default, they’ll be placed here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_2277560\depot_2277561

💡 Important: Do not proceed until the Steam Console displays the message:
Depot download complete

If you close Steam or interrupt the process before that message appears, the files may be incomplete or unusable.

🔎 You can find confirmation and user discussions about this step here:
Steam Forum Thread

📝 Step 5: Create steam_appid.txt

The downgraded files you just downloaded won’t launch on their own unless they know which Steam App ID they belong to.
We fix this by creating a small text file called steam_appid.txt.

Here’s how:

Go to the folder from Step 4 (your downgraded depot folder).
Right-click → New → Text Document.
Name the file exactly:
steam_appid.txt
(make sure it’s not .txt.txt).
Open the file and paste this single number:
2277560
Save and close the file.

💡 Why this matters: The App ID tells Steam which game the .exe belongs to. Without this, the executable will fail to run.

📖 More explanation here: Steam Community Guide

☁️ Step 6 (Optional): Restore Steam Cloud Sync

This step is only needed if you want to keep using Steam Cloud with your downgraded game.
It can sync your saves across devices, but be aware: sometimes cloud saves conflict with older game versions.

To re-enable it:

Search your Steam installation folders for a file named
steam_autocloud.vdf
.
Copy that file.
Paste it into the same folder where you created
steam_appid.txt
.

💡 Tip: Even if you re-enable Steam Cloud, always keep your own manual backups from Step 1. This avoids losing progress if the cloud overwrites or fails to sync.

Discussion & details: Steam Forum Discussion

🎮 Step 7: Launch the Downgraded Game

Now that everything is set up, it’s time to actually run the downgraded version of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.

Follow these steps:

Open the folder where your depot files were downloaded (from Step 4).
Double-click the game’s
.exe
file to start Wuchang directly.
(Optional) To make launching easier, open Steam, go to Games → Add a Non-Steam Game, and add the .exe file. It will then appear in your Steam Library.

🚫 Important: By launching the game this way, Steam cannot auto-update it in the background. Your version will remain locked at 1.4.1 until you decide to change it.

📝 Notes, Tips & Troubleshooting

Here are some important things to keep in mind when downgrading Wuchang: Fallen Feathers:

I use only the depot version: I keep only the depot-downloaded copy of Wuchang and do not maintain the regular Steam-installed version. This avoids conflicts and ensures the game never auto-updates.
Backups are king: Instead of relying solely on Steam Cloud, I use my own backup system that automatically syncs my save games to a personal cloud drive. This way, I always have a safe copy of my progress, even if Steam Cloud fails or overwrites files.
Save compatibility: Most saves transfer fine between versions, but there’s always a risk of incompatibility. Keeping backups guarantees you won’t lose progress.
Game won’t launch? Try this:
— Make sure
steam_appid.txt
exists in the folder.
— Confirm it contains the number 2277560.
— Double-check your depot folder is complete (see Step 4).
— Run the .exe as Administrator if you encounter errors.

💡 Tip: If you later want to return to the newest version, simply reinstall Wuchang through Steam to update back to the latest patch.

📌 Credits & Original Source

This guide was built on the foundation of the original downgrade method first shared by Amene.
All credit for discovering and explaining the core process goes to them.

What you’re reading here is an expanded, fully detailed, and visually polished version of that original post — designed to be the “guide of guides” for rolling back Wuchang to v1.4.1.

👉 View Amene’s Original Thread

🎉 That’s it!
You’re now running Wuchang: Fallen Feathers v1.4.1.
Enjoy smoother gameplay, preserved saves, and freedom from forced updates! 🕹️✨

2 条留言

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Lume6287 11 月 15 日上午 10:38

How can I change the download directory to another drive? I change the default already in settings, but the console is ignoring this.

Alpharius 10 月 21 日下午 9:47

Thanks so much!!!

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