Do you cheat in single player?

[Wade]

Mining and crafting all those stone, wood, iron... is really pain in the ass. I dont cheat though

[ThePendragon]

If I'm playing alone, I do whatever the hell I want. Who are you to tell me it's "cheating"? go eat dirt, dude.

[Willow Rivers]

Nope I do not cheat. I play on the default settings in single player and play the way the game was meant to be played.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Wade Rocketowsky:

Do you cheat in single player?
Mining and crafting all those stone, wood, iron... is really pain in the ass. I dont cheat though

It is a weird yet legit question. I cut the answer short: you have to outweight your benefits with the reduced feeling of satisfaction from having achieved the same without "cheating".

That being written, changing your multiplayers, any of the game from vanilla, can be already considered "cheating". So do what you want and play the way you have most fun with. Just be careful and understand what I have written before. If e.g. instead of crafting by normal means after harvesting you just spawn items into existence, you get very quick to the point where you might be too used to that. And that is a big spoiler for your overall fun. So make a calculation and be careful not to spoil your game that way.

If it is too much for you, try instead of blatant cheating to increase the multipliers. 4x-5x as much yield per harvest, triple or quadruple thrall tame time, some mods which assist you in solo play like Better Thralls. You can configurate your game very enjoyable in single player without straight forward /kill enemy in front of you. Feel free to check out the mods I have mentioned here https://steamcommunity.com/app/440900/discussions/0/6790907198720605915/

If you do it good, you notice quick: no need for ruining your game by straightforward cheating. If you enjoy the game solo, why not e.g. bringing 3-7 thralls with you helping you fight bosses which are designed for multiplayer? And some things you perceive as "grindy" now are better later on, if you know the mechanics. I am running with a Gazelle pet and thralls as escort. The Gazelle pet can carry 4x5 items without slowing down. That and a 4x harvest multiplier, and you will feel single player is better balanced. Think about that.

[dot]

I save scum. I try not to because is a pain already to do it and it is not fail proof, but when things get too ugly and/or I die for something that I consider bs in that moment, I visit the Saved folder.

[Jaq]

I cheat in single player because I mostly use it for testing, and I already know that I'm going to be successful at mining 1000 stone, there's no challenge left to that. I spend the vast majority of my time on official servers though, where I can't cheat and wouldn't want to anyway. Besides, with every update they just add more stuff that's basically cheat codes. We have npcs to do all our fighting, npcs to do all our farming, teleporters to eliminate all our travel, spells to instantly recover our bodies if for some reason we still manage to die, spells to skip invisibly to the end of dungeons, and we get endgame tools and weapons right at the beginning of the game for the cost of a few dead noob river sorcerers. PVE is almost Creative Mode at this point. The only thing having access to Admin powers would add on top of that is saving you time gathering materials. That's all that's left.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by Drekkadratt:

If I'm playing alone, I do whatever the hell I want. Who are you to tell me it's "cheating"? go eat dirt, dude.

Sounds like someone's a cheater and being defensive about it :P

[The Sandal Bomber ™©]

Do i use admin? Yes yes i do if i need 1 brick or 10 steel to build something i'm not spending another 20 minutes to get the 1 item i need.

[Wade]

I don't use admin console, if I would spawn a million of steel or stone or whatever it wouldn't make sense, gameplay would be totally broken. Although of course gathering resources can sometimes be very tiring.

[Sanki]

Only if the game is cheating me, then I cheat the game right back.

Tho getting resources is the easiest part, Bearer thralls are dropping their SupplyBags, hunt a few of them and you won't need to mine iron/steel/crystal ever.

[Solomon Hawk]

Look.
I've cheated in SP mode, but in doing so, it takes away from the satisfaction of working to accomplish something meaningful. (Even if it's just a simple A-frame hut).
So in learning from that, I avoid it now.

It's a choice, but learn from it if you can.

[Shadow]

I try not to, but I do use it to compensate for some of the quirks of single player. For example, getting star metal ore in the exiled lands. The mechanics for the meteor showers timer gets a little funky in single player and results in them being quite a bit more sparse than they are on an actual server.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by Shadow:

I try not to, but I do use it to compensate for some of the quirks of single player. For example, getting star metal ore in the exiled lands. The mechanics for the meteor showers timer gets a little funky in single player and results in them being quite a bit more sparse than they are on an actual server.

I have a mod for that :P
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2914950133

[Lemur]

There are cheats in singleplayer?

[Shadow]

Yeah, you set yourself as admin, which gives you access to the admin panel, or admin commands if you know them. You can do all sorts of stuff from there, like enable god mode, fill your inventory with stone, or spawn fifty frost giants right in front of you.

[Scorpio]

I generally play games to play them so I don't really do any cheating