Installing Brickadia for use with Proton

Prerequisites

This will require an official version of Proton (downloadable from Steam (enable listing Tools in your Library/Games view) or from Valve's official repository), or any unofficial Proton fork you wish to use (GloriousEggroll, tkg, etc.).
You will also need Wine and winetricks installed, please see Wine's or your Linux distro's documentation on installing these.

The guide will follow Arch Linux procedures for installing packages, please adapt these instructions to your Linux distribution.

By default, Steam will place official Proton releases in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common, and looks for unofficial forks in ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d.

Commands denoted with a # will require root, those denoted with $ will be run as a normal user. sudo can be used to request root-level access on a per-command basis.

Setting things up

First, we need to install the prerequisite packages:

  • wine
  • winetricks
  • curl
  • steam (optional)

The multilib repository must be enabled for wine, winetricks, and optionally steam. Enable this in /etc/pacman.conf.*

# pacman -S wine winetricks

To keep things tidy, we need to create a folder for Brickadia to reside in, as well as the directory Proton needs to store its data.

$ mkdir -p ~/Games/Brickadia; cd ~/Games/Brickadia

Now we download the Brickadia launcher's installer

$ curl -o BrickadiaInstaller.exe "https://static.brickadia.com/launcher/1.4/BrickadiaInstaller.exe"

Installing the launcher

We first need to set an environment variable so that Proton knows where to store data. To make life a little easier for us, we'll also set where we have Proton installed.

$ export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$HOME/Games/Brickadia
$ export PROTON_DIR=$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ 5.0

Then, we run the launcher installer using Proton

$ "$PROTON_DIR"/proton run BrickadiaInstaller.exe

The installer may seem to lock up after a minute while installing the VC2010 redistributable package. If this is the case, simply <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>C</kbd> in your terminal and re-run the above command. It may take 2-3 attempts, but should eventually pull through and finish installing.

Once the launcher installs, we need to re-install VC2010 manually (author note: I don't know if the x64 version installed by the installer is damaged or if the x86 version is supposed to be installed alongside it. winetricks takes care of both situations.)

Ignore any warnings that appear in the terminal, these are normal. Choose the repair option for the x64 installer.

$ WINEPREFIX=$STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH/pfx winetricks vcrun2010

Running the game

After the launcher is installed and VC2010 is manually re-installed, the launcher should now be able to download the game's files and launch.
To make things easier, we'll put the directory the launcher was installed to in an environment variable.

$ export LAUNCHER_DIR=$STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH/pfx/drive_c/Program\ Files/Brickadia/BrickadiaLauncher

Now we launch!

$ "$PROTON_DIR"/proton run "$LAUNCHER_DIR"/BrickadiaLauncher.exe

Scripts for one-click installing/running

Place these in the ~/Games/Brickadia folder you created in the beginning of the guide: https://gist.github.com/TheBlackParrot/280b9f86dcc41085f9213b9ef75dcf55