All my characters are missing from character select | Starbound | Page 1

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:19 PM

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I have tried:
restoring from .player backups, removing recently added mods
restarting steam
verifying integrity

when looking at this log it also seems it isn't quite loading workshop mod recipes and I'm wondering if that's the cause of this issue

📎 starbound.log

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:33 PM

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willow cove I have tried: restoring from .player backups, removing recently added mods rest...

just glanced at the log instead of reading it all- looks like you might've installed an inventory or hotbar changing mod, which dont work with existing characters unless you install OpenStarbound

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willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:33 PM

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I already tried removing those mods and the issue persisted

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im trying a fresh install to force it to only redownload subscribed items as we speak

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i cant use OSB due to certain mods I use being incompatable with it

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:35 PM

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which ones? mostly everything is compatible with it

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plus, you can just run oSB once to use it to fix your characters, then remove it

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:36 PM

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hmmmm true i could try that , my install just finished so gonna try this first

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loaded it up before workshop content downloaded and one of my characters popped up

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gonna wait for worksjhop to finish see if that char still shows

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might still use OSB in the end as I hear its less laggy?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:40 PM

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it is less laggy

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:41 PM

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lets focus on the fix first , hopefully it should fix my issue. I already removed the hotbar mods prior to opening this thread so hypothetically steam shouldnt redl them

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im assuming the issue could have easily been fragmented workshop data?

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also if i may be so bold I think we have spoken before silver , long ass time ago but your name seems familiar. probably on my old account before it got hacked

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:43 PM

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it's possible

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:44 PM

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but yeah i dont know how soon after unsub steam deletes a workshop folder or what can get left over if it doesnt happen properly

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:45 PM

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i usually play without steam open and havent encountered an issue like thay before

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it usually deletes them after like 1-7 seconds

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:45 PM

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I also read that when your modlist gets particularly long that sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes to load characters but i tried tabbing out with char screen open and they never loaded

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:46 PM

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sounds like bullshit to me

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:46 PM

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thats just what google said 😅

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:48 PM

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most things that are "If you have a lot of mods of any kind, this happens!" are nonsense. it's about what the mods add, not how many you have

and characters taking 5-10 minutes to load could hypothetically happen, but I doubt it

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:49 PM

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my workshop download is almost done time to see if the fresh install helped

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one thing i had forgotten is how fast game boot is without mods my game takes 3-4 minutes with mods lmfaooo

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i only know this cuz i have the load screen timer mod

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alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 8:52 PM

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SCLICK i made that mod. it could be why you recognize my name

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:52 PM

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thats fair

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its a great mod

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dang it characters is empty , lets try it over on osb

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this did at least prove my character isnt corrupt at least which is comforting

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 8:59 PM

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alpine magnet <a:SCLICK:664509968925589515> i made that mod. it could be why you recognize my ...

but i am also an avid user of betabound

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bad news they arent showing on OSB either

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maybe its a different mod causing the issue?

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@alpine magnet

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i did notice that osb isnt using the starbound titlescreen modified by FU

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:04 PM

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willow cove maybe its a different mod causing the issue?

could you send a new log file?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:04 PM

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willow cove i did notice that osb isnt using the starbound titlescreen modified by FU

that's because oSB also changes it. it's not an incompatibility

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:04 PM

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WAIT I THINK I FOUND THE MOD RESPONSIBLE

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i aparrently missed uninstalling one

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:04 PM

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sniffsniffsniff

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:05 PM

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it also says it needs new char to operate and previous ones will be inaccessable

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O-O

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gonna try again without it rq

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btw OSB halves my games load time

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i dont think i can go back after this

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lmao

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:07 PM

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willow cove it also says it needs new char to operate and previous ones will be inaccessable

what, an inventory or hotbar mod? oSB negates that; you don't have to make a new one or stop using your old ones if you have it

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:07 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=853227483

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damn uninstalling it didnt fix

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sending new log your way now

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do i do it from original or osb?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:09 PM

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osb

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:09 PM

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📎 starbound.log

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:10 PM

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oh god you have that other pixel printer mod that inflates the log

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:10 PM

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the anti memory leak one?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:11 PM

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fyi Leakless Pixel Printer doesn't support objects from every mod and also massively inflates every log file. my Lagless Pixel Printer mod doesn't do that, and it keeps the scan-to-add-to-printer functionity along with dynamically supporting every mod you install

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:11 PM

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do you have the workshop link for your one I can swap it out rq

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:12 PM

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like all the green in the log is spam from it (not the full log- ran outta screen space)

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003880924

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as stated in the description, you'll need to use the 'import' button with SE or oSB to transfer your scan progress to the new printer

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when you installed oSB, did you copy the vanilla Starbound's storage folder to the oSB folder?

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so oSB has a copy of your characters and worlds (and keybinds and settings)

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im not seeing any characters mentioned in the log

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:14 PM

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no could that be the issue? i just coped the packed.pak

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:14 PM

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yeah, that'd be why your characters arent showing in it

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:14 PM

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lemme go do that and relaunch

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:14 PM

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also copy your mods folder since you have locally installed mods (like Knightfall)

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:14 PM

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okies

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i wanna copy player and universe right?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:16 PM

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no, the entire storage folder

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:16 PM

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ohhhh

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ok all coped over time to test it

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ty for the shout about manual mods , i have some in there I made myself , mostly just objects for my own ingame brands etc

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:18 PM

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ooo fun!!

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:18 PM

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like gooberlabssign for example

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:18 PM

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goober labs,,,

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:19 PM

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yeah cuz my twitch channel is gay goobers XD

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WE HAVE CHARACTERS

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:19 PM

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StimmySilver dance

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:22 PM

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oh uh another issue has arisen

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alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:23 PM

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hover over a few of them and screenshot them

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luckily oSB notes what they were and can revert them back if you get whatever mod they're from back

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I did notice in your logs that one mod wasn't able to be found on Steam despite you being subscribed to it, it could be that, but who knows

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hovering over those PGI's will tell you what they're suppose to be, and with that, we can infer what mod they're from

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:24 PM

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which mod was it?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:24 PM

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curly_shrug

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idk

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:25 PM

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this is all i see for all of them

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:25 PM

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can you send some of your old log files from the original SB? it looks like those items weren't PGI'd when you had oSB, so it's not oSB's fault

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the past logs should note what items they were meant to be

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:26 PM

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📎 starbound.log 📎 starbound.log.1 📎 starbound.log.2 📎 starbound.log.3 📎 starbound.log.4 📎 starbound.log.5

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how did you say i gotta reimport scans from MM?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:27 PM

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in the pixel printer menu

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:28 PM

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okay ty

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noticing a bunch of new things in the printer is this that mod inclusion you mentioned

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:28 PM

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ok so i have a list of what all those items are meant to be

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:29 PM

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willow cove noticing a bunch of new things in the printer is this that mod inclusion you men...

like objects from other mods? yeah. if you're in admin mode, everything will show even if you haven't scanned them

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:29 PM

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damn thats why i was still in admin mode

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this character is actually one of the .baks i tried to restore from

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:30 PM

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alpine magnet ok so i have a list of what all those items are meant to be

looks like somehow none of your Steam mods loaded one time when you launched vanilla SB (not oSB), maybe you accidentally deleted the folder with the Steam mods?

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:30 PM

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nah that issue started when the character issue did

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i mentioned that in the OP above

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 9:30 PM

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oh

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ohh

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yeah

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i do have a list of the 1982 items that got PerfectlyGenericEmoji 'd, in starbound.log.1

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 9:35 PM

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do you know how to restore them?

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could bringing back my og char before i removed it fix this issue?

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running a recurva on those files right now

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also one thing im noticing in osb is how much brighter the lights are

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actually having to halve my lights at goober labs lmao

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 10:05 PM

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willow cove actually having to halve my lights at goober labs lmao

you can disable the new lighting in the ESC menu

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 10:06 PM

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willow cove do you know how to restore them?

search "could not insta" in the starbound.log.1 file you sent, and use the spawnitem command to spawn each item it mentions

so if it says, "Could not instantiate item copperore 6", do /spawnitem copperore 6 with your cursor over your character

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 10:06 PM

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willow cove could bringing back my og char before i removed it fix this issue?

this could work, but make a backup of all your character files, including the backups first

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 10:11 PM

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i still have the files in vanilla sb as a backup

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 10:12 PM

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i'd make a backup of them too, since each time you load the character, the last backup gets replaced

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 10:12 PM

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ah okay

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also now i know what the culprit is i should be able to reinstall those other mods right?

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 10:15 PM

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catnod

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most likely

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also, oSB makes more mods possible, such as my Universal Instant Crafting For All Mods, so you don't need a ton of instant crafting patches (or even the original mod)

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 10:16 PM

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instant crafting's base has mostly worked for me across all my mods

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wish there was a mass spawnitem command

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would save so much time

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 10:51 PM

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in case you were curious about the mod 😄

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@alpine magnet

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 11:03 PM

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oo nice!!

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 11:03 PM

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im still spawning shit in.. ;-;

alpine magnet Feb 19, 2026, 11:04 PM

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alcoholism

willow cove Feb 19, 2026, 11:38 PM

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with spawnitem how do i format item parameters?

alpine magnet Feb 20, 2026, 12:02 AM

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willow cove with spawnitem how do i format item parameters?

/spawnitem copperbar 1 '{"shortdescription":"^#f00;EVIL copper bar^reset;"}

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if there are any " or ' in the parameters, you must change them to \" and \' so the game knows it's not you trying to end the command early

willow cove Feb 20, 2026, 12:03 AM

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ohhhh ty

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like this?

alpine magnet Feb 20, 2026, 12:16 AM

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willow cove like this?

close, i meant more if it was like, "music": "John\'s last \"day\" alive"

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it's for when a quotation mark or apostrophe is inside either or

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so "music":"tentacle-exploration"

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my bad, i should've explained it better

willow cove Feb 20, 2026, 12:19 AM

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so my issue originally was the {}

alpine magnet Feb 20, 2026, 12:21 AM

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willow cove so my issue originally was the {}

no, sorry

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like

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/spawnitem sb_musicsheet 1 '{"music":"tentacle-exploration"}

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that will work

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it can be a bit confusing when you first start, i know

willow cove Feb 20, 2026, 1:18 AM

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sb_uncommonbroadsword 1 ' {"seed":-8680283588196345684 "shortdescription":"Mr. Apestabber" "altAbilityType":"giantsword" "level":3.07008" primaryAbilityType":"sb_meleeslash" "elementalType":"electric" "animationPartVariants":{"blade":17,"handle":25} "primaryAbility":{"fireTimeFactor":0.777174 "baseDpsFactor":0.49726 "energyUsageFactor":0.232032 "projectileType":"teslabolt" "cooldownTime":0.857663}}

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how do I fix this one?

alpine magnet Feb 20, 2026, 1:37 AM

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willow cove sb_uncommonbroadsword 1 ' {"seed":-8680283588196345684 "shortdescription":"Mr. A...

/spawnitem sb_uncommonbroadsword 1 '{"seed":-8680283588196345684, "shortdescription":"Mr. Apestabber", "altAbilityType":"giantsword", "level":3.07008, "primaryAbilityType":"sb_meleeslash", "elementalType":"electric", "animationPartVariants":{"blade":17,"handle":25}, "primaryAbility":{"fireTimeFactor":0.777174, "baseDpsFactor":0.49726, "energyUsageFactor":0.232032, "projectileType":"teslabolt", "cooldownTime":0.857663}}

#All my characters are missing from character select