How to cheat?

[Azirahael]

So, i'd been to all the planets, had a massive base, all the top tier tech unlocked, etc, and then my HDD crashed and died.
And there's no cloud save. FFS.

And, i had unlocked 3 of the core gates, and a stack of smaller gates, and was working my way to the end. And i had all the resources in the world to do it with.

Is there any way to spawn stuff in?
Because i have been playing this since the first days of early access, and i'm over the start bit.

[Buddha]

You don't back up your HD? There's your problem.

[Azirahael]

Originally posted by Buddha:

You don't back up your HD? There's your problem.

Mother board failed and took out the SSD and the backup HDD.
So no.
Now, got an answer to the question?

[Nini]

Wait for the creative update? No real way to cheat otherwise.

[Shukra]

Originally posted by Nini:

Wait for the creative update? No real way to cheat otherwise.

Creative is the mode you play after finishing the game's story mode. That's all you have, that's all you get once you've opened all the gates and called for the rescue ship. For a average person that might take 40 hours after the artifical difficulty was added to the game a couple patches ago.

When the game first went gold you could finished it in 10 hours and play as sandbox mode(people complained about no content so they added terrain 2.0).

Then they increased the power requirements for gates, etc, adding terrain 2.0 and now it takes 40 hours. Terrain 2.0 added 20 hours to the game to finish as it's now a nightmare to traverse. No more fun than it as before but now they can brag how long it takes to open gates, 40 hours now boys, whoop. <--no.

This game has much wasted potential.

[Azirahael]

Sigh.

[powbam]

I don't really know the devs stance on 3rd party tool usage for Astroneer but one would hope that they are open-minded with it considering the game is primarily offline/single-player and has zero competitive elements. Searching around reveals slim-picking with next to nothing on Nexus except some Reshade loadouts and someones old save file.

I did find this: https://www.wemod.com/cheats/astroneer-trainers
..but I have no idea how well it works or how legit the creator of such is.

Other than that your only option would be to get down and dirty with using CheatEngine and figuring it out on your own. Taking precautions in the future and backing up your save files elsewhere might also be a good idea.

On that note, it would be nice if they'd support modding of the game as it would drastically increase replayability and customization of the game and I do believe they'd find popularity of the game would increase as a result.

Supporting Steam Cloud would be a nice bonus I guess but honestly I tend not to trust Steam Cloud with many of my game's save files as it is known to be 'problematic' from time to time (and there have been cases in the past where I personally have had it cause issues) and I prefer having direct control.

[Azirahael]

Thanks!

Sadly, that trainer would remove most of the challenge and game from the game, but it's worth a look.
Running out of oxygen is a major part of the game loop, for example.

MY ideal would be a way of spawning in a stack of the rare resources, so i could climb the tech tree quickly while preserving the basics, but i'll give it a go.