The Essentials won't finish downloading, keeps telling me to update

Written By Joe Hanley (Super Administrator)

Updated at October 15th, 2025

 

When downloading The Essentials, you may notice that the progress appears to get stuck at the very end, and Syntorial keeps prompting you to “Update.”

This is just a visual/interface bug — the download has actually completed successfully, and you already have the latest version. The “Update” message is the bug itself.

What to do:
You can safely ignore the message, close the Download window, and continue using Syntorial as normal.

This issue will be fixed in a future update.