whenever i try to create a profile nothing happens and the button to start says start without persistance no matter what i do.

Confirmed, it's a bug. I missed some code when refactoring for another thing I've been working on.

Give me a little bit, I'll have it solved and uploaded shortly.

To clarify: "Start without Persistence" is a button to press, to begin the game with Persistence disabled. It is not "on" unless you click it and the game begins.

Creating a profile should start the game, the game hides the underlying error message from you, but Persistence reloads the menu because you "haven't picked a profile" because you can't.

Good news bad news.

Good news; I found that bug, it should be live and everyone should receive it the next time Steam downloads mod updates.

Bad news, I found a new, unrelated bug with using wand templates. So, I'm working on that next.

Noita debugging has become such a PITA since I switched to Linux...it's really almost not worth it anymore. The only way I knew to debug running Lua in Noita was Decoda. If anyone reads this and knows a better way, I'm begging you to share it with me.

Good news bad news.

Good news; I found that bug, wand templates should work now.

Bad news; I still haven't figured out a better way to debug things. I'm still groping in the blind and it really hinders my desire to make big changes.

Erasing profile 1 and starting a new persistence save slot does not wipe researched spells, might have something to do with me having used the old version of the mod before.