Get back a book I've lost after death

[Vyralator]

I'm asking out of pure desperation, though I'm assuming the answer will be no.

I've died while having my journal on me, that I've been writing in, for a number of in-game months now and because I couldn't make it back to my corpse in time, it looks like it has despawned. Does anyone know of a way to savescum it back, or check in the save file for the contents or something? I've tried quitting the game without saving, but looks like the game made an auto save at a moment, where the item was already gone.

I this is just part of my story now...

[dakko]

I'm so sorry that you lost your journal!

I no longer remember the default location of the save files, and I've no idea if what you would like to accomplish is doable. If you do not receive an answer here, you might try asking in the discord channel. Here is the invitation link.

For the future, it is possible to stop time by using the command: "/time stop"  [restart with "/time resume"] (don't include the quotation marks)

I hope there is some way to get your journal back. Best of luck!

[Helst_navngivet]

im guessing its saved somewhere in VintageStoryData as some form of .json or another textfile, otherwise, i cant help.

as dakko said, you can also try asking in the discord server.

i going to assume the journal is a mod, as i have never seen one before.

Edited yesterday at 09:53 AM by Helst_navngivet

[Helst_navngivet]

my personal guess would be VintagestoryData -> mods -> whatever journal mod you have -> [journalmod]client -> then some form of .json file.

you could probably recover it from there in some way.

if you could tell me what journal mod it was, that would help a ton.

if its not a mod, then that makes it a little harder, as VintagestoryData in of itself is pretty hard to navigate.

its probably some form of playersave or playerdata, then.

Edited yesterday at 09:54 AM by Helst_navngivet

[Helst_navngivet]

another option would be VintagestoryData -> saves -> your world -> and then open your worlds respective VCDBS file, but keep in mind its pretty large, when i tested it out i used notepad to open it, and notepad crashed. preferably use some other program that can handle that kind of thing.

if its saved on metadata, then im afraid its lost, or atleast buried DEEP inside the data.

[Helst_navngivet]

figuring out where json files are located progress report: "oh good what the hell have i roped myself into"

i dont know what in the world im doing and what host name/adress is or what SQLformat3 is but it was in the stupid text file as the only readable thing

lets just hope i can find out where that journals data is

[Rainbow Fresh]

14 minutes ago, Helst_navngivet said:

i dont know what in the world im doing and what host name/adress is or what SQLformat3 is but it was in the stupid text file as the only readable thing

Cause it's not a text file.

https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Modding:VCDBS_format

Edited yesterday at 11:24 AM by Rainbow Fresh

[Helst_navngivet]

regarding the journal, if you have exported it you might be able to save it pretty easily.

im still figuring out how to save it if you didnt

Edited yesterday at 11:46 AM by Helst_navngivet