🎮 Cubic Odyssey Config Tweaking Guide

A clear, step-by-step walkthrough for anyone who wants full control over Cubic Odyssey’s settings—no prior modding experience required.

Cubic Odyssey Config Tweaking Guide by Jin Park

🎮 Cubic Odyssey Config Tweaking Guide



📋 1. Prerequisites
A text editor that understands plain text (Notepad on Windows will work), but we highly recommend something like Notepad++ or VS Code for syntax highlighting and search-and-replace.

Basic comfort with copy-paste and saving files.

Optional but strongly recommended: make a backup of the entire configs folder before you begin!

🔍 2. Locating Your configs Folder
Via Steam

Open your Steam Library.

Right-click Cubic Odyssey → Manage → Browse local files.

In the opened Explorer window, navigate to:

data\configs
(Note: If you installed to a custom drive/folder, just follow the same path under your Cubic Odyssey install.)


📂 3. Config Folder Overview
Inside …\data\configs\ you’ll find subfolders like:

Folder Name What It Controls
characters Player & NPC stats, models & speeds
items Properties of in-game items
weapons Damage, range & fire-rate of weapons
recipes Crafting recipes and costs
worldbiomes Environment settings per biome
…and many more see screenshot for full list

Tip: You can safely ignore folders you’re not interested in; only edit the ones you want to tweak!

💾 4. Backing Up
Before editing:

Right-click the entire configs folder.

Select Copy, then Paste somewhere safe (e.g. your Desktop).

Rename it configs-backup.

If anything breaks, just delete the modified folder and rename this back to configs.

✏️ 5. Editing a .cfg FileOpen the subfolder you want (e.g. characters).

Right-click player.cfg → Edit with Notepad++ (or your chosen editor).

You’ll see something like:

CharacterCfg
{
maleModel "male_character"
femaleModel "female_character"
defaultTeam PLAYER
skin "player"
walkSpeed 3.2
sprintMultiplier 1.43
jumpHeight 1.25
jumpTime 0.25
scale 1.15
life 30
startArmed FALSE
}
Change any value to your heart’s content.

Numbers (e.g. walkSpeed 3.2) can be increased or decreased.

Booleans are TRUE/FALSE.

Strings stay in quotes ("something").

Save your changes (Ctrl + S).

📑 6. Parameter Cheat-Sheet
Parameter What It Affects Example Tweaks
walkSpeed Normal walking speed 4.5 for a faster pace
sprintMultiplier Sprint speed = walkSpeed × multiplier 2.0 for very quick sprints
jumpHeight Maximum jump height 2.0 for higher jumps
jumpTime Duration (in seconds) of the jump animation 0.4 for a snappier jump
scale Character size 1.5 for a larger avatar
life Starting health points 50 for extra survivability
startArmed Start the game with weapons equipped? TRUE to skip unarmed play

🚀 7. Apply & Test
Close your editor.

Launch Cubic Odyssey via Steam.

Play and see your changes in action!

If something’s off—no worries—just revert to your backup or tweak again.

🛠️ 8. Advanced Tips

Use comments by prefixing lines with // (e.g. // walkSpeed 3.2) to disable them without deleting.

Explore other folders like weapons or recipes the same way—each .cfg follows the same structure.

🎉 You now have full control over Cubic Odyssey’s in-game parameters. Go forth, experiment, and tailor the game exactly to your playstyle!

[IILordTempestII]

Set BATTERY_1.cfg in data/configs/items to have a stack size of 25
Set BATTERY_1.cfg in data/configs/gear to have m_value of 100000000 (100M)
Somehow, for some dang reason, guns drain battery based on ammount of the icon and not power capacity. IDK what I did wrong, but firing an assult rifle for a few full 100% charges shouldnt take 25x100M power capacity.

[FrigidSouls]

To edit the Fitting Capacity edit: Cubic Odyssey\data\configs\components then the chassis of the ship you are using. 10 Fittings is NOT max.

[Dwarf80]

seems what i had done was go down to the battery_6.cfg and took that number be it 4800 ? and put it in the battery_1.cfg and the stack size to 5. This allowed me to stack 5 batteries together. The battery wont switch batteries again until the total amount of 5 batteries combined together was emptied. So the _1 battery has a durability or i call it "power" of the _6 battery and lasts as long as 5 batteries.

[Viconia]

I'm looking to increase the amount of charge a battery is created with but so far I can increase only the maximum durability. I've edited both the Battery_1.cfg files (one in \gear\ and one in \items\) but what I see in-game is a battery with a durability of 1000 with a filled capacity of 300 (vanilla value). Anyone know what the correct file or field is to edit to change the actual filled capacity (ideally to match the durability value)?

For clarity I've edited these files with the field values as indicated in the parenthesis:

* Cubic Odyssey\data\configs\items\Battery_1.cfg (durability 1000)
* Cubic Odyssey\data\configs\gear\Battery_1.cfg (m_value 1000)

[Dwarf80]

is nice devs has allowed this since it is the c++ engine, the unreal or unity you would have to have its engine editor plus libraries etc and possibly would be passworded before could open it. Im hoping the devs are doing this with a blind eye and giving us the enjoyment of learning how this stuff works.....so i dont feel so guilty.

[GTD-Carthage]

Has anyone succeeded in altering planet generation properties? I've done things like changing the seed and a few things but it doesn't seem to take effect even if I try a new game.

[Houten]

Tried to increase battery stack, however if you don't separate it when loading into "power supply" slot it will use up the entire stack when your run out of power.

[Turk]

Nope.

[MadBalls]

Is there a file for the character inventory, so you could add or multiply items in the inventory?

[ManiacJoey]

I tried upping the batteries for your self and the ship but does not work even if i raise it.