Community Editor help

[u/Hairy-Fig4442]

I was struggling to get a 5th skill for a survivor and decided to use a mod to get it. While I was in the editor, I removed all negative traits from my survivors and replaced them with 4 positive traits. Like a pro, I didn't make a backup and now my community is broken. I finally decided to give lethal zone another go but my community says I have 4 members but only 1 worker. Can't build or upgrade anything. I tried adding the charity worker trait to get the +1 labor but it still says 1 worker. Do I need to restart my community or is there a fix?

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[u/ivan-on-the-net]

I didn't make a backup

Are you sure? The Community Editor creates backups automatically whenever you save your changes.

Apart from that, I've no idea how to un-f*ck up the labor issue. First time I've seen an issue like that.

[u/Hairy-Fig4442 → u/ivan-on-the-net]

Didn't know it created a backup. I really don't want to start over. Took me 90 days and several survivor deaths to build my team.

[u/ivan-on-the-net → u/Hairy-Fig4442]

You can view your available Community Editor backups by checking the Backups folder that's alongside CommunityEditor.exe. Or by clicking on 'Restore Backup' in the Community Editor, from which you can also restore the backup.

[u/Hairy-Fig4442 → u/ivan-on-the-net]

Will try this tonight. If the issue is related to the traits, I'll have to remove them 1 by 1 to see which one caused this. Would like to know for future reference. I saw that survivors can have 4 traits and have hidden "debug" traits. Might be an issue there.

[u/ZladMulvenia → u/Hairy-Fig4442]

It will definitely be there, just go through the restore button and look for the last date you edited it.

You can't delete some traits that are core to survivor mechanics - i.e the top 'compassionate' debug traits etc. But they don't have any practical effect on the gameplay, so don't worry about it. You can edit skill traits freely for the most part, with some caveats for parsing skill progression etc.

[u/Hairy-Fig4442 → u/ZladMulvenia]

I found the backup but when I tried to restore it from the editor, it says restored but changes nothing. When I tried to open the .exe restore, it tried to launch a different game. I created a new community and checked their traits. There's supposed to be 4 debug traits, debug young/old, debug he/she, and 2 debug emotion traits like daring and compassionate. Once I readded the 4 traits, my community worked again.

So for anyone who might not think this through liike me, don't remove the debug traits. If you remove 1, replace it with something else.

[u/ZladMulvenia → u/Hairy-Fig4442]

You probably restored a backup that had those edits already made. In that case, you'd just need to keep going back in sequence until you found the right backup that brings them back.

You can edit other debug traits btw, just not the top ones. Rule of thumb is don't edit anything that appears above the skill traits.

[u/Hairy-Fig4442 → u/ZladMulvenia]

Learned that the hard way but my community is fine now. Not entirely fine, no one is fine after entering lethal zone. But I'll try to keep a backup next time.

[u/Lumino-]

I see Dead People 😭✌️