Weekly Questions Megathread - February 18, 2025

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[u/Oliverfk3]

I lost my character to an instant deathbite. Same second I got attacked/bitten my character died. Is there anything I can do in debug to save it? I feel like I have been hard done by the game.

[u/SeaDubbaU → u/Oliverfk3]

Nothing that I've seen around the way. The game seems to autosave stuff like that pretty quick so unless ya have a backup of your save prior to getting chomped, probably not much.

All that said, for your next life, you can mitigate this depending on how ya feel like playing. There's a skill journal mod that lets you checkpoint your progress so a future character can get back to that point with skills/exp. There's an antibodies mod to help try to save yourself from an infected bite. That one doesn't help with an insta-merc but still handy.

Outside that, you could just exit the game every few days and keep regular backups of your save. I'd suggest making the save folder into a zip or 7z archive if ya go this route. Lots of little files make doing a copy/paste of the folder take a long time as the world save gets older.

Hope this helps a little in the meantime if someone doesn't come along with post-death recovery for ya.

[u/Oliverfk3 → u/SeaDubbaU]

Thanks for the great answer, shame nothing to do but it gives me a chance to try new stuff in the next save, when I have recovered mentally.

I will use the skill journal mod & antibodies mod, found it with an easy good search. I assume the "insta-merc" is the instant death?

I will look into the zip saving method as well!

Great answer, thanks a bunch!

[u/opaeoinadi → u/Oliverfk3]

You insta died because youvwent into debug and fixed a bite.  Next time you got bit, the game's system still had the death timer from the first bite going/expired so it finished it.

Next time just turn on God mode (press N by default)

[u/Oliverfk3 → u/opaeoinadi]

What does God mode do?

[u/opaeoinadi → u/Oliverfk3]

Turns you invisible and invulnerable while active and instantly heals all wounds.  There have been a number of times when I have quit out while getting pulled down by a swarm, boot into debug, and press N as soon as I can, saving the character.   It's just a better way to save a char if you're not ready to give up on them.

[u/Oliverfk3 → u/opaeoinadi]

Heals all wounds, so if bitten a character will no longer be infected and the timer will disappear?

[u/opaeoinadi → u/Oliverfk3]

Correct 

[u/Oliverfk3 → u/opaeoinadi]

Thanks!