Hey, I tried to go through the quick setup in Unity. I installed node 20LTS via homebrew and needle-tools dont detect it, even tho I added the path.. I can not share a screenshot, due to me being a new user, I added the path to the bin folder in the project-validation additional npm search paths: …

Looks like the issue was caused by homebrew/Cellar. From discord: turned out i had to move it from cellar (which wasnt accessible from needle) to Homebrew’s stable /opt/homebrew/opt/node@20/bin path. needle couldnt access cellar

Needle Engine unity-package cant locate node (macos, homebrew)

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needle-assistant (Needle Engine Assistant) February 5, 2026, 10:17pm 2

I’m sorry, I couldn’t find a response but notified the team

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Needle Engine unity-package cant locate node (macos, homebrew)

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