Detonation plan magnets can't be moved

[tevile]

I was really looking forward to a long point and click adventure until the detonation plan puzzle. I was moving the magnets but didn't solve the puzzle yet when I had to leave. I saved the game and quit. When I reloaded, I found that I couldn't move the magnets on the detonation plan anymore. They reset to their starting positions on the top left corner and can't be moved. Hitting spacebar also doesn't reveal the screws to interact with them. This bug is extremely disruptive and one that would honestly make me stop playing this game especially if more are expected later on in the story.

[dew]

Originally posted by janlosansky:

Hi there, the bug with the detonation Plan is quiet annoying. And loading a savegame from their website with lots of achievements gone did not satisfy me. So i dug a bit deeper.
You need the detonation plan to get the three guys waiting before the mayors office out of town hall, so you'll be next in line. If the detonations are close to there homes, they will leave. Doing that one of them will lose his ticket. You pick it up and you are next.
The ticket is an achievement stored in the savegame file. You can simply turn it on using an hex editor. Afterwards the guys are still sitting in the town hall and you don't have the second tickt in your inventory, but you can enter the mayors office and proceed with the game.
Take your last savegame file (location is "C:\Users\*your username*\AppData\Local\Daedalic Entertainment\Deponia\savegames" for windows where "your username" should be filled with the windows user name). Savegame files are named "savegamexx.dat" where the latest has the highest number. Same with bookmark files, which are autosaves.
Make a backup copy of the savegamefile you want to edit and store it somewhere safe, so you can reedit the original file if somewith goes wrong. Open the hex editor of your choice and look for a string named:"Wartenummer_2_genommen". This meas "ticket numer 2 taken". The hexdump is reading "00 5D 11 00 00 10 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 12 00 00 00". You have to change it to "00 5D 11 00 00 10 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 01 12 00 00 00" and the ticket ist yours. Don't forget to save the file. Now start Deponia, load the savegame and proceed. The detonation plan is still not working, but it is not needed anymore.
Have fun!

I can't find that string in my hex tool. Is it possible that the strings are different depending on the software you use?

[larisz]

same problem

[janlosansky]

I don't think that the strings have different names, because you can use any savegame in any version of the program. What kind of hex editor do you use?

[ØDIN]

How come I had absolutely no problems with magnets? The game worked flawlessly

[xavigrodrigo]

I have had the same problem but I have not been able to solve it using the hex editor as Janlosansky proposed.

So, I have restarted over from a previous saved game and I just saved after completing the required action with the magnets. If anyone needs this savegame.dat file, email me to [e-mail]

[Das unbekannte Etwas -.-]

This bug should be solved with this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/214340/discussions/0/846961716447233058/?ctp=4#c2139714324759709967

[Marty Back Fly]

Originally posted by janlosansky:

Hi there, the bug with the detonation Plan is quiet annoying. And loading a savegame from their website with lots of achievements gone did not satisfy me. So i dug a bit deeper.
You need the detonation plan to get the three guys waiting before the mayors office out of town hall, so you'll be next in line. If the detonations are close to there homes, they will leave. Doing that one of them will lose his ticket. You pick it up and you are next.
The ticket is an achievement stored in the savegame file. You can simply turn it on using an hex editor. Afterwards the guys are still sitting in the town hall and you don't have the second tickt in your inventory, but you can enter the mayors office and proceed with the game.
Take your last savegame file (location is "C:\Users\*your username*\AppData\Local\Daedalic Entertainment\Deponia\savegames" for windows where "your username" should be filled with the windows user name). Savegame files are named "savegamexx.dat" where the latest has the highest number. Same with bookmark files, which are autosaves.
Make a backup copy of the savegamefile you want to edit and store it somewhere safe, so you can reedit the original file if somewith goes wrong. Open the hex editor of your choice and look for a string named:"Wartenummer_2_genommen". This meas "ticket numer 2 taken". The hexdump is reading "00 5D 11 00 00 10 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 12 00 00 00". You have to change it to "00 5D 11 00 00 10 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 01 12 00 00 00" and the ticket ist yours. Don't forget to save the file. Now start Deponia, load the savegame and proceed. The detonation plan is still not working, but it is not needed anymore.
Have fun!

mismo problema ... solucionado con esta respuesta . GRACIAS

[Marty Back Fly]

Originally posted by dew:

Originally posted by janlosansky:

Hi there, the bug with the detonation Plan is quiet annoying. And loading a savegame from their website with lots of achievements gone did not satisfy me. So i dug a bit deeper.
You need the detonation plan to get the three guys waiting before the mayors office out of town hall, so you'll be next in line. If the detonations are close to there homes, they will leave. Doing that one of them will lose his ticket. You pick it up and you are next.
The ticket is an achievement stored in the savegame file. You can simply turn it on using an hex editor. Afterwards the guys are still sitting in the town hall and you don't have the second tickt in your inventory, but you can enter the mayors office and proceed with the game.
Take your last savegame file (location is "C:\Users\*your username*\AppData\Local\Daedalic Entertainment\Deponia\savegames" for windows where "your username" should be filled with the windows user name). Savegame files are named "savegamexx.dat" where the latest has the highest number. Same with bookmark files, which are autosaves.
Make a backup copy of the savegamefile you want to edit and store it somewhere safe, so you can reedit the original file if somewith goes wrong. Open the hex editor of your choice and look for a string named:"Wartenummer_2_genommen". This meas "ticket numer 2 taken". The hexdump is reading "00 5D 11 00 00 10 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 12 00 00 00". You have to change it to "00 5D 11 00 00 10 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 01 12 00 00 00" and the ticket ist yours. Don't forget to save the file. Now start Deponia, load the savegame and proceed. The detonation plan is still not working, but it is not needed anymore.
Have fun!

I can't find that string in my hex tool. Is it possible that the strings are different depending on the software you use?

solved ?,

[grangran71]

I just bought this game and now my magnets won't move on the detonator board. Has this been resolved yer?

[Roamel]

Hello everyone! I have fixed this with patching save file with the next:
find "sprengplan_active" and change
"73 70 72 65 6E 67 70 6C 61 6E 5F 61 63 74 69 76 65 00 7A 1B 00 00 13 00 00 00 34 01 00 00 01 17 00 00 00" to
"73 70 72 65 6E 67 70 6C 61 6E 5F 61 63 74 69 76 65 00 7A 1B 00 00 13 00 00 00 34 01 00 00 00 17 00 00 00"
After this magnetic board starts working.

[Austuga]

Same problem here!
:-(

[FFeral]

Just purchased all three of these games and already at a complete stand still :'( money gone

[Rin]

Same problem :(

[tevile]

Apparently I received a steam achievement for this thread because it was never fixed and people are still falling into this trap of a game. This saddens me.

[forward.to.ivan]

@janlosansky
I have no idea how you found which hex value to edit out but it works perfectly, thank you man :)