yellow pearl problem [spoilers]

[Perseus]

Long story short, i brought the yellow pearls from "looks to the moon" to the scavengers near the tree between Garbage Wastes and Shoreline and now i want them back but can't find them.
Any ideas where they might be?
Is it possible that they might be lost forever?

[a shiba]

Colored pearls that you've picked up and left in the rain / given to Scavengers are gone and won't respawn.

Unless you want to go through a new run to get those pearls, you can go on the wiki to read the dialogue from the pearls you lost. (colored pearls' purpose in spoiler just in case)

[Perseus]

Originally posted by a shiba:

Colored pearls that you've picked up and left in the rain / given to Scavengers are gone and won't respawn.

Thank you.

Maybe i am missing something, but that does not seem like good game design to me.

Is there any way i could modify my save file to set the yellow pearls's status to "uncollected"?

[RCMidas]

One of the things to keep in mind about Rain World is that it is fundamentally set against you. It is not a fair world, and it is not entirely a fair game. You will fail and lose time and time again until you work out the intricacies of the system. Now, that is good THEMATIC design for the game, and that is objective fact: it fits entirely appropriately within the framework of the universe that the developers built. Whether you consider it good MECHANICAL design for this or any other game is entirely subjective.

Case in point: there are a couple of pearls in one area which have five (or six?) different results - you literally cannot see all the possible options in one playthrough because there are only two of them. So for another coloured pearl to be lost is, relatively speaking, no biggie if you are trying to see everything, as you have to go through and do it again regardless. Several times, in fact, since you don't know which iteration of the peals will be active in that playthrough until you get them examined.

As for modding your save file, probably there is a way, but I'm not sure how it could be done without taking the whole thing apart.

[Perseus]

For this game, because of its thematic,
i am fine with any logical unfairness, like an ally accidentally killing me along with the intended target using a bomb that i did not know they were going to throw.
But i am not fine with illogical unfairness, like thoses pearls ceasing to exist :
logically, seeing how scavengers behave, they should've ended up on a pearl tree.
And then maybe i would have to betray them to get the pearls back.
It still would have been unfair, since when i found the pearls i had no way of knowing their true purpose, but logically unfair.

[Doctor Fetus]

Originally posted by perseus:

Originally posted by a shiba:

Colored pearls that you've picked up and left in the rain / given to Scavengers are gone and won't respawn.

Thank you.

Maybe i am missing something, but that does not seem like good game design to me.

Is there any way i could modify my save file to set the yellow pearls's status to "uncollected"?

Originally posted by perseus:

Originally posted by a shiba:

Colored pearls that you've picked up and left in the rain / given to Scavengers are gone and won't respawn.

Thank you.

Maybe i am missing something, but that does not seem like good game design to me.

Is there any way i could modify my save file to set the yellow pearls's status to "uncollected"?

Unfortunately RW has some really poor design choice, no one would deny it (still a masterpiece imo)

As for lore pearls - if you are into it you probably should know that one of those can be stolen by scavs from its initial spawn place and you won't be able to get it no matter what you do. Or rather you can but it is very difficult and requires to savescum a lot.