Hi there. Opening a .player file shows a mix of legible english, and a whole lot of annoying tokens. Notepad++ refers to them as things like NUL, SOH, DLE, FF, ENQ, EOT, STX, BEL, etc. Does anyone know the cause of these tokens, and what the point of them is? Additionally, (and most importantly) is it possible to open it with something that will render them in a functional way so that I can edit the file, adding things, removing things, changing things without ruining the file? Thanks!
Well you could use a hex editor. The saves are in a specific file format and encoded. They wouldn't just put them in plain text, now would they?
Well, I'd sorta expect them to, seeing as the game is designed to be mod-able. One issue with the mods that add new recipies is that if you want a recipe to be part of a particular tier of items, and the player has already achieved that tier, it requires what should be unecessary additional modding to add the crafting recipe for the character. Otherwise, the player would need to create a new character to take advantage of the mod. Either it needs to be easy to mod a player save (and you can sorta do it anyway) or the way recipes are added needs to be altered so that it checks for changes in tier recipes.
I found this: http://community.playstarbound.com/...e-editor-discussion.38948/page-2#post-1439616 Seems to imply that they will be changing the format to something easier to use. Hopefully that is one of the changes in the next update.
They do intend to change the format for save files. The codes you see in the file are the decoded pieces of data that happen to decode to control codes. This is also explained in the thread linked by Halberde. That thread would also contain a lot of info about the current files, if you are still interested.
