file editing

[Luigi Loco]

Can you change the files from DAT to a notebook file?
I would want this so if you wanted you could change stuff in the save files to give yourself extra reasorces or make it rain indefinaty.
Also I think making it a notebook file will help with the modablity of the game.

[DeanF]

We didn't want people being able to alter their save files as this would ruin the fun of the game.

Further down the line we may consider opening the game up for modification like this. But for the time being it will remain as it is.

[Neko Bastie]

"change stuff in the save files to give yourself extra reasorces" Like a Cheater??? not a good idea ^_^

[ferran44]

maybe he would change things because the game turns very boring

[BestSwaziland#1]

um u r kidding right? Not letting the people playing/testing/PAID FOR your Early Access game, have the option to edit save files is like saying "♥♥♥♥ YOU". This game has maybe 20hrs of current game play RNG aside. in my current game i have only got 1 Rope... it is a game with 20hrs..... i cannot advance past the second crafting table... so ya i would like to be able to add 6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rope so i can actually play the game i paid to test for you.....

[Mean.Cloud]

It's fairly trivial to decrypt the saved game file and edit it. It's just an XML file that's encrypted against a double array of hardcoded bytes.

[Fizzle]

LMAO someone wants to cheat OMG..... if you cheat where's the FUN in that?

[Fizzle]

Originally posted by Crawls:LoverOfMonkeys:

um u r kidding right? Not letting the people playing/testing/PAID FOR your Early Access game, have the option to edit save files is like saying "♥♥♥♥ YOU". This game has maybe 20hrs of current game play RNG aside. in my current game i have only got 1 Rope... it is a game with 20hrs..... i cannot advance past the second crafting table... so ya i would like to be able to add 6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rope so i can actually play the game i paid to test for you.....

dude i totally understand you!... but believe me i went from negative review to positive just because i cannot find a single hinge and motor for a freezer xD... but actually those things appear randomly. you know the feeling that when you finally get those items then they start appearing like every loot you find and it's annoying.... the fact that when you try to find them they are super rare but when you dont need them anymore they are everywhere.... believe me dude that rope problem is the same as any other items you wanted to find... i dont think they are rare they're just random... you just need a bit of luck and extra patience.... the only rare items here is i think are the specials

[Luigi Loco]

Originally posted by Buk Lau:

Originally posted by Crawls:LoverOfMonkeys:

um u r kidding right? Not letting the people playing/testing/PAID FOR your Early Access game, have the option to edit save files is like saying "♥♥♥♥ YOU". This game has maybe 20hrs of current game play RNG aside. in my current game i have only got 1 Rope... it is a game with 20hrs..... i cannot advance past the second crafting table... so ya i would like to be able to add 6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rope so i can actually play the game i paid to test for you.....

dude i totally understand you!... but believe me i went from negative review to positive just because i cannot find a single hinge and motor for a freezer xD... but actually those things appear randomly. you know the feeling that when you finally get those items then they start appearing like every loot you find and it's annoying.... the fact that when you try to find them they are super rare but when you dont need them anymore they are everywhere.... believe me dude that rope problem is the same as any other items you wanted to find... i dont think they are rare they're just random... you just need a bit of luck and extra patience.... the only rare items here is i think are the specials

i found a way to cheat it anyway

[doorknob]

Originally posted by Luigi Loco:

Originally posted by Buk Lau:

dude i totally understand you!... but believe me i went from negative review to positive just because i cannot find a single hinge and motor for a freezer xD... but actually those things appear randomly. you know the feeling that when you finally get those items then they start appearing like every loot you find and it's annoying.... the fact that when you try to find them they are super rare but when you dont need them anymore they are everywhere.... believe me dude that rope problem is the same as any other items you wanted to find... i dont think they are rare they're just random... you just need a bit of luck and extra patience.... the only rare items here is i think are the specials

i found a way to cheat it anyway

how did you do it?

[Gorilla Pants]

Originally posted by GWM-SA Sir Fluffy:

Originally posted by Luigi Loco:

i found a way to cheat it anyway

how did you do it?

You can either use cheat engine to modify stats and things like that in game or you can convert the DAT file to XML, edit it, and then reload your game.

[HitsHerMark]

Please share how you got in to it if you did. I have an extra ladder which can't be dissasembled blocking my ability to build anything else.

I'm inclined to agree with the "Are you kidding me?" guy on some level. This game is in early access, if you can't/won't/haven't fixed things like not being able to remove or move an extra ladder that's now blocking your ability to continue to build, I need/want the ability to go in and remove it myself so I can continue to enjoy, test, and give feedback.

Cheating to just give yourself a bunch of stuff is boring. Getting a partially implemented or broken thing that will eventually get fixed in a patch out of your way is another matter altogether.