Save file edit to avoid grind

[GreyBeard512]

The game is a bit grindy. If you decide you want to cheat in resources instead of gathering them, here are instructions to edit the save file. This just edits the quantity, you have to pick up at least one of the item first.

The file is at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\VoidTrain\Saved\SaveGames\SteamCloud
then a folder with a long random name
then Game
Sub folders here match the Load screen in game.

Backup the file before editing. I usually just copy it to my desktop.

Edit world.sav with an editor, not with a word processor. I use Notepad++. If the file does not have a lot of "NUL"s in it, your editor will not work. Exit without saving and get a different editor.


Find the item you want to change quantity of.

The line above it should end in
[NUL][NUL][NUL][DLE][NUL][NUL][NUL]bOrientVertical[NUL]

Replace the character in front of that with a character from below. (Be sure to delete 1 character and add 1 character.) TAB, CR, and 2 can be typed in, but you'll have to copy paste from somewhere to add other characters. FYI, if the initial NUL is at the start of the line, there are already 10 of them in inventory.
SOH = 1
STX = 2
ETX = 3
EOT = 4
ENQ = 5 (can look like ENO)
ACK = 6
BEL = 7
BS = 8
TAB = 9 (appears as a long or short space in Notepad++)
CR = 10 (cannot copy or paste - forces a new line)
2 = 50

Do not touch slot tokens - editing them prevents the save from loading.
Guns, gun parts, and equipment do not stack at all. They all have "Generic" in the name. So don't touch them either.
Coal briquettes and gas canisters are max 5 in game, but setting them to 10 seems to work OK.
Winch rings are max of 50.
Everything else is max 10.

You can edit the fuel in "buildings" (machines) including the engine.

To max everything, I search the file for "bOrient". If the result looks like the pattern above on a separate line, you can quickly go to the next line. If not, look below it to see if it is coal, gas, winch rings, or gun parts, and if it is please proceed carefully. Otherwise you'll learn where to quickly go to delete a character and hit Enter.

[DarkEternal]

Well yeah, it's an EA game. It's going to be grindy. Why? Due to the limited content right now, they want you to play as much as possible so players can find bugs/glitches and report them so the devs can iron them out.
It's like that with virtually all EA games.
So I guess...welcome to EA gaming? Must be your first time.

[Hatter 10/6]

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

Well yeah, it's an EA game. It's going to be grindy. Why? Due to the limited content right now, they want you to play as much as possible so players can find bugs/glitches and report them so the devs can iron them out.
It's like that with virtually all EA games.
So I guess...welcome to EA gaming? Must be your first time.

That's such a shallow statement it's simply ridiculous.
"It's fine the game doesn't respect your time and stretches all the content thin through pointless slow grind, because there simply isn't enough content!"
Additionally, if it's done on purpose to find more glitches as you suggest then it is simply insulting to their playerbase to apparently treat them as unpaid bug testers (even better, bug testers pay them for the privilege!) by purposefully wasting their time.
I don't think that's the case but listen to yourself and think, how is that an excuse? If anything that would be just a reason to get even more angry about it.

Finally "Early Access games often treat their customers like ♥♥♥♥! (in addition to often being terrible products) so it's totally fine and a norm, therefore not worth ever addressing in any way"!


I like the game somewhat, it has its charm and I really like the concept, which is why I didn't mind buying it in EA to support the small devs.
But it can't be denied the game is really barebones, shallow in gameplay and has quite little content and progression so far despite being in Early Access for over a year now (on Epic, which conveniently isn't mentioned anywhere on steam and instead advertised as if EA just released).
But in the end I can somewhat accept lack of content, but trying to mask it with busywork is inexcusable.
I have hopes for the game and wish the devs to grow further, but just ignoring any and all criticism of EA game is how you end up with garbage final product because nothing ever gets refined from a gameplay perspective and I really hate the modern "uh criticism is toxic" culture, especially in gaming where seemingly at this point it's fine to ♥♥♥♥ on your consumers. Isn't criticism the most valid during Early Access period for the purposes of actually ironing out all details so gameplay foundations can be adjusted as needed before the damage is irreparable.

Anyway, how does that boot taste?

[Freeloader Fred]

Originally posted by Hatter 10/6:

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

Well yeah, it's an EA game. It's going to be grindy. Why? Due to the limited content right now, they want you to play as much as possible so players can find bugs/glitches and report them so the devs can iron them out.
It's like that with virtually all EA games.
So I guess...welcome to EA gaming? Must be your first time.

That's such a shallow statement it's simply ridiculous.
"It's fine the game doesn't respect your time and stretches all the content thin through pointless slow grind, because there simply isn't enough content!"
Additionally, if it's done on purpose to find more glitches as you suggest then it is simply insulting to their playerbase to apparently treat them as unpaid bug testers (even better, bug testers pay them for the privilege!) by purposefully wasting their time.
I don't think that's the case but listen to yourself and think, how is that an excuse? If anything that would be just a reason to get even more angry about it.

Finally "Early Access games often treat their customers like ♥♥♥♥! (in addition to often being terrible products) so it's totally fine and a norm, therefore not worth ever addressing in any way"!


I like the game somewhat, it has its charm and I really like the concept, which is why I didn't mind buying it in EA to support the small devs.
But it can't be denied the game is really barebones, shallow in gameplay and has quite little content and progression so far despite being in Early Access for over a year now (on Epic, which conveniently isn't mentioned anywhere on steam and instead advertised as if EA just released).
But in the end I can somewhat accept lack of content, but trying to mask it with busywork is inexcusable.
I have hopes for the game and wish the devs to grow further, but just ignoring any and all criticism of EA game is how you end up with garbage final product because nothing ever gets refined from a gameplay perspective and I really hate the modern "uh criticism is toxic" culture, especially in gaming where seemingly at this point it's fine to ♥♥♥♥ on your consumers. Isn't criticism the most valid during Early Access period for the purposes of actually ironing out all details so gameplay foundations can be adjusted as needed before the damage is irreparable.

Anyway, how does that boot taste?

see I would agree, however calling a game like this "grindy" is well......that's kinda how games like this are, they are supposed to be grindy. Literally every survival game ever could be considered grindy and no one ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about that.

Calling this game grindy is not criticism, it's crying because you purchased a game knowing it was going to be grindy and then cry because it's grindy.

[ZenobiaOstara]

Worked a treat. I don't mind the overall grind too much, but the balance of things is really off. Specifically, fuel is just ridiculously less than what you need. So being able to just circumvent that with a bundle of coal briquettes makes the game enjoyable enough to continue. We all expect a certain degree of grind in games like this, or Raft, or Satisfactory (The games this seems to take inspo from) but balance is king. This currently lacks it, hopefully they will get the game past this point, but until then, we'll always have ENQ. ;)