Lost and Irreplaceable Construction Microchip

[Nefikin]

After completing the main planet I flew to Humble and while trying to set things up I took off my backpack to upgrade it. For some reason I was thinking it would reduce my equipment slots rather than my inventory, so I had pulled out all the microchips so they wouldn't explode out of my inventory. Unfortunately, my silliness led to them going all over the place and I can't find the construction microchip. Since I didn't make a basic crafter, I can't make a new one and I can't construct anything else. I also didn't make the rocket to return home because of power, so I'm completely stuck. What do I do?
I also tried deconstructing my base and using the unstuck button in Options that teleports you to a random base, hoping that it would take me back to the original planet. Instead, it teleported be to a ruined base in the caves where I'm trapped. I ran out of oxygen before I could make it to my vehicle and when I respawn I go to that same base with almost no oxygen, so even if I get my construction chip back, I can't get back to safety.
Update: After exiting the save and loading back in it reset my oxygen to near full and once I found the right path I was able to make it back to my vehicle and where I lost the item. Then I tried going into the .json file for the save to edit the item's location up slightly. I don't know if I succeeded at that, but when I went to the location listed (which was much further from where I was standing when I lost it than I was expecting) I was able to pick it up. It was floating in the air, but about the same height as where I dropped it, since I had to go down a hill to get to the right coordinates, so I don't know if the edit worked or I just couldn't find it because I wasn't looking in the right place. Either way, problem solved.

[Coops]

Wow, that's a tough one.
The only thing I can suggest is look harder for the lost chip but if it went under the terrain you are toast.
You might be able to edit the save file to add a chip. But I don't know how to do that.

[Jenny]

I know it is too late, but you don't need to take stuff out to upgrade it anymore.
Kill the program before it saves automatically yia Taskmanager

[Jenny]

Originally posted by Coops:

Wow, that's a tough one.
The only thing I can suggest is look harder for the lost chip but if it went under the terrain you are toast.
You might be able to edit the save file to add a chip. But I don't know how to do that.

Maybe Coops is right - if you happen to still have the deconstruction chip you can try and dismantle everything

[Jenny]

ok, found it - C -> users -> name -> appdata -> locallow -> Mijugames -> Planet Crafter
there is a backup.json you probably can replace the file with - better save folder first ;)

[avatar.zero]

For future reference, you don't have to take off your backpack/oxygen pack/exoskeleton when upgrading. The old version in Equipment gets used and immediately replaced with the new one.

[flint74]

The microchip items are rather small and being mostly a white on black square shape they can be very easily missed if they end up on the floor.

That said, if you were inside a building a dropped microchip will sometimes end up on top of that building rather than on the floor, so it does pay to look up as well as down.

[jw62157]

Nope.... That's not going to work. I find that the backup.json is being updated at the same time as the named game save is... Looks to me like it does not keep old saves...

[Jenny]

it is logical, that the backup is replaced with the last savefile before overwriting the last save in my opinion so timestamp would be updated as the same time...

[kane]

Good to hear you got sorted.

[Ironballs]

Wow, you found a way to fail the game - congratulation!
They must create an achievement for that! :D