The De Facto Save Editor: how to use, and what to do

This guide is brief, simple, and tells you how to use a save editor i found online. it DOES NOT tell you what to edit, you can figure that out yourself, since i got a funeral to attend hella soon. This tutorial consists of: link, uploading, downloading, reencrypting, and enjoying

Save Editor Link:

The Save editor Link is as follows:


https://jsfiddle.net/mjnpr2ac/18/



again, i did not in any way create it, i just found it while looking up porn. Go figure....

The Instructions

first, to use it, you need to upload your save files, which can be found in...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sheltered\saves


there can only be three files in the folder, all .DAT format. That means, they are encrypted. To decrypt them, you need to upload the particular save. Remember to back it up first.


uploading is simple in the sense that, on the site, you click choose file, and use the save you want. Then, you click download. it will have decrypted file, gvien it a wacky name, and then you can edit it. a save format will be added at the end, so you klnow what you are up against.


When you are finished messing around with the good stuff, you gotta reupload. to do that, savce the editied save as: savedata_01.dat Remember to do .dat. NO OTHER EXTENSIONS!

Re-encrypting is also as simple. Just reupload the file after renaming it to a .dat format as stated above, it will magicly reencrypt the file to the witchcraft useds by the devs to encrypt it.

Finally, test out the save. if you did everything right, it will work, so it should be fine. if not, you corrupted it, and gotta start whole process again..

The Example of save format: a small segment of my save file, due to character limit in guide

<root>
<SaveInfo>
<version>5</version>
<familyName>Smith</familyName>
<daysSurvived>1</daysSurvived>
<timestamp>4/23/2017 10:08:09 AM</timestamp>
<relocations>0</relocations>
<relocate>False</relocate>
<rainDifficulty>3</rainDifficulty>
<resourcesDifficulty>3</resourcesDifficulty>
<breachDifficulty>3</breachDifficulty>
<factionDifficulty>3</factionDifficulty>
<moodDifficulty>3</moodDifficulty>
<mapSize>2</mapSize>
<fogSetting>True</fogSetting>
<difficultySetting>3</difficultySetting>
<userId>76561198000421883</userId>
</SaveInfo>
<FamilyMembers>
<member_3>
<transform>
<pos x="12.76241" y="-7.63" z="0" />
<scale x="1" y="1" z="1" />
<rot x="0" y="0" z="0" />
</transform>
<firstName>Eric</firstName>
<lastName>Smith</lastName>
<male>True</male>
<child>True</child>
<CharacterMesh>
<transform>
<pos x="12.76241" y="-7.56" z="47" />
<scale x="1" y="1" z="1" />
<rot x="0" y="180" z="0" />
</transform>
<headTex>Emo</headTex>
<torsoTex>default</torsoTex>
<legTex>Shorts</legTex>
<torsoOverlay>none</torsoOverlay>
<hairCol r="0.5073529" g="0.1252644" b="0.07834128" a="1" />
<skinCol r="0.9333334" g="0.7333333" b="0.7098039" a="1" />
<shirtCol r="0.8014706" g="0.4156104" b="0.2062608" a="1" />
<pantsCol r="0.4338776" g="0.4882137" b="0.5514706" a="1" />
</CharacterMesh>
<headTexture>Emo</headTexture>
<torsoTexture>default</torsoTexture>
<legTexture>Shorts</legTexture>
<torsoOverlay>none</torsoOverlay>
<hairColor r="0.5073529" g="0.1252644" b="0.07834128" a="1" />
<skinColor r="0.9333334" g="0.7333333" b="0.7098039" a="1" />
<shirtColor r="0.8014706" g="0.4156104" b="0.2062608" a="1" />
<pantsColor r="0.4338776" g="0.4882137" b="0.5514706" a="1" />
<hasShadow>True</hasShadow>
<walkSpeed>2.4</walkSpeed>
<walkSpeedMulti>1</walkSpeedMulti>
<walkSpeedTraitMulti>1</walkSpeedTraitMulti>
<ladderSpeed>0.9</ladderSpeed>
<outside>False</outside>
<lastTriggeredDoorId>-1</lastTriggeredDoorId>
<ladderStart x="0" y="0" z="0" />
<ladderExit x="0" y="0" z="0" />
<climbingLadder>False</climbingLadder>
<currentAnim>Idle</currentAnim>
<queuedAnim>Idle</queuedAnim>
<nextIdleTime>172.1369</nextIdleTime>
<path_state>0</path_state>
<pathTarget x="12.76241" y="-7.63" />
<BaseStats>
<Strength>
<experience>0</experience>
<level>20</level>
<cap>20</cap>
</Strength>
<Dexterity>
<experience>0</experience>
<level>20</level>
<cap>20</cap>
</Dexterity>
<Intelligence>
<experience>0</experience>
<level>20</level>
<cap>20</cap>
</Intelligence>
<Charisma>
<experience>0</experience>
<level>20</level>
<cap>20</cap>
</Charisma>
<Perception>
<experience>0</experience>
<level>20</level>
<cap>20</cap>
</Perception>
</BaseStats>
<Traits>
<traitsList size="8">
<i0>
<active>False</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>False</visible>
<strength>0</strength>
<weakness>0</weakness>
</i0>
<i1>
<active>True</active>
<isStrength>True</isStrength>
<visible>True</visible>
<strength>1</strength>
<weakness>1</weakness>
</i1>
<i2>
<active>True</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>True</visible>
<strength>2</strength>
<weakness>2</weakness>
</i2>
<i3>
<active>False</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>False</visible>
<strength>3</strength>
<weakness>3</weakness>
</i3>
<i4>
<active>False</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>False</visible>
<strength>4</strength>
<weakness>4</weakness>
</i4>
<i5>
<active>False</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>False</visible>
<strength>5</strength>
<weakness>5</weakness>
</i5>
<i6>
<active>False</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>False</visible>
<strength>6</strength>
<weakness>6</weakness>
</i6>
<i7>
<active>False</active>
<isStrength>False</isStrength>
<visible>False</visible>
<strength>7</strength>
<weakness>7</weakness>
</i7>
</traitsList>

Final summary

Tl;DR

you can edit saves on the link, just upload and download and upload and download again. Change stuff in between. You can find the link while googling porn apparently. My Associatte's funeral awaits. Good luck, and goodbye.

An example image: traqnsfering a day 365 save shelter to a day 1 save shelter

[Pawnstar]

Gave a thumbs up for finding this while searching for porn.

[N€gr0, Judío y Comunista ☭]

Chrome or any Chromium-based browser will not work to re-encrypt the file. It is recommended to use another browser (IE is not supported /:). In my case use Tor.

[Courtflash]

Any idea how to add a Defibrillator to your base? I've only been able to add it to my inventory so far.

[Kayron Aldent]

Confirmed script is working in Firefox, getting script error in Chrome

[Wu70]

re-uploading to encrypt can be easily fixed, just delete line 12 with "output += String.fromCharCode(bytes );"
then you need to rerun the script

[ArmedPenguin]

Can confirm that Devil_Arcana is correct. Script still works. I refreshed the page before re-uploading just in case, though I don't know if that has any impact. Also, thanks for the spreadsheet, that was a big help.

[Devil_Arcana]

The script still works. You just have to refresh the page (I am using Mozilla) and make sure the file type is set to .dat

[Devil_Arcana]

I filled in the inventory edit items for easy browsing/editing:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14-nCfXUx2NXaV5UCiLKf293LBcZSHIKdA9NKZgSZtS8/edit?usp=sharing

[StarlightSovereign]

Yeah I get an error on trying to upload too. :c shame because I really just wanted to add a few extra nails because I've been extremely unlucky and getting progression locked. Went to annoying lengths to figure out what the nails item id was (type 7 for anyone who finds this) and now it won't let me re-encrypt. EEK.

Any chance of an update?

[MYbox]

Save Editor Link uploadig error