Changing Estate/Save Name

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On my first Radiant playthrough I just named my Estate the default 'Darkest' but now that I've completed that campaign, I want to start a new playthrough on the Darkest difficulty. What I would like to do is change the name of my first Estate to 'Radiant' And my new Estate to 'Darkest'. It just makes it easier overall to organize save files.

[One Man Army]

You need to find your saved file, open it with notepad/wordpad and change the name.

The saved games locations are by default found at:

Steam version (Sync):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your number>\262060\remote

Non steam version:
PC
C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Darkest
Mac
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Darkest

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Check inside the game which saved slot your estate holds, counting from top to bottom,
   with the first one counting as 0(ZERO).
   So lets say you have two saved files, the first will be on position 0 and second on 1.
   
   
2. Then close the game.
   
   
3. Go to the saved game location. ex.C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Darkest
   
   
4. You will find a bunch of Profile_# folders.
   
   MAKE A BACKUP OF THE APPROPRIATE FOLDER SOMEWHERE.(Copy/Paste)
   In case something goes wrong,you can just replace it.
   
   Now open the appropriate folder. (ex. Profile_0)
   
   
5. Find the file named : "persist.game.json"
   
   
6. Open with WordPad/Notepad
   
   
7. You now need to locate the following word: "estatename"
   You can either do that manually or use the find function (CTRL+F) and search for "estatename".
   
   
8. Once you have found it after it you will see the name of your estate. In this case "Darkest".
   
   
9. Carefully select the exact word (MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT DELETE spaces before and after the word) delete it and replace it.
   You can put your cursor to the end of the name, and use the hold SHIFT function and LEFT ARROW key to select the entire word carefully.
   
   
10. Close and SAVE the changes to the file.

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Originally posted by One Man Army:

You need to find your saved file, open it with notepad/wordpad and change the name.

The saved games locations are by default found at:

PC
C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Darkest

Mac
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Darkest


INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Check inside the game which saved slot your estate holds, counting from top to bottom,
   with the first one counting as 0(ZERO).
   So lets say you have two saved files, the first will be on position 0 and second on 1.
   
   
2. Then close the game.
   
   
3. Go to the saved game location. ex.C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Darkest
   
   
4. You will find a bunch of Profile_# folders.
   
   MAKE A BACKUP OF THE APPROPRIATE FOLDER SOMEWHERE.(Copy/Paste)
   In case something goes wrong,you can just replace it.
   
   Now open the appropriate folder. (ex. Profile_0)
   
   
5. Find the file named : "persist.game.json"
   
   
6. Open with WordPad/Notepad
   
   
7. You now need to locate the following word: "estatename"
   You can either do that manually or use the find function (CTRL+F) and search for "estatename".
   
   
8. Once you have found it after it you will see the name of your estate. In this case "Darkest".
   
   
9. Carefully select the exact word (MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT DELETE spaces before and after the word) delete it and replace it.
   You can put your cursor to the end of the name, and use the hold SHIFT function and LEFT ARROW key to select the entire word carefully.
   
   
10. Close and SAVE the changes to the file.

I tried this. It turns out the save file is in a different location now. I deleted the word 'Darkest' after the estate name and replaced it with 'Radiant' but my save file was suddenly gone. Thankfully the game had a backup in place so I recovered it but that moment made me panic. I tried doing it on a another save file but the same thing happens. Whenever I try to change the name, the save file disappears. I don't want to risk anything bad happening but thank you for the suggestion. I don't think I will mess around with it anymore.

[One Man Army]

Sorry for that, ignore my first post.
Always make backups before doing anything, like i mentioned in the instructions.

Okay, apparently this is more complicated than it should be.
The files are encrypted, so i tried changing the name with a Hex editor ( https://hexed.it/ for online version) but it seems the name byte size is saved as a variable somewhere for some reason and it checks for that before displaying the estate names.
I couldn't find it, maybe someone more savvy can.

You can change the name to the same size and it won't complain but you have to make sure your saved location was not in a dungeon but at the hamlet (main base).
If you change the name to any other size it will complain because it doesn't match with that other size variable.
I'm getting an error reading from Hierarchical_file.cpp which i can't find either.

I tried changing the name by creating a new temporary profile with the same settings and then just copy/pasting the new .json file to the profile folder that I want the name to change.
This works but unless both saves are on the same week count it will mess up the week log number, so you may have Week 2 then Week 2 again and then it goes as normal.