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Mid-Save-Saver Continued
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Original Mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2921585989
Note: You must unsubscribe from the original mod, I use the same packageId to keep compatibility going!



"Don't add or remove mods mid-save". This is often the advice passed around within the RimWorld modding community. But what fun is that? These problems can be fixed with time and effort, and this utility mod's goal is to find those solutions.

Current list of fixes
⚠️Note! fixes are not enabled by default. Enable them in the mod options as needed.

Related to adding mods...
  • Hash collisions: This silent killer won't produce any errors but you'll notice problems such as stone cliffs and chunks having just disappeared, or deep drills mining up nonsense items. This patch fixes this by temporarily disabling lossy map compression.
  • Retroactive mineables: If a mod added new mineables (like metal ore), this patch can retroactively add them to existing maps.
  • Remap body parts: If a mod adds new body parts or prosthetic augments, this could scramble the save data, causing limbs and injuries to show up on the wrong body parts. This fix will record the before and after and remap the body parts accordingly.

Related to removing mods...
  • Faction removal: Removing factions can corrupt the faction data of world objects. This fix will prune the object registry of any such cases, such as broken faction settlements.
  • Corrupt areas or sectors: If you get the "grey screen of death" on loading your save, your areas or sections may be missing. This fix will regenerate them.
  • Corrupt weather: Removing a mod that added custom weather may also cause the "grey screen of death". This fix will reset the weather manager.
  • Corrupt ideologies: If you view your ideologies screen and get bombarded by UI errors, you may have a corrupt precept. This fix will remove them from ideologies across all factions.
  • Missing stuff material: If you remove a mod that added materials (metals, stones, etc), and things were made out of those materials, this fix will handle their fallback.

    FAQ
    Q. I got a ton of red errors after removing a mod, but I had this installed. Is it not working?
    A. Yes, you'll get errors, that's perfectly normal. The point of this mod is only to address the fatal errors that would prevent you from doing anything. The remaining errors are just pointing out that it can't find removed content, which is fine. Save your game, and then reload that save, and they should clear up (you may have to do this 2 times sometimes).

    Q. I read the above but I'm still getting serious errors.
    A. You either:
    1. Found an issue this mod has not addressed yet. Give me the details and I'll try to find the cure.
    2. Forgot to actually enable the fixes in the mod options.
    3. The errors are unrelated to mid-save complications, and would have happened even for a fresh save in a new colony, and it's just the regular mod problem you'll need to troubleshoot.
    Q. Any risks I should know about?
    A. Due to the chaotic nature of errors, there may be unknown unknowns. By ripping out mods mid-save, it is technically plausible there could be hidden problems that do not reveal themselves through red errors. These sleeper-bugs, if they exist, will need to be worked out as they're reported upon.
    Q. Can I remove <insert mod> with this?
    A. Two things to say here: One, it's not practical for me to know the answer to this for all the thousands of mods out there. And two, the goal here is to be able to remove any mod (I have, for instance, removed over 500 mods all at the same time when testing). The reason this works is because when mods are removed, you are left with predictable and finite vanilla components that just need some special attention to make sure they're still okay, so removal is not a mod-specific process.
    The only mods that are not removable are mods that involve a framework, and you leave the framework installed. This is because frameworks are not often designed with this sort of data sanity process in mind. If you remove the framework along with the mod, it'll work fine, though.

    Why I made this
    As a mod author myself, I dislike that people may feel discouraged from subscribing to a mod out of fear that they won't be able to remove it, or that adding it mid-save could cause issues. If I had it my way, we would be able to add or remove anything, anytime. In theory, these errors can be fixed, someone just needs to step up and do something about it.
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General Shyguy Mar 8 @ 2:07pm 
Followed the instructions for removing a mod, Kraltech Rebalanced in this case, now im getting issues with caravans not moving on the world map and this for a number of settlements.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
[Ref 816B394F] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch5 (string)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.TickManager.DoSingleTick_Patch5 (Verse.TickManager)
Verse.TickManager:TickManagerUpdate ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Game.UpdatePlay_Patch2 (Verse.Game)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Root_Play.Update_Patch1 (Verse.Root_Play)

Can't say i've ever seen this happen before when removing a mod in 1.4 using mid-save saver but the save is non-functional now.
FirstandLastBAC Jan 25 @ 9:43am 
Dude thank you, my grey screen is gone!
UselessGoddess69 Dec 30, 2024 @ 3:32am 
My Mountains literally just vanished when I used this mod. All of my previous saves all of the sudden has the same issue.

Anyone knows how to fix this?
sweetbun Dec 16, 2024 @ 1:53pm 
@LZIM while it might be a bit late I did earlier today have the same issue with a recently recruited pawn not having any controls.

I did find a way to fix it by:
enabling dev mode,
going to the dev actions menu and selecting "T: Pass To World",
clicking the bugged pawn (make sure you remember the pawns name before doing so),
going back into the actions menu and selecting "Spawn world pawn..." and finding the pawn in the next menu,
selecting any of the next options (unsure if it makes a difference which; I chose colonist),
then finally using "T: Recruit" on them.
ShadowH4nD Nov 21, 2024 @ 2:51pm 
Just saved my colony with 386 mods from a CTD on load. Awesome!!
Lurmey Sep 17, 2024 @ 1:29pm 
Just putting this here as a warning to others - as tempting as it may be don't leave the hash collisions fix turned on when it's not needed, it seems to cause a conflict with FisheryLib (required for Performance Fish) and possibly other mods. Unconfirmed as yet but I was getting error spam mentioning hash codes and it seems to have gone away after turning off the hash collisions fix, saving, and reloading the save.

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/5db801dc775d2b6238f92a0dec65daee in case anyone wants to see the errors idk
Vanilla Avocado Sep 11, 2024 @ 8:14pm 
This mod saved my 1000+ hour save from Giddy-up&Giddy-up2's BUG.
Thanks very much.
Sir_Trollman Jul 21, 2024 @ 2:14pm 
When 1.5 :troll:
LZIM Jul 15, 2024 @ 5:52pm 
Was still using the 1.4 version to try to fix an issue where pawns added to colony (not all of them) are not showing any controls. They can be controlled only by prioritizing them but cant be drafted since there is no button for it. Will try this mod but it probably cant fix the issue. Anyone else come across the same issue and know if any workarounds or solutions or to force regenerate a pawn with all the same attributes?
Elykdez Jul 8, 2024 @ 11:40pm 
Great mod saving my save after removing obsolete mods from 1.4 to 1.5!
Would be better if it's possible to add a "save player faction" feature that assign default story and faction then make player pawn colonists if player faction added by mod is removed. I did everything mentioned above with a text editor by hand to save my save completely.