How to edit saves in Mac OS X.

[13kaktus]

Maybe someone will need this.
Instruments:
- terminal app (pre-installed in Mac OS X )
- some luck
- several saves (you can corrupt save files, so make several saves of your current game)
- low-level text editor (vim, vscode, TextEdit, nano).

1. Atom RPG installed by Steam saves files to ~/Library/Application Support/unity.AtomTeam.unity/ . Navigate to this folder both with Finder and terminal (Finder -> go->go to folder - > ~/Library/Application Support/unity.AtomTeam.unity/ , terminal -> cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/unity.AtomTeam.Atom/ )
2. There are folders and files named like save slots.
3. Select your save file (.as) and extract it using default archiver (double click)
4. Trickly moment. In all Windows instruction, you should see the folder with the same name. But in our case, you will see the only file without any extension. Open it in any low-level text editor (I used VSCode or default Mac OS TextEdit).
5. To customize the player characteristics find the string ' "character":"Player" ' . Near it, you should see 'stats'. You can change SPECIAL characteristics. WARNING! For me save crashes if I made one of the characteristics more than 10. Save file.
6. Remove the original .as file.
7. Go to terminal and do this 'gzip your_save_filename' (if you changed Save_7_v10 command will be 'gzip Save_7_v10'). After completing this command you will new file 'your_save_name.gz' rename it to 'your_save_name.as' (for example Save_7_v10.gz->Save_7_v10.as)
8. Launch AtomRPG and try to load save.
9.PROFIT

WARNING! Sometimes it is not working. I can't change SpecPoints, as an example. If you can't see the save file in the game - try to repeat all process from the beginning or try to change other things. If nothing helps - use other saves. I don't know why, but sometimes it is just not working with some saves.

[ruadhbran]

Thanks for the how-to post! This worked for me, but I could only change values up to 9, not 10.