Problems and Questions

Question: Why does Windows Defender (or whatever antivirus I'm using) flag Burial?

Answer: Windows Defender warns you for two reasons. The primary reason is that the code is unsigned, which essentially means that I (the creator of Burial) could not afford to spend hundreds-thousands of dollars to get a stamp on my code saying that it is legitimate. As nice as it would be, I do this for free as my hobby! The second reason is that Windows Defender (or other antiviruses) don't like "new" or "unknown" programs - if it doesn't recognise it, it tends to be more cautious and try to warn/stop you from running it. While this may work great in many cases, for small hobby projects like this it just confuses users. The code is all open source and you are free to build it yourself if you do not trust me (in fact, I have in-depth tutorials in the contributing section on how to!).

Question: Why isn't Burial portable (ex. an exe w/ no installer)?

Answer: Tauri restrictions. Burial technically is and can be portable, for example you can get a portable binary when developing it and building, but Tauri bundles it in an installer in production builds to ensure that a proper WebView is installed on your operating system. WebView is basically your OS's built-in browser and is much more efficient than doing something like, say Discord, and bundling Electron (Google Chrome). Burial has under 20mb binaries! But if you really need a portable version of Burial (or you just hate installers) then you can probably pretty easily extract it from the installer, from an installed directory, or from a source code build.

Question: Why does Burial not support this or that mod?

Answer: Burial takes multiple steps when installing mods to ensure a smooth process - this includes checking for dangerous files and converting to the Tomb modloader. There are a number of formats supported for the best flexibility. For the best experience, make sure your mod has a Tomb-compatible version and don't include any dangerous files (like .exe's) in your mod. If you are not the mod author, please reach out to the mod author for a Tomb native version! Some websites also can be tricky to work with - however, mods hosted on the Llamwa.re Mod Depository are already Tomb-compatible and are loosely vetted each update. I suggest this site! ^_^