Modded time capsule?

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Has anyone tried putting a mod-added item in a time capsule? I'm assuming this is a Very Bad Idea. I just got a capsule with the best-in-vanilla depth upgrades and wondered what would happen if I tried to pass on a Seamoth depth upgrade mark 5 when the time comes.

[PrimeSonic]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

what would happen if I tried to pass on a Seamoth depth upgrade mark 5 when the time comes.

Pretty much nothing.

All Time Capsules are first vetted and approved by the dev team before they make it into the actual game.

If an item was in there with an unrecognized ID, obviously they would know it was from a mod and it wouldn't make the cut.

This inspection is rather necessary because there's no limit to what images you can attach and what text you can write.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

So I wouldn't have to worry about breaking someone's game, but I would also waste my own opportunity. Good to know.

[Lil Puppy]

You wouldn't break someone's game with a mod added item. It would simply show up as the unrecognized icon: white circle with a question mark in it. Several native items are like that because their icon assets were removed from the game when the devs decided not to include that item in the release.

If they also had the mod, it would show up correctly.

[PrimeSonic]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

If they also had the mod, it would show up correctly.

Except chances are high that it wouldn't.

Only a handful of mods have their IDs hardcoded. And we're trying to encourage people to stop doing that because it's a compatibility nightmare for other mods.

Even if the modded item were to make it's way into another player's time capsule (which I can pretty much assert that it wouldn't), even if the player had the same mod installed, there's a good chance that the item wouldn't be recognized as the item that was originally addded to the capsule.