[TheKnack]

It runs on M1 under Rosetta emulation. Performance and stability would be better with an M1 native version.

It looks like the chmod issue has been around a long time. I found Reddit posts going back a year or two. If it's not going to be fixed, why not put a note on the downloads page so people can actually run the game?

[Jweb_Guru]

Veloren uses some native libraries, so IIRC getting it to work under Rosetta was not completely painless either. That said, the reason native M1 builds aren't currently offered is that Apple makes it a pain to compile from other architectures, not that Veloren doesn't compile for M1 (it does). I believe native M1 builds are actually in progress right now. So is the chmod issue, which AFAIK we only figured out the root cause of relatively recently (September?).