Iron Village 1.2 comes with a new feature that allows you to take a screenshot of your whole town. Since it's slightly more complicated than just pressing Print Screen or F12, I figured I'd write out a guide here.


First of all, how do you even use it? In the bottom right is a button with an icon of a camera, that's Screenshot Mode. Screenshot Mode hides all of the UI (besides its own buttons), allowing you to take screenshots without all those progress bars, status icons, and UI panels in the way. For regular screenshots, just use your preferred screenshot method - either Print Screen (handled by your OS) or F12 (handled by Steam).


Now Screenshot Mode has two buttons! The bottom one exits Screenshot Mode, but the top one (still in the bottom right) is the button to take a screenshot of your entire town. Click that, and you should see a pop-up that looks like this:


In case you're curious about the inner details: entering Screenshot Mode activates an extra hidden camera in the game which can view everything in your town. That camera isn't really hooked up to anything though, it just figures out what it should display, and then does nothing. (That's why it's turned off outside of Screenshot Mode.) When you press the Full Town Screenshot button, it takes a screenshot from that camera, rather than the one that's sending images to your screen.

That pop-up you saw will tell you where your screenshot was saved, but this leads to a follow-up: what is this "user://" thing? Iron Village uses Godot as its game engine, and it manages files in a platform-neutral way: each game gets a "user" and a "res" directory, as described here[docs.godotengine.org]. The user directory itself depends on your OS though:

Windows: C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Iron Village
MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Godot/app_userdata/Iron Village (~ is the home directory, i.e. your user name)
Linux: ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/Iron Village
Android: TBD - I have to make an update to the permissions. Right now it'll save the screenshot, but in a place where you can't access it.

That directory is home to a few other things, such as local saves (i.e. non-cloud), log files, and settings. Anyway, hope that helps!