Save Game Editing Issue

[Energywelder]

So i wanted to edit one of my save games, give myself another 10 more knowledge because late game was dragging and i was about to run out of copper and tin in the bronze age.

I figured out the save was a secret .zip file
Extracted the contents
Found where the knowledge line was, edited
Put the file back in the .sav file
Opened the game, "Save File Corrupted"

Looked around, haven't found a good solution. I have noticed that 7zip describes an "uncorrupted" save as having a "Host OS" of "FAT" and a "corrupted" .sav with a host OS of "NTFS". Didnt see an option in 7zips options mentioning anything like that. I also saw another post suggest it's not really a .zip file, but a .gzip file. Tried that, no luck.

Im out of ideas, looking to the community for help.

[UglyBird]

.sav files are hexadecimal and can only be edited with an hexadecimal editor and even then you will need some knowledge of hexadecimal.
To achieve what you intend to do I would look for a trainer. "Cheatshappens" have got one.

[Energywelder]

Originally posted by UglyBird:

.sav files are hexadecimal and can only be edited with an hexadecimal editor and even then you will need some knowledge of hexadecimal.
To achieve what you intend to do I would look for a trainer. "Cheatshappens" have got one.

Wdym theyre hexidecimal? After extraction theyre in plaintext, i control+F for "knowledge" and bam:

<knowledge_manager type="DawnOfMan.KnowledgeManager">
<knowledge_amount value="36"/>
<era value="BronzeAge"/>
<max_population value="236"/>
<max_animal_population value="198"/>
<era_unlock_times values="0 4345.24 8451.3 15692.02 28190.22 0"/>
<all_techs_unlock_time value="0"/>
<knowledge_enabled value="True"/>
<show_tech_confirm_messages value="True"/>
<tech_cost_multiplier value="1.5"/>
</knowledge_manager>

[Maehlice]

Dawn can load the plain text file. Simply append the ".SAV" extension, so the game can see it.

[Energywelder]

You are absolutely right, it can, fascinating

[alamoscouts]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

Dawn can load the plain text file. Simply append the ".SAV" extension, so the game can see it.

doesn't work for me

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by alamoscouts:

Originally posted by Maehlice:

Dawn can load the plain text file. Simply append the ".SAV" extension, so the game can see it.

doesn't work for me

Make sure you restart the game after editing the save file and giving it the extension ".SAV". (By default, the extracted XML file has no extension.)