How do i edit save files?

[Jubba911]

From what I gathered a way to address the current issue of dead bodies is to go into the save file and either "resurrect" them by changing their health value or delete them from the list of staff/prisoners.

[fidelio]

Go into the folder where your save files are located which you can get to from the main menu in the game (Open Save Folder), then open any of the .prison files and have fun. all you need to open, view, and edit them is a text editor, like notepad.

[Jubba911]

ahh i see now. i was looking for them going thru my computer files. thanks!

[Take-Shyo]

how to edit your gamefiles on a mac? cant find my savegame with the search, steam only shows me the game folder but no save in sight, any help?

[Legitimate]

Originally posted by take-shyo:

how to edit your gamefiles on a mac? cant find my savegame with the search, steam only shows me the game folder but no save in sight, any help?

Found this in another forum, maybe it will help.
On Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Prison Architect (in Finder press Command + Shift + G and paste that in)

[Shawtyfreude]

i'm on mac but i don't have anything able to open the .prison file could someone tell me one?

[Bamwich]

any text editor will do.

[:winter2019angrybulb:]

hi ive only had prison architect for a couple days but when i go to open the files it says i dont have the right software is there any anyone knows about

[DigitalImpostor]

Originally posted by oliverhammond263:

hi ive only had prison architect for a couple days but when i go to open the files it says i dont have the right software is there any anyone knows about

Don't double-click on the files. Run a text editor such as Notepad and use that to open them.

[JP-sama]

Replace any Foodwaste with Garbage works well. And it is funny :D

[todd]

For Windows: Download a File Called NotePad++, Open the saves Folder, Click Saves, Right Click on the .prison File you want to mod, Click Edit with NotePad++, At the top click Search: Find, Type Balance, Find Next, Edit The balance Anywhere between 1000-999999999 P.S Make sure you put an .0 on the end!

[Bamwich]

Originally posted by BoaLabsEvan:

For Windows: Download a File Called NotePad++, Open the saves Folder, Click Saves, Right Click on the .prison File you want to mod, Click Edit with NotePad++, At the top click Search: Find, Type Balance, Find Next, Edit The balance Anywhere between 1000-999999999 P.S Make sure you put an .0 on the end!

You know that Windows has come with a text editor called Notepad since Windows 95, right? Why would anyone do what you suggest?

[76561198144925547]

Download Notepad++.

[Emmote]

Originally posted by chalked.up:

You know that Windows has come with a text editor called Notepad since Windows 95, right? Why would anyone do what you suggest?

There are many reasons, the most important of which is that notepad++ does not edit the format of text files at all upon opening. Notepad does.

Even if you make no changes what-so-ever to a txt file and save it, notepad can change things.

With PA it's not so important because the files are just simple plain text, but if you do a lot of txt editing, like I do, notepad++ is far, far better.

The other, biggest bonus of Notepad++ over notepad is that you can do regular expression searches in notepad++ which make life billions of times easier when finding (and replacing) large blocks of text that have similar repetitions but aren't identical. Like PA save files.

For (a poor) example...
Find:

(Mat(\s+)[^(road)(concretetiles)](\w+)(\s+))?Con(\s+)(\d+)\.(\d+)(\s+)END

Replace With:

Con 0.000000 END

Will turn every single tile, except the road and it's surrounding concrete, on the map to dirt. Try doing that in notepad.

[press f to pay respects]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Originally posted by chalked.up:

You know that Windows has come with a text editor called Notepad since Windows 95, right? Why would anyone do what you suggest?

There are many reasons, the most important of which is that notepad++ does not edit the format of text files at all upon opening. Notepad does.

Even if you make no changes what-so-ever to a txt file and save it, notepad can change things.

With PA it's not so important because the files are just simple plain text, but if you do a lot of txt editing, like I do, notepad++ is far, far better.

The other, biggest bonus of Notepad++ over notepad is that you can do regular expression searches in notepad++ which make life billions of times easier when finding (and replacing) large blocks of text that have similar repetitions but aren't identical. Like PA save files.

For (a poor) example...
Find:

(Mat(\s+)[^(road)(concretetiles)](\w+)(\s+))?Con(\s+)(\d+)\.(\d+)(\s+)END

Replace With:

Con 0.000000 END

Will turn every single tile, except the road and it's surrounding concrete, on the map to dirt. Try doing that in notepad.

also windows comes with wordpad


anyway: how to do

open file

edit what you said

hit "save as" namehere.prison

be happy that notepad is cool