Config profiles

Keeping separate sets of Vantage settings, moving them between computers, and getting back a setting you lost.

On this page

A config profile is a named, complete set of Vantage settings. This page is for anyone with more than one way of playing, more than one computer, or a setting they wish they had not changed. It covers making and switching profiles from the menu and from chat, moving settings through the clipboard, the backups Vantage takes for you, and where every file lives, as of 2.0.1.

Config profiles, not SkyBlock profiles

Two different things are called a profile, and this page keeps them apart.

	Config profile	SkyBlock profile
What it is	a named set of Vantage settings	Hypixel's save: your island, items and skills, the one with a fruit name
Who makes it	you, in Vantage	Hypixel, in SkyBlock
How you switch	the menu's Profiles button, or `/vt profile switch`	SkyBlock's own profile menu
What follows it	every Vantage option, and its own HUD layout	Vantage's per-profile trackers and records

Vantage does not tie the two together. Switching SkyBlock profile does not switch config profile, and switching config profile does not touch your SkyBlock data.

Trackers that count things per SkyBlock profile (slayers, fishing, Kuudra and combat among them) file their records under your account and the SkyBlock profile you are on, so they follow the SkyBlock profile on their own, whichever config profile is active. The Profile switch notice feature tells you which SkyBlock profile you are on whenever it changes.

What a config profile holds

Holds	Does not hold
every option of every feature, including each feature's on and off switch	Vantage Stats' consent, sign-in and page settings
its own HUD layout, kept beside it in `hud.json`	files features keep for themselves, such as your chat rules, waypoints, the grind ledger and the trackers above
	the item repository, the price cache and the other downloaded data

Vantage Stats keeps its account state out of config profiles on purpose. A profile can be exported to a string people paste to each other, and backups are copied around, so a consent record or a sign-in token in there would travel to another computer. Sharing your settings never shares your Stats. What is recorded says what Stats keeps instead, and where.

The default profile

The first time Vantage starts it creates a profile called default, and that is the one you use until you make another. The active profile saves itself automatically, half a second after each change and again when the game closes; there is no save button.

Making and switching

Open the menu and click Profiles at the foot of the sidebar. The list shows every profile with the active one marked. From there:

Action	How	What happens
Switch	click a profile	its settings and its HUD layout load at once
New	the New button	asks for a name; the new profile starts from the defaults
Duplicate	the copy icon on a row	a copy of that profile's settings under a new name
Rename	the pencil icon on a row	renames the profile's file; the HUD layout stays under the old name (see below)
Delete	the bin icon on a row	asks first; cannot be undone
Export, Import	the buttons under the list	see Moving settings
Open config folder	the button at the foot	opens `config/vantage` in your file manager

Names made in the menu may contain spaces. Characters a file name cannot hold (\ / : * ? " < > |) become underscores.

From chat

Command	Does
`/vt profile` or `/vt profile list`	lists your profiles, the active one marked
`/vt profile switch <name>`	switches, settings and HUD layout together
`/vt profile create <name>`	makes a new profile as a copy of the active one
`/vt profile delete <name>`	deletes a profile

/vt profile create takes letters, digits, - and _, up to 32 characters. switch and delete accept any name, but one with a space has to be in quotes:

/vt profile switch "default copy"

Deleting

Deleting a profile you are not using removes its file. Deleting the active profile switches you back to default first. Deleting default while it is active resets every setting in it to the defaults instead, since there is nowhere else to go. The menu asks before it deletes anything; /vt profile delete does not.

Moving settings between computers

Settings travel as a string on the clipboard. You copy it on one computer, paste it into a message or a file, copy it again on the other, and import it there.

To copy	Use	Carries
the whole active profile	`/vt export`, Export in Profiles, or More actions, then Export to clipboard in the menu	settings
one feature	`/vt export <feature>`, or Export to clipboard while that feature's page is open	that feature's settings
settings and the HUD	More actions, then Presets, then Copy mine	settings and the HUD layout, with its containers, pins and layer order

To apply	Use	Notes
a settings string	`/vt import`, Import in Profiles (asks first), or Import from clipboard in the menu	merges into the active profile; any HUD layout in the string is ignored
settings and the HUD	Presets, then Paste (asks first)	applies the settings and, if the string carries one, the HUD layout; Undo takes it back until you close the game

An import merges. The settings in the string overwrite yours; everything the string does not mention stays as it was, so importing one feature's export changes only that feature.

The string

A Vantage string starts with VANTAGE1: and is the profile's settings, compressed and encoded so it survives being pasted anywhere. It also names the Vantage version that made it. Import accepts plain JSON in the same shape too.

Strings travel between versions. Settings an older Vantage does not know, from a newer version or a feature that has since been removed, are kept in the profile untouched rather than dropped, and settings that were renamed between versions are carried to their new names when the string is imported.

Backups

Every time Vantage loads an existing profile, it first copies the file into backups/. That happens when the game starts, when you switch to the profile, and when you reload from disk with /vt reload or the menu's Reload from disk. The very first launch has nothing to back up.

The newest ten backups of each profile are kept, named after the profile and the moment they were taken:

config/vantage/backups/default-20260930-184512.json

Putting one back

There is no button for it; it is a file copy, and it is best done with the game closed, because Vantage saves the active profile when the game exits and would write over a file you replaced while it ran.

Close the game.
Open config/vantage/backups/ and find the copy you want, by its date and time.
Copy it into config/vantage/profiles/ and rename it to the profile's name, for example default.json, replacing the file there.
Start the game.

Your HUD layout is not part of these backups; it lives in hud.json.

When a file is damaged

If a profile's file cannot be read, Vantage does not stop. It keeps a copy of the damaged file in backups/, named with -corrupt- and the time, starts that profile from the defaults, and writes a line to the game's log. To get your settings back, restore the newest regular backup as described above, or send the damaged copy with a bug report.

Resetting

You do not need a new profile to undo a few changes:

To reset	Do
one option	hover it and click the reset arrow that appears once it differs from its default
one feature	the Reset button at the top of the feature's page (asks first)
a whole category	More actions, then Reset this category (asks first)
everything	delete `default` while it is the active profile, which resets it
the HUD layout	the HUD editor's `Ctrl+R`, or its Reset button

Where the files live

Everything Vantage keeps is under your Minecraft folder's config/vantage/. The files this page talks about:

config/vantage/
  vantage.json           which profile is active
  profiles/
    default.json         one file per config profile
  backups/               the newest ten copies of each profile, and any damaged file
  hud.json               the HUD layout of every profile, by name

Data and privacy lists the rest of the folder.

The HUD editor: the layout each profile carries.
The menu: where Profiles and More actions are.
Commands: every command, including the profile ones.
Troubleshooting: when a setting has reset by itself.